1969–1970 Massachusetts legislature

The 166th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1969 and 1970 during the governorship of Francis Sargent. Maurice A. Donahue served as president of the Senate and David M. Bartley served as speaker of the House.^[4]

166th Massachusetts General Court
← 165th 167th →
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 5, 1968
Senate
Members	40
President	Maurice A. Donahue (2nd Hampden district)
Majority Leader	Kevin B. Harrington
Majority Whip	Mario Umana
Minority Leader	John Francis Parker
Minority Whip	William D. Weeks
Party control	Democrat[1]
House
Members	240
Speaker	David M. Bartley
Majority Leader	Thomas W. McGee
Majority Whip	Paul F. Murphy
Minority Leader	Sidney Curtiss
Minority Whip	George W. Shattuck
Party control	Democrat[2]
Sessions
1st January 1, 1969 (1969-01-01) – August 25, 1969 (1969-08-25) 2nd January 7, 1970 (1970-01-07) – August 25, 1970 (1970-08-25)[3]

Maurice Donahue, Senate president.

David Bartley, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1969.

Senators

portrait	name [5]	date of birth [6]	district [6]
	Oliver F. Ames	December 13, 1920	3rd Suffolk
	John Dowkontt Barrus	August 19, 1924
	James F. Burke	September 7, 1914
	Robert L. Cawley	July 30, 1934
	Beryl Cohen	September 18, 1934
	John J. Conte	May 3, 1930
	James DeNormandie	November 10, 1907
	Joseph DiCarlo	March 21, 1936
	Maurice A. Donahue	September 12, 1918
	Daniel J. Foley	April 6, 1921
	Mary L. Fonseca	March 30, 1915
	George D. Hammond	October 29, 1906
	Samuel Harmon	April 29, 1911
	Kevin B. Harrington	January 9, 1929
	John Edward Harrington Jr.	July 30, 1930
	Charles V. Hogan	April 12, 1897
	Allan Francis Jones	June 29, 1921
	James A. Kelly Jr.	May 11, 1926
	George V. Kenneally Jr.	December 29, 1929
	Fred I. Lamson	December 11, 1910
	David H. Locke	August 4, 1927
	Ronald Conrad MacKenzie	May 3, 1934
	Francis X. McCann	September 2, 1912
	James McIntyre (politician)	May 25, 1930
	Denis L. Mckenna	August 14, 1922
	George G. Mendonca	March 26, 1924
	Joe Moakley	April 27, 1927
	Andrea F. Nuciforo Sr.	July 14, 1927
	John Francis Parker	May 29, 1907
	Philibert L. Pellegrini	September 4, 1918
	John M. Quinlan	July 11, 1935
	Philip Andrew Quinn	February 21, 1910
	William I. Randall	September 13, 1915
	James Paul Rurak	November 9, 1911
	William L. Saltonstall	May 14, 1927
	Mario Umana	May 5, 1914
	William X. Wall	July 1, 1904
	Joseph D. Ward	March 26, 1914
	William D. Weeks	May 9, 1926
	Stanley John Zarod	April 11, 1924

