1873 Massachusetts legislature

94th
Massachusetts General Court
94th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 5, 1872
Senate
Members	40
President	George B. Loring
Party control	Republican ; (39 R, 1 D)
House
Members	240
Speaker	John E. Sanford
Party control	Republican ; (211 R, 24 D, 5 other)
Sessions
1st
1st	January 1873 – June 12, 1873

Last updated May 29, 2022

George Loring, Senate president.

John Sanford, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1873.

The 94th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1873 during the governorship of Republican William B. Washburn. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford served as speaker of the House.^[5]

Senators

Image	Name ^[6]	Date of birth ^[7]	District	Party
	Prentiss Chaffee Baird	1832
	Joseph Kelley Baker	1827
	Henry Lewis Bancroft	1821
	Julius Kirkland Banister	1833
	James Brown	1828
	Erastus Payson Carpenter	November 23, 1822
	Jeremiah Clark	1819
	Isaac Henry Coe	1818
	Jedediah Dwelley	1834
	Charles Howe French	1814
	Robert Oliver Fuller	1829
	Newell Giles	1818
	Martin Griffin	1825
	Samuel Moulton Griggs	1822
	Nathan Williams Harmon	1813
	Francis Wayland Jacobs	1837
	Nathaniel Lafayette Johnson	1822
	Robert Johnson	1823
	Edward Lawrence	1810
	William Henry Learnard	1828
	Edward Learned	1820
	George Walter Lobdell	1823
	George B. Loring	November 8, 1817
	Moody Merrill	1836
	Newton Morse	1832
	Francis Augustus Nye	1823
	Timothy Fairbanks Packard	1812
	Lloyd Parsons	1816
	Joseph Samson Potter	1822
	Charles Pickett Stickney	1824
	George Franklin Thompson	1827
	John Douglas Todd	1814
	George Arnold Torrey	1838
	Levi Wallace	1831
	Henry Stevenson Washburn	1813
	William Whiting II	May 24, 1841
	George Danforth Whittle	1838
	Rufus Dodd Woods	1818
	David Titcomb Woodwell	1820
	Carroll D. Wright	July 25, 1840

