1931–1932 Massachusetts legislature

147th
Massachusetts General Court

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Overview
Legislative body| General Court
Senate
Members| 40
House
Members| 240

The 147th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1931 and 1932.[1]

## Senators

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Portrait  | Name [1] | Date of Birth [2] | District [2]

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| Chester Willard Allen  |  |
| Gaspar G. Bacon | March 7, 1886  | 6th Suffolk
| Malcolm Lawrie Bell  | November 30, 1890  |
| Albert C. Bray  |  |
| Conde Brodbine  | April 4, 1897  |
| John P. Buckley  | June 12, 1889  |
| William S. Conroy  | October 2, 1877  |
| Joseph R. Cotton | November 16, 1890  |
| Elbert M. Crockett  | August 14, 1871  |
| J. Bradford Davis  | September 26, 1889  |
| Joseph Finnegan  |  |
| Erland F. Fish | December 7, 1883  |
| Angier Goodwin | January 30, 1881  |
| Cornelius F. Haley  | July 15, 1875  |
| Arthur W. Hollis  | April 29, 1877  |
| Newland H. Holmes | August 30, 1891  |
| Frank Hurley  | March 9, 1900  |
| Thomas H. Johnston  | March 5, 1872  |
| Frederick E. Judd  |  |
| Roger Keith  |  |
| John D. Mackay  | April 7, 1872  |
| Joseph William Monahan  |  |
| James G. Moran | May 2, 1870  |
| George G. Moyse  | December 21, 1878  |
| Christian Nelson  |  |
| George H. Nelson  |  |
| Donald W. Nicholson | August 11, 1888  |
| Edward H. Nutting  | July 6, 1869  |
| Henry Parkman Jr. | April 26, 1894  |
| Theodore Robinson Plunkett  | May 10, 1882  |
| James Conlan Scanlan  | December 18, 1896  |
| William F. Shanahan  |  |
| Charles Abbot Stevens  |  |
| James J. Twohig  | September 26, 1886  |
| Max Ulin  |  |
| Michael James Ward  | September 19, 1899  |
| Charles C. Warren  |  |
| James E. Warren  |  |
| Lawrence Theodore Woolfenden  |  |
| Samuel H. Wragg | June 9, 1882  |

## Representatives

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Portrait  | Name [1] | Date of Birth [2] | District [2]

