1872 Massachusetts legislature

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93rd
Massachusetts General Court
92nd 94th
Overview
Legislative body General Court
ElectionNovember 7, 1871
Senate
Members40
President Horace H. Coolidge
Party control Republican
(35 R, 0 D, 5 other) [1] [2]
House
Members240
Speaker John E. Sanford
Party control Republican
(176 R, 0 D, 64 other) [1] [3]
Sessions
1stJanuary 3, 1872 (1872-01-03) – May 7, 1872 (1872-05-07)
+ extra session [4]
Horace Hopkins Coolidge.png
Horace Coolidge, Senate president.
1875 John Eliot Sanford Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Sanford, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1872.

The 93rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1872 during the governorship of Republican William B. Washburn. [5] Horace H. Coolidge served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford served as speaker of the House. [6] [7]

Contents

Senators

ImageName [8] Date of birth [9] DistrictParty
Frederick L. Ames 1835-1983.jpg
Frederick Lothrop Ames June 8, 1835
1872 Joseph Kelley Baker senator Massachusetts.png
Joseph Kelley Baker1827
1872 Andrew Jackson Bartholomew senator Massachusetts.png
Andrew Jackson Bartholomew1834
1872 Alonzo Warren Boardman senator Massachusetts.png
Alonzo Warren Boardman1828
1868 Charles Bradley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Charles Bradley1816
1872 Elisha Huntington Brewster senator Massachusetts.png
Elisha Huntington Brewster
1874 Erastus Payson Carpenter senator Massachusetts.png
Erastus Payson CarpenterNovember 23, 1822
1872 Isaac Henry Coe senator Massachusetts.png
Isaac Henry Coe1818
Horace Hopkins Coolidge.png
Horace Hopkins Coolidge February 11, 1832
1872 Rufus Smith Frost senator Massachusetts.png
Rufus Smith Frost July 18, 1826
1872 Robert Oliver Fuller senator Massachusetts.png
Robert Oliver Fuller1829
1872 Newell Giles senator Massachusetts.png
Newell Giles1818
1872 Samuel Moulton Griggs senator Massachusetts.png
Samuel Moulton Griggs1822
1872 Orrin Hewes senator Massachusetts.png
Orrin Hewes1833
1872 James Humphrey senator Massachusetts.png
James Humphrey1819
1874 Francis Wayland Jacobs senator Massachusetts.png
Francis Wayland Jacobs1837
1872 Robert Johnson senator Massachusetts.png
Robert Johnson1823
1872 William Henry Learnard senator Massachusetts.png
William Henry Learnard1828
1872 George Walter Lobdell senator Massachusetts.png
George Walter Lobdell1823
1872 William Bennet Long senator Massachusetts.png
William Bennet Long1827
1876 Reuben Noble Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Reuben Noble1820
1872 Lloyd Parsons senator Massachusetts.png
Lloyd Parsons1816
1872 Josiah Newton Pike senator Massachusetts.png
Josiah Newton Pike1824
1868 Joseph Samson Potter Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Joseph Samson Potter1822
George Francis Richardson 1872.png
George Francis Richardson December 6, 1829
1872 Daniel Ephraim Safford senator Massachusetts.png
Daniel Ephraim Safford1826
George Sheldon (1818-1916).png
George Sheldon November 30, 1818
1872 William Lafayette Smith senator Massachusetts.png
William Lafayette Smith1824
1874 Charles Pickett Stickney senator Massachusetts.png
Charles Pickett Stickney1824
John K. Tarbox.jpg
John Kemble Tarbox May 6, 1838
1872 Adin Thayer senator Massachusetts.png
Adin Thayer1828
1868 Shepard Thayer Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Shepard Thayer1827
1872 George Arnold Torrey senator Massachusetts.png
George Arnold Torrey1838
1872 Thomas Lafayette Wakefield senator Massachusetts.png
Thomas Lafayette Wakefield1817
1868 Levi Wallace Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Levi Wallace1831
1872 Baxter Dodridge Whitney senator Massachusetts.png
Baxter Dodridge Whitney1817
James Scollay Whitney.png
James Scollay Whitney May 19, 1811
1872 Rufus Dodd Woods senator Massachusetts.png
Rufus Dodd Woods1818
1872 David Titcomb Woodwell senator Massachusetts.png
David Titcomb Woodwell1820
Carroll D. Wright2.jpg
Carroll D. Wright July 25, 1840

