1935–1936 Massachusetts legislature explained

149th
Massachusetts General Court
Body:General Court
Election:November 6, 1934
Session2 End:[1]
Before:148th
After:150th
Chamber1:Senate
Membership1:40
Control1:Republican (21–19)
Chamber1 Leader1 Type:President
Chamber1 Leader1:James G. Moran (1st Bristol district)
Chamber2:House
Membership2:240
Control2:Republican
Chamber2 Leader1 Type:Speaker
Chamber2 Leader1:Leverett Saltonstall (5th Middlesex)

The 149th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1935 and 1936 during the governorship of James Michael Curley. James G. Moran served as president of the Senate and Leverett Saltonstall served as speaker of the House.[2]

Senators

PortraitName [3] data-sort-type=date Date of Birth District HometownPartySince
Thomas M. BurkeMay 30, 18988th SuffolkDorchesterDemocratic1935
Edward C. CarrollDecember 15, 18934th SuffolkSouth BostonDemocratic1933
Patrick Eugene CaseySeptember 24, 18864th WorcesterMilfordDemocratic1935
Charles Thomas CavanaghJune 12, 18932nd MiddlesexCambridgeDemocratic1934
Albert Cole (Massachusetts politician)December 28, 19041st EssexLynnRepublican1935
William S. ConroyOctober 2, 18772nd BristolFall RiverDemocratic1929
Walter L. ConsidineAugust 7, 19003rd BristolNew BedfordDemocratic1935
Joseph R. CottonNovember 16, 18907th MiddlesexLexingtonRepublican1927
Charles Thomas DalyMarch 12, 18826th MiddlesexMedfordDemocratic1935
William Aiken DavenportOctober 23, 1869Franklin and HampshireGreenfieldRepublican1935
Joseph P. DonahoeSeptember 18, 18917th SuffolkDorchesterDemocratic1935
John F. DonovanApril 26, 18971st SuffolkChelseaDemocratic1935
Edgar C. EricksonJuly 18, 18962nd WorcesterWorcesterRepublican1933
Erland F. FishDecember 7, 1883Norfolk and SuffolkBrooklineRepublican1925
Angier GoodwinJanuary 30, 18814th MiddlesexMelroseRepublican1929
Cornelius F. HaleyJuly 15, 18753rd EssexRowleyRepublican1927
Arthur W. HollisApril 29, 18771st MiddlesexNewtonRepublican1929
Newland H. HolmesAugust 30, 1891Norfolk and PlymouthWeymouthRepublican1931
Frank HurleyMarch 9, 19002nd HampdenHolyokeDemocratic1929
Thomas H. JohnstonMarch 5, 1872Worcester and HampdenClintonRepublican1931
Joseph A. Langone Jr.September 8, 18962nd SuffolkBostonDemocratic1933
John D. MackayApril 7, 1872NorfolkQuincyRepublican1930
William Francis MaddenJanuary 4, 18975th SuffolkJamaica PlainDemocratic1933
Charles Albert Proctor McAreeNovember 3, 19084th EssexHaverhillDemocratic1935
William F. McCarthyNovember 9, 19028th MiddlesexLowellDemocratic1935
Francis M. McKeown1st HampdenSpringfieldDemocratic1935
James Philip MeehanJune 25, 18935th EssexLawrenceDemocratic1934
Charles Gardner MilesDecember 2, 1879PlymouthBrocktonRepublican1933
James G. MoranMay 2, 18701st BristolMansfieldRepublican1923
George G. MoyseDecember 21, 18785th MiddlesexWalthamRepublican1925
Donald W. NicholsonAugust 11, 1888Cape and PlymouthWarehamRepublican1927
Edward H. NuttingJuly 6, 18693rd WorcesterLeominsterRepublican1931
Henry Parkman Jr.April 26, 18943rd SuffolkBostonRepublican1929
Albert PierceFebruary 29, 18762nd EssexSalemRepublican1935
Theodore Robinson PlunkettMay 10, 1882BerkshireAdamsRepublican1931
Harry Bancroft PutnamSeptember 7, 1878Berkshire, Hampshire, and HampdenWestfieldRepublican1933
James Conlan ScanlanDecember 18, 18963rd MiddlesexSomervilleDemocratic1931
John S. SullivanDecember 18, 18751st WorcesterWorcesterDemocratic1933
Joseph C. White18996th SuffolkJamaica PlainDemocratic1933
Samuel H. WraggJune 9, 1882Norfolk and MiddlesexNeedhamRepublican1925

