David M. Bartley
# David M. Bartley

David Michael Bartley (February 9, 1935 – June 13, 2023) was an American politician and educator who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1963 to 1975, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1969 to 1975, Secretary of Administration and Finance from 1982 to 1983, and President of Holyoke Community College from 1975 to 2004. In 1974, along with J. John Fox, he co-sponsored the Bartley-Fox law, which passed that year and took effect on April 1, 1975. The law forces judges to sentence people convicted of carrying a gun without a firearm identification card to at least one year in jail.

Bartley ran for the United States Senate in 1984, finishing third in the Democratic primary behind Lieutenant Governor John Kerry and 5th congressional district representative James Shannon.

Bartley died on June 13, 2023, at the age of 88.

