1889 Massachusetts legislature

110th
Massachusetts General Court
110th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 6, 1888
Senate
Members	40
President	Harris C. Hartwell
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	William Emerson Barrett
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 2, 1889 – June 7, 1889

Last updated July 28, 2023

Harris Hartwell, Senate president.

William Barrett, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1889.

The 110th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1889 during the governorship of Oliver Ames. Harris C. Hartwell served as president of the Senate and William Emerson Barrett served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

Image	Name^[5]	Date of birth^[6]	District	Party
	Edwin Baker	January 18, 1843
	Benjamin F. Campbell	September 12, 1834
	William Alfred Clark	1852
	John Aloysius Collins	1860
	Benjamin Franklin Cook	1833
	Thomas Washburn Cook	September 15, 1837
	John Crawford Crosby	June 15, 1859
	William Nathaniel Davenport	November 3, 1856
	Edward Joseph Donovan	March 15, 1864
	James Donovan	May 28, 1859
	James Fisher Dwinell	July 23, 1825
	Alonzo Hathaway Evans	February 24, 1820
	Alfred Swift Fassett	December 5, 1848
	David Fisk	May 6, 1838
	George Washington Gibson	1851
	Jubal Converse Gleason	1837
	Daniel Gunn	1850
	James H. Harlow	September 11, 1814
	Harris Cowdrey Hartwell	1847
	Edward Jacob Hathorne	1854
	Henry Joseph Hosmer	February 2, 1832
	Robert Howard	February 8, 1845
	Frank W. Howe	June 3, 1859
	Thomas F. Hunt	October 27, 1854
	Chester Ward Kingsley	1824
	Austin Messinger	1817
	Edwin Dickinson Metcalf	March 14, 1848
	Edward F. O'Sullivan	June 23, 1858
	Moses Poore Palmer	1830
	Henry Langdon Parker	October 7, 1834
	James Davis Pike	1829
	Edwin Lake Pilsbury	1850
	Henry Harrison Sprague	August 1, 1841
	Charles E. Stevens	April 21, 1843
	James Trimble Stevens	1835
	Charles Henry Symonds	1857
	Enos Houghton Tucker	1817
	David Walker	1841
	Silas Mandeville Wheelock	1818
	Levi Lincoln Whitney	1838

