1937–1938 Massachusetts legislature

The 150th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1937 and 1938.^[1]

150th Massachusetts General Court
← 149th 151st →
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Senate
Members	40
House
Members	240

Senators

Portrait	Name [1]	Date of Birth [2]	District [2]
	Frank David Babcock	August 16, 1877	4th Essex
	Arthur Franklin Blanchard	January 27, 1883
	David M. Brackman
	Thomas H. Braden	September 11, 1874
	Thomas M. Burke	May 30, 1898
	Edward C. Carroll	December 15, 1893
	Patrick Eugene Casey	September 24, 1886
	Albert Cole	December 28, 1904
	Walter L. Considine	August 7, 1900
	Joseph R. Cotton	November 16, 1890
	Laurence Curtis	September 3, 1893
	Joseph P. Donahoe	September 18, 1891
	Eugene H. Giroux	January 20, 1903
	Angier Goodwin	January 30, 1881
	William Patrick Grant	November 5, 1904
	James A. Gunn	June 7, 1883
	Cornelius F. Haley	July 15, 1875
	James W. Hennigan Sr.	1890
	Arthur W. Hollis	April 29, 1877
	Newland H. Holmes	August 30, 1891
	Sybil Holmes	June 20, 1889
	Jarvis Hunt (politician)	March 28, 1904
	Thomas H. Johnston	March 5, 1872
	Joseph A. Langone Jr.	September 8, 1896
	John D. Mackay	April 7, 1872
	Joseph Patrick McCooey
	William Henry McSweeney
	James Philip Meehan	June 25, 1893
	Charles Gardner Miles	December 2, 1879
	George G. Moyse	December 21, 1878
	Donald W. Nicholson	August 11, 1888
	Edwin Lawrence Olander	October 31, 1891
	Edmund S. Oppenheimer
	Theodore Robinson Plunkett	May 10, 1882
	Harris S. Richardson	January 10, 1887
	Michael H. Selzo
	Chester T. Skibinski
	George W. Stanton
	Bernard Lucian Sullivan
	Samuel H. Wragg	June 9, 1882

