# 1953–1954 Massachusetts legislature

The 158th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1953 and 1954 during the governorship of Christian Herter. Richard I. Furbush served as president of the Senate and Charles Gibbons served as speaker of the House.

## Senators

| name | date of birth | district |
| Paul Achin | | 1st Middlesex |
| John Adams | May 30, 1915 | |
| Philip Griggs Bowker | April 17, 1899 | |
| Robert Patterson Campbell | December 20, 1887 | |
| Alfred B. Cenedella Jr. | | |
| Ralph Vester Clampit | March 28, 1896 | |
| Silvio O. Conte | November 9, 1921 | |
| James J. Corbett | November 27, 1896 | |
| Edmund Dinis | October 4, 1924 | |
| Maurice A. Donahue | September 12, 1918 | |
| George Jelly Evans | February 4, 1909 | |
| Michael A. Flanagan | February 21, 1890 | |
| William Daniel Fleming | April 14, 1907 | |
| Richard I. Furbush | January 4, 1904 | |
| Philip A. Graham | May 21, 1910 | |
| Charles W. Hedges | March 27, 1901 | |
| Newland H. Holmes | August 30, 1891 | |
| Charles John Innes | June 1, 1901 | |
| William Joseph Keenan | | |
| Hastings Keith | November 22, 1915 | |
| Richard Henry Lee | December 20, 1901 | |
| Ralph Lerche | August 19, 1899 | |
| Harold R. Lundgren | May 22, 1894 | |
| Ralph Collins Mahar | January 4, 1912 | |
| Daniel Francis O'Brien | | |
| Charles William Olson | August 24, 1889 | |
| Christopher H. Phillips | December 6, 1920 | |
| John E. Powers | November 10, 1910 | |
| Andrew P. Quigley | January 13, 1926 | |
| Daniel Rudsten | | |
| Elizabeth Stanton | May 27, 1909 | |
| Edward C. Stone | June 29, 1878 | |
| Richard Treadway | June 5, 1913 | |

