# 1943–1944 Massachusetts legislature

The 153rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1943 and 1944.

## Senators

| Name | Date of Birth | District |
| Benjamin J. Bowen | January 19, 1876 | |
| Richard S. Bowers | June 18, 1900 | |
| Ralph Vester Clampit | March 28, 1896 | 1st Hampden |
| William R. Conley | September 1, 1900 | |
| Arthur W. Coolidge | October 13, 1881 | |
| Michael A. Flanagan | February 21, 1890 | |
| Joseph F. Francis | July 2, 1893 | |
| Richard I. Furbush | January 4, 1904 | |
| Eugene H. Giroux | January 20, 1903 | |
| Maurice M. Goldman | | |
| William Patrick Grant | November 5, 1904 | |
| James A. Gunn | June 7, 1883 | |
| Cornelius F. Haley | July 15, 1875 | |
| Charles V. Hogan | April 12, 1897 | |
| Newland H. Holmes | August 30, 1891 | |
| J. Frank Hughes | | |
| Jarvis Hunt (politician) | March 28, 1904 | |
| Charles John Innes | June 1, 1901 | |
| Thomas H. Johnston | March 5, 1872 | |
| Robert L. Lee | | |
| Harold R. Lundgren | May 22, 1894 | |
| Donald Alexander MacDonald | February 21, 1893 | |
| John D. Mackay | April 7, 1872 | |
| James P. McAndrews | | |
| Charles Gardner Miles | December 2, 1879 | |
| Joseph F. Montminy | | |
| Joseph L. Murphy | January 25, 1907 | |
| Donald W. Nicholson | August 11, 1888 | |
| William E. Nolen | | |
| Charles William Olson | August 24, 1889 | |
| James Austin Peckham | | |
| Benjamin B. Priest | | |
| Harris S. Richardson | January 10, 1887 | |
| Edward Rowe | March 17, 1902 | |
| George W. Stanton | | |
| Everett W. Stone | | |
| Charles F. Sullivan | October 10, 1904 | |
| Leo J. Sullivan | December 8, 1905 | |
| Sumner G. Whittier | July 4, 1911 | |

