1929–1930 Massachusetts legislature

146th
Massachusetts General Court
146th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 6, 1928
Senate
Members	40
President	Gaspar G. Bacon (6th Suffolk)
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	Leverett Saltonstall (5th Middlesex)
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 2, 1929 – May 29, 1930
2nd	October 20, 1930 – October 20, 1930

Gaspar Bacon, Senate president.

Leverett Saltonstall, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1929.

The 146th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1929 and 1930 during the governorship of Frank G. Allen. Gaspar G. Bacon served as president of the Senate and Leverett Saltonstall served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators[edit]

Name ^[5]	Date of birth ^[6]	District ^[6]
Gaspar G. Bacon	March 7, 1886	6th Suffolk
Robert E. Bigney
Conde Brodbine	April 4, 1897
John P. Buckley	June 12, 1889
John Francis Buckley	December 5, 1894
William S. Conroy	October 2, 1877
Joseph R. Cotton	November 16, 1890
Elbert M. Crockett	August 14, 1871
Warren Chapman Daggett	May 10, 1868
J. Bradford Davis	September 26, 1889
Cady R. Elder
Charles William Faulkner
Erland F. Fish	December 7, 1883
Angier Goodwin	January 30, 1881
C. Wesley Hale	February 13, 1872
Cornelius F. Haley	July 15, 1875
Arthur W. Hollis	April 29, 1877
Frank Hurley	March 9, 1900
Charles Ward Johnson	March 8, 1894
Frederick E. Judd
Roger Keith
Clarence P. Kidder
Henry L. Kincaide
James G. Moran	May 2, 1870
George G. Moyse	December 21, 1878
Joseph J. Mulhern
George H. Nelson
Donald W. Nicholson	August 11, 1888
Frank Wellman Osborne
Henry Parkman Jr.	April 26, 1894
Walter Perham
Henry Francis Ripley
Nathaniel P. Sowle	October 30, 1857
Warren E. Tarbell
James A. Torrey	September 27, 1868
Michael James Ward	September 19, 1899
Charles C. Warren
James E. Warren
Thomas J. Worrell	August 21, 1874
Samuel H. Wragg	June 9, 1882

Representatives[edit]

