1879 Massachusetts legislature

100th Massachusetts General Court
← 99th 101st →
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 5, 1878
Senate
Members	40
President	John B. D. Cogswell
Party control	Republican [1]
House
Members	240
Speaker	Levi C. Wade
Party control	Republican [2]
Sessions
1st January 1, 1879 (1879-01-01) – April 30, 1879 (1879-04-30) [3]

John Cogswell, Senate president.

Levi Wade, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1879.

The 100th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1879 during the governorship of Thomas Talbot. John B. D. Cogswell served as president of the Senate and Levi C. Wade served as speaker of the House. ^[4]

Members earned a salary of $500 per year. ^[5]

Notable legislation included the "Act to Give Women the Right to Vote for Members of School Committees." ^[6]

Senators

• Samuel N. Aldrich ^[7]
• E. Dana Bancroft
• Joseph S. Beal
• Robert R. Bishop
• Stephen M. Blaney
• Alvah A. Burrage
• George W. Cate
• John B. D. Cogswell
• Ezra Davol
• Dallas J. Dean
• Justin Dewey
• Frederick D. Ely
• Jacob Emerson
• Jonas H. French
• Charles L. Gardner
• Alpheus Harding
• Nathan M. Hawkes
• Benjamin F. Hayes
• Eben Hutchinson
• Francis Jewett
• H. M. Knowlton
• William Knowlton
• John B. Martin
• Charles H. Merriara
• Asa P. Morse
• Eugene L. Norton
• Weaver Osborn
• Stephen Osgood
• John L. Otis
• Albert Palmer
• Henry C. Rice
• Joseph S. Ropes
• Daniel Russell
• James W. Stockwell
• William Taylor
• Nathaniel Wales
• James White
• Jonathan White
• Henry Winn
• A. C. Woodworth