Representatives

PortraitName data-sort-type=date Date of Birth District
Henry Achin Jr. June 30, 1883 14th Middlesex
Augustine Airola
William A. Akeroyd October 24, 1883
February 6, 1905
John Francis Aspell July 8, 1906
Frank David Babcock August 16, 1877
Josiah Babcock Jr. May 21, 1880
Edward P. Bacigalupo October 19, 1897
William Brooks Baker January 10, 1879
William A. Baldwin January 18, 1874
Philip Barnet December 2, 1892
June 30, 1877
Thomas Edmund Barry May 14, 1899
Stanley Spilsted Bates August 10, 1890
Walter Ray Baylies April 28, 1902
Malcolm Lawrie Bell November 30, 1890
Albert Bergeron June 23, 1886
Alfred M. Bessette March 25, 1876
Rodolphe G. Bessette September 14, 1911
Albert F. BigelowOctober 4, 1880 10th Norfolk
April 14, 1893
Fred Arthur Blake January 13, 1895
October 1, 1911
Rufus Hallowell Bond December 24, 1896
Albert Lionel Bourgeois June 7, 1899
Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899
Albert Ovila Boyer May 27, 1908
Edward T. Brady October 23, 1908
Fred Emerson Briggs March 14, 1875
June 10, 1872
Warren Kingsbury Brimblecom June 25, 1899
William Albert Brown February 5, 1888
Arthur I. Burgess October 13, 1894
December 12, 1894
Zacheus H. Cande
Leo Edward Joseph Carney November 16, 1899
Michael Joseph Carroll June 21, 1891
Bernard P. Casey July 29, 1894
Tony A. Centracchio May 25, 1906
Chester W. Chase August 27, 1885
Ralph Vester Clampit March 28, 1896
Frank Clarkson June 21, 1877
Ignatius B. Cleary May 19, 1892
Joseph Francis Cleary September 4, 1901
Francis David Coady January 20, 1884
Andrew J. Coakley November 6, 1906
John W. Coddaire Jr.
Edward A. Coffey October 17, 1892
Samuel H. Cohen
John T. Comerford June 8, 1887
Richard Comerford October 13, 1905
October 10, 1876
Charles H. Cooke May 13, 1878
Timothy Joseph Cooney September 30, 1909
Frank Bernard Coughlin January 11, 1891
Francis X. Coyne March 15, 1892
Nelson B. Crosby June 20, 1871
Ralph Raymond Currier October 28, 1892
September 3, 1893
Ernest J. Dean April 5, 1883
Hiram Nichols Dearborn December 21, 1867
Thomas A. Delmore December 21, 1894
George Demeter March 13, 1896
Burt Dewar December 29, 1884
Thomas Patrick Dillon February 19, 1901
Fred Belding Dole January 23, 1895
John Joseph Donahue March 14, 1906
Martin William Donahue January 4, 1893
James P. Donnelly February 26, 1890
Cornelius P. Donovan March 15, 1895
Joseph William Dooley October 25, 1904
Thomas Dorgan August 15, 1892
Joseph H. Downey December 6, 1890
Anthony R. Doyle August 8, 1895
George F. Driscoll
Clarence N. Durant May 15, 1884
Sven August Erickson December 9, 1875
Henry A. Estabrook April 22, 1850
Gustave William Everberg June 24, 1890
John J. Falvey February 22, 1904
Bernard Finkelstein July 4, 1887
December 21, 1898
Thomas J. Flannery August 9, 1886
Frank L. Floyd October 17, 1893
John J. Foley January 25, 1888
Katherine A. FoleyMay 10, 1889
Owen Gallagher November 12, 1884
John J. Gilmartin September 25, 1892
Eugene H. Giroux January 20, 1903
John Leo GleasonJune 27, 1903
Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885
William Patrick Grant November 5, 1904
James A. Gunn June 7, 1883
John Halliwell February 21, 1864
Ralph N. Hamilton November 16, 1898
William Arthur Hannaford October 14, 1892
December 9, 1900
Joseph J. Harnisch December 28, 1883
George Paterson Hassett May 25, 1888
William Alexander Hastings February 22, 1868
James Dolan Hathaway November 17, 1907
Clayton Locke Havey July 17, 1897
Martin Hays October 14, 1876
Jeremiah Joseph Healy July 2, 1872
Charles W. Hedges March 27, 1901
1890
March 28, 1895
William Francis Higgins June 16, 1899
April 12, 1897
Daniel J. Honan January 19, 1884
Frank Hathaway Horton July 15, 1874
Fred A. Hutchinson April 5, 1881
June 1, 1901
Francis William Irwin November 19, 1905
Adolph Johnson July 20, 1885
Archibald L. Jones June 26, 1900
Gerald Denison Jones August 24, 1878
William A. Jones March 27, 1885
Michael H. Jordan February 7, 1863
Patrick Joseph Kearns September 8, 1912
Charles A. Kelley March 24, 1862
Edward J. Kelley December 25, 1897
Francis Joseph Kelley March 21, 1890
James Edward Kendall September 4, 1870