Representatives

Portrait	Name [1]	Date of Birth [2]	District [2]
	Wilfred J. Achin	May 12, 1891	14th Middlesex
	William A. Akeroyd	October 24, 1883
	Theodore Andrews	August 23, 1893
	George T. Ashe	February 6, 1905
	John Francis Aspell	July 8, 1906
	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
	Frederick M. Barnicoat
	Mary Livermore Barrows	June 30, 1877
	Thomas Edmund Barry	May 14, 1899
	Walter Ray Baylies	April 28, 1902
	Wilfred P. Bazinet
	Fred D. Beaudoin
	James D. Bentley	February 6, 1884
	Albert Bergeron	June 23, 1886
	Alfred M. Bessette	March 25, 1876
	Rodolphe G. Bessette	September 14, 1911
	Albert F. Bigelow	October 4, 1880	10th Norfolk
	Fred Arthur Blake	January 13, 1895
	Edward Boland	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
	G. Edward Bradley	October 21, 1906
	Edward T. Brady	October 23, 1908
	Daniel Joseph Bresnahan	September 30, 1888
	Warren Kingsbury Brimblecom	June 25, 1899
	Russell P. Brown	August 24, 1891
	William Albert Brown	February 5, 1888
	Clarence E. Buckley
	Arthur I. Burgess	October 13, 1894
	James A. Burke (Massachusetts politician)	March 30, 1910
	Harland Burke	April 22, 1888
	Horace T. Cahill	December 12, 1894
	Colin James Cameron	August 24, 1879
	Robert Patterson Campbell	December 20, 1887
	Matthew J. Capeless	June 4, 1875
	Enrico Cappucci	1910
	Andrew F. Carlin
	Gustaf A. Carlson
	Leo Edward Joseph Carney	November 16, 1899
	Sydney G. Carpenter Jr.
	Eddie D. Carson
	Bernard P. Casey	July 29, 1894
	Chester W. Chase	August 27, 1885
	Ralph Vester Clampit	March 28, 1896
	Frank Clarkson	June 21, 1877
	Daniel H. Coakley Jr.	July 12, 1906
	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
	Michael John Conway
	Charles H. Cooke	May 13, 1878
	Arthur W. Coolidge	October 13, 1881
	Francis X. Coyne	March 15, 1892
	Thomas F. Coyne
	John Joseph Craven	August 29, 1907
	Nelson B. Crosby	June 20, 1871
	Lawrence Harvard Davis
	Hiram Nichols Dearborn	December 21, 1867
	Oscar DeRoy
	Leo E. Diehl
	Thomas Patrick Dillon	February 19, 1901
	Grover N. Dodge
	John Patrick Doherty	March 27, 1906
	Chester A. Dolan Jr.	September 20, 1907
	Fred Belding Dole	January 23, 1895
	John Joseph Donahue	March 14, 1906
	James P. Donnelly	February 26, 1890
	Cornelius P. Donovan	March 15, 1895
	Joseph William Dooley	October 25, 1904
	Joseph H. Downey	December 6, 1890
	Anthony R. Doyle	August 8, 1895
	Joseph Edward Duffy	September 25, 1912
	Sven August Erickson	December 9, 1875
	Gustave William Everberg	June 24, 1890
	Samuel Arthur Eyre
	G. Farrington Fiske
	Thomas A. Flaherty	December 21, 1898
	Thomas J. Flannery	August 9, 1886
	William Daniel Fleming	April 14, 1907
	Keith Falconer Fletcher	September 24, 1900
	Cleon Francis Fobes
	John J. Foley	January 25, 1888
	Katherine A. Foley	May 10, 1889
	Paul W. Foster
	Douglass Brooks Francis
	William R. Gilman
	John J. Gilmartin	September 25, 1892
	Hollis M. Gott	May 25, 1885
	John Halliwell	February 21, 1864
	Thomas J. Hannon	December 9, 1900
	Joseph J. Harnisch	December 28, 1883
	William Henry Haskell
	William Alexander Hastings	February 22, 1868
	Lawrence Alanson Haworth	May 23, 1871
	Jeremiah Joseph Healy	July 2, 1872
	Charles W. Hedges	March 27, 1901
	Christian Herter	March 28, 1895
	William Francis Higgins	June 16, 1899
	William D. Hillis
	Joseph Allan Hines
	Charles V. Hogan	April 12, 1897
	Jackson J. Holtz
	Daniel J. Honan	January 19, 1884
	Frank Hathaway Horton	July 15, 1874
	Hugh C. Hunter
	Fred A. Hutchinson	April 5, 1881
	Charles John Innes	June 1, 1901
	George A. Innes
	Francis William Irwin	November 19, 1905
	Adolph Johnson	July 20, 1885
	William A. Jones	March 27, 1885
	Michael H. Jordan	February 7, 1863
	Anthony Julian	March 25, 1902
	Charles A. Kelley	March 24, 1862
	Francis Joseph Kelley	March 21, 1890
	John Joseph Kerrigan Jr.
	John V. Kimball	July 17, 1875
	Rudolph King	November 2, 1887
	William E. Kirkpatrick	November 12, 1901
	John Quincy Knowles	May 21, 1895
	Leo P. Landry	July 10, 1897
	Thomas J. Lane	July 6, 1898
