1977–1978 Massachusetts legislature

The 170th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1977 and 1978 during the governorship of Michael Dukakis. Kevin B. Harrington served as president of the Senate and Thomas W. McGee served as speaker of the House.^[4]

170th Massachusetts General Court
← 169th 171st →
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Term	January 5, 1977 (1977-01-05) – July 12, 1978 (1978-07-12) [1]
Senate
Members	40 [2]
President	Kevin B. Harrington
Majority leader of House of Representatives	Joseph DiCarlo (1977) William Bulger (1977–1978)
Vice-Leader Majority of House of Representatives	Mary L. Fonseca
Minority Leader	John Francis Parker
Vice-Leader Minority	David H. Locke
Party control	Democrat[2]
House
Members	240 [3]
Speaker	Thomas W. McGee
Majority Leader of State Senate	William Q. MacLean Jr.
Vice-Leader Majority of State Senate	George Keverian
Minority Leader of State Senate	Francis W. Hatch Jr.
Vice-Leader Minority of State Senate	William G. Robinson
Party control	Democrat[3]

Kevin Harrington, Senate president.

Thomas McGee, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1977-1978.

Senators

portrait	name [4]	date of birth [5]	district [5]
	Carol Amick		5th Middlesex
	Chester G. Atkins	April 14, 1948
	John F. Aylmer	January 27, 1934
	Jack Backman	April 26, 1922
	Roger L. Bernashe	September 9, 1927
	Walter J. Boverini	June 5, 1925
	John A. Brennan Jr.	September 19, 1945
	Anna Buckley	1924
	William Bulger	February 2, 1934
	Edward L. Burke	1942
	Gerard D'Amico	July 27, 1947
	Joseph DiCarlo	March 21, 1936
	Jack Fitzpatrick	April 5, 1923
	Daniel J. Foley	April 6, 1921
	Mary L. Fonseca	March 30, 1915
	Robert A. Hall	April 15, 1946
	Kevin B. Harrington	January 9, 1929
	James A. Kelly Jr.	May 11, 1926
	Arthur Joseph Lewis Jr.	September 3, 1934
	David H. Locke	August 4, 1927
	Michael LoPresti Jr.	April 30, 1947
	Ronald Conrad MacKenzie	May 3, 1934
	Frank J. Mastrocola Jr.
	Francis X. McCann	September 2, 1912
	Robert E. McCarthy	January 12, 1940
	Denis L. Mckenna	August 14, 1922
	Allan R. McKinnon	June 2, 1930
	John Olver	September 3, 1936
	Bill Owens	July 6, 1937
	John Francis Parker	May 29, 1907
	Sharon Pollard	September 21, 1950
	George Rogers	August 2, 1933
	Samuel Rotondi	April 22, 1946
	William L. Saltonstall	May 14, 1927
	Alan Sisitsky	June 4, 1942
	Joseph F. Timilty	October 3, 1938
	Arthur Tobin	May 22, 1930
	B. Joseph Tully	January 4, 1927
	William X. Wall	July 1, 1904
	Joseph B. Walsh	November 15, 1923
	Robert D. Wetmore	July 24, 1930
	Stanley John Zarod	April 11, 1924