James J. Kiley July 5, 1911
George F. Killgoar
John V. Kimball July 17, 1875
Orvis F. Kinney May 23, 1880
William E. Kirkpatrick November 12, 1901
John Quincy Knowles May 21, 1895
George M. Kurzon
August 28, 1899
Leo P. Landry July 10, 1897
July 6, 1898
John Whitin Lasell
Frank M. Leonardi August 17, 1891
July 5, 1902
Terrance Joseph Lomax Jr. August 29, 1907
Clarence S. Luitwieler
William Christopher Lunney December 24, 1910
John P. Lyons June 24, 1879
Donald Alexander MacDonald February 21, 1893
Frank E. MacLean
Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900
James Francis Mahoney September 24, 1890
John Francis Manning January 4, 1906
Philip M. Markley March 28, 1897
Joseph Patrick McCooey
July 30, 1877
Elmer L. McCulloch
Frederick T. McDermott November 20, 1906
Paul John McDonald
Timothy J. McDonough
James Maxwell McElroy
Lawrence P. McHugh
Henry Parker McLaren
Owen D. McLellan
Roger Alton McNamara
Anthony A. McNulty
William H. Melley May 18, 1903
Joseph A. Milano April 8, 1883
Charles H. Morrill October 6, 1874
Albert Edward Morris April 4, 1903
Frank J. Morrison September 2, 1902
January 25, 1907
February 13, 1900
John Joseph Murphy August 28, 1892
Timothy Joseph Murphy September 23, 1909
John A. Murray May 6, 1906
David G. Nagle October 22, 1901
June 1, 1900
Frank Daniel O'Brien April 25, 1905
Michael T. O'Brien December 3, 1868
Raymond Francis O'Connell August 11, 1901
Joseph N. O'Kane May 26, 1873
Edwin Lawrence Olander October 31, 1891
Charles William Olson August 24, 1889
Ralph Emerson Otis January 16, 1890
November 16, 1888
Arthur E. Paul January 6, 1902
Richard Farnsworth Paul January 17, 1888
Tycho Mouritz Petersen August 29, 1892
George Wesley Pettengill September 17, 1868
Frederick Everett Pierce May 5, 1862
George Francis Pierce August 13, 1895
William Eben Ramsdell May 4, 1895
Frederick Henry Reinstein April 14, 1899
George Edmund Rice February 22, 1899
Joseph N. Roach March 22, 1883
Victor E. Rolander March 8, 1871
Joseph D. Rolfe May 17, 1893
1905
Albert Rubin January 15, 1872
Francis Edward Ryan October 6, 1895
September 1, 1892
Frank Joseph Sargent March 11, 1900
Charles H. Savage January 7, 1893
January 8, 1874
Louis James Scanlon March 25, 1899
Martin Robert Schofield September 28, 1906
December 29, 1899
William J. Sessions December 18, 1859
John Richard Shaughnessy February 6, 1901
Charles H. Shea December 14, 1891
Frank Chester Sheridan July 21, 1893
Philip Sherman
December 18, 1898
January 9, 1863
E. Hayes Small December 23, 1876
Frank William Smith January 26, 1895
J. Francis Southgate May 4, 1883
Ernest H. Sparrell
Richard H. Stacy August 18, 1864
Edward William Staves May 9, 1887
George Sawyer Stone February 3, 1866
Patrick Gilbert Sullivan November 18, 1904
William T. Swain December 2, 1878
Martin Swanson July 20, 1872
Mollie Ashby Sweetser April 17, 1882
Edmond Talbot Jr. June 1, 1898
George Grosvenor Tarbell 1886
Frederick H. Tarr Jr. March 25, 1903
Joseph E. Theberge April 27, 1903
James Francis Tobin May 8, 1903
Joseph Walton Tuttle Jr. August 20, 1894
Christopher J. Tyrrell June 21, 1895
Herbert W. Urquhart October 19, 1883
John H. Valentine July 21, 1896
Magorisk Lawrence Walls August 5, 1898
Ira C. Ward March 7, 1862
Michael James Ward September 19, 1899
Kendrick Harlow Washburn July 29, 1893
Patrick J. Welsh October 8, 1893
John B. Wenzler June 11, 1881
John J. Whalen June 5, 1876
John Philip White
John Chester Wilson August 14, 1889
Carl A. Woekel
Martin E. Young January 5, 1896
Abraham I. Zimon

See also

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge00mass2/page/348/mode/1up . 2009 . Boston . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Manual for the Use of the General Court . Length of Legislative Sessions . 348+ .
  2. Book: https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge200506mass/page/338/mode/2up . 2005 . Boston . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Manual for the Use of the General Court . Organization of the Legislature Since 1780 . 338+ .
  3. Book: Public Officials of Massachusetts 1935-36. Boston Review.