Representatives

Name^[5]	Date of birth^[6]	District
Warren W. Adams	December 11, 1844
John Albree	March 14, 1829
Jared F. Alden	April 18, 1836
Thomas Alden	August 17, 1827
Montressor Tyler Allen	1844
Richard B. Allen	January 25, 1859
Horace H. Atherton	October 23, 1847	20th
Ralph L. Atherton	June 30, 1842
Harrison Henry Atwood	August 26, 1863
George Ayres	August 26, 1833
Rollin Herbert Babbitt	1840
Lewis M. Bancroft	December 31, 1851
Thomas E. Barker	March 13, 1839
Franklin O. Barnes	November 11, 1841
William Emerson Barrett	December 29, 1858
Richard M. Barry	June 5, 1863
Walter P. Beck	January 20, 1850
Charles H. Bennett	March 11, 1843
John O. Bennett	November 8, 1838
Francis T. Berry	August 18, 1849
Thomas W. Bicknell	September 6, 1834
Alden M. Bigelow	March 28, 1848
Charles Chauncey Bixby	1824
George Bliss	November 20, 1844
Percival Blodgett	July 18, 1841
Andreas Blume	1837
Nelson F. Bond	January 9, 1839
J. Dean Bonney	January 28, 1831
John Bennett Bottum
Joshua L. D. Bowerman
Robert H. Bowman	September 26, 1855
Peter Joseph Brady	October 29, 1861
Edward Winslow Brewer	1858
Charles K. Brewster	June 11, 1843
Asa Olin Brooks	1852
Horace Brooks	July 22, 1835
William Henry Brooks	January 11, 1831
Edward F. Brown	July 11, 1843
Orland J. Brown	February 2, 1848
John H. Burgess	November 25, 1852
James J. Burke	March 4, 1862
Charles Amos Call	1839
Joseph Henry Cannell	1836
George N. Carpenter	January 26, 1840
Peter Thomas Carroll	1857
Charles Ernest Carter	June 1, 1850
Joseph Pike Cheney	1843
Moses Davis Church	1842
Horace E. Clayton	1854
George L. Clemence	February 17, 1852
Nelson B. Conant	December 6, 1845
Thomas H. Connell	September 18, 1849
David Conwell	1818
Louis A. Cook	May 4, 1847
John William Coveney	April 10, 1845
Robert Bruce Crane	1845
James Martin Cronin	1857
Joshua Crowell	1841
John H. Crowley	August 20, 1858
Francis C. Curtis	March 13, 1836
Nahum Sawin Cutler	April 7, 1837
George W. Cutting	November 18, 1834
Frank William Dallinger	June 5, 1852
Luther Dame	March 3, 1826
Epes Davis	March 14, 1824
Joshua H. Davis	November 3, 1814
Thomas Haven Dearing	October 25, 1826
Jeremiah Desmond	May 2, 1853
Henry S. Dewey	1856
Simeon Dodge, Jr.	February 23, 1840
William S. Douglas	April 5, 1836
Hugo A. Dubuque	November 3, 1854
Thomas H. Duggan	March 11, 1848
Lyman R. Eddy	March 21, 1837
John Edwards	December 23, 1852
George D. Eldredge	December 17, 1858
Albert R. Eldridge	September 10, 1850
Thomas George Farren	1858
Myron J. Ferren	August 16, 1836
William F. Ferry	July 4, 1854
Charles N. Foote	December 14, 1848
Jacob Fottler	1839
Henry Frost	1832
Charles B. Gardiner	June 19, 1849
Michael J. Garvey	May 27, 1859
Theodore Giddings	December 5, 1837
John F. Gillespie	April 18, 1855
Gorham D. Gilman	May 29, 1822
Thomas K. Gilman	August 11, 1842
Edward B. Glasgow
William Gordon	1825
John B. Gould	November 29, 1820
Samuel Levis Gracey	1835
Charles Grant, Jr.	June 26, 1844
Robert S. Gray	September 28, 1847
Abner Greenwood	September 10, 1826
William M. Hale	June 26, 1820
Henry D. Hamilton	June 22, 1848
Charles H. Hanson	July 7, 1844
Z. Taylor Harrington	November 14, 1848
Robert O. Harris	November 8, 1854
James W. Harvey	April 10, 1844
Phineas W. Haseltine	May 15, 1846
Forbes P. Haskell	April 6, 1844
Elihu B. Hayes	April 26, 1848
Robert Henry	1833
John E. Heslan	November 11, 1854
John Hildreth	October 18, 1851
William Southerland Hixon	1848
John D. Holbrook	October 6, 1843
Langdon H. Holder	March 10, 1846
Frank E. Holman	August 8, 1853
John F. Howard	March 24, 1843
Herbert W. Howe	December 17, 1842
Charles Howes	December 14, 1833
Willard Howland	December 3, 1852
John F. Hutchinson	January 6, 1856
Henry H. Johnson	March 24, 1840
Jeremiah Joseph Keane	1855
Thomas J. Keliher	October 13, 1858
Horace G. Kemp	August 19, 1849
David B. Kempton	April 25, 1818
Patrick Joseph Kennedy	January 14, 1858
John White Kimball	February 27, 1828
Henry Albert Kimball	May 3, 1842
Rufus Kimball	March 13, 1829
