Massachusetts. Committee on Public Safety (1940-1945)

The Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety was a direct descendant of the Committee on Safety appointed by the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and dissolved in 1775. The Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety was appointed by Governor Samuel McCall on February 9, 1917 and dissolved on November 20, 1918. It was resurrected by Governor Leverett Saltonstall on August 23, 1940, confirmed by him through Executive Order no. 1, December 31, 1841, pursuant to St 1941, c 718, as an agency of the Executive Department, and dissolved in May 1945. In each case the function of the committee was to organize, supervise, direct and coordinate local committees on public safety in the cities and towns of the Commonwealth during time of war.

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