1810–1811 Massachusetts legislature

31st Massachusetts General Court
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Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Term	May 1810 (1810-05) – May 1811 (1811-05) [1]
Senate
Members	40 [2]
President	Harrison Gray Otis
House
Speaker	Perez Morton

Harrison Gray Otis, Senate president.

Perez Morton, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1810-1811.

The 31st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1810 and 1811 during the governorship of Elbridge Gerry. Harrison Gray Otis served as president of the Senate and Perez Morton served as speaker of the House. ^[3]

Senators

• Eli P. Ashmun ^[1]
• Israel Bartlett
• Francis Blake ^[4]
• Amos Bond
• Matthew Bridge
• Elijah Brigham
• Peter C. Brooks
• Francis Carr
• Timothy Childs
• Joshua Cushman
• Samuel Dana
• Samuel Day
• Joseph Dimmick
• W. Folger Jr.
• Seth Hastings
• John Heard
• John Howe
• Levi Hubbard
• Jonas Kendall
• William King
• Samuel Lathrop
• Hugh McLellan
• James Means
• Nathaniel Morton Jr.
• Lonson Nash
• Harrison G. Otis
• John Phillips
• D. L. Pickman
• Edward Pope ^[5]
• Alexander Rice
• William Spooner
• Seth Sprague
• Ezra Starkweather
• Israel Thorndike
• J. L. Tuttle
• William P. Walker
• John Welles ^[6]
• Daniel A. White
• Nathan Willis
• John Woodman

Representatives

• William Brown
• Samuel Cobb
• Jonathan Hunnewell ^[7]
• Perez Morton
• William Smith ^[1]
• Joseph Whiton ^[1]

See also

• 11th United States Congress
• 12th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

References

1. "Civil Government in Massachusetts". Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for 1811– via HathiTrust. For the political year commencing May, 1810, and ending May, 1811
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. "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
4. "Blake, Francis, 1774-1817", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020
5. "Pope, Edward", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020
6. "Welles, John", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020
7. Massachusetts (1663). Acts and resolves passed by the General Court. State Library of Massachusetts. Boston: Secretary of the Commonwealth. p. 4.

External links

• "Massachusetts", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, American Antiquarian Society, 2007 – via Tufts University . (Includes data for state senate and house elections in 1810)
• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1810, hdl:2452/819713 – via State Library of Massachusetts
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1810, hdl:2452/103855
• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1811, hdl:2452/819767 – via State Library of Massachusetts
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1811, hdl:2452/103856