1875 Massachusetts legislature

96th
Massachusetts General Court
96th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 3, 1874
Senate
Members	40
President	George B. Loring
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	John E. Sanford
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 6, 1875 – May 19, 1875

Last updated April 08, 2022

George Loring, Senate president.

John Sanford, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1875.

The 96th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1875 during the governorship of William Gaston. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

Name ^[6]	Date of birth ^[7]	District
Moses O. Ayres	July 21, 1826	4th Worcester
J. White Belcher	November 14, 1823	3rd Norfolk
Richard Britton	1838
Andrew Jackson Clark	1835
Timothy John Dacey	1849
George L. Davis	June 17, 1816
Francis Edson	1823
Charles Fitz	1806
Eustace Carey Fitz	1833	1st Suffolk
Michael Joseph Flatley	1823
Henry Fuller	1825
Jeremiah Gatchell	1834
Joseph Alfred Harwood	March 26, 1827
John Alexander Hawes	1823
Ezra Coffin Howard	September 1, 1831
Ebenezer Atherton Hunt	January 26, 1826
Henry Stanley Hyde	August 18, 1837
Thomas Ingalls	1824
Jonathan Jones	May 25, 1812
Jonathan A. Lane	1822
William E. Livingston	June 25, 1832
George B. Loring	November 8, 1817
William Croade Lovering	February 25, 1835
Lysander John Orcutt	1826
Albert Palmer	January 17, 1831
Ezra Parmenter	March 20, 1823
William H. Phillips	November 16, 1830
Henry W. Robinson	October 9, 1819
Christopher E. Rymes	September 27, 1827
Henry Smith	July 16, 1827
Charles H. B. Snow	August 7, 1822
Francis Dana Stedman	1801
Thomas Newcomb Stone	1818
Hugh James Toland	1844
Washington Tufts
George F. Verry	July 14, 1826
Zenas Caldwell Wardwell	1831
Tisdale Sanford White	1809
Robert Rich Wiley	1828
Ezra Dyer Winslow	1839