Representatives

Name ^[6]	Date of birth ^[7]	District
John Henry Abbott	1825
Wales Aldrich	1811
Francis Roberts Allen	1817
Walter Brown Allen	1828
Arlon Sabin Atherton	1842	Franklin county No. 1
Horace Clinton Bacon	1824
Aaron Bagg	1810
Andrew Jackson Bailey	1840
Nahum Bailey	1823
William Baker	1821
George Washington Bardwell	1836	Franklin county No. 4
James Madison Barker	1839
George Bartholmesz	1821
John Mason Batchelder	1832
Elijah Eastman Belding	1813	Franklin county No. 3
Ezekiel Dodge Bement	1819	Franklin county No. 5
Austin Williams Benton	1818
Edward Adams Berdge	1829
Hiram Berry	1820
Edward Lyman Bigelow	1839
John Bigelow	1841
Sanford Waters Billings	1834
William Rufus Black	August 23, 1830
George Baylis Blake	1823
Peleg Blankinship	1809
William Edward Blunt	1840
Dennis Bonner	1821
Franklin Bonney	1822
Horace Leander Bowker	1832
James William Bradley	1828
Bowman Bigelow Breed	1832
Richard Francis Briggs	1836
Richard Britton	1838
Giles Edwin Brownell	1819
Moses Loring Buck	1811
William Henry Buck	1818
Addison Burnett	1810
Henry Burt	1811
Jacob Brown Calley	1823
Adam Capen	1821
Charles Victor Carpenter	1830
Sumner Carruth	December 22, 1834
Henry Bedell Chamberlin	1839
Edward Whitman Chapin	1840
Elijah Horne Chisholm	1824
Albe Cady Clark	1826
Francis Warren Clark	1829
George Washington Clark	1836
Alfred Alonzo Clatur	1835
Charles Russell Codman	1829
John Bear Doane Cogswell	June 6, 1829
John Swain Coney	1823
William Henry Cook	March 17, 1842
George Copeland	1837
Robert Couch	1817
William Augustus Cressy	1820
Charles Crittenden	1837	Franklin county No. 4
George Glover Crocker	1843
Daniel Aloysius Cronin	1846
Joseph Warren Cross	1808
John Cummings	1812
Benjamin Connor Currier	1822
John Cushing	1808
William Frank Darby	1838
George Edmund Davis	1827
Joshua Wingate Davis	November 13, 1817
George Jackson Dean	1828
William Dean	1830
Isaac Walker Derby	1835
Seymour Boughton Dewey	1814
Lewis J. Dudley	November 11, 1815
Joseph Dyer	1830
Henderson Josiah Edwards	1840
Frederick David Ely	September 24, 1838
Alonzo Hathaway Evans	February 24, 1820
George Otis Fairbanks	1815
Caleb Clesson Field	1810
Harrison Otis Field	1810
John Hancock Fisher	1807
Eustace Carey Fitz	1833
John Edward Fitzgerald	1844
Thomas Francis Fitzgerald	1848
Daniel Coolidge Fletcher	1829
John Ware Fletcher	1824
Granville Edward Foss	August 16, 1842
Hiram Munroe French	1827
William Frost	1822
Kirke Edwin Gardner	1833
John Gates	1807
Addison Gilbert	1808
Charles Albert Gleason	1846
Asa Holland Goddard	1807
Stephen Dwight Goddard	1811
Andrew Jackson Gove	1834
Brownell Granger	1835
Fitz Edward Griffin	1840
Isaac Dennis Hall	1807
John Wilkes Hammond	1837
Charles Veranus Hanson	1844
Simon Hardy	1833
George Henry Harlow	1820
David Phillips Hatch	1814
Austin Hawley	1822
Lewis Hayden ^[8]	December 2, 1811
Benjamin Franklin Hayes	July 3, 1835
Francis Brown Hayes	1819
Samuel Stone Haynes	1822
Benjamin Heath	1821
Samuel William Heath	1804
Lot Higgins	1809
Samuel Eldridge Hildreth	1829
Amos Hill	1830
Henry Bozyol Hill	1823
John Warren Hollis	1812
Charles Jarvis Holmes	1834
Lewis Holmes	1806
Samuel Bugbee Hopkins	1823
Emory Adams Howard	1837
David Porter Howes	1815
George Henry Hoyt	November 25, 1837
Barney Hull	1830
Richard Hales Humphrey	1829
Ebenezer Atherton Hunt	January 26, 1826
Thomas Prentiss Hurlbut	1820
Richardson Hutchinson	1818
Alexis W. Ide	1826
Thomas Ingalls	1824
Nathan Sumner Jenkins	1820
Jonathan Johnson	1818
Edward Jenkins Jones	1822
Thomas Milton Judd	1840
Jesse Edson Keith	1824
George Perry Kendrick	1824
William Reed Kentfield	1814
Lucius Woodman Knight	1830
Charles Rensselaer Ladd	April 9, 1822
Noah Davis Ladd	1820
Almond Ring Lancaster	1829
George Young Learned	1827
Willard Lewis	1808
William Hamilton Loughlin	1847
George A. Marden	August 9, 1839
Elijah Marion	1812
Albert Mason	1836
David Mayhew	1834
Edward McCleave	November 1, 1813
Samuel Walton McDaniel	1833
John Brooks Moore	1817
Thomas Jones Morgan	1823
Charles William Morrill	1839
Asa Porter Morse	1818
Charles Dimock Morse	1827
Andrew Marathon Morton	1839
Lewis Rufus Norton	1821
John Adams Nowell	1817
Edward Ornan Noyes	1840
Weaver Osborn	1815
Hiram Packard	1816
Liberty Dodge Packard	1831
Albert Palmer	January 17, 1831
John Barnard Parker	1812
William Crowell Parker	1850
Daniel Augustus Patch	1832
John Winslow Peirce	1835
John Perkins	1825
Charles Perley	1823
Henry Willis Phelps	1830
Calvin Tilden Phillips	1836
Willard Peele Phillips	1825
William Caldwell Plunkett	October 23, 1799
Francis Edward Porter	1824
Rodolphus Porter	1834
George Purrington	1829
Joseph Henry Read	1835
John Warren Regan	1833
William Roberts	1835
Philip Henry Robinson	1823
George Thomas Ryder	1827
Stephen Decatur Salmon	1845
John Samson	1821
George Sanborn	1816
Edward Sanford	1825
John Eliot Sanford	November 22, 1830
George Jedediah Sanger	1826
Joseph Leonard Sargent	1829
Amos Joseph Saunders	1826
Isaac Fessenden Sawtelle	August 1, 1816
Augustus Jonathan Sawyer	1816
Roger Henry Scannell	1837
John Cleveland Scott	1816
Nathaniel Sears	1825
Nathan Beebe Seaver	1822
Robert Seaver	1812
Henry Perkins Shattuck	1844
James Bayard Shaw	1837
John Shaw	1822
Amos Wight Shumway	1819
Henry Clinton Skinner	1824
James Smith	1831
Joshua Bowen Smith ^[8]	1813
Zoeth Snow	1825
Augustus Lord Soule	April 19, 1827
Reuben Goodspeed Sparks	1822
Henry Splaine	1837
Franklin Harvey Sprague	1825
Oliver Martin Stacey	1816
Francis Dana Stedman	1801
James Aaron Stetson	1806
William Stewart	1820	Franklin county No. 3
Thomas Newcomb Stone	1818
William B. Stone	January 24, 1811
John Henry Studley	1828
Andrew Hodges Sweet	October 2, 1845
Charles Talbot	1811
James Gamage Tarr	July 6, 1830
William Taylor	1831
Eliphalet Loring Thayer	1824
Joseph Augustus Titus	1838
Hugh James Toland	1844
Marcus Truesdell	1813
Quincy Adams Vinal	1826
William Nathaniel Walker	1823
Rodney Wallace	December 21, 1823
Andrew Jackson Waters	1837
Edward Fox Watson	1807
Timothy W. Wellington	1811
James Lyman White	1821
Tisdale Sanford White	1809
William Henry Whitfield	November 11, 1804
George Henry Whitman	1808
Austin Whitney	1817
Robert Rich Wiley	1828
Henry Warren Wilson	1834
Benjamin Franklin Wing	October 22, 1822
Ezra Dyer Winslow	1839
Samuel Winslow	1827
Oliver Wolcott	1827
Moses Davis Woodbury	1821
Elijah Nichols Woods	1818

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References

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.
↑ "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
↑ "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
↑ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
↑ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
1 2 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1873. hdl:2452/40651.
1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1873" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts
1 2 Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905

External links

Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1873, hdl:2452/619062 – via State Library of Massachusetts
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1873, hdl:2452/92955

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[Dalton1984-1] 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.

[CompSenate-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

[CompHouse-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+.

[Manual-6] 1 2 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1873. hdl:2452/40651.

[Register2-7] 1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1873" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

[black2010-8] 1 2 Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905

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