1945–1946 Massachusetts legislature

The 154th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1945 and 1946 during the governorship of Maurice J. Tobin. Arthur W. Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Frederick Willis served as speaker of the House.^[4]

154th Massachusetts General Court
← 153rd 155th →
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 7, 1944
Senate
Members	40
President	Arthur W. Coolidge (7th Middlesex district)
Party control	Republican[1]
House
Members	240
Speaker	Frederick Willis (10th Essex)
Party control	Republican[2]
Sessions
1st January 3, 1945 (1945-01-03) – July 25, 1945 (1945-07-25) 2nd January 2, 1946 (1946-01-02) – June 15, 1946 (1946-06-15)[3]

Arthur Coolidge, Senate president.

Frederick Willis, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1945.

Senators

Portrait	Name [5]	Date of Birth [6]	District [6]
	John Albetski		4th Worcester
	Benjamin J. Bowen	January 19, 1876
	Richard S. Bowers	June 18, 1900
	J. Elmer Callahan
	Michael H. Condron
	William R. Conley	September 1, 1900
	Arthur W. Coolidge	October 13, 1881
	Clifford Rudolph Cusson	January 6, 1895
	Chester A. Dolan Jr.	September 20, 1907
	Burton F. Faulkner
	William Patrick Grant	November 5, 1904
	Cornelius F. Haley	July 15, 1875
	Thomas H. Johnston	March 5, 1872
	Robert L. Lee
	Stephen F. Loughlin
	John D. Mackay	April 7, 1872
	Charles Gardner Miles	December 2, 1879
	Joseph F. Montminy
	Joseph L. Murphy	January 25, 1907
	Donald W. Nicholson	August 11, 1888
	William E. Nolen
	Willard A. Ormsbee
	James Austin Peckham
	Edward C. Peirce	March 7, 1895
	Harris S. Richardson	January 10, 1887
	Edward Rowe (politician)	March 17, 1902
	George W. Stanton
	Charles F. Sullivan	October 10, 1904
	Leo J. Sullivan	December 8, 1905
	Charles I. Taylor	November 25, 1899
	Sumner G. Whittier	July 4, 1911