Representatives

imageName [8] Date of birth [9] DistrictParty
1872 Milton Abbey Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Milton Abbey1819
1872 John Henry Abbott Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Henry Abbott1825
1872 Henry Sewall Adams Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Henry Sewall Adams1832
1874 William Augustus Adams Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Augustus Adams1830
1872 William Hastings Aldrich Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Hastings Aldrich1825
1872 Ephraim Allen Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Ephraim Allen1806
1872 Lafayette Anderson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Lafayette Anderson1824
1872 William Henry Anderson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Henry Anderson1836
1868 William Frederick Arnold Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Frederick Arnold1815
1872 William Markwick Ashby Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Markwick Ashby1821
1872 Oliver Ayers Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Oliver Ayers1821
1872 William Babbitt Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Babbitt1817
1872 James Prentiss Bacheller Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
James Prentiss Bacheller1840
1874 Horace Clinton Bacon senator Massachusetts.png
Horace Clinton Bacon1824
1874 Andrew Jackson Bailey senator Massachusetts.png
Andrew Jackson Bailey1840
1872 John Stanton Baldwin Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Stanton Baldwin1834
1872 Edward Dana Bancroft Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Edward Dana Bancroft1821
1872 Julius Kirkland Banister Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Julius Kirkland Banister1833
1872 James Madison Barker Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
James Madison Barker1839
1872 Lewis Barnard Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Lewis Barnard1815
1874 George Bartholmesz Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Bartholmesz1821
1872 George Hubert Bates Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Hubert Bates1839
1872 Austin Williams Benton Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Austin Williams Benton1818
1872 Alden Besse Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Alden Besse1821
1872 Edward Lyman Bigelow Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Edward Lyman Bigelow1839
1898 William R Black senator Massachusetts.png
William Rufus BlackAugust 23, 1830
1872 George Baylis Blake Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Baylis Blake1823
1872 John Williston Blaney Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Williston Blaney1815
1874 William Edward Blunt Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Edward Blunt1840
1872 James William Bradley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
James William Bradley1828
1872 Bowman Bigelow Breed Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Bowman Bigelow Breed1832
1878 Frederic Perry Brown senator Massachusetts.jpg
Frederic Perry Brown1840
1872 Willard Augustus Brown Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Willard Augustus Brown1828
1872 Giles Edwin Brownell Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Giles Edwin Brownell1819
1872 Henry Oliver Burr Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Henry Oliver Burr1829
1872 Seneca Burr Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Seneca Burr1831
1872 Samuel Augustus Carlton Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Samuel Augustus Carlton1827
1876 Michael Carney Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Michael Carney1827
1892 Thomas M Carter Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Thomas Marshall CarterJuly 17, 1832
1872 Erastus Chase Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Erastus Chase1826
1872 John Cummings Choate Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Cummings Choate1832
1872 John Henry Church Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Henry Church1836
1872 Sumner Uriah Church Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Sumner Uriah Church1810
1872 George Washington Clark Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Washington Clark1836
1872 Nelson Cochran Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Nelson Cochran1824
1875 Charles Russell Codman Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Charles Russell Codman 1829
John Bear Doane Cogswell.png
John Bear Doane Cogswell June 6, 1829
1872 Moses Rich Colman Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Moses Rich Colman1806
1872 Chapin Converse Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Chapin Converse1811
1872 Benjamin Hough Corliss Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Benjamin Hough Corliss1818
1872 Joseph Howland Cornell Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Joseph Howland CornellMarch 23, 1818
1872 Joseph Henry Cotton Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Joseph Henry Cotton1833
1872 Robert Couch Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Robert Couch1817
Roswell P. Crafts.png
Roswell P. Crafts September 17, 1822
1872 Seth Brockway Crafts Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Seth Brockway Crafts1844
1872 Freeborn Woodbury Cressy Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Freeborn Woodbury Cressy1839
1872 William Augustus Cressy Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Augustus Cressy1820
1876 Michael J Croak Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Michael J. Croak1843
1872 Charles Curtis Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Charles Curtis1836
1872 William Cushing Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Cushing1823
1872 Christopher Columbus Denny Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Christopher Columbus Denny1813
1880 Elbridge Curtis Donnell Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Elbridge Curtis Donnell1839
1872 Simeon Parker Dresser Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Simeon Parker Dresser1845
