1939 Massachusetts legislature

The 151st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1939 during the governorship of Leverett Saltonstall. Joseph R. Cotton served as president of the Senate and Christian Herter served as speaker of the House.[4]

151st
Massachusetts General Court
150th 152nd
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 8, 1938
Senate
Members40
PresidentJoseph R. Cotton (7th Middlesex district)
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerChristian Herter (5th Suffolk)
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 4, 1939 (1939-01-04) – August 12, 1939 (1939-08-12)[3]
Joseph Cotton, Senate president.
Christian Herter, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1939.

"1939 was the first year the General Court began meeting every other year instead of annually. ...No session was held in 1940 and no legislation or other materials relating thereof was published during that year."[5]

Representatives

  • Wilfred Achin[6]
  • William Akeroyd
  • Theodore Andrews
  • George T. Ashe
  • Josiah Babcock
  • Robert Backus
  • William Baker
  • William Baldwin
  • Philip Barnet
  • Frederick Barnicoat
  • George Barrus
  • Thomas Barry
  • Walter Baylies
  • Fred Beaudoin
  • Malcolm Bell
  • Albert Bergeron (born 1886)
  • Albert Bergeron (born 1877)
  • Alfred Bessette
  • Albert Bigelow
  • Fred Blake
  • Edward Boland
  • Albert Bourgeois
  • Philip Bowker
  • G. Edward Bradley
  • Edward Brady
  • Daniel Bresnahan
  • Warren Brimblecom
  • J. Kenney Brooks
  • Frank Brown
  • Russell Brown
  • William Albert Brown
  • Arthur Burgess
  • Harland Burke
  • John F. Burns
  • J. Elmer Callahan
  • Colin Cameron
  • Robert Campbell
  • Matthew Capeless
  • Enrico Cappucci
  • Andrew Carlin
  • Gustaf Carlson
  • Fred Carpenter
  • Sydney Carpenter
  • John Carroll
  • Eddie Carson
  • Bernard Casey
  • William Casey
  • John Cawley
  • Ralph Clampit
  • Frank Clarkson
  • Andrew Coakley
  • John Coddaire
  • James Coffey
  • John Comerford
  • Michael Condron
  • Michael Conway
  • Charles Cooke
  • Arthur W. Coolidge
  • August Cormier
  • George Cousens
  • Francis Coyne
  • Thomas Coyne
  • John Craven
  • Nelson Crosby
  • Jeremiah Crowley
  • Leslie Bradley Cutler
  • Lawrence Harvard Davis
  • George Dean
  • Hiram Dearborn
  • Roger Dennett
  • Oscar DeRoy
  • Leo Diehl
  • Grover Dodge
  • Fred Dole
  • Cornelius Donovan
  • Susan Bradley Donovan
  • Joseph Downey
  • Anthony Doyle
  • Ernest Dullea
  • Edwin Eldredge
  • Sven Erickson
  • Gustave Everberg
  • Michael Feeney
  • William Daniel Fleming
  • Keith Fletcher
  • Paul Foster
  • Douglass Francis
  • Stephen French
  • Clarence Fuller
  • Richard Furbush
  • Thomas Gibson
  • William Gilman
  • Paul Goddard
  • Hollis Gott
  • Peter Graham
  • Thomas Hannon
  • Joseph Harnisch
  • William Haskell
  • William Hastings
  • Lawrence Haworth
  • Charles Hedges
  • Christian Herter
  • Joseph Hines
  • Charles Hogan
  • Theodore Hollis
  • Charles Holman
  • Hugh Hunter
  • Fred Hutchinson
  • Charles John Innes
  • George Innes
  • Harvey Iris
  • Adolph Johnson
  • William Jones
  • Peter Jordan
  • Harry Kalus
  • Charles Kaplan
  • Charles Kelley
  • Francis Joseph Kelley
  • John Kerrigan
  • John Kimball
  • Rudolph King
  • John Knowles
  • Morris Kritzman
  • Leo Landry
  • John Lasell
  • Laurence Law
  • Walter Lawrence
  • George Leary
  • Frank Leonardi
  • Ralph Lerche
  • Thomas Linehan
  • Terrance Lomax
  • William Lunney
  • Joseph Luz
  • Philip Lynch
  • Donald MacDonald
  • Frank MacLean
  • Arthur Mahan
  • Ralph Mahar
  • John Manning
  • Philip Markley
  • James McAndrews
  • Charles McCaffrey
  • Paul McCarthy
  • Thomas McCready
  • James McDevitt
  • James McGrail
  • Lawrence McHugh
  • Hubert McLaughlin
  • George McMahon
  • Philip McMorrow
  • James Mellen
  • Joseph Melley
  • Julian Merchant
  • Joseph Milano
  • Daniel Minihan
  • William Mooney
  • Alfred James Moore
  • Walter Moran
  • Lester Morley
  • Albert Morris
  • Frank Morrison
  • Eric Nelson
  • Michael Neville
  • Leo Nourse
  • Joseph O'Kane
  • Charles Olson
  • Thomas O'Neill
  • George O'Shea
  • David Owens
  • Raymond Palmer
  • George Parker
  • Royal Patriquin
  • James Peckham
  • Harold Pedler
  • Tycho Petersen
  • Frederick Pierce
  • Roy Pigeon
  • John Powers
  • John Pratt
  • Benjamin Priest
  • William Ramsdell
  • William Reed
  • George Rice
  • Ralph Ricketson
  • Joseph Roach
  • Charles Roberts
  • George Roberts
  • Nathan Rosenfeld
  • Cyrus Rounseville
  • William Rowan
  • Albert Rubin
  • William Runnells
  • Roland Sawyer
  • William Sessions
  • Philip Sherman
  • Edward Sirois
  • Frank Smith
  • George Smith
  • Roy Smith
  • H. Edward Snow
  • J. Francis Southgate
  • Manford Spalding
  • Richard Stacy
  • Edward Staves
  • Avery Steele
  • George Stetson
  • Charles Sullivan
  • Jeremiah Sullivan
  • John Timothy Sullivan
  • Leo Sullivan
  • Patrick Sullivan
  • Martin Swanson
  • Chester Swenson
  • Joseph Sylvia
  • Valmore Tetreault
  • Nathaniel Tilden
  • James Tobin
  • John Troy
  • Herbert Trull
  • Cornelius Twomey
  • Christopher Tyrrell
  • John Valentine
  • James Vallely
  • John Vaughan
  • James Violette
  • Ira Ward
  • John Wenzler
  • Edgar Whitcomb
  • John White
  • William White
  • Otis Whitney
  • Joseph Whiton
  • Ralph Williams
  • Frederick Willis
  • Carl Woekel
  • Henry Wright
  • Morton York
  • Arthur Youngman
  • Abraham Zimon

See also

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. Kaitlin Connolly (January 5, 2016), "Short-Lived Biennial Legislative Session System in Massachusetts", State Library of Massachusetts blog
  6. Public Officials of Massachusetts 1939-'40. Boston Review. 1939.

Further reading

  • Election Statistics: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1938), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1939, hdl:2452/43430
  • Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1939. hdl:2452/40708.
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