Representatives

portrait	name [4]	date of birth [5]	district [5]
	Antone S. Aguiar Jr.	January 2, 1930	13th Bristol
	Theodore J. Aleixo Jr.	August 23, 1942
	Alfred Almeida	October 5, 1931
	Robert B. Ambler	1927
	Carol Amick
	Peter George Asiaf	August 15, 1905
	Dennis J. Baker	August 19, 1948
	Stanley E. Barnicoat	February 5, 1927
	Timothy A. Bassett	December 16, 1947
	Wilfred P. Beauchesne	September 3, 1923
	Louis Peter Bertonazzi	October 9, 1933
	Francis Bevilacqua	August 12, 1923
	Walter Bickford	February 16, 1942
	Belden Bly	September 29, 1914
	Raymond J. Boffetti	1924
	Robert Joseph Bohigian	July 24, 1922
	Royal L. Bolling Jr.	May 1, 1944
	George Bourque	1913
	Thomas Brownell	March 25, 1940
	Robert C. Buell	April 23, 1931
	Charles J. Buffone	1919
	Nicholas J. Buglione	1932
	Doris Bunte	July 2, 1933
	Kevin M. Burke	December 7, 1946
	Walter T. Burke	August 5, 1911
	John Businger	February 5, 1945
	Sean Francis Cahillane	February 9, 1951
	Jeremiah F. Cahir	December 4, 1924
	Howard C. Cahoon Jr.	December 31, 1944
	Fred F. Cain	November 5, 1909
	Eleanor Campobasso	August 10, 1923
	Andrew Card	May 10, 1947
	William A. Carey	January 28, 1920
	Robert F. X. Casey	April 14, 1925
	Angelo R. Cataldo	November 12, 1917
	Paul Cellucci	April 24, 1948
	Robert A. Cerasoli	July 12, 1947
	Rudy Chmura	March 21, 1932
	Salvatore Ciccarelli	February 16, 1941
	John F. Coffey	February 7, 1918
	Gerald M. Cohen	February 22, 1934
	Lincoln P. Cole Jr.	September 18, 1918
	Andrew Collaro	March 21, 1910
	James G. Collins	August 2, 1946
	H. Thomas Colo	December 27, 1929
	Edward W. Connelly	August 2, 1919
	Michael J. Connolly	April 20, 1947
	John Sydney Conway	August 19, 1927
	Leo R. Corazzini	February 17, 1930
	Robert Correia	January 3, 1939
	Genevra Counihan	December 15, 1925
	Edward P. Coury	October 19, 1927
	James J. Craven Jr.	March 24, 1919
	Michael C. Creedon	November 3, 1946
	Sidney Curtiss	September 4, 1917
	John F. Cusack	October 5, 1937
	Charles Decas	October 5, 1937
	Richard H. Demers	January 19, 1928
	A. Joseph DeNucci	August 30, 1939
	Michael J. Devito	May 30, 1949
	Edward M. Dickson	March 12, 1912
	Brian J. Donnelly	March 2, 1946
	Francis D. Doris	1931
	Charles Robert Doyle	September 24, 1925
	John R. Driscoll	May 9, 1924
	Dennis J. Duffin	November 24, 1930
	Richard J. Dwinell	August 5, 1917
	Charles F. Engdahl	July 3, 1921
	Thomas Francis Fallon	December 4, 1929
	Mary Fantasia	October 1, 1919
	John F. Farland	May 14, 1940
	Leo J. Farley Jr.	June 1, 1926
	Michael Paul Feeney	March 26, 1907
	Philip Frank Filosa	July 6, 1948
	John J. Finnegan	July 21, 1938
	Richard F. Finnigan	September 27, 1936
	Kevin W. Fitzgerald	1950
	Mark Fitzsimmons	March 15, 1951
	Charles Flaherty	October 13, 1938
	Michael F. Flaherty Sr.	September 6, 1936
	Raymond Flynn	July 22, 1939
	Bernard D. Flynn	April 11, 1945
	Peter Y. Flynn	1940
	William J. Flynn Jr.	1933
	Barney Frank	March 31, 1940
	Bruce N. Freeman	March 4, 1921
	James J. Gaffney III	December 20, 1942
	Anthony Michael Gallugi	May 16, 1948
	William F. Galvin	September 17, 1950
	John B. Galvin	February 3, 1930
	Ann Gannett	November 7, 1916
	Henry S. Gillet Jr.	September 13, 1944
	Robert W. Gillette	September 1, 1934
	Mary Goode	July 2, 1927
	Paul M. Goulston	August 1, 1932
	Roger R. Goyette	January 22, 1925
	Saundra Graham	September 5, 1941
	John Granara	January 23, 1943
	Barbara Gray	October 11, 1926
	Henry Grenier	December 9, 1924
	James L. Grimaldi	May 3, 1911
	Gerard A. Guilmette	October 22, 1911
	Edward D. Harrington Jr.	August 11, 1921
	Peter F. Harrington	February 12, 1936
	Norris W. Harris	March 16, 1915
	Francis W. Hatch Jr.	May 6, 1925
	Jonathan Healy	October 10, 1945
	Joseph N. Hermann	June 8, 1924
	Iris Holland	September 30, 1920
	Marie Elizabeth Howe	June 13, 1939
	Philip W. Johnston	July 21, 1944
	Raymond A. Jordan Jr.	May 5, 1943
	Dennis J. Kearney	September 25, 1949
	Bill Keating	September 6, 1952
	James A. Keefe Jr.
	Richard Kendall	August 21, 1934
	Robert B. Kennedy	February 6, 1940
	George Keverian	June 3, 1931
	Arthur M. Khoury	February 5, 1940
	John G. King	November 30, 1942
	Mel King	October 20, 1928
	Matthew J. Kuss	December 5, 1915
	Raymond M. LaFontaine	May 18, 1927
	Nickolas Lambros	January 9, 1933
	David Lane	July 6, 1927
	Donat J. Laplante	August 12, 1913
	Francis C. Lapointe	January 13, 1939
	Robert F. Larkin Jr.	May 29, 1955
	Mark E. Lawton	July 26, 1949
	Edward LeLacheur	June 1, 1925
	Kenneth M. Lemanski	January 27, 1954
	Paula Lewellen
	Gerald P. Lombard	January 4, 1916
	Leon Lombardi	April 16, 1949
	Michael J. Lombardi	May 27, 1917
	Charles W. Long	August 14, 1940
	John J. Long	December 10, 1927
	Thomas D. Lopes	September 7, 1942
	John Loring	1926
	Edwin C. Lucey	March 18, 1932
	Thomas R. Lussier	April 5, 1957