## Representatives

| Name | Date of Birth | District |
| Wilfred J. Achin | May 12, 1891 | 3rd Berkshire |
| Richard James Allen | June 22, 1909 | |
| Theodore Andrews | August 23, 1893 | |
| John A. Armstrong | June 12, 1901 | |
| Charles J. Artesani | | |
| Edward C. Ashworth | April 22, 1899 | |
| William F. Askin | May 6, 1896 | |
| Josiah Babcock Jr. | May 21, 1880 | |
| Earle S. Bagley | January 20, 1905 | |
| Willis L. Baker | June 25, 1875 | |
| Charles Homer Barrett | June 23, 1868 | |
| George L. Barrus | December 15, 1880 | |
| William R. Barry | February 2, 1905 | |
| Michael J. Batal | September 8, 1898 | |
| Walter Ray Baylies | April 28, 1902 | |
| 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 | |
| Stanley John Borsa | | |
| Everett Murray Bowker | September 17, 1901 | |
| Daniel Joseph Bresnahan | September 30, 1888 | |
| Clarence B. Brown | December 22, 1877 | |
| Frank Eben Brown | January 14, 1890 | |
| John D. Brown | January 30, 1900 | |
| Russell P. Brown | August 24, 1891 | |
| William Albert Brown | February 5, 1888 | |
| Archie Edward Bruce | August 20, 1883 | |
| Harland Burke | April 22, 1888 | |
| Edward Butterworth | August 14, 1908 | |
| Bartholomew John Callery Jr. | March 28, 1910 | |
| Colin James Cameron | August 24, 1879 | |
| Charles J. Campbell | September 28, 1877 | |
| Robert Patterson Campbell | December 20, 1887 | |
| Matthew J. Capeless | June 4, 1875 | |
| Edmund Euplio Capodilupo | July 7, 1913 | |
| Enrico Cappucci | 1910 | |
| Ernest Westervelt Carman | | |
| John Henry Carroll | | |
| Daniel Casey | May 7, 1890 | |
| William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician) | June 27, 1905 | |
| James Frederick Catusi | | |
| Frank H. Chambers | June 14, 1898 | |
| Perlie Dyar Chase | July 31, 1905 | |
| David M. Cleary | May 9, 1901 | |
| J. Everett Collins | April 27, 1894 | |
| Robert Gerard Connolly | September 11, 1916 | |
| Michael John Conway | | |
| Florence E. Cook | July 8, 1908 | |
| Charles H. Cooke | May 13, 1878 | |
| George Chauncey Cousens | September 20, 1905 | |
| Earl Gustavus Crockett | March 23, 1894 | |
| Nelson B. Crosby | June 20, 1871 | |
| Jeremiah Dickson Crowley | May 16, 1911 | |
| Walter A. Cuffe | January 29, 1898 | |
| Clifford Rudolph Cusson | January 6, 1895 | |
| Leslie Bradley Cutler | March 24, 1890 | |
| Lawrence Harvard Davis | | |
| John Joseph Deedy | September 22, 1914 | |
| Roger Dennett | September 14, 1895 | |
| Ernest DeRoy | July 13, 1889 | |
| Octave O. Desmarais | October 26, 1889 | |
| Cornelius Desmond | October 4, 1893 | |
| Burt Dewar | December 29, 1884 | |
| Logan Rockwell Dickie | May 4, 1890 | |
| Vincent B. Dignam | February 22, 1896 | |
| Jacinto F. Diniz | October 3, 1888 | |
| Edmond J. Donlan | December 19, 1899 | |
| Susan Bradley Donovan | October 2, 1895 | |
| Joseph William Dooley | October 25, 1904 | |
| Anthony R. Doyle | August 8, 1895 | |
| Charles D. Driscoll | June 18, 1888 | |
| Henry M. Duggan | October 5, 1896 | |
| Ernest W. Dullea | January 14, 1891 | |
| Clifton Emerson Dwelly | January 11, 1893 | |
| Henry Allen Ellis | November 5, 1879 | |
| Charles Kingsbury Endicott | October 4, 1892 | |
| Sven August Erickson | December 9, 1875 | |
| George Jelly Evans | February 4, 1909 | |
| Samuel Falkof | | |
| Catherine E. Falvey | November 6, 1910 | |
| John J. Falvey | February 22, 1904 | |
| John R. Fausey | March 19, 1870 | |
| Michael Paul Feeney | March 26, 1907 | |
| Charles E. Ferguson | January 30, 1894 | |
| Joseph P. Ferriter | March 25, 1905 | |
| John Edward Flaherty | December 31, 1910 | |
| William Daniel Fleming | April 14, 1907 | |
| Norman Eugene Folsom | December 23, 1903 | |
| John F. Foster | | |
| Douglass Brooks Francis | | |
| George Fuller | July 24, 1893 | |
| Dana Taylor Gallup | April 14, 1885 | |
| Charles Gibbons | July 21, 1901 | |
| Avery W. Gilkerson | June 5, 1899 | |
| John F. Gilmore | December 8, 1896 | |
| Dennis P. Glynn | September 29, 1906 | |
| Hollis M. Gott | May 25, 1885 | |
| Thomas T. Gray | July 22, 1892 | |
| George Greene | March 7, 1897 | |
| Edward J. Grimley | December 15, 1915 | |
| Frederick C. Haigis | May 10, 1903 | |
| Edward Childs Hall | May 12, 1870 | |
| Fred C. Harrington | April 21, 1902 | |
| Frederick Roy Harvey Jr. | | |
| Charles Howard Haskell | July 26, 1878 | |
| Lawrence Alanson Haworth | May 23, 1871 | |
| William E. Hays | November 28, 1903 | |
| Henry Davis Higgins | February 24, 1873 | |
| Ralph H. Hill | February 5, 1915 | |
| Charles F. Holman | June 21, 1892 | |
| Frank Hathaway Horton | July 15, 1874 | |
| J. Philip Howard | February 16, 1907 | |
| I. Grafton Howes | June 17, 1889 | |
| Orison Valentine Hull | November 9, 1873 | |
| Richard Lester Hull | November 30, 1917 | |
| Edward A. Hutchinson Jr. | December 13, 1911 | |
| Fred A. Hutchinson | April 5, 1881 | |
| William McEwen Hyde | January 27, 1910 | |
| Harvey Iris | | |
| Adolph Johnson | July 20, 1885 | |