Representatives

Portrait	Name [5]	Date of Birth [6]	District [6]
	Wilfred J. Achin	May 12, 1891	3rd Berkshire
	Richard James Allen	June 22, 1909
	John A. Armstrong	June 12, 1901
	Charles J. Artesani
	Edward C. Ashworth	April 22, 1899
	John George Asiaf	June 30, 1900
	Joseph A. Aspero
	Josiah Babcock Jr.	May 21, 1880
	Earle S. Bagley	January 20, 1905
	Charles Homer Barrett	June 23, 1868
	George L. Barrus	December 15, 1880
	William R. Barry	February 2, 1905
	Michael J. Batal	September 8, 1898
	Norman S. Baxter
	Raymond H. Beach	August 11, 1888
	C. Ray Bennett
	G. Leo Bessette	September 23, 1906
	Rodolphe G. Bessette	September 14, 1911
	Albert F. Bigelow	October 4, 1880	10th Norfolk
	Fred Arthur Blake	January 13, 1895
	Stanley John Borsa
	Everett Murray Bowker	September 17, 1901
	Russell P. Brown	August 24, 1891
	Clarence B. Brown	December 22, 1877
	Frank Eben Brown	January 14, 1890
	John D. Brown	January 30, 1900
	William Albert Brown	February 5, 1888
	Archie Edward Bruce	August 20, 1883
	Harland Burke	April 22, 1888
	Edward Butterworth	August 14, 1908
	Fannie Buzzell	March 31, 1914
	Bartholomew John Callery Jr.	March 28, 1910
	Colin James Cameron	August 24, 1879
	Robert Patterson Campbell	December 20, 1887
	Matthew J. Capeless	June 4, 1875
	Edmund Euplio Capodilupo	July 7, 1913
	Enrico Cappucci	1910
	Ernest Westervelt Carman
	John Henry Carroll
	William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician)	June 27, 1905
	Daniel Casey	May 7, 1890
	James Frederick Catusi
	Perlie Dyar Chase	July 31, 1905
	David M. Cleary	May 9, 1901
	Thomas Francis Coady	1878
	J. Everett Collins	April 27, 1894
	Joseph T. Conley
	Robert Gerard Connolly	September 11, 1916
	Michael John Conway
	Florence E. Cook	July 8, 1908
	Charles H. Cooke	May 13, 1878
	George Chauncey Cousens	September 20, 1905
	Earl Gustavus Crockett	March 23, 1894
	Patrick Francis Cronin
	Walter A. Cuffe	January 29, 1898
	Adin Willard Custance
	Leslie Bradley Cutler	March 24, 1890
	Lawrence Harvard Davis
	George Walter Dean
	Ernest DeRoy	July 13, 1889
	Cornelius Desmond	October 4, 1893
	Burt Dewar	December 29, 1884
	Logan Rockwell Dickie	May 4, 1890
	Vincent B. Dignam	February 22, 1896
	Jacinto F. Diniz	October 3, 1888
	Edmond J. Donlan	December 19, 1899
	Joseph William Dooley	October 25, 1904
	Anthony R. Doyle	August 8, 1895
	Charles D. Driscoll	June 18, 1888
	Howard Bernard Driscoll
	Henry M. Duggan	October 5, 1896
	Ernest W. Dullea	January 14, 1891
	Clifton Emerson Dwelly	January 11, 1893
	Louis Henry Elliot
	Henry Allen Ellis	November 5, 1879
	Charles Kingsbury Endicott	October 4, 1892
	Thomas Edward Enright	August 1, 1881
	Sven August Erickson	December 9, 1875
	George Jelly Evans	February 4, 1909
	John R. Fausey	March 19, 1870
	Michael Paul Feeney	March 26, 1907
	Charles E. Ferguson	January 30, 1894
	Joseph P. Ferriter	March 25, 1905
	Peter F. Fitzgerald	February 16, 1889
	John Edward Flaherty	December 31, 1910
	William Daniel Fleming	April 14, 1907
	Norman Eugene Folsom	December 23, 1903
	John F. Foster
	George Fuller	July 24, 1893
	John L. Gallant
	Charles Gibbons	July 21, 1901
	Avery W. Gilkerson	June 5, 1899
	Dennis P. Glynn	September 29, 1906
	Hollis M. Gott	May 25, 1885
	Thomas T. Gray	July 22, 1892
	George Greene	March 7, 1897
	Francis G. Gregory
	Frederick C. Haigis	May 10, 1903
	James Edward Hannon
	Fred C. Harrington	April 21, 1902
	Joseph B. Harrington
	Frederick Roy Harvey Jr.	11th Suffolk
	William E. Hays	November 28, 1903
	Henry Davis Higgins	February 24, 1873
	Ralph H. Hill	February 5, 1915
	Charles F. Holman	June 21, 1892
	Frank Hathaway Horton	July 15, 1874
	J. Philip Howard	February 16, 1907
	I. Grafton Howes	June 17, 1889
	Orison Valentine Hull	November 9, 1873
	Richard Lester Hull	November 30, 1917
	Nathaniel M. Hurwitz	March 24, 1893
	Edward A. Hutchinson Jr.	December 13, 1911
	Fred A. Hutchinson	April 5, 1881
	Henderson Inches
	Harvey Iris
	William Whittem Jenness	April 3, 1904
	Adolph Johnson	July 20, 1885
	Ernest A. Johnson	March 13, 1897
	Peter John Jordan	July 23, 1910
	Walter Francis Kane
	Charles Kaplan	September 26, 1895
	Clarence Karelitz
	Alfred B. Keith	November 26, 1893
	Francis Joseph Kelley	March 21, 1890
	Richard A. Kelly	August 7, 1905
	Fred I. Lamson	December 11, 1910
	George Thomas Lanigan	January 4, 1909
	Laurence W. Law
	Francis W. Lindstrom	December 18, 1898
	Louis Lobel	August 10, 1911
	Burton Elmer Loring
	Jeremiah G. Lucey
	William Christopher Lunney	December 24, 1910
	Arthur Ulton Mahan	June 18, 1900
	Philip M. Markley	March 28, 1897
	George Francis Martin Jr.
	Francis V. Matera
	Thomas B. Matthews	June 24, 1874
