Joseph Langone Jr. is elected to the Massachusetts Senate.

The first Italian-American elected to the Massachusetts Senate, Langone is an undertaker with a mercurial personality and the model for the character “George Ravello” in William Whyte’s Streetcorner Society. Langone lives at 190 North Street. Others elected to the House of Representative for the first time this year are Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R-Nahant).