Representatives

portrait	name [5]	date of birth [6]	district [6]
	James A. Adams	December 24, 1923
	Antone S. Aguiar Jr.	January 2, 1930	10th Bristol
	David C. Ahearn	July 28, 1929
	Theodore J. Aleixo Jr.	August 23, 1942
	Robert B. Ambler [7]	1927
	John A. Armstrong	June 12, 1901
	Robert S. Aronson	July 3, 1920
	Peter George Asiaf	August 15, 1905
	Roger Sumner Babb	1935
	Jack Backman[7]	April 26, 1922
	Wilfred E. Balthazar	July 17, 1914
	David M. Bartley	February 9, 1935
	Robert A. Belmonte	July 2, 1930
	Roger L. Bernashe	September 9, 1927
	Louis Peter Bertonazzi	October 9, 1933
	Francis Bevilacqua	August 12, 1923
	Donald T. Bliss	1937
	Belden Bly	September 29, 1914
	Stanley Joseph Bocko	August 26, 1920
	Robert Joseph Bohigian	July 24, 1922
	George Bourque	1913
	John Jerome Bowes	February 25, 1917
	James John Bowler	July 18, 1923
	John Cornelius Bresnahan	November 14, 1919
	Joseph E. Brett	May 19, 1907
	John R. Buckley	1932
	Robert C. Buell	April 23, 1931
	Nicholas J. Buglione	1932
	William Bulger	February 2, 1934
	Walter T. Burke	August 5, 1911
	Thomas Bussone	September 20, 1912
	Louis Buttiglieri	May 18, 1916
	Fred F. Cain	November 5, 1909
	Eleanor Campobasso	August 10, 1923
	William A. Carey	January 28, 1920
	Philip N. Carney	June 6, 1919
	Daniel William Carney [7]	August 17, 1925
	Emmett J. Cauley	February 28, 1903
	Paul J. Cavanaugh	February 22, 1936
	Harrison Chadwick	February 25, 1903
	Rudy Chmura	March 21, 1932
	Steve T. Chmura	March 29, 1928
	John F. Coffey	February 7, 1918
	Lincoln P. Cole Jr.	September 18, 1918
	Andrew Collaro	March 21, 1910
	H. Thomas Colo	December 27, 1929
	William Augustine Connell Jr.	November 17, 1922
	James S. Conway	July 4, 1930
	Francis X. Coppinger	March 12, 1935
	Paul J. Corriveau	July 3, 1930
	Edward P. Coury	October 19, 1927
	Gilbert W. Cox Jr.	February 28, 1933
	James J. Craven Jr.	March 24, 1919
	Robert Creedon	November 13, 1942
	Thomas E. Creighton	February 1, 1922
	Paul W. Cronin	March 14, 1938
	Sidney Curtiss	September 4, 1917
	Michael John Daly	July 18, 1940
	Richard W. Daly	March 25, 1936
	Alan Paul Danovitch	September 17, 1940
	Joseph Del Grosso	July 25, 1904
	John Joseph Desmond	July 1, 1930
	Arthur Leo Desrocher	January 25, 1930
	Edward J. Dever Jr.	June 21, 1936
	Edward M. Dickson	March 12, 1912
	Anthony R. DiFruscia	June 5, 1940
	George DiLorenzo	March 24, 1919
	John F. Dolan	September 7, 1922
	Charles Robert Doyle	September 24, 1925
	Wilfred C. Driscoll	December 31, 1926
	Michael Dukakis	November 3, 1933
	Richard J. Dwinell	August 5, 1917
	Joseph D. Early	January 31, 1933
	Charles F. Engdahl	July 3, 1921
	Seymour F. Epstein	November 7, 1919
	Thomas Francis Fallon	December 4, 1929
	Vernon R. Farnsworth Jr.	April 18, 1934
	Thomas F. Farrell	October 10, 1897
	Michael Paul Feeney	March 26, 1907
	John J. Finnegan	July 21, 1938
	Irving Fishman	March 29, 1921
	Charles Flaherty (politician)	October 13, 1938
	Michael F. Flaherty Sr.	September 6, 1936
	Edward M. Flanagan	January 9, 1929
	Charles L. Flannery	March 22, 1920
	David Lawrence Flynn	February 5, 1933
	Bruce N. Freeman	March 4, 1921
	Maurice E. Frye Jr.	February 6, 1921
	Edward F. Galotti	May 11, 1925
	Ann Gannett	November 7, 1916
	Donald R. Gaudette	December 16, 1926
	T. Harold Gayron	August 31, 1914
	J. Laurence Golden	June 10, 1933
