1878 Massachusetts legislature

99th
Massachusetts General Court
99th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 6, 1877
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 2, 1878 – May 17, 1878

Last updated July 05, 2023

John Cogswell, Senate president.

John Long, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1878.

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.^[4]^[5]

Senators

Image	Name^[6]	Date of birth^[7]	District	Party
	James Cochran Abbott	1825
	Charles Adams	1810
	Henry Francis Barker	1838
	George Sumner Barton	1825
	Joseph Sampson Beal	1814
	Robert Roberts Bishop	March 13, 1834
	Amos Franklin Breed	October 15, 1830
	Frederic Perry Brown	1840
	Alvah Augustus Burrage	1823
	Horace John Canfield	1834
	George Washington Cate	1834
	Abraham Burbank Coffin	1831
	John Bear Doane Cogswell	June 6, 1829
	Ezra Davol	1838
	Marcellus Day	1833
	Frederick David Ely	September 24, 1838
	Henry Clandins Ewing	1844
	Michael Joseph Flatley	1823
	Charles Lefevre Gardner	1839
	Lewis Newton Gilbert	1836
	Thomas Gogin	1824
	James John Howard Gregory	1827
	Benjamin Franklin Hayes
	Henry Bozyol Hill	1823
	William Allen Hodges	1834
	Charles Jarvis Holmes	1834
	Hosea Morrill Knowlton	1847
	William Knowlton	1809
	Ebenezer Bissell Lynde	1823
	Charles Henry Merriam	1822
	Albert Palmer	January 17, 1831
	Allan Rogers	1832
	Joseph Samuel Ropes	February 6, 1818
	Charles Theodore Russell	November 20, 1815
	Amos Joseph Saunders	1826
	Luther Henry Sherman	1838
	Jackson Benjamin Swett	1815
	Byron Truell	1834
	James White	1828
	Jonathan White	1819
	Henry Winn	1837

