1939 Massachusetts legislature

151st
Massachusetts General Court
151st; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 8, 1938
Senate
Members	40
President	Joseph R. Cotton (7th Middlesex district)
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	Christian Herter (5th Suffolk)
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 4, 1939 – August 12, 1939

The 151st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1939 during the governorship of Leverett Saltonstall. Joseph R. Cotton served as president of the Senate and Christian Herter served as speaker of the House.^[4]

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Joseph Cotton, Senate president.

Christian Herter, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1939.

"1939 was the first year the General Court began meeting every other year instead of annually. ...No session was held in 1940 and no legislation or other materials relating thereof was published during that year."^[5]

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Name ^[6]	Date of Birth ^[7]	District ^[7]
Frank David Babcock	August 16, 1877	4th Essex
Wilfred P. Bazinet
Chandler Bigelow
Arthur Franklin Blanchard	January 27, 1883
David M. Brackman
Thomas M. Burke	May 30, 1898
Albert Cole (Massachusetts politician)	December 28, 1904
Louis Benedict Connors
Joseph R. Cotton	November 16, 1890
Laurence Curtis	September 3, 1893
Chester A. Dolan Jr.	September 20, 1907
Joseph F. Francis	July 2, 1893
Eugene H. Giroux	January 20, 1903
Angier Goodwin	January 30, 1881
William Patrick Grant	November 5, 1904
James A. Gunn	June 7, 1883
Cornelius F. Haley	July 15, 1875
Arthur W. Hollis	April 29, 1877
Newland H. Holmes	August 30, 1891
Jarvis Hunt (politician)	March 28, 1904
Thomas H. Johnston	March 5, 1872
John E. Kerrigan	October 1, 1908
George W. Krapf
Thomas J. Lane	July 6, 1898
Joseph A. Langone Jr.	September 8, 1896
Harold R. Lundgren	May 22, 1894
John D. Mackay	April 7, 1872
Joseph Patrick McCooey
Charles Gardner Miles	December 2, 1879
Joseph F. Montminy
Edward O'Hearn Mullowney
Joseph L. Murphy	January 25, 1907
Donald W. Nicholson	August 11, 1888
Edward H. Nutting	July 6, 1869
Edwin Lawrence Olander	October 31, 1891
Edmund S. Oppenheimer
Harris S. Richardson	January 10, 1887
Mason Sears	December 29, 1899
Chester T. Skibinski
Bernard Lucian Sullivan

1939 Massachusetts legislature

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Name ^[6]	Date of Birth ^[7]	District ^[7]
Wilfred J. Achin	May 12, 1891	14th Middlesex
William A. Akeroyd	October 24, 1883
Theodore Andrews	August 23, 1893
George T. Ashe	February 6, 1905
Josiah Babcock Jr.	May 21, 1880
Robert S. Backus
William Brooks Baker	January 10, 1879
William A. Baldwin	January 18, 1874
Philip Barnet	December 2, 1892
Frederick M. Barnicoat
George L. Barrus	December 15, 1880
Thomas A. Barry	May 12, 1895
Walter Ray Baylies	April 28, 1902
Fred D. Beaudoin
Malcolm Lawrie Bell	November 30, 1890
Albert Bergeron	June 28, 1877
Albert Bergeron	June 23, 1886
Alfred M. Bessette	March 25, 1876
Albert F. Bigelow	October 4, 1880	10th Norfolk
Fred Arthur Blake	January 13, 1895
Edward Boland	October 1, 1911
Albert Lionel Bourgeois	June 7, 1899
Philip Griggs Bowker	April 17, 1899
G. Edward Bradley	October 21, 1906
Edward T. Brady	October 23, 1908
Daniel Joseph Bresnahan	September 30, 1888
Warren Kingsbury Brimblecom	June 25, 1899
J. Kenney Brooks
Russell P. Brown	August 24, 1891
Frank Eben Brown	January 14, 1890
William Albert Brown	February 5, 1888
Arthur I. Burgess	October 13, 1894
Harland Burke	April 22, 1888
John F. Burns
J. Elmer Callahan
Colin James Cameron	August 24, 1879
Robert Patterson Campbell	December 20, 1887
Matthew J. Capeless	June 4, 1875
Enrico Cappucci	1910
Andrew F. Carlin