1872 James Henry Durgin Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
James Henry Durgin1833
1872 David Eastman Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
David Eastman1806
1872 George Henry Eddy Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Henry Eddy1829
1872 Alfred Brewster Ely Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Alfred Brewster Ely1817
1874 Augustus Bradford Endicott Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Augustus Bradford Endicott September 10, 1818
1876 George Otis Fairbanks Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Otis Fairbanks1815
1872 Henry Hardwick Faxon Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Henry Hardwick Faxon1823
1872 Hawkes Fearing Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Hawkes Fearing1826
1872 Francis Fisher Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Francis Fisher1811
1872 Jonathan Philbrick Folsom Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Jonathan Philbrick Folsom October 9, 1820
1872 Job Gardner Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Job Gardner
1872 Robert Folger Gardner Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Robert Folger Gardner1815
1872 John Gates Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Gates1807
1872 Benjamin Whitney Gleason Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Benjamin Whitney Gleason1806
1872 George Going Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Going1824
1874 Brownell Granger Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Brownell Granger1835
1872 Edward Waldo Griggs Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Edward Waldo Griggs1834
1872 Isaac Dennis Hall Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Isaac Dennis Hall1807
1872 John Wilkes Hammond Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Wilkes Hammond1837
1872 Charles Veranus Hanson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Charles Veranus Hanson1844
1898 Franklin Harlow Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Franklin Powers HarlowDecember 8, 1827
1872 Southworth Harlow Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Southworth Harlow1824
1872 John Morton Harris Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Morton Harris1819
1872 Thomas Burdett Harris Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Thomas Burdett Harris1825
1872 George Hatch Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Hatch1832
1874 Benjamin Franklin Hayes Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Benjamin Franklin Hayes July 3, 1835
1872 Horace Heard Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Horace Heard1804
1872 Horatio Brooks Hersey Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Horatio Brooks Hersey1823
1872 Lot Higgins Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Lot Higgins1809
1872 Amos Hill Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Amos Hill1830
1876 Henry Bozyol Hill Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Henry Bozyol Hill1823
1872 George Webster Hobbs Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Webster Hobbs1839
1872 Thomas Fry Holder Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Thomas Fry Holder1839
1872 Asa Alexander Holton Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Asa Alexander Holton1818
1872 Samuel Bugbee Hopkins Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Samuel Bugbee Hopkins1823
1872 Leverett Hopkinson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Leverett Hopkinson1822
1872 Ezra Coffin Howard Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Ezra Coffin HowardSeptember 1, 1831
1872 Jonas Elijah Howe Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Jonas Elijah Howe1814
1870 Joseph Sidney Howe senator Massachusetts.png
Joseph Sidney Howe1832
1872 Emerson Harris Howland Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Emerson Harris Howland1846
Hoyt - AG Photo.jpg
George Henry Hoyt November 25, 1837
1872 Barney Hull Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Barney Hull1830
1872 George W Humphrey Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George W. Humphrey1826
1872 Nathaniel Mayhew Jernegan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Nathaniel Mayhew Jernegan1820
1872 Peter Rogers Johnson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Peter Rogers Johnson1824
1872 Henry Jones Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Henry Jones1821
1872 Horace Israel Joslin Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Horace Israel Joslin1836
1872 Timothy Keefe Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Timothy Keefe1839
1872 William Keith Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Keith1810
1872 Albert Francis Kelley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Albert Francis Kelley1840
1872 Jonas Kendall Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Jonas Kendall1804
1872 George Perry Kendrick Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Perry Kendrick1824
1872 Asa Keyes Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Asa Keyes1805
1890 John White Kimball Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John White Kimball February 27, 1828
1876 Moses Kimball Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Moses Kimball October 24, 1809
1872 Charles M Kingsley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Charles M. Kingsley1811
1872 Daniel Webster Knight Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Daniel Webster Knight1835
1868 William Knowlton Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Knowlton1809
1872 John Augustus Lamson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Augustus Lamson1831
1872 Almond Ring Lancaster Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Almond Ring Lancaster1829
1872 Alvin Lawton Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Alvin Lawton1833
1874 Frederick Walker Lincoln Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Frederick Walker Lincoln1817
1872 Noah Lincoln Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Noah Lincoln1810
1874 Edward Payson Loring Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Edward Payson Loring1837
