1877 Massachusetts legislature

98th
Massachusetts General Court
98th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 7, 1876
Senate
Members	40
President	John B. D. Cogswell
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	John Davis Long
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 3, 1877 – May 17, 1877

Last updated August 14, 2023

John Cogswell, Senate president.

John Long, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1877.

The 98th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1877 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.^[4]

Senators

Image	Name ^[5]	Date of birth ^[6]	District	Party
	Charles Adams Jr.	1810
	Stephen Merrill Allen	1819
	George Sumner Barton	1825
	Selwyn Zadock Bowman	May 11, 1840
	Amos Franklin Breed	October 15, 1830
	Elisha Brimhall	March 25, 1825
	Haydn Brown	February 16, 1819
	Abraham Burbank Coffin	1831
	John Bear Doane Cogswell	June 6, 1829
	Samuel Dexter Crane	1816
	George Parkman Denny	1826
	Henry Clandins Ewing	1844
	Joseph Emery Fiske	1839
	Thomas Francis Fitzgerald	1848
	Michael Joseph Flatley	1823
	Harrison Garfield	June 27, 1810
	Lewis Newton Gilbert	1836
	Samuel Slocum Ginnodo	1816
	James John Howard Gregory	1827
	Tilly Haynes	February 13, 1828
	Henry Bozyol Hill	1823
	Charles Jarvis Holmes	1834
	Charles Howes	October 26, 1826
	Francis Jewett	September 19, 1820
	Ensign Hosmer Kellogg	July 6, 1812
	Ebenezer Bissell Lynde	1823
	Aaron C. Mayhew	1812
	John Farwell Moors	December 10, 1819
	Joshua Morse	February 24, 1822
	Caleb Rand	1817
	Charles Theodore Russell	November 20, 1815
	Amos Joseph Saunders	1826
	Luther Henry Sherman	1838
	John Sherburne Sleeper	September 25, 1794
	Frederick Mason Stone	1825
	Jackson Benjamin Swett	1815
	Byron Truell	1834
	Francis M. Weld	1815
	John Dwelle Whicher	1825
	Jonathan White	1819