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| Henry Achin Jr.  | June 30, 1883  | 14th Middlesex
| Augustine Airola  |  |
| Charles W. Ames  | March 10, 1860  |
| George P. Anderson  | February 19, 1873  |
| Josiah Babcock Jr.  | May 21, 1880  |
| William Brooks Baker  | January 10, 1879  |
| William H. Barker  | December 20, 1892  |
| Philip Barnet  | December 2, 1892  |
| Mary Livermore Barrows | June 30, 1877  |
| Albert L. Bartlett | June 1, 1851  |
| Thomas R. Bateman  | October 11, 1878  |
| James D. Bentley  | February 6, 1884  |
| Alfred M. Bessette  | March 25, 1876  |
| Albert F. Bigelow | October 4, 1880  | 10th Norfolk
| Leo Birmingham | April 14, 1893  |
| Frederick H. Bowser Jr.  |  |
| Emma E. Brigham | June 10, 1872  |
| George Francis Brooks  | August 23, 1856  |
| Harry Dunlap Brown  |  |
| William Albert Brown  | February 5, 1888  |
| Charles Bruce  |  |
| Albert W. Bullock  | April 18, 1872  |
| John K. Burgess | 1863  |
| Arthur I. Burgess  | October 13, 1894  |
| Albert H. Burnham  |  |
| Marion Cowan Burrows | May 7, 1865  |
| Fred L. Butler  |  |
| Horace T. Cahill | December 12, 1894  |
| Jerome Joseph Cahill  |  |
| Thomas Francis Carroll  |  |
| William Casey  | November 20, 1884  |
| Abraham B. Casson  |  |
| Charles Thomas Cavanagh  | June 12, 1893  |
| Edward Michael Cawley  |  |
| Chester W. Chase  | August 27, 1885  |
| Charles Daniel Chevalier  |  |
| John Patrick Clancy  |  |
| Francis Peter Clark  | August 22, 1896  |
| James W. Clark  |  |
| Frank Clarkson  | June 21, 1877  |
| Daniel J. Coakley  | November 18, 1880  |
| Harold E. Cole  |  |
| John T. Comerford  | June 8, 1887  |
| John J. Concannon  |  |
| John Patrick Connolly | June 28, 1894  | 9th Suffolk
| William Patrick Corbett  |  |
| Timothy J. Costello  |  |
| Frank Bernard Coughlin  | January 11, 1891  |
| Richard D. Crockwell  | October 23, 1886  |
| Timothy James Cronin  |  |
| Arthur Payne Crosby  | August 1, 1879  |
| Nelson B. Crosby  | June 20, 1871  |
| John J. Crowley  | September 20, 1900  |
| Francis Daniel Dailey  |  |
| Daniel P. Day  |  |
| Harry E. Day  |  |
| Ernest J. Dean  | April 5, 1883  |
| John S. Derham  |  |
| Louis N. M. DesChenes  | April 7, 1872  |
| Paul A. Dever | January 15, 1903  |
| Burt Dewar  | December 29, 1884  |
| William Charles Dolan  |  |
| Joseph H. Downey  | December 6, 1890  |
| Anthony R. Doyle  | August 8, 1895  |
| William Henry Doyle  |  |
| Harold R. Duffie  |  |
| Norman Le Roy Duncan  |  |
| Eugene Patrick Durgin  | December 12, 1884  |
| Sven August Erickson  | December 9, 1875  |
| Archibald M. Estabrook  |  |
| Henry A. Estabrook  | April 22, 1850  |
| Bruno M. Findeisen  |  |
| Bernard Finkelstein  | July 4, 1887  |
| Peter J. Fitzgerald  | September 13, 1899  |
| John Ford  | January 17, 1871  |
| Winfred F. Forward  |  |
| John P. Gaffney  |  |
| Owen Ambrose Gallagher | May 24, 1902  |
| Arthur F. Ganley  |  |
| Tony Garofano | May 28, 1885  |
| George A. Gilman  | August 16, 1880  |
| Eugene H. Giroux  | January 20, 1903  |
| J. Henry Goguen | March 8, 1899  |
| Arthur Goulart  |  |
| Lewis S. Gray  |  |
| Joseph B. Grossman | July 15, 1892  |
| James E. Hagan | January 25, 1902  |
| John Halliwell  | February 21, 1864  |
| Ralph N. Hamilton  | November 16, 1898  |
| Arthur Alexander Hansen  |  |
| Louis E. Hathaway  | June 28, 1863  |
| Jeremiah Joseph Healy  | July 2, 1872  |
| James W. Hennigan Sr. | 1890  |
| Christian Herter | March 28, 1895  |
| William P. Hickey  | November 17, 1871  |
| John P. Higgins  |  |
| William Anthony Higgins  | July 23, 1897  |
| Charles Sumner Holden  |  |
| John Holmes  | November 27, 1882  |
| Herbert P. Houghton  |  |
| William T. Hudson  |  |
| John E. Hurley | November 2, 1906  |
| Alfred Wesley Ingalls  |  |
| John Joseph Irwin  |  |
| Felix Irzyk  |  |
| Victor Francis Jewett  |  |
| Richard E. Johnston  | March 22, 1873  |
| Arthur Westgate Jones  | January 11, 1873  |
| John Alfred Jones  |  |
| William A. Jones  | March 27, 1885  |
| Michael H. Jordan  | February 7, 1863  |
| Francis Kearney  |  |
| William H. Keating  |  |
