1871 Massachusetts legislature

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92nd
Massachusetts General Court
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Overview
Legislative body General Court
ElectionNovember 8, 1870
Senate
Members40
President Horace H. Coolidge
Party control Republican
(34 R, 5 D, 1 other) [1] [2]
House
Members240
Speaker Harvey Jewell
Party control Republican
(195 R, 34 D, 11 other) [1] [3]
Sessions
1stJanuary 4, 1871 (1871-01-04) – May 31, 1871 (1871-05-31) [4]
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Horace Coolidge, Senate president.
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Harvey Jewell, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1871.

The 92nd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1871 during the governorship of Republican William Claflin. [5] Horace H. Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Harvey Jewell served as speaker of the House. [6]

Contents

Senators

ImageName [7] Date of birth [8] DistrictParty
Nathaniel Ellis AtwoodSeptember 13, 1807
1872 Andrew Jackson Bartholomew senator Massachusetts.png
Andrew Jackson Bartholomew1834
1870 Jacob Bates senator Massachusetts.png
Jacob Bates1819
1878 Francis William Bird Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Francis William Bird1809
1872 Alonzo Warren Boardman senator Massachusetts.png
Alonzo Warren Boardman1828
1868 Charles Bradley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Charles Bradley1816
1871 William Hooper Caswell senator Massachusetts.png
William Hooper Caswell1837
1870 Andrew Jackson Clark senator Massachusetts.png
Andrew Jackson Clark1835
1871 James Wilson Clark senator Massachusetts.png
James Wilson Clark1802
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Patrick Andrew Collins March 12, 1844
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Horace Hopkins Coolidge February 11, 1832
1870 Stephen Moody Crosby senator Massachusetts.png
Stephen Moody Crosby1827
1871 George Perkins Elliott senator Massachusetts.png
George Perkins Elliott1804
1870 John Fletcher senator Massachusetts.png
John Fletcher1827
1868 James Augustus Fox Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
James Augustus Fox August 11, 1827
1872 Rufus Smith Frost senator Massachusetts.png
Rufus Smith Frost July 18, 1826
1871 Richard Goodman senator Massachusetts.png
Richard Goodman1818
1870 Henry Clay Greeley senator Massachusetts.png
Henry Clay Greeley1830
1874 John Alexander Hawes senator Massachusetts.png
John Alexander Hawes1823
1871 Estes Howe senator Massachusetts.png
Estes Howe1814
1871 Nathan Swett Kimball senator Massachusetts.png
Nathan Swett Kimball1820
1872 William Bennet Long senator Massachusetts.png
William Bennet Long1827
1870 George Harris Monroe senator Massachusetts.png
George Harris Monroe1826
1871 Timothy Fairbanks Packard senator Massachusetts.png
Timothy Fairbanks Packard1812
1871 William Driver Park senator Massachusetts.png
William Driver Park1831
1870 James Pierce senator Massachusetts.png
James Pierce1837
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Stephen Holbrook Rhodes November 7, 1825
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George Francis Richardson December 6, 1829
1872 Daniel Ephraim Safford senator Massachusetts.png
Daniel Ephraim Safford1826
1870 James Granville Sproat senator Massachusetts.png
James Granville Sproat1835
George Monroe Stearns April 18, 1831
1874 Charles Pickett Stickney senator Massachusetts.png
Charles Pickett Stickney1824
1870 Orlando Barnard Tenney senator Massachusetts.png
Orlando Barnard Tenney1816
1872 Adin Thayer senator Massachusetts.png
Adin Thayer1828
1868 Shepard Thayer Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Shepard Thayer1827
1872 Thomas Lafayette Wakefield senator Massachusetts.png
Thomas Lafayette Wakefield1817
1871 Amasa Whiting senator Massachusetts.png
Amasa Whiting1821
1872 Baxter Dodridge Whitney senator Massachusetts.png
Baxter Dodridge Whitney1817
1870 Frederick H Willcomb senator Massachusetts.png
Frederick H. Willcomb1831
1868 Jonathan Henry Wood Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Jonathan Henry Wood1822

Representatives

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References

  1. 1 2 Cornelius Dalton; John Wirkkala; Anne Thomas (1984). "Political Complexion of the General Court 1867-1980". Leading the Way: a History of the Massachusetts General Court, 1629-1980. Boston: Massachusetts Secretary of State. p. 441+. ISBN   0961391502.
  2. ↑ "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
  3. ↑ "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
  4. ↑ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
  5. ↑ Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1871, 1871, hdl:2452/795813
  6. ↑ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
  7. 1 2 3 Court, Massachusetts General (1871). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40649.
  8. ↑ "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1871" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts
  9. ↑ Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905

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