Representatives

image	Name^[6]	Date of birth^[7]	District	Party
	Charles Phelps Aldrich	1832
	Charles Hastings Allen	1828
	James Howe Ames	1842
	Israel Warren Andrews	1820
	Job Kelly Anthony	1834
	George Minott Baker	1826
	John Israel Baker	1812
	Alonzo Bancroft	1820
	Charles Ellis Barnes	1840
	Sidney Barnes	1831
	George Varnum Barrett	1839
	Elisha Parks Bartholomew	1847
	James Edward Taylor Bartlett	1825
	Theodore Dwight Beach	1821
	Melvin Beal	1832
	George C. Belcher	August 26, 1844
	Myron Wallace Bent	1849
	Joseph Billings	1842
	Francis William Bird	1809
	William Blanchard	1821
	William Bradford Bliss	1834
	Matthew Bolles	1807
	Henry Clay Bonney	1841
	John Quincy Adams Brackett	June 8, 1842
	George Otis Brigham	1822
	William Allen Brooks	1835
	Luther Julius Brown	1827
	Martin Wait Burnett	1815
	Charles Webster Bush	1834
	Charles Ruthven Byram	1844
	William Henry Carberry	February 22, 1851
	Francis Carll	1825
	Lewis Carroll	1845
	Charles Allen Case	1846
	Alvin B. Chamberlain	December 16, 1842
	Nahum Chapin	1820
	Charles Henry Chase	1835
	Leonard Clark	1821
	Benjamin Clough	1819
	Philander Cobb	1818
	Hiram Boardman Coffin	1836
	Samuel Coffin	October 9, 1827
	George Franklin Colburn	1830
	Elisha S. Converse	July 28, 1820
	William Henry Cook	January 7, 1843
	Hiram Nathaniel Cooke	1834
	John Cornell	1830
	Israel Clark Cornish	1850
	George Albert Cowdrey	1848
	John W. Cummings	August 25, 1855
	Thomas Cunningham	1815
	John Warren Curtice	1839
	Jason Langdon Curtis	1824
	Orson Ballou Curtis	1825
	Levi Lincoln Cushing	1825
	Anthony Charles Daly	1853
	Charles Augustine Davis	1847
	Robert Lewis Davis	1822
	Cornelius Desmond	1838
	Abiathar Doane	1820
	Freeman Doane	1819
	Daniel Doherty	1838
	Jarvis Nelson Dunham	1828
	Edward Rutledge Eager	1830
	William Irving Ellis	1829
	Levi Emery	1817
	James Webster Emory	1826
	Noble W. Everett	February 20, 1827
	John Barnard Fairbank	1839
	Lucius Field	August 15, 1840
	Ralph Adams Field	1837
	Isaiah Fish	1811
	Charles Fisher	1829
	John Thomas Flood	1845
	Gardner French	1811
	John Henry Galligan	1851
	Nelson Gardner	1815
	Francis Gargan	1847
	Edwin Gilbert	1820
	Freeman L. Gilman	1830
	Jacob Taylor Glines	1817
	Frank Palmer Goulding	1837
	Thomas Robinson Greene	1806
	Edwin Blaisdell Hale	1839
	Noah Leonard Hardy	1828
	John Williams Hart	1826
	Edward Howard Haskell	1845
	Thomas Jones Hastings	January 24, 1835
	Rawson Hathaway	1828
	Thomas Bly Hathaway	December 5, 1825
	Nathan Mortimer Hawkes	1843
	Alanson Knox Hawks	1828
	George Frederic Hayden	1836
	James Hildreth	1839
	Clement Hugh Hill	1836
	Hamilton Andrews Hill	1827
	John Henry Hooper	1833
	Asa Frederic Howe	1845
	Simon Herbert Howe	1835
	William Howe	1814
	Thomas Prince Howes	1817
	John Humphrey	1826
	Eben Hutchinson	1841
	Henry Dwight Hyde	1838
	Charles Halstead Ingalls	1840
	John Jackson	1822
	Charles Volbert Jaeger	1846
	Edward John Jenkins	1854
	Andrew Jackson Jennings	1849
	Henry Augustus Johnson	1818
	Augustine Jones	1835
	Joseph James Kelley	1842
	Jarvis Plato Kelly	1833
	Patrick Keyes	1830
	Ensign Kimball	1818
	William Sterling King	1818
	Marcus Perrin Knowlton	February 3, 1839
	Frank Daniel Leary	1854
	Edwin Forrest Leighton	1839
	James Foster Leonard	1837
	John Arnold Lewis	1833
	George Caleb Lincoln	1821
	James Lovering Locke	1832
	Andrew Lovell	1813
	Benjamin Starks Lovell	1845
	John Dana Lovell	1818
	George W. Lowther ^[8]	1822
	Pardon Macomber	February 9, 1833
	William Penn Macomber	1832
	John Mahon	1832
	James Thomas Mahony	1843
	William Manning	1823
	Frederic A. Marden	1843
	John Marlor	1845
	Edwin Wilson Marsh	1821
	George Sampson Marshall	1833
	Samuel Stukey McGibbons	1826
	Patrick Michael McGlynn	1853
	Ebenezer Martin McPherson	1836
	James Henry Mellen	1845
	Artemas Merriam
	Amos Washington Merritt	1833
	Phillips Moore	1835
	Albert Moors	1828
	Elbridge Gerry Morton	1841
	Frederick Pierce Moseley	1826
	Patrick Francis Murphy	1860
	John Franklin Newton	1829
	Richard Elliott Nickerson	1830
	Joseph Gilbert Noble	1837
	Eugene L. Norton	March 26, 1825
	Charles Johnson Noyes	1841
	Chauncey Orman Noyes	1840
	James H. Nugent	1831
	Joseph Henry O'Neil	March 23, 1853
	William Clift Oakman	1809
	Charles Stuart Osgood	1839
	John Lord Otis	1827
	Henry Brett Packard	1823
	Henry Paddack	April 2, 1838
	Calvin Paige	May 20, 1848
	Lucius R. Paige	1802
	Joseph Sumner Parmenter	1827
	David Allen Partridge	1833
	William Gaylord Peck	1841
	James Phillip Peirce	1835
	Josiah Perry	1832
	Benjamin Ashton Phillips	1838
	James Davis Pike	1829
	Albert Enoch Pillsbury	August 19, 1849
	Timothy Dimmick Potter	1840
	Henry Webster Powers	1837
	Charles Jones Prescott	1838
	George Price	1806
	Henry Wheatland Putnam	1843
	William Pynchon	1820
	Oliver James Rand	1820
	David Randall	1818
	Charles Everett Ranlett	1816
	William Arthur Read	1849
	William Reed	October 3, 1820
	William Reed Jr.	December 2, 1842
	George Willard Rice	1836
	James Henry Richards	1839
	Jesper Richardson	1821
	John Wesley Ricker	1824
	Michael Rinn	1847
	William Robinson	1835
	Solomon Nash Russell	1822
	Baalis Sanford	1833
	Edmund Pillsbury Sargent	1823
	Lucius Manlius Sargent	1836
	John Bernard Shea	1851
	Henry Shortle	1834
	Matthew Smith	1814
	William Augustus Somerset Smyth	1824
	Rufus Albertson Soule	1839
	Pliny Fisk Spaulding	1821
	Timothy Gridley Spaulding	1851
	Leander Sprague	1824
	Stephen Abbott Stackpole	1819
	Henry Salmon Stiles	1818
	Eben Francis Stone	August 3, 1822
	William James Stuart	1828
	Ezekiel Reed Studley	1831
	Van Rensselaer Swift	1813
	Zadok Arnold Taft	1817
	Edward Isaiah Thomas	1833
	Leonard Thompson	1817
	Charles Frederick Thurston	1844
	John Wilson Tilton	1844
	Payson Elliott Tucker	1834
	Thomas J. Tucker
	John Turner	1827
	Horace Underwood	1828
	Levi Clifford Wade	1843
	Alexander Wadsworth	1806
	Abijah Tyler Wales	1833
	James Lawrence Walsh	1843
	Solon Walton	1830
	Alonzo Warren	1827
	John Davis Washburn	1833
	Abel Webster	1818
	Edwin R. Webster	1831
	Samuel Hidden Wentworth
	Daniel Nathaniel White	1830
	Newton White	1813
	Joseph Whitehead	1823
	Sydney Franklin Whitehouse	1822
	Charles Stimson Whitmore	1815
	William Howe Wiggin	1823
	Henry Munson Wilcox	1843
	Henry Hills Wilder	1824
	Sydney Wilder	1813
	George Andrew Wilson	1825
	John Winn	July 3, 1828
	Joseph Wiswell	1816
	Charles Henry Wonson	1843
	Solon Wood	1834
	John Henry Wright	1843
	Oliver Brown Wyman	1826

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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+.
↑ "Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts". Massachusetts Register, 1878. 1874. p. 15+ – via Archive.org.
1 2 Court, Massachusetts General (1878). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40656.
1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1878" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts
↑ 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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Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1878, hdl:2452/619067
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1878, hdl:2452/89614

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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+.

[Register-5] "Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts". Massachusetts Register, 1878. 1874. p. 15+ – via Archive.org.

[Manual-6] 1 2 Court, Massachusetts General (1878). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40656.

[Register2-7] 1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1878" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

[black2010-8] 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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