	Thomas K. Lynch	April 30, 1946
	Garreth J. Lynch	March 13, 1943
	William Q. MacLean Jr.	November 4, 1934
	Joseph T. Maguire	June 10, 1926
	Thomas H. D. Mahoney	November 4, 1913
	M. Joseph Manning	September 23, 1924
	Donald J. Manning	June 23, 1929
	Angelo Marotta	October 16, 1937
	Frank J. Matrango	July 19, 1926
	Anthony P. McBride	August 28, 1932
	Peter C. McCarthy	September 8, 1941
	Terrence P. McCarthy	August 12, 1941
	Peter McDowell	June 5, 1938
	Thomas W. McGee	May 24, 1924
	Michael J. McGlynn	April 23, 1953
	Arthur James McKenna	October 29, 1914
	Bruce J. McLaughlin	February 2, 1935
	Charles F. McNally	April 3, 1929
	John C. McNeil	June 8, 1945
	Robert D. McNeil	December 16, 1930
	Paul E. Means	June 18, 1945
	John F. Melia	June 5, 1915
	Elizabeth Metayer	August 12, 1911
	Jim Miceli	March 25, 1935
	Alfred A. Minahan Jr.	September 14, 1953
	David J. Mofenson	February 7, 1943
	Richard T. Moore	August 7, 1943
	Paul F. X. Moriarty	August 18, 1929
	Michael W. Morrissey	August 2, 1954
	William D. Mullins	August 13, 1931
	John E. Murphy Jr.	April 3, 1943
	Mary Jeanette Murray	December 24, 1924
	William P. Nagle Jr.	June 10, 1951
	Robert L. Nardone	September 13, 1953
	Andrew Natsios	September 22, 1949
	Joseph M. Navin	May 19, 1946
	Lou Nickinello	September 8, 1940
	Elaine Noble	January 22, 1944
	James R. Nolen	April 17, 1933
	Nils L. Nordberg	November 6, 1934
	Thomas C. Norton	December 11, 1934
	O. Roland Orlandi	March 25, 1936
	Nicholas Paleologos	March 9, 1953
	Raymond S. Peck	December 10, 1922
	Felix Perrault	October 27, 1915
	John B. Perry	February 15, 1935
	Robert G. Phelan	March 19, 1933
	William A. Pickett	June 10, 1935
	Angelo Picucci	April 12, 1915
	Ronald Anthony Pina	August 11, 1944
	Lois Pines	August 16, 1940
	Vincent J. Piro	1931
	Kevin Poirier	July 7, 1940
	Daniel F. Pokaski	June 26, 1949
	Manuel Raposa Jr.	May 13, 1915
	Michael J. Rea Jr.	July 23, 1940
	William G. Robinson	March 10, 1926
	Richard P. Roche	February 15, 1952
	A. David Rodham	November 26, 1938
	Andrew J. Rogers Jr.	May 6, 1944
	Francis E. Rogers	July 18, 1932
	Richard A. Rogers	July 8, 1930
	Robert J. Rohan	August 15, 1921
	J. Michael Ruane	December 10, 1927
	John Rucho	November 22, 1922
	Alfred E. Saggese Jr.	November 21, 1946
	Sherman Saltmarsh	April 27, 1929
	Angelo Scaccia	September 29, 1942
	Joseph Scelsi	June 4, 1915
	Anthony M. Scibelli	October 16, 1911
	James W. Segel	June 29, 1945
	Joseph J. Semensi	March 6, 1923
	Emanuel Serra	June 12, 1945
	William G. Shaughnessy	July 10, 1918
	C. Vincent Shea	November 20, 1916
	Philip L. Shea	October 19, 1941
	James A. Sheets	June 3, 1935
	Edward Shortell	August 21, 1916
	Richard R. Silva	March 13, 1922
	Thomas G. Simons	January 21, 1942
	James E. Smith	September 3, 1946
	George R. Sprague	June 19, 1938
	William F. Stanley	June 25, 1937
	Caroline Stouffer	April 5, 1933
	Gregory W. Sullivan	January 29, 1952
	Karen Swanson	January 15, 1954
	David J. Swartz	April 2, 1931
	Royall H. Switzler	September 27, 1938
	Robert S. Teahan	March 1, 1921
	Theodore J. Trudeau	January 22, 1916
	Peter A. Velis	October 8, 1942
	Robert A. Vigneau	November 4, 1920
	Carlton M. Viveiros	December 4, 1938
	Richard Voke	December 2, 1947
	Max Volterra	January 7, 1936
	Henry A. Walker	December 7, 1919
	Richard L. Walsh	July 26, 1948
	Norman S. Weinberg	1919
	Bruce E. Wetherbee	September 1, 1950
	W. Paul White	July 7, 1945
	Thomas P. White	August 27, 1950
	A. James Whitney	April 15, 1943
	Francis H. Woodward	March 17, 1939

See also

• 95th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

References

1. "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
2. "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
3. "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
4. 1977–1978 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1977 – via Internet Archive.
5. "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1977", Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/796412

Further reading

• Court, Massachusetts General (1977). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40802.

External links

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "1976 State Senate General Election". Sec.state.ma.us.
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "1976 State Representative General Election". Sec.state.ma.us.
• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1977, hdl:2452/429135
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1977, hdl:2452/26516
• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1978, hdl:2452/335751
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1978, hdl:2452/3382
• Reports of the Legislative Research Council, Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via New England School of Law (1964-1994)