## Representatives

| name | date of birth | district |
| Frank Haskell Allen | October 12, 1877 | 7th Worcester |
| Julius Ansel | April 27, 1908 | |
| Charles H. Anthony | July 6, 1893 | |
| Ernest W. April | January 15, 1915 | |
| John A. Armstrong | June 12, 1901 | |
| Charles J. Artesani | | |
| John George Asiaf | June 30, 1900 | |
| John Robert Ayers | February 18, 1911 | |
| Josiah Babcock Jr. | May 21, 1880 | |
| Clifton H. Baker | November 28, 1878 | |
| Cyrus Barnes | August 23, 1889 | |
| James C. Bayley | October 28, 1908 | |
| Raymond H. Beach | August 11, 1888 | |
| John Joseph Beades | June 8, 1916 | |
| Rene R. Bernardin | July 24, 1910 | |
| Charles A. Bisbee Jr. | June 8, 1918 | |
| Carlton H. Bliss | August 7, 1900 | |
| Belden Bly | September 29, 1914 | |
| Frank Edwin Boot | November 8, 1905 | |
| Samuel Joseph Boudreau | | |
| Everett Murray Bowker | September 17, 1901 | |
| Gordon Dickson Boynton | August 9, 1901 | |
| G. Edward Bradley | October 21, 1906 | |
| Manassah E. Bradley | September 15, 1900 | |
| Rene A. Brassard | August 5, 1917 | |
| Jeremiah Francis Brennan | | |
| John Cornelius Bresnahan | November 14, 1919 | |
| William Joseph Brickley Jr. | | |
| Frank Eben Brown | January 14, 1890 | |
| John D. Brown | January 30, 1900 | |
| John Brox | November 16, 1910 | |
| James A. Burke | March 30, 1910 | |
| Pasquale Caggiano | August 31, 1909 | |
| Oscar Josiah Cahoon | April 29, 1912 | |
| Gardner E. Campbell | November 22, 1886 | |
| Harold Wilson Canavan | May 13, 1915 | |
| Richard Caples | December 23, 1921 | |
| Charles W. Capraro | November 2, 1920 | |
| Michael Joseph Carroll | June 21, 1891 | |
| Francis X. Casey | | |
| Harrison Chadwick | February 25, 1903 | |
| Wendell Phillips Chamberlain | October 28, 1911 | |
| Philip Aloysius Chapman | | |
| Amelio Della Chiesa | July 31, 1901 | |
| Stephen T. Chmura | August 25, 1916 | |
| Thomas Francis Coady Jr. | May 8, 1905 | |
| J. Everett Collins | April 27, 1894 | |
| Harry Coltun | | |
| George Raymand Como | July 3, 1912 | |
| James Francis Condon | February 4, 1899 | |
| Joseph T. Conley | | |
| William P. Constantino | August 19, 1911 | |
| John W. Costello | April 20, 1927 | |
| Leo Joseph Cournoyer | December 11, 1905 | |
| William A. Cowing | January 6, 1878 | |
| John Francis Cremens | | |
| Gladys Gertrude Crockett | December 1, 1895 | |
| Sidney Curtiss | September 4, 1917 | |
| John A. Davis | May 9, 1912 | |
| Domenic Victor DePari | October 27, 1910 | |
| Edward DeSaulnier | January 8, 1921 | |
| Cornelius Desmond | October 4, 1893 | |
| Theophile Jean DesRoches | June 27, 1902 | |
| William P. Di Vitto | | |
| Thomas J. Doherty | August 25, 1919 | |
| John F. Dolan | September 7, 1922 | |
| James R. Doncaster | January 28, 1919 | |
| Edmond J. Donlan | December 19, 1899 | |
| Allison Rice Dorman | December 1, 1879 | |
| Charles Robert Doyle | September 24, 1925 | |
| Charles E. Luke Driscoll | October 1, 1909 | |
| Henry M. Duggan | October 5, 1896 | |
| Philip J. Durkin | October 21, 1903 | |
| John Joseph Dwyer | | |
| Arthur H. Dykeman | | |
| Thomas Edward Enright | August 1, 1881 | |
| Anthony J. Farin | | |
| C. Eugene Farnam | December 31, 1916 | |
| Thomas F. Farrell | October 10, 1897 | |
| Michael Paul Feeney | March 26, 1907 | |
| Lawrence F. Feloney | September 11, 1921 | |
| Charles E. Ferguson | January 30, 1894 | |
| Thomas M. Flaherty | September 6, 1903 | |
| Norman Eugene Folsom | December 23, 1903 | |
| Stephen L. French | March 9, 1892 | |
| John L. Gallant | | |
| Peter B. Gay | July 13, 1915 | |
| Charles Gibbons | July 21, 1901 | |
| Frank S. Giles | June 15, 1915 | |
| Louis Harry Glaser | June 15, 1910 | |
| C. Henry Glovsky | March 26, 1918 | |
| William A. Glynn | | |
| Francis John Good | | |
| Edwin Daniel Gorman | November 19, 1912 | |
| Hollis M. Gott | May 25, 1885 | |
| Joseph Patrick Graham | August 22, 1902 | |
| Thomas T. Gray | July 22, 1892 | |
| George Greene | March 7, 1897 | |
| Francis Appleton Harding | 1908 | |
| Fred C. Harrington | April 21, 1902 | |
| William E. Hays | November 28, 1903 | |
| James W. Hennigan Jr. | March 27, 1927 | |
| Christian A. Herter Jr. | January 29, 1919 | |
| Paul L. Hinckley | August 16, 1910 | |
| James Alan Hodder | | |
| Isaac Alexander Hodgen | March 28, 1907 | |
| Olaf Hoff Jr. | January 11, 1892 | |
| Herbert B. Hollis | September 10, 1899 | |
| Charles F. Holman | June 21, 1892 | |
| J. Philip Howard | February 16, 1907 | |
| Richard Lester Hull | November 30, 1917 | |
| Walter Forbes Hurlburt | February 18, 1917 | |
| Nathaniel M. Hurwitz | March 24, 1893 | |
| Fred A. Hutchinson | April 5, 1881 | |
| Christopher A. Iannella | May 29, 1913 | |
| Charles Iannello | April 25, 1906 | |
| John Peter Ivascyn | October 19, 1909 | |
| Herbert L. Jackson | | |
| William Whittem Jenness | April 3, 1904 | |
| Adolph Johnson | July 20, 1885 | |
| Ernest A. Johnson | March 13, 1897 | |