	Joel S. Greenberg	May 31, 1930
	James L. Grimaldi	May 3, 1911
	Anthony P. Grosso	October 19, 1913
	Gerard A. Guilmette	October 22, 1911
	Barry T. Hannon	November 21, 1935
	Walter J. Hannon	September 4, 1931
	Michael J. Harrington	September 2, 1936
	Edward D. Harrington Jr.	August 11, 1921
	J. Edmond Harris	November 17, 1916
	David E. Harrison	June 19, 1933
	Francis W. Hatch Jr.	May 6, 1925
	Michael E. Haynes[8]	May 9, 1927
	Winston Healy	October 20, 1937
	Theodore M. Herman	October 5, 1919
	Timothy William Hickey	February 14, 1938
	William Francis Hogan	June 6, 1925
	Franklin W. Holgate [8]	May 3, 1929
	Herbert B. Hollis	September 10, 1899
	Marie Elizabeth Howe	June 13, 1939
	John Peter Ivascyn	October 19, 1909
	John Janas	September 4, 1910
	Daniel L. Joyce Jr.	May 14, 1934
	Francis M. Keane	April 8, 1933
	Joseph M. Kearney	February 23, 1927
	F. Leo Kenney	November 15, 1902
	Walter T. Kerr	May 20, 1918
	George Keverian	June 3, 1931
	Gregory Benjamin Khachadoorian	July 8, 1928
	Cornelius F. Kiernan	August 15, 1917
	William I. Kitterman	July 19, 1928
	Walter Kostanski	December 10, 1923
	Mitsie T. Kulig	May 18, 1921
	Matthew J. Kuss	December 5, 1915
	Raymond M. LaFontaine	May 18, 1927
	Richard E. Landry	May 29, 1936
	Joseph A. Langone, III	January 25, 1917
	Francis C. Lapointe	January 13, 1939
	J. Louis Leblanc	January 6, 1940
	Arthur Joseph Lewis Jr.	September 3, 1934
	David Samuel Liederman	April 26, 1935
	Martin A. Linsky	August 28, 1940
	Alexander Lolas	July 9, 1932
	Gerald P. Lombard	January 4, 1916
	Michael J. Lombardi	May 27, 1917
	Charles W. Long	August 14, 1940
	John J. Long	December 10, 1927
	John C. Losch	March 23, 1932
	Charles A. MacKenzie Jr.	February 4, 1919
	William Q. MacLean Jr.	November 4, 1934
	Paul F. Malloy	April 29, 1940
	Theodore D. Mann	May 13, 1922
	Charles Mann	April 27, 1935
	M. Joseph Manning	September 23, 1924
	Donald J. Manning	June 23, 1929
	Clifford Marshall	December 14, 1937
	Frank J. Matrango	July 19, 1926
	Benjamin C. Mayhew Jr.	October 28, 1909
	Anthony P. McBride	August 28, 1932
	Peter C. McCarthy	September 8, 1941
	Edward A. McColgan	March 20, 1932
	Thomas W. McGee	May 24, 1924
	Robert J. McGinn	December 18, 1918
	John Austin Shaw McGlennon	August 10, 1935
	John J. McGlynn	February 26, 1922
	Charles M. McGowan	November 13, 1923
	Allan McGuane	July 26, 1928
	Arthur James McKenna	October 29, 1914
	John F. Melia	June 5, 1915
	Paul C. Menton	April 15, 1925
	John J. Mooney	August 14, 1930
	Hugh J. Morgan Jr.	April 4, 1921
	Louis J. Morini	October 8, 1907
	Paul F. Murphy	October 14, 1932
	Paul Maurice Murphy	February 24, 1932
	Albert L. Nash	May 13, 1921
	John J. Navin	September 9, 1915
	Mary B. Newman	February 15, 1909	2nd Middlesex
	James R. Nolen	April 17, 1933
	Nils L. Nordberg	November 6, 1934
	Karl S. Nordin	September 10, 1906
	James Anthony O'Brien Jr.	June 22, 1919
	John Paul O'Brien	June 10, 1937
	Norton Cornelius O'Brien	April 9, 1907
	Walter Wilson O'Brien	October 14, 1910
	David J. O'Connor	November 9, 1924
	Philip Conroy O'Donnell	July 29, 1915
	Charles Ohanian	September 2, 1936
	Carl R. Ohlson	June 4, 1925
	John Olver	September 3, 1936
	Bernard Paquette	February 2, 1919
	Raymond S. Peck	December 10, 1922
	Felix Perrault	October 27, 1915
	William A. Pickett	June 10, 1935