| Ernest A. Johnson | March 13, 1897 | |
| Peter John Jordan | July 23, 1910 | |
| Charles Kaplan | September 26, 1895 | |
| Alfred B. Keith | November 26, 1893 | |
| Charles A. Kelley | March 24, 1862 | |
| Francis Joseph Kelley | March 21, 1890 | |
| Richard A. Kelly | August 7, 1905 | |
| Rudolph King | November 2, 1887 | |
| Allan Roy Kingston | November 23, 1901 | |
| John Quincy Knowles | May 21, 1895 | |
| David Benjamin Lane Jr. | September 6, 1906 | |
| George Thomas Lanigan | January 4, 1909 | |
| Laurence W. Law | | |
| Walter E. Lawrence | December 8, 1905 | |
| Ralph Lerche | August 19, 1899 | |
| Louis Lobel | August 10, 1911 | |
| Burton Elmer Loring | | |
| William Christopher Lunney | December 24, 1910 | |
| Edward Lysek | October 18, 1911 | |
| Arthur Ulton Mahan | June 18, 1900 | |
| Ralph Collins Mahar | January 4, 1912 | |
| Vincent Ambrose Mannering | July 11, 1912 | |
| Joseph Margolis | September 28, 1908 | |
| Philip M. Markley | March 28, 1897 | |
| Thomas B. Matthews | June 24, 1874 | |
| Harry P. McAllister | April 25, 1880 | |
| Charles Joseph McCaffrey | January 16, 1898 | |
| Michael J. McCarthy (politician) | October 23, 1890 | |
| Paul Andrew McCarthy | December 23, 1902 | |
| Paul J. McCarty | July 22, 1906 | |
| Elmer L. McCulloch | | |
| William P. McDermott | July 4, 1870 | |
| Patrick J. McDonough | April 29, 1911 | |
| Harold B. L. McIntosh | November 19, 1907 | |
| Philip McMorrow | | |
| Joseph A. Milano | April 8, 1883 | |
| Charles Miller | January 12, 1908 | |
| Arthur William Milne | March 28, 1908 | |
| Walter James Moran | December 22, 1903 | |
| Timothy J. Moriarty | August 6, 1909 | |
| Lester Bertram Morley | April 19, 1903 | |
| Edward J. Mulligan | February 8, 1907 | |
| Robert F. Murphy (politician) | January 24, 1899 | |
| Cornelius Joseph Murray | August 19, 1890 | |
| Michael J. Neville | October 19, 1899 | |
| James Anthony O'Brien | October 27, 1886 | |
| William Thomas O'Brien | December 2, 1889 | |
| Roderick L. O'Handly | | |
| Louis F. O'Keefe | June 12, 1895 | |
| Tip O'Neill | December 9, 1912 | |
| George Joseph O'Shea | November 16, 1899 | |
| John Thomas Padden | May 6, 1903 | |
| Raymond P. Palmer | December 27, 1895 | |
| Clark Brownson Partridge | August 26, 1878 | |
| Loomis Patrick | May 4, 1907 | |
| Oscar Houston Perkins | January 3, 1879 | |
| Herman Peter Peterson | November 21, 1890 | |
| Frederick Everett Pierce | May 5, 1862 | |
| Sam G. Pillsbury | March 7, 1873 | |
| George Perry Ponte | May 24, 1905 | |
| George William Porter | November 6, 1885 | |
| Harvey Armand Pothier | September 6, 1901 | |
| John E. Powers | November 10, 1910 | |
| William Eben Ramsdell | May 4, 1895 | |
| Stuart Craig Rand | June 9, 1888 | |
| George E. Rawson | December 6, 1886 | |
| Cornelius Edward Reddy | May 27, 1910 | |
| Thomas Francis Reilly | August 12, 1903 | |
| Joseph N. Roach | March 22, 1883 | |
| Albert E. Roberts | November 22, 1875 | |
| William H. J. Rowan | June 21, 1879 | |
| Gerald F. Scally | July 17, 1905 | |
| Alyce Louise Schlapp | November 30, 1912 | |
| William Henry Sears Jr. | July 14, 1875 | |
| A. John Serino | March 13, 1906 | |
| William J. Sessions | December 18, 1859 | |
| Henry Lee Shattuck | October 12, 1879 | |
| Arthur Joseph Sheehan | March 16, 1897 | |
| Charles E. Shepard | September 21, 1901 | |
| Carl A. Sheridan | March 24, 1908 | |
| Robert T. Sisson | February 21, 1881 | |
| Michael F. Skerry | January 3, 1909 | |
| Charles J. Skladzien | | |
| Roy C. Smith | January 28, 1890 | |
| H. Edward Snow | April 25, 1914 | |
| Margaret Spear | August 10, 1882 | |
| Edward William Staves | May 9, 1887 | |
| Avery W. Steele | August 1, 1907 | |
| George Ward Stetson | May 31, 1902 | |
| Daniel Francis Sullivan | February 15, 1904 | |
| Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan | March 9, 1905 | |
| Patrick Gilbert Sullivan | November 18, 1904 | |
| William F. Sullivan | August 26, 1905 | |
| Eugene Joseph Sweeney | May 11, 1886 | |
| Joseph James Sweeney | January 5, 1893 | |
| Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. | September 16, 1903 | |
| Edmond Talbot Jr. | June 1, 1898 | |
| John H. Taylor | 1873 | |
| Robert Leroy Taylor | November 22, 1907 | |
| Clarence F. Telford | | |
| Nathaniel Tilden | November 3, 1903 | |
| James Francis Tobin | May 8, 1903 | |
| Harold Tompkins | August 23, 1887 | |
| John Joseph Toomey | March 25, 1909 | |
| John E. Troy Jr. | | |
| John H. Valentine | July 21, 1896 | |
| John W. Vaughan | March 20, 1878 | |
| Arthur F. Verney | | |
| James T. Violette | | |
| William X. Wall | July 1, 1904 | |
| George Thomas Walsh | February 20, 1904 | |
| Norman F. Wellen | | |
| Joseph L. Whiton | | |
| Frederick Willis (American politician) | May 18, 1904 | |
| Henry D. Winslow | September 24, 1910 | |
| Stanislaus George Wondolowski | August 20, 1909 | |
| Clarence A. Wood | | |
| Arthur Eaton Young | | |
| Arthur Lincoln Youngman | | |