	Charles Clifton Langille
	John Whitin Lasell
	George J. Leary
	Thomas E. Linehan
	Terrance Joseph Lomax Jr.	August 29, 1907
	Clarence S. Luitwieler
	William Christopher Lunney	December 24, 1910
	Philip J. Lynch
	Donald Alexander MacDonald	February 21, 1893
	Frank E. MacLean
	Arthur Ulton Mahan	June 18, 1900
	Ralph Collins Mahar	January 4, 1912
	James Francis Mahoney	September 24, 1890
	John Francis Manning	January 4, 1906
	Philip M. Markley	March 28, 1897
	Charles Joseph McCaffrey	January 16, 1898
	Paul Andrew McCarthy	December 23, 1902
	Elmer L. McCulloch
	Daniel P. McGillicuddy
	James J. McGrail
	Hubert L. McLaughlin
	George Francis McMahon
	Roger Alton McNamara
	Joseph A. Melley	March 1, 1902
	Julian R. Merchant
	Joseph A. Milano	April 8, 1883
	Charles Miller	January 12, 1908
	Daniel Joseph Minihan
	John R. Mitchell
	William E. Mooney
	Charles H. Morrill	October 6, 1874
	Albert Edward Morris	April 4, 1903
	Joseph L. Murphy	January 25, 1907
	John E. Murphy	February 13, 1900
	John Joseph Murphy	August 28, 1892
	Timothy Joseph Murphy	September 23, 1909
	John M. Mutch
	Eric A. Nelson	July 6, 1899
	Michael J. Neville	October 19, 1899
	Leo F. Nourse
	Michael T. O'Brien	December 3, 1868
	Joseph N. O'Kane	May 26, 1873
	Tip O'Neill	December 9, 1912
	George Joseph O'Shea	November 16, 1899
	Otto B. Olsen
	Charles William Olson	August 24, 1889
	David M. Owens Jr.
	George Alanson Parker
	James Austin Peckham
	Tycho Mouritz Petersen	August 29, 1892
	Frederick Everett Pierce	May 5, 1862
	William Eben Ramsdell	May 4, 1895
	Frederick Henry Reinstein	April 14, 1899
	George Edmund Rice	February 22, 1899
	Joseph N. Roach	March 22, 1883
	George Whiting Roberts
	Nathan Rosenfeld	January 31, 1906
	William H. J. Rowan	June 21, 1879
	Albert Rubin	January 15, 1872
	William F. Runnells	February 18, 1865
	Philip J. Russell Jr.
	Charles H. Savage	January 7, 1893
	Roland D. Sawyer	January 8, 1874
	Louis James Scanlon	March 25, 1899
	Martin Robert Schofield	September 28, 1906
	Mason Sears	December 29, 1899
	William J. Sessions	December 18, 1859
	Philip Sherman
	Edward Sirois	December 18, 1898
	Harry D. Sisson	January 9, 1863
	E. Hayes Small	December 23, 1876
	Frank William Smith	January 26, 1895
	Roy C. Smith	January 28, 1890
	J. Francis Southgate	May 4, 1883
	Richard H. Stacy	August 18, 1864
	Edward William Staves	May 9, 1887
	George Ward Stetson	May 31, 1902
	William Stockwell
	Leo J. Sullivan	December 8, 1905
	Charles F. Jeff Sullivan
	Patrick Gilbert Sullivan	November 18, 1904
	William T. Swain	December 2, 1878
	Martin Swanson	July 20, 1872
	Joseph A. Sylvia Jr.	September 16, 1903
	Edmond Talbot Jr.	June 1, 1898
	Frederick H. Tarr Jr.	March 25, 1903
	Joseph E. Theberge	April 27, 1903
	James Francis Tobin	May 8, 1903
	John E. Troy Jr.
	Herbert Lewis Trull
	Christopher J. Tyrrell	June 21, 1895
	John H. Valentine	July 21, 1896
	John W. Vaughan	March 20, 1878
	Ira C. Ward	March 7, 1862
	Patrick J. Welsh	October 8, 1893
	John B. Wenzler	June 11, 1881
	John J. Whalen	June 5, 1876
	John Philip White
	William Emmet White	June 1, 1900
	Otis M. Whitney	March 25, 1909
	Joseph L. Whiton
	Raymond T. Wilde
	Ralph E. Williams
	Frederick Willis	May 18, 1904
	John Chester Wilson	August 14, 1889
	Carl A. Woekel
	Henry Eden Wright
	Morton E. York
	Arthur Lincoln Youngman
	Abraham I. Zimon

See also

• 1938 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
• 75th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

References

1. Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1937.
2. "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1937" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

External links

• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1937, hdl:2452/265587
• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1938, hdl:2452/265588
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1937, hdl:2452/60141
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1938, hdl:2452/60142