1872 William Hamilton Loughlin Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Hamilton Loughlin1847
1874 Henry Bacon Lovering Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Henry Bacon Lovering April 8, 1841
1872 Alvin Marshall Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Alvin Marshall1815
1868 John McDuffie Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John McDuffie1828
1872 Anson McLoud Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Anson McLoud
1876 Christopher Columbus Merritt Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Christopher Columbus MerrittSeptember 29, 1830
1872 Ira Loriston Moore Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Ira Loriston Moore1824
1872 Benjamin Lyman Morrison Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Benjamin Lyman Morrison1828
1872 Rice Shaw Munn Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Rice Shaw Munn1814
1876 John Joseph Murphy Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Joseph Murphy1842
1872 Patrick Murphy Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Patrick Murphy1837
1874 William Henry Murray Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Henry Murray1826
1872 John Newell Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Newell1816
1872 Jeremiah Lemuel Newton Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Jeremiah Lemuel Newton
1872 Curtis Coe Nichols Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Curtis Coe Nichols1814
1872 Lewis Rufus Norton Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Lewis Rufus Norton1821
1901 William Nutt senator Massachusetts.png
William Nutt August 5, 1836
1872 Patrick OConnor Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Patrick O'Connor1842
1872 William Henry Osborne Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Henry Osborne1840
1872 Liberty Dodge Packard Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Liberty Dodge Packard1831
1874 Albert Palmer Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Albert Palmer January 17, 1831
1872 George Alanson Parker Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Alanson Parker1821
1872 James Parker Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
James Parker1815
1874 Ezra Parmenter senator Massachusetts.png
Ezra Parmenter March 20, 1823
1872 Daniel Augustus Patch Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Daniel Augustus Patch1832
1872 George Howe Peabody Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Howe Peabody1838
1872 Edward Pearl Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Edward Pearl1825
1872 George O Peck Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George O. Peck1817
1872 Francis Ellis Pedrick Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Francis Ellis Pedrick1829
1872 Jesse Small Pendergrast Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Jesse Small Pendergrast1835
1872 Noah Cushman Perkins Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Noah Cushman Perkins1810
1872 William Perkins Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Perkins1824
1872 Ellis Perry Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Ellis Perry1809
1872 Ralph Perry Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Ralph Perry1811
1872 Josiah Peterson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Josiah Peterson1820
1872 John Wesley Phelps Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Wesley Phelps1844
1874 Willard Peele Phillips Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Willard Peele Phillips1825
1872 Charles Varnum Poor Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Charles Varnum Poor1817
1872 George Horace Poor Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Horace Poor1841
1872 Thomas Whittier Porter Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Thomas Whittier Porter1820
1872 Burton Willis Potter Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Burton Willis Potter1843
1872 Laban Pratt Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Laban Pratt1829
1872 Artemus Conant Putnam Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Artemus Conant Putnam1805
1872 Samuel Bell Quigley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Samuel Bell Quigley1821
1872 Samuel Miller Quincy Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Samuel Miller Quincy June 13, 1832
1874 Edward Benedict Rankin Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Edward Benedict Rankin1846
1872 Joseph Henry Read Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Joseph Henry Read1835
1872 John Wales Robinson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Wales Robinson1826
1872 John Randolph Rogerson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Randolph Rogerson1812
1876 Joseph Hubbard Root Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Joseph Hubbard Root1823
1872 Isaac Newton Ross Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Isaac Newton Ross1824
1872 George Sanborn Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Sanborn1816
1875 John Eliot Sanford Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Eliot Sanford November 22, 1830
1872 Benjamin Franklin Sargent Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Benjamin Franklin Sargent1813
1872 Irving Bertoldo Sayles Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Irving Bertoldo Sayles1839
1872 Charles Augustus Sayward Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Charles Augustus Sayward1837
1872 George Franklin Scribner Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Franklin Scribner1830
1872 Nathaniel Sears Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Nathaniel Sears1825
1872 Robert Seaver Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Robert Seaver1812
1874 George Atwood Shaw Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Atwood Shaw1816
1872 George Sheldon Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Sheldon1817
1872 James Stratton Shepard Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
James Stratton Shepard1815
1872 Simon Harrison Sibley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Simon Harrison Sibley1816
