1870 Massachusetts legislature

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91st
Massachusetts General Court
← 90th 92nd →
Overview
Legislative body General Court
ElectionNovember 2, 1869
Senate
Members40
President Horace H. Coolidge
Party control Republican
(29 R, 10 D, 1 other) [1] [2]
House
Members240
Speaker Harvey Jewell
Party control Republican
(160 R, 58 D, 22 other) [1] [3]
Sessions
1stJanuary 5, 1870 (1870-01-05) – June 23, 1870 (1870-06-23) [4]
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Horace Coolidge, Senate president.
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Harvey Jewell, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1870.

The 91st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1870 during the governorship of Republican William Claflin. Horace H. Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Harvey Jewell served as speaker of the House. [5]

Contents

Senators

ImageName [6] Date of birth [7] DistrictParty
Nathaniel Ellis AtwoodSeptember 13, 1807
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Jacob Bates1819
1870 Joseph Augustus Benjamin senator Massachusetts.png
Joseph Augustus Benjamin1817
1870 George Marshall Buttrick senator Massachusetts.png
George Marshall Buttrick1822
1870 Andrew Jackson Clark senator Massachusetts.png
Andrew Jackson Clark1835
1868 Benjamin Franklin Clark senator Massachusetts.png
Benjamin Franklin Clark1808
Waldo Colburn.png
Waldo Colburn November 13, 1824
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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
1870 Edmund Dowse senator Massachusetts.png
Edmund Dowse1813
1870 John Fletcher senator Massachusetts.png
John Fletcher1827
1868 James Augustus Fox Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
James Augustus Fox August 11, 1827
1868 Alonzo Madison Giles senator Massachusetts.png
Alonzo Madison Giles1821
1870 Henry Clay Greeley senator Massachusetts.png
Henry Clay Greeley1830
1870 John Brown Hathaway senator Massachusetts.png
John Brown Hathaway1809
1874 John Alexander Hawes senator Massachusetts.png
John Alexander Hawes1823
1870 Francis Allen Hobart senator Massachusetts.png
Francis Allen Hobart1833
1870 Nathaniel Jay Holden senator Massachusetts.png
Nathaniel Jay Holden1827
1870 Joseph Sidney Howe senator Massachusetts.png
Joseph Sidney Howe1832
1870 Willard Woodman Jenness senator Massachusetts.png
Willard Woodman Jenness1827
1880 George William Johnson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George William Johnson 1827
1868 William Wallace Kellogg Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Wallace Kellogg1824
1870 George Augustus King senator Massachusetts.png
George Augustus King1834
1868 Charles James Kittredge Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Charles James Kittredge1818
1873 Charles Rensselaer Ladd Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Charles Rensselaer Ladd April 9, 1822
1870 James Henry Leland senator Massachusetts.png
James Henry Leland1833
1870 George Harris Monroe senator Massachusetts.png
George Harris Monroe1826
1868 Ellis Wesley Morton Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Ellis Wesley Morton1840
1870 James Pierce senator Massachusetts.png
James Pierce1837
1870 Joseph Greeley Pollard senator Massachusetts.png
Joseph Greeley Pollard1833
1870 Jeremiah Hobbs Pote senator Massachusetts.png
Jeremiah Hobbs Pote1820
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Stephen Holbrook Rhodes November 7, 1825
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George Merrick Rice November 20, 1808
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James Granville Sproat1835
1870 Orlando Barnard Tenney senator Massachusetts.png
Orlando Barnard Tenney1816
1870 Francis Thompson senator Massachusetts.png
Francis Thompson1826
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William W. Warren February 27, 1834
1870 Charles Augustus Wheelock senator Massachusetts.png
Charles Augustus Wheelock1812
1870 Frederick H Willcomb senator Massachusetts.png
Frederick H. Willcomb1831

Representatives

See also

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. ↑ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
  6. 1 2 3 Court, Massachusetts General (1870). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40648.
  7. ↑ "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1870" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts
  8. ↑ 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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