Representatives

• George William Lowther ^{[8] [7]}
• George T. Samspon. ^[9]
• Richard Beeching.
• William J. Burke.
• William A Foss.
• John B. Norton.
• Jeremiah J. Crowley.
• Joseph W. Davis.
• John H. Dee.
• John H. Sherburne.
• James L. Quigley.
• Cornelius Desmond.
• Neil Henry.
• Richard Roach.
• Dennis O'Connor.
• James L. Locke.
• Edward F. Thayer.
• George W. Lowther.
• Thomas Russell.
• A. J. C. Sowdon.
• Charles J. Prescott.
• Hamilton F. Hill.
• Patrick F. Murphy.
• James A. McGeough.
• T. F. FitzGerald.
• Charles J. Noyes.
• George H. Bond.
• Alonzo Warren.
• John F. McMahon.
• Joseph H. O'Neil.
• Timothy B. Spillane.
• J. Q. A. Brackett.
• John Sweetser.
• Henry D. Hyde.
• Lewis Coleman.
• John Joyce.
• Francis E. Hines.
• Payson E. Tucker.
• James B. Graham.
• Henry W. Fuller.
• Arthur W. Tufts.
• W. H. Carberry.
• Matthew Bolles.
• H. A. Johnson.
• Joseph Wiswell.
• Edward B. Callender.
• Joseph Bennett.
• Elbridge C. O'Donnell.
• Charles H. Ferson.
• Rufus Trussell.
• Amos Rowe.
• Stephen Rich.
• Charles H. Wonson.
• John F. James.
• J. Albert Brake.
• John I. Baker.
• Charles S. Osgood.
• George D. Glover.
• Horace Brown.
• Nathaniel A. Horton.
• William P. Proctor.
• Charles. H. Litchman.
• Amasa C. Robinson.
• C. A. Wentworth.
• Daniel R. Pinkham.
• William Lyon.
• Thomas H. Day.
• Henry Wardwell.
• Dudley Bradstreet.
• Newton P. Frye.
• William S. Coggin.
• Ben F. Atkinson.
• Samson Levy.
• Albert Kimball.
• Orrin Warren.
• Albert S. Adams.
• William A. Brooks.
• D. Smith Kimball.
• Edmund P. Sargent.
• Abel Webster.
• Jospeh. J. Nichols.
• Levi Emery.
• Jesse Moulton.
• Edwin B. Hale.
• George W. Park.
• Lucius R. Paige.
• A. Carter Webber.
• James H. Sparrow.
• Joseph J. Kelley.
• R. E. Nickerson.
• James Long.
• Charles S. Lincoln.
• Jacob T. Glines.
• John H. Hooper.
• Elisha S. Converse.
• James P. Magee.
• Joseph D. WIlde.
• John F. Berry.
• Azel James.
• Daniel H. Wadlin.
• Montressor S. Seeley.
• Josiah F. Stone.
• William H. Ingraham.
• Levi C. Wade.
• Charles E. Ranlett.
• David Randall.
• Augustus E. Scott.
• John W. Peabody.
• William M. Hoar.
• L. R. J. Varnum.
• Robert E. Crowley.
• James W. Bennett.
• Wililam H. Wiggin.
• John J. Pickman.
• Richard Barrett.
• Alonzo S. Fiske.
• Francis Bigelow.
• Jonathan Holbrook.
• J. Whittemore.
• Joel S. Clarke.
• Daniel S. Mooney.
• Edwin Whitney.
• Sumner P. Lawrence.
• Francis W. Wright.
• Frederick Thayer.
• Homer W. Darling.
• Isaac N. Croshy.
• Francis E. Fowler.
• George O. Brigham.
• Samuel R. Damon.
• Albert Barnard.
• Charles T. Crocker.
• Luther J. Brown.
• William H. Brown.
• Wilder P. Clark.
• Leander B. Morse.
• Lyman Clark.
• Chauncy Loring.
• Charles R. Bartlett.
• Theodore C. Bates.
• Joseph Smith.
• Samuel C. Paine.
• George D. Woodbury.
• Robert Humphrey.
• George F. Rice.
• David F. Wood.
• George F. Colburn.
• Thomas J. Hastings.
• William A. S. Smyth.
• Frank D. Leary.
• M. J. McCafferty.
• James H. Mellen.
• Joseph H. Walker.
• Calvin L. Hartshorn.
• John D. Washburn.
• William M. Gaylord.
• Henry M. Sheldon.
• Royal M. Montague.
• Alvan Barrus.
• Edward P. Crowell.
• Fred N. Hosmer.
• William J. Ricketts.
• Benjamin F. Burr.
• Frank H. Morton.
• William Pynchman.
• J. E. Shipman.
• Charles R. Ladd.
• Eleazer S. Beebe.
• F. B. Maynard.
• Thomas L. Keough.
• Joseph Murray.
• Merritt Van Deusen.
• James H. Bryan.
• E. D. Dickinson.
• Rufus Livermore.
• Joseph F. Bartlett.
• Eben A. Hall.
• Charles P. Aldrich.
• Richard H. Hoyt.
• Leonard B. Rice.
• B. F. Maher.
• Horace M. Holmes.
• W. F. Darby.
• Francis W. Rockwell.
• Solomon N. Russell.
• Leonard McCullock.
• Elizur Smith.
• Samuel M. Reynolds.
• Maloy J. Smith.
• Tyler Thayer.
• Edward I. Thomas.
• William J. Stuart.
• Horace E. Ware.
• Edwin W. Marsh.
• Edwin B. Pratt.
• Freeman Hollis.
• George D. Willis.
• John T. Flood.
• Henry S. Clark.
• Hiram Whitling.
• Elijah B. Daniels.
• Wililam S. Tilden.
• John Stanley.
• William D. Witherell.
• Ehmer Lincoln.
• John W. Hart.
• William Reed.
• John D. Reed.
• E. G. Morton.
• Rufus A. Soule.
• James M. Lawton.
• Andrew Bulloch.
• William Sanders.
• William P. Macomber.
• Patrick M. McGlynn.
• John W. Cummings.
• Marcus Leonard.
• Andrew J. Jennings.
• Daniel Wilbur.
• J. E. Eastabrooks.
• Arthur Lincoln.
• William C. Litchfield.
• George F. Stetson.
• William Savery.
• Charles H. Howland.
• Judah Hathaway.
• Matthew H. Cushing.
• George P. Harden.
• John W. Everson.
• Henry Copeland.
• Alfred C. Monroe.
• Henry W. Powers.
• Isaiah Fish.
• Andrew Lovell.
• Thomas P. Howes.
• Rufus Smith.
• Elisha Crocker.
• Bangs A. Lewis.
• Benjamin Clough.
• Henry Paddack.

See also

• 1879 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
• 46th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

References

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
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. John F. Parker (1985), "Legislative Compensation (a 350 Year-Old Issue)", Legislative Life, Its Realities, Facts, Wit & Humor, New Legislators' Orientation, State House, Boston
6. Kaitlin Connolly (September 24, 2012), "Women's Suffrage Movement in Massachusetts", State Library of Massachusetts blog
7. Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1879. hdl:2452/40657.
8. Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905
9. "Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1879". www.archives.lib.state.ma.us. Retrieved 2024-07-24.

Further reading

• "Massachusetts". Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1879. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1886. hdl:2027/mdp.39015027249609 – via HathiTrust. (includes description of legislature)

External links

• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1879, hdl:2452/619068
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1879, hdl:2452/89615