| Charles A. Kelley  | March 24, 1862  |
| Edward J. Kelley  | December 25, 1897  |
| Francis Joseph Kelley  | March 21, 1890  |
| Thomas S. Kennedy  |  |
| John V. Kimball  | July 17, 1875  |
| William E. Kirkpatrick  | November 12, 1901  |
| John Quincy Knowles  | May 21, 1895  |
| Wilfrid J. Lamoureux  | December 13, 1869  |
| Thomas J. Lane | July 6, 1898  |
| Elmer E. Lane  |  |
| Robert L. Lee  |  |
| Robert Vincent Lee  |  |
| Arnold Leonard  |  |
| Marcus J. Levins  |  |
| Joseph W. Leyden  |  |
| Lester Blaine Libbey  |  |
| Joseph A. Logan  |  |
| Clarence S. Luitwieler  |  |
| John P. Lyons  | June 24, 1879  |
| Harold Wayne Macauley  |  |
| Frank E. MacLean  |  |
| John Whitman MacLeod  |  |
| William Francis Madden  | January 4, 1897  |
| John V. Mahoney  | July 20, 1889  |
| Thomas F. Malloy  |  |
| Stephen Andrew Manning  |  |
| Felix A. Marcella  |  |
| Philip M. Markley  | March 28, 1897  |
| Paul G. Martel  |  |
| Dennis F. McCarthy  |  |
| William Henry McCarthy  |  |
| Elmer L. McCulloch  |  |
| Timothy J. McDonough  |  |
| Frank Joseph McFarland  |  |
| Fred Joseph McGuinness  |  |
| Owen D. McLellan  |  |
| George McLeod  |  |
| George C. McMenimen  |  |
| Anthony A. McNulty  |  |
| James Philip Meehan  | June 25, 1893  |
| William H. Melley  | May 18, 1903  |
| Harry Carrol Mohr  |  |
| Patrick J. Moore | December 22, 1863  |
| Daniel F. Moriarty  |  |
| John Francis Murphy  |  |
| Patrick Francis Nestor  |  |
| Frank Daniel O'Brien  | April 25, 1905  |
| Michael T. O'Brien  | December 3, 1868  |
| Daniel J. O'Connor Jr.  |  |
| Daniel W. O'Connor  | March 12, 1877  |
| James H. O'Dea  |  |
| Joseph N. O'Kane  | May 26, 1873  |
| John Thomas O'Neill  | August 22, 1900  |
| Ralph Emerson Otis  | January 16, 1890  |
| Herman Pehrsson  |  |
| Francis H. Perry  | June 24, 1855  |
| Tycho Mouritz Petersen  | August 29, 1892  |
| Louis Pfeiffer  |  |
| Herbert Wilson Porter  |  |
| Albert L. Potter  |  |
| C. F. Nelson Pratt | February 4, 1891  |
| William Patrick Prendergast  |  |
| Francis E. Rafter  | November 14, 1892  |
| John J. Reardon  |  |
| Josiah B. Reed  |  |
| Joseph N. Roach  | March 22, 1883  |
| Victor E. Rolander  | March 8, 1871  |
| Joseph D. Rolfe  | May 17, 1893  |
| Elmer Gould Royce  |  |
| Samuel Rushton  |  |
| Leverett Saltonstall | September 1, 1892  |
| Edward Julius Sandberg  | October 21, 1866  |
| John Sauter  |  |
| Roland D. Sawyer | January 8, 1874  |
| Frank O. Scott  |  |
| William J. Sessions  | December 18, 1859  |
| Herbert Parker Philip Shaughnessy  |  |
| Charles H. Shaylor  |  |
| Howard Samuel Shepard  | September 18, 1865  |
| Philip Sherman  |  |
| Leslie W. Sims  |  |
| Harry D. Sisson | January 9, 1863  |
| Charles Henry Slowey  |  |
| B. Farnham Smith  |  |
| Dexter Avery Snow  | January 3, 1890  |
| Norman Leon Snow  |  |
| Julius H. Soble | March 1, 1906  |
| Ernest H. Sparrell  |  |
| Arthur T. Squires  |  |
| Philip Huntley Stacy  |  |
| Richard H. Stacy  | August 18, 1864  |
| Lemuel W. Standish  |  |
| Edward William Staves  | May 9, 1887  |
| Alexander Francis Sullivan  |  |
| Lewis R. Sullivan Jr.  | March 9, 1900  |
| Clyde Henry Swan  |  |
| Martin Swanson  | July 20, 1872  |
| Frank A. Teele  | August 25, 1866  |
| Joseph E. Theberge  | April 27, 1903  |
| William Franklin Thomas Jr.  |  |
| William R. Thomas  | September 24, 1871  |
| Jabez P. Thompson  |  |
| Rupert C. Thompson  |  |
| George Henry Tinker  |  |
| Joseph Walton Tuttle Jr.  | August 20, 1894  |
| George M. Underwood  |  |
| Herbert W. Urquhart  | October 19, 1883  |
| Eliot Wadsworth  | 1876  |
| Ira C. Ward  | March 7, 1862  |
| Andrew C. Warner  |  |
| Kendrick Harlow Washburn  | July 29, 1893  |
| Harold B. Webber  |  |
| Louis A. Webster  |  |
| Patrick J. Welsh  | October 8, 1893  |
| John J. Whalen  | June 5, 1876  |
| Ralph Wheelright  |  |
| Frank Lewis Whipple  |  |
| Joseph C. White | 1899  |
| Ernest Albert White  |  |
| Sydney M. Williams  |  |
| John Chester Wilson  | August 14, 1889  |
| Carl A. Woekel  |  |
| Charles Frederick Young  |  |
| Arthur Lincoln Youngman  |  |
| Michael Zack  |  |