Representatives

image	Name ^[6]	Date of birth ^[7]	District	Party
	James Abbe	1822
	Ebenezer Adams	1830
	Samuel Allen	1825
	Stephen Merrill Allen	1819
	Andrew Athy	1832
	Michael A. Atkinson	1813
	John James Babson	1809
	Amasa Winchester Bailey	1820
	Daniel Danforth Bailey	1834
	Cyrus Franklin Baker	1831
	John Israel Baker	1812
	Joseph Heaton Baker	1820
	Giles Gould Barker	1838
	Theodore Dwight Beach	1821
	George Beal	1824
	John Henry Bell	1829
	William Harrison Bent	1840
	James Bergin	1825
	John Best	1836
	John Charles Bickford	1836
	John Henry Blake	1831
	Stephen Francis Blaney	1844
	William Edward Blunt	1840
	Frederick Lincoln Bosworth	1836
	Sylvester Warren Bowen	1833
	Horace Leander Bowker	1832
	Selwyn Zadock Bowman	May 11, 1840
	Reuben Boynton	1815
	Osgood Bradley	1836
	William Eustis Bridgman	1836
	Wilbur Franklin Brigham	1839
	William Ellery Bright	1831
	Samuel Rhoden Brintnall	1820
	Charles Morrill Brown	1820
	Isaac Tucker Burr	1828
	James Hazen Carleton	1818
	Michael Carney	1827
	William Carroll	1838
	William Chase	1817
	Gardner Asaph Churchill	1839
	Isaiah Churchill	1806
	Charles Russell Codman	1829
	Abraham Burbank Coffin	1831
	Patrick Collins	1830
	Austin Henry Connell	1846
	Owen Coogan	1820
	Augustine Porter Cook	1843
	Frederick Spaulding Coolidge	December 7, 1841
	Lowell Coolidge	1819
	Alfred Minott Copeland	1830
	Jeremiah William Coveney	1840
	John Addison Cummings	1838
	Benjamin Connor Currier	1822
	Francis Chester Curtis	1836
	William Derbyshire Curtis	1843
	Levi Lincoln Cushing	1825
	Benjamin Franklin Davis	1837
	Epes Davis	1799
	Jacob Winnie Davis	1824
	Lewis Day	1835
	Henry Dennis	1827
	Neil Doherty	1838
	Cornelius William Duggan	1844
	James William Dwyer	1845
	George Whitefield Dyer	1836
	Edwin Ellis	1823
	James Edward Estabrook
	John Brooks Fairbanks	1822
	Luther Fisk	1832
	Thomas Francis Fitzgerald	1848
	Samuel Flower	1815
	John David Flynn	1842
	Alpheus Fobes	1829
	Joseph Fobes	1811
	William Frost	1822
	Henry William Fuller	June 30, 1839
	Charles Lefevre Gardner	1839
	Albert Warren Gaskill	1831
	James Willis Gaylord	1844
	William Miner Gaylord	1821
	Emerson Geer	1835
	Edward Eli Gibbs	1836
	Benjamin Gifford	1824
	Levi Lincoln Goodspeed	1822
	Elbridge Henry Goss	1830
	Charles Henry Green	January 11, 1842
	Daniel Gardner Green	1817
	Thomas Thurston Griggs	1818
	Dexter Grose	1830
	Charles Hale	June 7, 1831
	Gayton Montgomery Hall	1835
	George Hall	1831
	Solomon Eldridge Hallett	1833
	David Evans Harding	1826
	William Ambrose Haskell	1826
	Nicholas Hatheway	1824
	George Haven	1809
	Nathan Mortimer Hawkes	1843
	George Heywood	1826
	Moses Burpee Heywood	1827
	Samuel Richardson Heywood	1821
	James Edward Hill	1838
	Joseph Warren Hill	1837
	Beriah Tilton Hillman	1843
	William Allen Hodges	1834
	Elisha Everett Holbrook	1835
	Amos Bradley Holden	1823
	Henry Tolman Holmes	1829
	Salmon Dutton Hood	1830
	Daniel Parker Hopkinson	1835
	Marius Milner Hovey	1818
	William Brewster Howard	1836
	Frederick George Howes	1832
	Francis M. Hughes	1845
	Simeon Alonzo Jacobs	1835
	Henry Lyman James	1829
	Edward Jonathan Johnson	1832
	Thomas Johnson	1824
	George Washington Jones	1822
	Isaac Newton Keith	November 14, 1838
	Philo Keith	1806
	William Keith	1810
	Ziba Cary Keith	July 13, 1842
	Edward Kendall	1822
	Moses Kimball	October 24, 1809
	William Sterling King	1818
	George Parkman Kingsley	1840
	Joel Knapp	1835
	William Shadrach Knox	September 10, 1843
	Daniel Warren Lawrence	1830
	John Burt Le Baron	1817
	Benjamin Flint Leighton	1820
	Daniel James Lewis	1810
	George Tyler Lincoln	1840
	Pliny Thurston Litchfield	1827
	James Lovering Locke	1832
	John Davis Long	October 27, 1838
	James Thomas Mahony	1843
	John Bernard Martin	1848
	William Martin	1815
	Joseph Tinsley Massey	1808
	Edward Selden May	1809
	Samuel May	1810
	James Athansius McDonald	1842
	John Johnson McNutt	1822
	William Branwell Merrill	1827
	Clement Meserve	1822
	Southard Harrison Miller	1811
	Henry Sherman Miner	1820
	Joseph Mitchell	1809
	Franklin Gerrish Morris	1841
	John Torrey Morse	1840
	Frederick Pierce Moseley	1826
	Willard Stanley Newhall	1831
	George Lincoln Newton	1841
	Edward Wolcott Noble	1811
	Reuben Noble	1820
	Daniel Noonan	1834
	Isaac Newton Nutter	June 23, 1836
	Charles Stuart Osgood	1839
	Harrison Davis Packard	1840
	Joseph Frost Paul	1824
	Charles Mason Peirce	1823
	William Edward Perkins	1838
	Charles Hiram Pew	1842
	Willard Peele Phillips	1825
	Stephen Cobb Phinney	1829
	Edward L. Pierce	March 29, 1829
	James Pierce	1837
	Thomas Fitzpatrick Plunkett	1804
	Alanson Brown Pomeroy	1842
	Richard Pope	1843
	Isaac Pratt	1814
	Willard Putnam	1838
	Edward Benedict Rankin	1846
	George Williams Reed	1826
	Albert Edward Rice	1845
	William Whitney Rice	March 7, 1826
	Thomas Rich	1820
	Jonathan Cady Richmond	1821
	John Lombard Robinson	1835
	Joshua Crowell Robinson	1834
	Wallace Fullum Robinson	1832
	Charles Alvan Rogers	1836
	Joseph Samuel Ropes	February 6, 1818
	Cyrus King Russell	1815
	Nathaniel Johnson Rust	1833
	John Stevens Ryder	1822
	John Sanborn	1799
	Edward Sanderson	1829
	Charles Brigham Sanford	1817
	John Eliot Sanford	November 22, 1830
	Cyrus Savage	September 2, 1832
	John Savery	1815
	Ebenezer Sawyer	1809
	Nathaniel Seaver	1807
	John Mark Seeley	1814
	Charles Luther Shaw	1823
	Frederick Plummer Shaw	1811
	Isaiah Atkins Small	1825
	George Dillingham Smalley	1824
	Abraham Howland Smith	1833
	Albert Smith	1823
	Edward F. Smith	1835
	John Low Smith	1837
	Edwin Adolphus Spaulding	1832
	Richard Hall Stearns	December 25, 1824
	Isaac Stebbins	1817
	Lafayette Stevens	1824
	John Conant Stimpson	1813
	Isaac Stone	1822
	Charles Alfonso Fletcher Swan	1830
	Daniel Joseph Sweeney	1834
	Samuel Talbot	1822
	Leonard Alden Thayer	1834
	William Allen Thompson	1810
	Daniel Holt Thurston	1813
	Dexter Alley Tompkins	1827
	George Howard Torrey	1819
	Enoch Henry Towne	1835
	Byron Truell	1834
	Albert Jesse Trull	1845
	Charles Russell Tucker	1844
	Artemas Stanley Tyler	1824
	Edmond Maxam Vincent	1828
	Cranmore Nesmith Wallace	1844
	George Milton Warren	1832
	Austin Clark Wellington	1840
	Joseph Wilder White	1825
	Felix Grundy Whitney	1818
	Wilbur Fisk Whitney	1839
	Henry Munson Wilcox	1843
	Ebenezer Crosby Willard	1821
	Moses Williams	1846
	William Winn	1809
	Nathan Montgomery Wood	1825
	John H. Woodbury	1840
	William Woods	1840
	Walter Wyman	1806

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References

↑ "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+.
↑ April Pierce (May 17, 2011), "Five Feet High and Rising", State Library of Massachusetts blog
1 2 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1875. hdl:2452/40653.
1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1875" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

External links

Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1875, hdl:2452/619064 – via State Library of Massachusetts
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1875, hdl:2452/92957

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[CompSenate-1] "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-2] "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

[3] "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.

[4] "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.

[5] April Pierce (May 17, 2011), "Five Feet High and Rising", State Library of Massachusetts blog

[Manual-6] 1 2 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1875. hdl:2452/40653.

[Register2-7] 1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1875" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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