1967–1968 Massachusetts legislature

Maurice Donahue, Senate president.

Robert Quinn, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1967.

The 165th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1967 and 1968 during the governorship of John Volpe. Maurice A. Donahue served as president of the Senate and Robert H. Quinn served as speaker of the House.^[4]

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
	Harold Clasky	March 2, 1896
	Beryl Cohen	September 18, 1934
	John J. Conte	May 3, 1930
	Leslie Bradley Cutler	March 24, 1890
	Stephen Davenport	June 27, 1924
	James DeNormandie	November 10, 1907
	Maurice A. Donahue	September 12, 1918
	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
	Ronald Conrad MacKenzie	May 3, 1934
	Francis X. McCann	September 2, 1912
	James McIntyre (politician)	May 25, 1930
	Denis L. Mckenna	August 14, 1922
	Andrea F. Nuciforo Sr.	July 14, 1927
	John Francis Parker	May 29, 1907
	Philibert L. Pellegrini	September 4, 1918
	Vite Pigaga
	John M. Quinlan	July 11, 1935
	Philip Andrew Quinn	February 21, 1910
	William I. Randall	September 13, 1915
	James Paul Rurak	November 9, 1911
	Harry Della Russo	May 26, 1907
	Donald N. Ryan	January 27, 1930
	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

Representatives[]