| Stanley Everett Johnson | October 4, 1911 | |
| Allan Francis Jones | June 29, 1921 | |
| Abraham Herbert Kahalas | | |
| Charles Kaplan | September 26, 1895 | |
| Henry E. Keenan | | |
| William Francis Keenan | January 8, 1921 | |
| Charles T. Kelleher | July 26, 1912 | |
| James H. Kelly | October 15, 1919 | |
| Edward L. Kerr | March 6, 1909 | |
| Thomas E. Key | | |
| Cornelius F. Kiernan | August 15, 1917 | |
| Philip Kimball | June 6, 1918 | |
| William James Kingston | October 17, 1909 | |
| William Walter Kirlin | May 13, 1897 | |
| Thomas Edward Kitchen | December 16, 1924 | |
| Edmund Vincent Lane | August 31, 1893 | |
| James R. Lawton | October 20, 1925 | |
| Carter Lee | July 3, 1907 | |
| Francis W. Lindstrom | December 18, 1898 | |
| Gerald P. Lombard | January 4, 1916 | |
| William Longworth | August 17, 1914 | |
| Raymond Joseph Lord | | |
| Arthur Ulton Mahan | June 18, 1900 | |
| Charles Sumner Marston 3d | June 16, 1921 | |
| Michael J. McCarthy (politician) | October 23, 1890 | |
| Paul Andrew McCarthy | December 23, 1902 | |
| Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. | April 27, 1918 | |
| John P. McMorrow | September 19, 1926 | |
| Augustus Gardner Means | June 8, 1925 | |
| Arthur William Milne | March 28, 1908 | |
| Joe Moakley | April 27, 1927 | |
| William Dix Morton Jr. | November 5, 1904 | |
| Charles A. Mullaly Jr. | September 28, 1910 | |
| Robert F. Murphy (politician) | January 24, 1899 | |
| John E. Murphy | February 13, 1900 | |
| Cornelius Joseph Murray | August 19, 1890 | |
| Harold Clinton Nagle | July 27, 1917 | |
| Chester W. Nelson | | |
| Mary B. Newman | February 15, 1909 | 2nd Middlesex |
| Thomas M. Newth | March 15, 1911 | |
| Leo James Normandin | December 14, 1922 | |
| William F. Nourse | September 12, 1922 | |
| James Anthony O'Brien | October 27, 1886 | |
| William Thomas O'Brien | December 2, 1889 | |
| David J. O'Connor | November 9, 1924 | |
| Thomas J. O'Connor | July 27, 1925 | |
| John Henry O'Connor Jr. | December 9, 1917 | |
| James O'Dea Jr. | August 25, 1922 | |
| Joseph Michael O'Loughlin | November 26, 1914 | |
| John J. O'Rourke | June 26, 1916 | |
| Daniel Matthew O'Sullivan | August 17, 1921 | |
| Frank B. Oliveira | | |
| Anthony Parenzo | | |
| Charles Louis Patrone | March 17, 1914 | |
| Charles W. Patterson | January 30, 1917 | |
| Patrick Francis Plunkett | March 21, 1917 | |
| Michael A. Porrazzo | June 2, 1913 | |
| George William Porter | November 6, 1885 | |
| Harvey Armand Pothier | September 6, 1901 | |
| Meyer Pressman | February 11, 1907 | |
| Harold Putnam | February 15, 1916 | |
| Philip Andrew Quinn | February 21, 1910 | |
| William I. Randall | September 13, 1915 | |
| George E. Rawson | December 6, 1886 | |
| Hibbard Richter | April 12, 1899 | |
| William H. J. Rowan | June 21, 1879 | |
| Richard August Ruether | August 28, 1896 | |
| Howard S. Russell | July 28, 1887 | |
| Roger A. Sala | August 8, 1893 | |
| Joseph Douglas Saulnier | April 14, 1906 | |
| Anthony M. Scibelli | October 16, 1911 | |
| Edwin Andrews Seibel | | |
| John M. Shea | December 8, 1902 | |
| Arthur Joseph Sheehan | March 16, 1897 | |
| Joseph Silvano | March 1, 1909 | |
| Michael John Simonelli | May 9, 1913 | |
| J. Roger Sisson | August 14, 1921 | |
| Michael F. Skerry | January 3, 1909 | |
| Fletcher Smith Jr. | May 20, 1918 | |
| George T. Smith | March 18, 1888 | |
| Roy C. Smith | January 28, 1890 | |
| H. Edward Snow | April 25, 1914 | |
| Leo Sontag | August 16, 1922 | |
| Franklin Sturgis Jr. | October 18, 1883 | |
| William Christopher Sullivan | October 13, 1924 | |
| Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. | September 16, 1903 | |
| Armand N. Tancrati | May 3, 1914 | |
| Frank Daniel Tanner | February 3, 1888 | |
| Clarence F. Telford | | |
| John F. Thompson | May 20, 1920 | |
| Irene Thresher | July 6, 1900 | |
| Nathaniel Tilden | November 3, 1903 | |
| Robert Xavier Tivnan | June 9, 1924 | |
| Eino Oliver Toko | | |
| John Joseph Toomey | March 25, 1909 | |
| Philip Anthony Tracy | | |
| Earle Stanley Tyler | December 18, 1896 | |
| John Taylor Tynan | June 7, 1920 | |
| Theodore Jack Vaitses | May 8, 1901 | |
| William X. Wall | July 1, 1904 | |
| Joseph Francis Walsh | February 9, 1907 | |
| Joseph D. Ward | March 26, 1914 | |
| Martha Ware | October 6, 1917 | |
| Chester H. Waterous | November 18, 1905 | |
| Norman S. Weinberg | 1919 | |
| Howard J. Whitmore Jr. | May 9, 1905 | |
| Philip F. Whitmore | September 10, 1892 | |
| Charles E. Wilkinson | December 26, 1883 | |
| David B. Williams | January 7, 1919 | |
| Joseph Wisniowski | March 1, 1918 | |
| Stanislaus George Wondolowski | August 20, 1909 | |
| Albert E. Wood | | |
| Alton Hamilton Worrall | April 20, 1893 | |
| Marcus Newell Wright | | |
| John Yerxa | April 23, 1904 | |
| Arthur Eaton Young | | |
| John F. Zamparelli | December 13, 1922 | |
| Paul G. Zollo | August 26, 1904 | |