1872 Reuben Sikes Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Reuben Sikes1824
1872 Albert Gallatin Sinclair Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Albert Gallatin Sinclair1845
1872 David Nelson Skillings Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
David Nelson Skillings1818
1872 Charles Eber Slater Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Charles Eber Slater1830
1872 George Fayette Slocomb Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Fayette Slocomb1823
1872 Cyrus Burnet Smith Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Cyrus Burnet Smith1839
1868 John James Smith Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John James Smith [10] [11] 1825
1872 Zoeth Snow Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Zoeth Snow1825
1872 Reuben Goodspeed Sparks Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Reuben Goodspeed Sparks1822
1872 Chauncey Loren Spear Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Chauncey Loren Spear1819
1872 Henry Splaine Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Henry Splaine1837
1868 Charles Stanwood Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Charles Stanwood1816
1872 Francis Dana Stedman Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Francis Dana Stedman1801
1872 William Stone Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Stone1827
1872 Warner Claflin Sturtevant Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Warner Claflin Sturtevant1809
Charles H. Taylor 1885.jpg
Charles H. Taylor 1846
1872 William Taylor Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Taylor1831
1872 Eliphalet Loring Thayer Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Eliphalet Loring Thayer1824
1872 Noah Blanchard Thayer Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Noah Blanchard Thayer1830
1872 William Henry Thomas Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Henry Thomas1829
CharlesPerkinsThompson.jpg
Charles Perkins Thompson July 7, 1827
1872 John Thomas Zebediah Thompson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Thomas Zebediah Thompson1811
Charles Q. Tirrell.jpg
Charles Q. Tirrell December 10, 1844
1874 Hugh James Toland senator Massachusetts.png
Hugh James Toland1844
1872 Joseph Rice Torrey Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Joseph Rice Torrey1828
1872 Edward Justus Tower Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Edward Justus Tower1833
1868 George Edwin Towne Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Edwin Towne1829
1872 Thomas Bush Tripp Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Thomas Bush Tripp1838
1872 David Warren Tucker Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
David Warren Tucker1820
1872 Obed Chester Turner Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Obed Chester Turner1840
1872 William Upham Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Upham1825
1872 Charles Folsom Walcott Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Charles Folsom Walcott December 22, 1836
1872 Ansel Hill Ward Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Ansel Hill Ward1837
1872 George Washington Ware Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
George Washington Ware1837
1874 Henry Stevenson Washburn senator Massachusetts.png
Henry Stevenson Washburn1813
1872 Thomas Barstow Waterman Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Thomas Barstow Waterman1830
1872 Nathan Horace Webb Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Nathan Horace Webb1835
1874 Tisdale Sanford White senator Massachusetts.png
Tisdale Sanford White1809
Captain William Whitfield.jpg
William Henry Whitfield November 11, 1804
1872 Frederick Theodore Whiting Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Frederick Theodore Whiting1825
1872 William Joseph Wightman Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William Joseph Wightman1810
1872 Ludovicus French Wild Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Ludovicus French Wild1825
1872 Benjamin Franklin Wing Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Benjamin Franklin WingOctober 22, 1822
1872 Ezra Dyer Winslow Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Ezra Dyer Winslow1839
1872 Harding Woods Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Harding Woods1822
1872 Lyman Woodward Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Lyman Woodward1831
1872 Albert Judd Wright Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Albert Judd Wright
1872 Ira Berkeley Wright Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Ira Berkeley Wright1830
1872 Walter Wyman Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Walter Wyman1806

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The 99th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1878 during the governorship of Alexander H. Rice. John B. D. Cogswell served as president of the Senate and John Davis Long served as speaker of the House.

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The 167th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1971 and 1972 during the governorship of Francis Sargent. Kevin B. Harrington served as president of the Senate and David M. Bartley served as speaker of the House.

References

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  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, 1872, 1872 via Google Books
  6. "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
  7. "Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts". Massachusetts Register, 1872. Boston: Sampson, Davenport, & Company. 1872. p. 19+ via Archive.org.
  8. 1 2 Court, Massachusetts General (1872). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40650.
  9. 1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1872" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts via State Library of Massachusetts
  10. Kaitlin Connolly (March 4, 2013), "Massachusetts Legislators: John James Smith", State Library of Massachusetts blog
  11. 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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