Name ^[5]	Date of Birth ^[6]	District ^[6]
Henry Achin Jr.	June 30, 1883	14th Middlesex
Harry L. Adams
Augustine Airola
William A. Akeroyd	October 24, 1883
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 A. Baldwin	January 18, 1874
William H. Barker	December 20, 1892
Elliott R. Barker
Philip Barnet	December 2, 1892
Mary Livermore Barrows	June 30, 1877
Thomas R. Bateman	October 11, 1878
Wilfred P. Bazinet
Malcolm Lawrie Bell	November 30, 1890
William J. Bell	December 7, 1884
Albert F. Bigelow	October 4, 1880	10th Norfolk
Leo Birmingham	April 14, 1893
Seth Howard Boardman
Joseph James Borgatti
Frank A. Brainerd	May 6, 1870
James Michael Brennan	October 30, 1902
Edgar Turner Brickett
George E. Briggs	May 3, 1873
Emma E. Brigham	June 10, 1872
Martha Brooks	November 16, 1881
George Francis Brooks	August 23, 1856
Harry Dunlap Brown
Albert W. Bullock	April 18, 1872
Arthur I. Burgess	October 13, 1894
John K. Burgess	January 1, 1863
Thomas S. Burgin
Marion Cowan Burrows	May 7, 1865
Fred L. Butler
Horace T. Cahill	December 12, 1894
Henry W. Caldwell
Thomas Harold Carr
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
Francis Peter Clark	August 22, 1896
James W. Clark
Maynard Clemons	December 11, 1866
Daniel J. Coakley	November 18, 1880
James S. Coffey	February 5, 1899
John Patrick Connolly	June 28, 1894	9th Suffolk
William Patrick Corbett
Everett C. Crane
William C. Creed
Richard D. Crockwell	October 23, 1886
Timothy James Cronin
Arthur Payne Crosby	August 1, 1879
Frank D. Crowley
Thomas Charles Crowther	April 28, 1892
Francis Daniel Dailey
Charles Robert Damon
W. Taylor Day
Harry E. Day
Ernest J. Dean	April 5, 1883
Hiram Nichols Dearborn	December 21, 1867
John S. Derham
Louis N. M. DesChenes	April 7, 1872
Paul A. Dever^[7]	January 15, 1903
Burt Dewar	December 29, 1884
Sylvia Donaldson	July 12, 1849
Robert W. Dow	July 15, 1868
Anthony R. Doyle	August 8, 1895
Harold R. Duffie
Eugene Patrick Durgin	December 12, 1884
Felix J. Dussault
Louis Ellenwood
Sven August Erickson	December 9, 1875
Henry A. Estabrook	April 22, 1850
Archibald M. Estabrook
Howard Fall
Joseph Finnegan
John Ford	January 17, 1871
Isidore H. Fox
John P. Gaffney
Owen Ambrose Gallagher	May 24, 1902
Arthur F. Ganley
Tony Garofano	May 28, 1885
George A. Gilman	August 16, 1880
Bernard Ginsburg	August 1, 1898
Richard D. Gleason	September 22, 1896
Arthur Goulart
Emile J. Gravel
Lewis S. Gray
John Joseph Hackett
James E. Hagan	January 25, 1902
John Halliwell	February 21, 1864
Ralph N. Hamilton	November 16, 1898
Arthur Alexander Hansen
Martin Hays	October 14, 1876
Jeremiah Joseph Healy	July 2, 1872
William H. Hearn
William P. Hickey	November 17, 1871
Francis J. Hickey
John Patrick Higgins	February 19, 1893
Charles Sumner Holden
Charles H. Holmes
Newland H. Holmes	August 30, 1891
John Holmes	November 27, 1882
Horace W. Hosie	February 2, 1864
Fred A. Hutchinson	April 5, 1881
Alfred Wesley Ingalls
John Joseph Irwin
Victor Francis Jewett
Richard E. Johnston	March 22, 1873
William A. Jones	March 27, 1885
John Alfred Jones
Arthur Westgate Jones	January 11, 1873
Michael H. Jordan	February 7, 1863
John Kendall Joy Jr.
Francis Kearney
William H. Keating
Francis Joseph Kelley	March 21, 1890
Charles A. Kelley	March 24, 1862
Edward J. Kelley	December 25, 1897
Thomas S. Kennedy
George Thomas Keyes
John V. Kimball	July 17, 1875
Orvis F. Kinney	May 23, 1880
Orvis F. Kinney	May 23, 1880
William E. Kirkpatrick	November 12, 1901
Samuel Knowles
George William Knowlton Jr.
Millard B. LaCroix
Wilfrid J. Lamoureux	December 13, 1869
Thomas J. Lane	July 6, 1898
Joseph Lawrence Larson
Arnold Leonard
Joseph W. Leyden
Lester Blaine Libbey
Joseph A. Logan
Clarence S. Luitwieler
John P. Lyons	June 24, 1879
Allan Barker MacGregor
Frank E. MacLean
John Whitman MacLeod
John V. Mahoney	July 20, 1889
Felix A. Marcella
Paul G. Martel
Dennis F. McCarthy
William Henry McCarthy
Elmer L. McCulloch
Timothy J. McDonough
Frank Joseph McFarland
Willard Spaulding McKay
George McLeod
George C. McMenimen
William M. McMorrow
Anthony A. McNulty
James Philip Meehan	June 25, 1893
William A. Menzie
Daniel F. Moriarty
Luke David Mullen
Patrick Francis Nestor
Edward H. Nutting	July 6, 1869
Ignatius Jerome O'Connor
Daniel W. O'Connor	March 12, 1877
Joseph N. O'Kane	May 26, 1873
Edwin Lawrence Olander	October 31, 1891
Ralph Emerson Otis	January 16, 1890
Charles Louis Page
Herman Pehrsson
Joseph Earl Perry	December 30, 1884
Francis H. Perry	June 24, 1855
Tycho Mouritz Petersen	August 29, 1892
Thomas G. Portmore
Albert L. Potter
Edgar F. Power
Frank A. Powers
C. F. Nelson Pratt	February 4, 1891
Francis E. Rafter	November 14, 1892
John J. Reardon
Joseph N. Roach	March 22, 1883
Edward J. Robbins
Victor E. Rolander	March 8, 1871
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
Henry Lee Shattuck	October 12, 1879
Charles H. Shaylor
Leslie W. Sims
Harry D. Sisson	January 9, 1863
Charles Henry Slowey
Thomas Smith Jr.
B. Farnham Smith
H. Merton Snow
Dexter Avery Snow	January 3, 1890
Norman Leon Snow
Ernest H. Sparrell
Elmer E. Spear	January 2, 1887
Arthur T. Squires
Richard H. Stacy	August 18, 1864
Philip Huntley Stacy
Lemuel W. Standish
Edward William Staves	May 9, 1887
Ralph Stevens
Joseph Fayette Stone	February 8, 1858
Charles Sumner Sullivan Jr.
Denis J. Sullivan	July 24, 1889
Timothy Daniel Sullivan
Lewis R. Sullivan Jr.	March 9, 1900
Clyde Henry Swan
Martin Swanson	July 20, 1872
Frank A. Teele	August 25, 1866
William Franklin Thomas Jr.
William R. Thomas	September 24, 1871
Rupert C. Thompson
Bayard Tuckerman Jr.	April 19, 1889
James J. Twohig
Eliot Wadsworth	January 1, 1876
Wilford Almon Walker
Ira C. Ward	March 7, 1862
Andrew C. Warner
Kendrick Harlow Washburn	July 29, 1893
Slater Washburn
Harold B. Webber
Louis A. Webster
William H. Wellen
Patrick J. Welsh	October 8, 1893
Levi Lincoln Wetherbee
Ralph Wheelright
Renton Whidden
Joseph C. White	January 1, 1899
Sidney M. Williams
John Chester Wilson	August 14, 1889
Carl A. Woekel
Lawrence Theodore Woolfenden
Arthur Lincoln Youngman
Michael Zack

References[edit]

^ "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
^ "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
^ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
^ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338+.
^ ^a ^b Public Officials of Massachusetts 1929-30. Boston Review. 1929.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1929" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
^ State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020

External links[edit]

Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1929, hdl:2452/279549
Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1930, hdl:2452/279550
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1929, hdl:2452/64541
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1930, hdl:2452/62554

[CompSenate-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

[CompHouse-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+.

[Officials-5] Public Officials of Massachusetts 1929-30. Boston Review. 1929.

[Register-6] "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1929" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

[Papers-7] State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020

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1929–1930 Massachusetts legislature

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