## See also

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* 1932 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
* 72nd United States Congress
* List of Massachusetts General Courts

## References

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1. ^ a b c Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1931.
2. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1931" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

## External links

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* Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1931, hdl:2452/265584
* Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1932, hdl:2452/265585
* Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1931, hdl:2452/62555
* Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1932, hdl:2452/62556

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1 (1780)
2 (1781)
3 (1782)
4 (1783)
5 (1784)
6 (1785)
7 (1786)
8 (1787)
9 (1788)
10 (1789)
11 (1790)
12 (1791)
13 (1792)
14 (1793)
15 (1794)
16 (1795)
17 (1796)
18 (1797)
19 (1798)
20 (1799)
21 (1800)
22 (1801)
23 (1802)
24 (1803)
25 (1804)

26 (1805)
27 (1806)
28 (1807)
29 (1808)
30 (1809)
31 (1810)
32 (1811)
33 (1812)
34 (1813)
35 (1814)
36 (1815)
37 (1816)
38 (1817)
39 (1818)
40 (1819)
41 (1820)
42 (1821)
43 (1822)
44 (1823)
45 (1824)
46 (1825)
47 (1826)
48 (1827)
49 (1828)
50 (1829)

51 (1830)
52 (1831)
53 (1832)
54 (1833)
55 (1834)
56 (1835)
57 (1836)
58 (1837)
59 (1838)
60 (1839)
61 (1840)
62 (1841)
63 (1842)
64 (1843)
65 (1844)
66 (1845)
67 (1846)
68 (1847)
69 (1848)
70 (1849)
71 (1850)
72 (1851)
73 (1852)
74 (1853)
75 (1854)

76 (1855)
77 (1856)
78 (1857)
79 (1858)
80 (1859)
81 (1860)
82 (1861)
83 (1862)
84 (1863)
85 (1864)
86 (1865)
87 (1866)
88 (1867)
89 (1868)
90 (1869)
91 (1870)
92 (1871)
93 (1872)
94 (1873)
95 (1874)
96 (1875)
97 (1876)
98 (1877)
99 (1878)
100 (1879)

101 (1880)
102 (1881)
103 (1882)
104 (1883)
105 (1884)
106 (1885)
107 (1886)
108 (1887)
109 (1888)
110 (1889)
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112 (1891)
113 (1892)
114 (1893)
115 (1894)
116 (1895)
117 (1896)
118 (1897)
119 (1898)
120 (1899)
121 (1900)
122 (1901)
123 (1902)
124 (1903)
125 (1904)

126 (1905)
127 (1906)
128 (1907)
129 (1908)
130 (1909)
131 (1910)
132 (1911)
133 (1912)
134 (1913)
135 (1914)
136 (1915)
137 (1916)
138 (1917)
139 (1918)
140 (1919)
141 (1920)
142 (1921)
143 (1923)
144 (1925)
145 (1927)
146 (1929)
147 (1931)
148 (1933)
149 (1935)
150 (1937)

151 (1939)
152 (1941)
153 (1943)
154 (1945)
155 (1947)
156 (1949)
157 (1951)
158 (1953)
159 (1955)
160 (1957)
161 (1959)
162 (1961)
163 (1963)
164 (1965)
165 (1967)
166 (1969)
167 (1971)
168 (1973)
169 (1975)
170 (1977)
171 (1979)
172 (1981)
173 (1983)
174 (1985)
175 (1987)

176 (1989)
177 (1991)
178 (1993)
179 (1995)
180 (1997)
181 (1999)
182 (2001)
183 (2003)
184 (2005)
185 (2007)
186 (2009)
187 (2011)
188 (2013)
189 (2015)
190 (2017)
191 (2019)
192 (2021)
193 (2023)
194 (2025)

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Commons

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Senate|

* Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden
* Bristol and Norfolk
* Bristol and Plymouth: 1st, 2nd
* Cape and Islands
* Essex: 1st, 2nd, 3rd
* Essex and Middlesex: 1st, 2nd
* Hampden
* Hampden and Hampshire: 1st, 2nd
* Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester
* Middlesex: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
* Middlesex and Norfolk: 1st, 2nd
* Middlesex and Suffolk
* Middlesex and Worcester
* Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex
* Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth
* Norfolk and Plymouth
* Norfolk and Suffolk
* Plymouth and Barnstable
* Plymouth and Bristol: 1st, 2nd
* Plymouth and Norfolk
* Suffolk: 1st, 2nd
* Suffolk and Middlesex: 1st, 2nd
* Worcester: 1st, 2nd
* Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex
* Worcester and Middlesex
* Worcester and Norfolk
* Obsolete districts

House|

| Barnstable|

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th

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Berkshire|

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th

Bristol|

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th

Cape and Islands|

Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket

Essex  |

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th

Franklin|

1st, 2nd

Hampden|

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th

Hampshire|

1st, 2nd, 3rd

Middlesex|

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 35th, 36th, 37th

Norfolk  |

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th

Plymouth|

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th

Suffolk|

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th

Worcester|

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th

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Former districts

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