portrait	name [5]	date of birth [6]	district [6]
	Antone S. Aguiar Jr.	January 2, 1930	5th Bristol
	David C. Ahearn	July 28, 1929
	Robert B. Ambler [7]	1927
	John A. Armstrong	June 12, 1901
	Peter George Asiaf	August 15, 1905
	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
	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
	Royal L. Bolling Sr.[8]	June 19, 1920
	John Jerome Bowes	February 25, 1917
	James John Bowler	July 18, 1923
	Joseph G. Bradley	June 14, 1930
	John Cornelius Bresnahan	November 14, 1919
	Joseph E. Brett	May 19, 1907
	John R. Buckley	1932
	Charles J. Buffone	1919
	Anthony Joseph Burke	July 17, 1931
	Walter T. Burke	August 5, 1911
	Thomas Bussone	September 20, 1912
	Fred F. Cain	November 5, 1909
	Eleanor Campobasso	August 10, 1923
	Raymond Edward Carey	January 6, 1899
	William A. Carey	September 2, 1899
	Philip N. Carney	June 6, 1919
	Daniel William Carney [7]	August 17, 1925
	Michael Catino	February 21, 1904
	Emmett J. Cauley	February 28, 1903
	Paul J. Cavanaugh	February 22, 1936
	Robert L. Cawley	July 30, 1934
	Harrison Chadwick	February 25, 1903
	Amelio Della Chiesa	July 31, 1901
	Stephen Thomas Chmura	August 25, 1916
	Steve T. Chmura	March 29, 1928
	John George Clark	February 26, 1902
	John F. Coffey	February 7, 1918
	Lincoln P. Cole, Jr.	September 18, 1918
	Andrew Collaro	March 21, 1910
	H. Thomas Colo	December 27, 1929
	Lloyd E. Conn	November 26, 1904
	William Augustine Connell, Jr	November 17, 1922
	George Thomas Contalonis
	Paul J. Corriveau	July 3, 1930
	Edward P. Coury	October 19, 1927
	Russell H. Craig	February 4, 1924
	James J. Craven, Jr.	March 24, 1919
	Sidney Curtiss	September 4, 1917
	Michael A. D'Avolio
	Michael John Daly	July 18, 1940
	Alan Paul Danovitch	September 17, 1940
	John Davoren	July 27, 1915
	John Joseph Desmond	July 1, 1930
	Arthur Leo Desrocher	January 25, 1930
	Edward J. Dever, Jr	June 21, 1936
	Joseph DiCarlo	March 21, 1936
	Edward M. Dickson	March 12, 1912
	Anthony R. DiFruscia	June 5, 1940
	George DiLorenzo	March 24, 1919
	Thomas Henry Doherty Jr.	August 8, 1930
	John F. Dolan	September 7, 1922
	John F. Donovan Jr.	August 21, 1931
	James P. Downey	January 9, 1911
	Charles Robert Doyle	September 24, 1925
	Wilfred C. Driscoll	December 31, 1926
	Richard J. Dwinell	August 5, 1917
	Joseph D. Early	January 31, 1933
	Arnold Irving Epstein	April 5, 1920
	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
	Maurice E. Frye, Jr	February 6, 1921
	Albert A. Gammal Jr.	1928
	Donald R. Gaudette	December 16, 1926
	T. Harold Gayron	August 31, 1914
	Julie Gilligan	August 5, 1911
	Harold D. Gould Jr.	May 18, 1934
	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
	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
	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
	James P. Hurrell	March 1, 1944
	Charles Iannello	April 25, 1906
	John Peter Ivascyn	October 19, 1909
	John Janas	September 4, 1910
	Katherine Kane	April 12, 1935
	Joseph M. Kearney	February 23, 1927
	F. Leo Kenney	November 15, 1902
	Walter T. Kerr	May 20, 1918
	Gregory Benjamin Khachadoorian	July 8, 1928
	Cornelius F. Kiernan	August 15, 1917
	Philip Kimball	June 6, 1918
	William I. Kitterman	July 19, 1928
	Benjamin Klebanow	November 2, 1900
	Freyda Koplow	October 26, 1907
	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
	J. Louis Leblanc	January 6, 1940
	Peter John Levanti	March 19, 1903
	Arthur Joseph Lewis, Jr.	September 3, 1934
	David H. Locke	August 4, 1927
	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
	William Longworth	August 17, 1914
	Joseph S. Loughman	January 11, 1928
	Charles A. MacKenzie, Jr	February 4, 1919
	William Q. MacLean Jr.	November 4, 1934
	Donald Warren Madsen	July 13, 1924
	J. Robert Mahan	December 14, 1903
	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
	Benjamin C. Mayhew Jr.	October 28, 1909
	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
	Allan McGuane	July 26, 1928
	Arthur James McKenna	October 29, 1914
	John F. Melia	June 5, 1915
	Paul C. Menton	April 15, 1925
	William James Moran	June 24, 1921
	Hugh J. Morgan Jr.	April 4, 1921
	Louis J. Morini	October 8, 1907
	Gerald J. Morrissey	May 20, 1927
	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
	Thomas M. Newth	March 15, 1911
	James R. Nolen	April 17, 1933
	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
	George Henry O'Farrell	November 15, 1910
	Gerald O'Leary	August 7, 1933
	Charles Ohanian	September 2, 1936
	Bernard Paquette	February 2, 1919
	Raymond S. Peck	December 10, 1922
	Felix Perrault	October 27, 1915
	Robert H. Quinn	January 30, 1928
	Manuel Raposa, Jr.	May 13, 1915
	Harry A. S. Read	November 18, 1936
	Leo Joseph Reynolds	February 29, 1920
	Frank G. Rico	June 2, 1912
	Daniel H. Rider	July 15, 1912
	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
	Harold Rosen (politician)	1906
	Nathan Rosenfeld	January 31, 1906
	Raymond F. Rourke	October 10, 1917
	George Sacco	July 19, 1936
	Roger A. Sala	August 8, 1893
	Duane Thomas Sargisson
	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
	John W. Sears	December 18, 1930
	Jerome A. Segal	June 3, 1931
	Joseph J. Semensi	March 6, 1923
	I. Edward Serlin	August 21, 1912
	George W. Shattuck	July 17, 1916
	C. Vincent Shea	November 20, 1916
	Paul J. Sheehy	November 1, 1934
	Aaron M. I. Shinberg
	Alfred R. Shrigley	June 6, 1914
	Andre Rives Sigourney	June 30, 1927
	Michael John Simonelli	May 9, 1913
	Ralph E. Sirianni Jr.	1923
	Lawrence Philip Smith	December 4, 1919
	George I. Spatcher	February 2, 1902
	John F. St. Cyr	January 8, 1936
	Janet Kirkland Starr	October 11, 1918
	Chandler Harrison Stevens
	A. Edward Talbot	January 24, 1915
	Frank Daniel Tanner	February 3, 1888
	Arthur Tobin	May 22, 1930
	David Spence Tobin	March 16, 1939
	John Joseph Toomey	March 25, 1909
	Joseph Thomas Travaline
	Warren A. Turner	January 25, 1905
	Elbert Tuttle	August 19, 1931
	George E. Twomey	February 3, 1920
	Dave Norman Vigneault	September 3, 1936
	George B. Walsh	March 21, 1907
	Joseph B. Walsh	November 15, 1923
	Stephen Weekes	February 1, 1925
	Norman S. Weinberg	1919
	Robert D. Wetmore	July 24, 1930
	Frederick McClellan Whitney Jr.	December 12, 1922
	Arthur Williams	December 14, 1915
	Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski	September 18, 1926
	George Chester Young	September 18, 1912
	Edward S. Zelazo	May 27, 1924
	Samuel Zoll	June 20, 1934

See also[]

• 90th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

References[]

Further reading[]

• Election Statistics: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1966), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1967, hdl:2452/43458
• "The New Legislature", Boston Globe, January 4, 1967
• Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston. 1967. hdl:2452/40798.

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1967–1968 Massachusetts legislature.

• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1967, hdl:2452/265595 – via State Library of Massachusetts
• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1968, hdl:2452/303860
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1967, hdl:2452/2671
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1968, hdl:2452/2672
• Reports of the Legislative Research Council, Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via New England School of Law (1964-1994)