	Harry P. McAllister	April 25, 1880
	Michael J. McCarthy (politician)	October 23, 1890
	Edward A. McCarthy
	Frank D. McCarthy
	Paul Andrew McCarthy	December 23, 1902
	Elmer L. McCulloch
	James Patrick McDevitt
	Patrick J. McDonough	April 29, 1911
	Joseph F. McEvoy Jr.	April 27, 1918
	Timothy J. McInerney
	Samuel D. McLeod
	Philip McMorrow
	Joseph A. Milano	April 8, 1883
	Charles Miller	January 12, 1908
	Timothy J. Moriarty	August 6, 1909
	Lester Bertram Morley	April 19, 1903
	Edward J. Mulligan	February 8, 1907
	Robert F. Murphy (politician)	January 24, 1899
	Cornelius Joseph Murray	August 19, 1890
	Henry Thomas Murray Jr.
	George Burkman Norton
	James Anthony O'Brien	October 27, 1886
	William Thomas O'Brien	December 2, 1889
	Louis F. O'Keefe	June 12, 1895
	George Joseph O'Shea	November 16, 1899
	Frank B. Oliveira
	John Thomas Padden	May 6, 1903
	Eben Parsons
	Clark Brownson Partridge	August 26, 1878
	Oscar Houston Perkins	January 3, 1879
	Herman Peter Peterson	November 21, 1890
	Frederick Everett Pierce	May 5, 1862
	George William Porter	November 6, 1885
	Harvey Armand Pothier	September 6, 1901
	John E. Powers	November 10, 1910
	William Eben Ramsdell	May 4, 1895
	Stuart Craig Rand	June 9, 1888
	George E. Rawson	December 6, 1886
	Thomas Francis Reilly	August 12, 1903
	John Joseph Riordan
	Joseph N. Roach	March 22, 1883
	Albert E. Roberts	November 22, 1875
	William H. J. Rowan	June 21, 1879
	Francis Edward Ryan	October 6, 1895
	E. Guy Sawyer
	Gerald F. Scally	July 17, 1905
	Alyce Louise Schlapp	November 30, 1912
	William Henry Sears Jr.	July 14, 1875
	A. John Serino	March 13, 1906
	Henry Lee Shattuck	October 12, 1879
	Arthur Joseph Sheehan	March 16, 1897
	Charles E. Shepard	September 21, 1901
	Carl A. Sheridan	March 24, 1908
	Robert T. Sisson	February 21, 1881
	Michael F. Skerry	January 3, 1909
	Charles J. Skladzien
	Roy C. Smith	January 28, 1890
	Margaret Spear	August 10, 1882
	Edward William Staves	May 9, 1887
	George Ward Stetson	May 31, 1902
	Daniel Francis Sullivan	February 15, 1904
	James E. Sullivan
	Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan	March 9, 1905
	Maurice Henry Sullivan
	Patrick Gilbert Sullivan	November 18, 1904
	Eugene Joseph Sweeney	May 11, 1886
	Joseph James Sweeney	January 5, 1893
	Joseph A. Sylvia Jr.	September 16, 1903
	Edmond Talbot Jr.	June 1, 1898
	John H. Taylor	1873
	Robert Leroy Taylor	November 22, 1907
	Clarence F. Telford
	Nathaniel Tilden	November 3, 1903
	Harold Edward Tivey
	Harold Tompkins	August 23, 1887
	John Joseph Toomey	March 25, 1909
	William Francis Troy
	Talbot T. Tweedy
	Earle Stanley Tyler	December 18, 1896
	John H. Valentine	July 21, 1896
	John W. Vaughan	March 20, 1878
	Arthur F. Verney
	James T. Violette
	William X. Wall	July 1, 1904
	George Thomas Walsh	February 20, 1904
	John Cummings Webster Jr.
	Norman F. Wellen
	William Emmet White	June 1, 1900
	John S. Whittemore
	John Cyril Wickes
	Frederick Willis (American politician)	May 18, 1904
	Henry D. Winslow	September 24, 1910
	Stanislaus George Wondolowski	August 20, 1909
	Albert E. Wood
	Clarence A. Wood
	Arthur Eaton Young
	Arthur Lincoln Youngman

See also

• 1946 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
• 79th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

References

1. "Composition of the Massachusetts State Senate", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
2. "Composition of the State of Massachusetts House of Representatives", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
3. "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
4. "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338+.
5. Irving N. Hayden and Lawrence R Grove. 1945-1946 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
6. "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1945" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

Further reading

• Election Statistics: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1944), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1945, hdl:2452/43436
• Court, Massachusetts General (1945). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40787.
• "Political Pot Starts Boiling as Legislature Opens Today", Daily Boston Globe, January 2, 1946
• "At the State House", Daily Boston Globe, January 4, 1946

External links

• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1945, hdl:2452/279554
• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1946, hdl:2452/219468
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1945, hdl:2452/40895
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1946, hdl:2452/55995