Representatives

image	Name ^[5]	Date of birth ^[6]	District	Party
	Alfred Mark Adams	1835
	Granville Stevens Allen	1825
	Stillman Boyd Allen	September 8, 1830
	Job Kelly Anthony	1834
	Samuel Atherton	January 26, 1815
	Edwin Ayer	1827
	John James Babson	1809
	Thomas McCrate Babson	1847
	Orlando Sargent Baley	1818
	Alonzo Bancroft	1820
	Henry Francis Barker	1838
	Charles Ellis Barnes	1840
	James Edward Taylor Bartlett	1825
	Perley Bartlett	1807
	Henry Allen Barton	1821
	Benjamin Samuel Batchelor	1829
	Daniel Johnson Bates	1830
	Crocker Hinckley Bearse	1810
	Charles David Bickford	1821
	Abraham Orlando Bigelow	1812
	Francis William Bird	1809
	Warren Augustus Bird	1837
	Stephen Henry Bodurtha	1812
	Francis Charles Bowen	1834
	John Quincy Adams Brackett	June 8, 1842
	George Bradford	1819
	Warren Sylvester Bragg	1837
	Pharcellus Dean Bridges	December 21, 1846
	John Henry Brown	1844
	William Henry Harrison Bryant	1826
	Joseph Buckminster	1821
	Horace John Canfield	1834
	Francis Carll	1825
	Nahum Chapin	1820
	Charles Henry Chase	1835
	Lafayette Clapp	1824
	Leonard Clark	1821
	Wilder Philander Clark	October 12, 1832
	John Doggett Cobb	1840
	Aaron Cogswell	1807
	John Draper Cogswell	1820
	John Leonard Cole	1839
	George Nelson Cone	1836
	John Hawkins Cook	1841
	William Henry Cook	January 7, 1843
	Israel Clark Cornish	1850
	Samuel Emmons Crocker	1834
	Edward Johnson Crossman	1824
	Thomas Cunningham	1815
	Daniel Jasper Curley	April 2, 1841
	George Fisher Daniels	1820
	Charles Warren Davis	1826
	George Asa Dean	1835
	Obed Delano	1814
	Cornelius Desmond	1838
	Justin Dewey	1836
	Abiathar Doane	1820
	Daniel Doherty	1838
	William Capar Donald	1816
	Francis Mattby Draper	1834
	Jarvis Nelson Dunham	1828
	Curtis Eddy	May 18, 1838
	Francis Sylvester Egleston	1821
	Theodore Waterbury Ellis	1823
	William Fuller Ellis	1820
	William Irving Ellis	1829
	Levi Emery	1817
	John Barnard Fairbank	1839
	Jackson Benjamin Farnum	1828
	George Augustus Flagg	1845
	James W. Fox	1849
	Andrew Jackson Freeman	1819
	Henry William Fuller	June 30, 1839
	Charles Frederick Gerry	1823
	Onslow Gilmore	1832
	William Segar Gleason	1809
	Martin Thomas Glynn	1848
	Frank Palmer Goulding	1837
	James Benton Graham	1835
	Franklin Gray	1824
	Frank Shunk Gross	1836
	Charles Hale	June 7, 1831
	Andrew Hall	1833
	Charles Hallett	1825
	Patrick Henry Hallinan	1852
	Leander Moody Hannum	1837
	Henry Martin Hartshorn	1828
	Thomas Jones Hastings	January 24, 1835
	Frederick Hathaway	1810
	Nathan Mortimer Hawkes	1843
	George Frederic Hayden	1836
	Milton Lewis Perry Heustis	1825
	Samuel Richardson Heywood	1821
	Clement Hugh Hill	1836
	John Hillis	1847
	Richard Holley	January 30, 1829
	William Carey Howard	1841
	Caleb Burroughs Huse	September 13, 1833
	Charles Halstead Ingalls	1840
	Edward John Jenkins	1854
	George William Johnson	1827
	Peter Rogers Johnson	1824
	Joseph James Kelley	1842
	Patrick Keyes	1830
	Ensign Kimball	1818
	William Bird Kimball	1833
	William Hales Kinsman	1821
	Hosea Morrill Knowlton	1847
	Asa Stillman Lawrence	1820
	Alfred Laws	1831
	Henry Lee	1817
	Chauncey Wheeler Lessey	1829
	Thomas Lonergan	1827
	John Davis Long	October 27, 1838
	Benjamin Starks Lovell	1845
	John Dana Lovell	1818
	Francis Low	1824
	Lewis Gold Lowe	1828
	Hale Sisson Luther	1830
	James Mackintosh	1838
	Pardon Macomber	February 9, 1833
	Hugh Ambrose Madden	1839
	James Thomas Mahony	1843
	Seth Mann	1817
	William Marchant	1817
	Isaac Burgess Martin	1825
	Matthew James McCafferty	1829
	George Brackett Melcher	1836
	James Henry Mellen	1845
	Francis Peabody Merriam	1818
	Frederick Warren Merrill	1842
	Simeon Merritt	1823
	Alfred Miller	1815
	William Haswell Montague	1824
	Thomas Mooney	1840
	Aaron Rathburn Morse	1839
	Enoch Robinson Morse	1822
	James Thomas Murphy	1842
	Erastus Maltby Nash	1826
	Dexter Newton	1823
	James Hale Newton	1832
	John Franklin Newton	1829
	Nathaniel Avery Newton	1814
	Charles Johnson Noyes	August 7, 1841
	Dennis O'Connor	1838
	Cornelius O'Sullivan	1825
	Weaver Osborn	1815
	Charles Stuart Osgood	1839
	Henry Bryant Osgood	1818
	Edwin Patch	1820
	Alonzo Penney	September 23, 1835
	Ephraim Augustus Perkins	1839
	Baxter Edwards Perry	April 26, 1826
	John Charles Perry	1839
	William Cowper Peters	1827
	Darius Pierce	1836
	Henry Pierce	1826
	Albert Enoch Pillsbury	August 19, 1849
	Samuel Cloon Pitman	1811
	Charles Greenwood Pope	1840
	Charles Jones Prescott	1838
	Dennis George Quirk	1836
	Oliver James Rand	1820
	David Randall	1818
	Charles Everett Ranlett	1816
	James Paine Ray	1820
	William Arthur Read	1849
	George Randall Reed	1832
	Rice Munn Reynolds	1838
	Charles Baker Rice	1829
	Charles Warren Richards	1824
	James Henry Richards	1839
	Samuel Roads	1825
	William Robinson	1835
	John Austin Rogers	1828
	Cyrus King Russell	1815
	John Crockett Sanborn	1832
	George Webster Sanderson	1830
	Luther Haines Sargent	1842
	Horace Mills Sessions	1828
	Josephus Shaw	1832
	Harrison Allen Sheldon	1830
	Henry Shortle	1834
	John Killbourne Clough Sleeper	1828
	Solomon Sias Sleeper	1815
	Dana Zenas Smith	1819
	Iram Smith	1807
	Peter Dove Smith	1842
	Newell Snow	1816
	Samuel Snow	1828
	Mark Henry Spaulding	1827
	Charles Stickney	1829
	Eben Francis Stone	August 3, 1822
	Ezekiel Reed Studley	1831
	Charles B. Swain
	Noah Swett	1826
	Lewis Northey Tappan	June 15, 1831
	Oliver Taylor	1826
	Edward Flint Thayer	1835
	Francis Nicholas Thayer	1846
	Edward Isaiah Thomas	1833
	Leonard Thompson	1817
	Charles Frederick Thurston	1844
	John Wilson Tilton	1844
	Dexter Alley Tompkins	1827
	William Ripley Tompkins	1826
	Merritt Torrey	1825
	William G. Train	1825
	John Turner	1827
	Augustus Sherman Tuttle	1824
	Levi Clifford Wade	1843
	Edwin Walden	November 25, 1818
	Joseph Walker	1825
	James Lawrence Walsh	1843
	Alonzo Warren	1827
	Emory Washburn	February 14, 1800
	John Davis Washburn	1833
	William Watts	1835
	Lewis Taylor Webster	1832
	Michael Francis Wells	1832
	Samuel Hidden Wentworth
	John Wilson Wheeler	1832
	John Birtwistle Whitaker	1816
	James White	1828
	Sydney Franklin Whitehouse	1822
	Charles Stimson Whitmore	1815
	William Gunn Whitmore	1849
	Edward Whitney	1815
	William Ward Wilde	1821
	Henry Hills Wilder	1824
	George Andrew Wilson	1825
	George Colburn Wilson	1809
	Daniel Wing	1841
	Henry Winn	1837
	Thomas Winship	1826
	Isaac Winslow	1827
	Joseph Wiswell	1816
	Henry Pickett Woodbury	1835
	John Henry Wright	1843

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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+.
1 2 Court, Massachusetts General (1877). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40655.
1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1877" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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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+.

[Manual-5] 1 2 Court, Massachusetts General (1877). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40655.

[Register2-6] 1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1877" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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