	Angelo Picucci	April 12, 1915
	Vincent J. Piro	1931
	Manuel Raposa Jr.	May 13, 1915
	Harry A. S. Read	November 18, 1936
	William Reinstein	March 26, 1929
	Robert C. Reynolds	November 6, 1934
	William G. Robinson	March 10, 1926
	J. Hilary Rockett	January 16, 1935
	George Rogers (Massachusetts politician)	August 2, 1933
	Maurice E. Ronayne Jr.	November 16, 1917
	Nathan Rosenfeld	January 31, 1906
	Raymond F. Rourke	October 10, 1917
	William H. Ryan	July 17, 1938
	George Sacco	July 19, 1936
	Joseph Douglas Saulnier	April 14, 1906
	Anthony James Scalli	November 11, 1914
	Frederic W. Schlosstein Jr.	March 17, 1923
	Anthony M. Scibelli	October 16, 1911
	Jerome A. Segal	June 3, 1931
	Joseph J. Semensi	March 6, 1923
	I. Edward Serlin	August 21, 1912
	George W. Shattuck	July 17, 1916
	H. James Shea Jr.	December 10, 1939
	C. Vincent Shea	November 20, 1916
	Paul J. Sheehy	November 1, 1934
	Andre Rives Sigourney	June 30, 1927
	Michael John Simonelli	May 9, 1913
	Ralph E. Sirianni Jr.	1923
	Alan Sisitsky	June 4, 1942
	John J. Slater Jr.	November 27, 1925
	Lawrence Philip Smith	December 4, 1919
	George I. Spatcher	February 2, 1902
	William J. Spence	May 4, 1930
	John F. St. Cyr	January 8, 1936
	Kevin C. Sullivan
	Charles Tagman
	A. Edward Talbot	January 24, 1915
	Arthur Tobin	May 22, 1930
	John Joseph Toomey	March 25, 1909
	Daniel C. Towse	December 5, 1924
	George E. Twomey	February 3, 1920
	Robert A. Vigneau	November 4, 1920
	Dave Norman Vigneault	September 3, 1936
	Joseph B. Walsh	November 15, 1923
	Stephen Weekes	February 1, 1925
	Norman S. Weinberg	1919
	Robert D. Wetmore	July 24, 1930
	Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski	September 18, 1926
	Richard L. Wood
	George L. Woods Jr.	March 28, 1925
	George Chester Young	September 18, 1912
	Bruce H. Zeiser
	Samuel Zoll	June 20, 1934

See also

• 1970 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
• 91st 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. 1969–1970 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1969.
6. "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1969" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
7. State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020
8. Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905

Further reading

• Election Statistics: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1968), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1969, hdl:2452/43460
• "Democrats Gain Firm Control Of Massachusetts Legislature", New York Times, November 8, 1968
• Court, Massachusetts General (1969). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40799.
• John F. Parker (1985), "High Drama at the State House: 'The House Cut' (Feb. 25, 1970)", Legislative Life, Its Realities, Facts, Wit & Humor, New Legislators' Orientation, State House, Boston

External links

• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1969, hdl:2452/429130
• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1970, hdl:2452/429131
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1969, hdl:2452/2673
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1970, hdl:2452/2674
• Reports of the Legislative Research Council, Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via New England School of Law (1964-1994)