Francis W. Kittredge	June 4, 1843
James Lally	1862
Hiram B. Lane	August 17, 1824
Andrew Berkley Lattimore ^[7]	August 4, 1852
William W. Leach	February 22, 1856
Edward Joseph Leary	May 27, 1860
James D. Lincoln	1823
Stephen S. Littlefield	August 8, 1848
Clarence Parker Lovell	1848
John Macfarlane	June 11, 1841
James Pope Martin	1827
Samuel Walker McCall	February 28, 1851
Thomas McCooey	1851
Peter J. McDonald	May 3, 1860
John H. McDonough	March 29, 1857
John James McDonough	March 15, 1857
Thomas O. McEnaney	October 23, 1857
Michael Joseph McEttrick	June 22, 1848
Daniel McLaughlin	1847
William S. McNary	March 29, 1863
Albert Mead	April 23, 1830
Robert F. Means	August 22, 1838
James H. Mellen	November 7, 1845
Noah F. Mendall	May 2, 1836
John Flint Merrill	January 16, 1849
Albert E. Miller	1834
Henry S. Milton	September 28, 1855
William Henry Monahan	1857
Michael J. Moore	September 23, 1863
Frank Morison	March 18, 1844
I. Porter Morse	April 10, 1861
William H. Murphy	December 18, 1855
Albert H. Newhall	December 25, 1834
Edward M. Nichols	August 22, 1848
William H. Nichols	October 6, 1846
Joseph Nolan	April 27, 1860
John Henry Norcross	October 20, 1841
John William O'Mealey	1861
John William O'Neil	1859
Henry P. Oakman	June 27, 1831
John B. Packard	February 22, 1837
Frank E. Paige	March 22, 1859
Oren B. Parks	December 28, 1846
Joseph A. Patridge	January 3, 1830
George Arthur Perkins	1856
Charles Perry	May 31, 1840
Charles Quincy Pierce	1841
John N. Pierce	December 8, 1833
Baxter P. Pike	February 22, 1845
Omer Pillsbury	November 15, 1853
Alfred Stamm Pinkerton	March 19, 1856
John Wallace Plaisted	1828
Charles French Porter	January 16, 1836
Lurin J. Potter	June 6, 1846
Harvey Hunter Pratt	1860
William Henry Preble	1856
John Jacob Prevaux	March 16, 1857
Ellis B. Purrington	January 31, 1831
Charles C. Putnam	May 28, 1844
Francis Winnie Qua	1845
Dennis Joseph Quinn	1861
Francis Henry Raymond	February 19, 1836
George A. Reed	September 10, 1842
James Henry Richards	1839
Albert E. Richmond	September 23, 1819
Thomas Riley	December 22, 1843
John B. Ripley	July 8, 1849
William R. Rowell	March 19, 1844
Charles Parks Rugg	1827
Irving Levi Russell	1852
Stillman Russell	December 11, 1836
Chester Franklin Sanger	1858
George P. Sanger	September 6, 1852
Edward Payson Shaw	September 1, 1841
Charles H. Shepard	October 19, 1842
George A. Shepard	December 23, 1820
Everett F. Sherman	1826
George Wing Slocum	1818
Winfield Scott Slocum	1848
Anthony Smalley	March 15, 1836
Henry O. Smith	September 15, 1839
Thomas Snow	March 16, 1854
William D. Sohier	October 22, 1858
Charles Edward Spring	1841
William B. Sprout	1859
John H. Stafford	November 16, 1841
Stephen Stanley	June 11, 1842
George C. Stearns	February 12, 1854
Daniel Philmore Stimpson	1818
Martin L. Stover	October 22, 1837
Edward Sullivan	August 14, 1844
John H. Sullivan	June 24, 1850
Michael F. Sullivan	September 21, 1859
George N. Swallow	January 2, 1854
Edgar Sidney Taft	June 30, 1853
Rufus Albert Thayer	1839
Albert Cranston Thompson	1843
Isaac Brownell Tompkins	August 17, 1826
Peletiah R. Tripp	August 15, 1842
Henry Edward Turner	May 4, 1842
Abijah Tyler Wales	1833
Jacob Otis Wardwell	March 14, 1857
William Leonard White	1843
Charles M. Wilcox	August 13, 1861
John H. Wilkins	October 14, 1832
Charles Thomas Witt	July 18, 1848
Samuel Wood	February 13, 1831
Charles Francis Woodward	November 19, 1852
Ira A. Worth	October 23, 1828
William A. Wyckoff	April 30, 1838
Ferdinand Adolphus Wyman	1850

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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 3 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1889.
1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1889" (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 Acts and Resolves: 1889, hdl:2452/83195

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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 3 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1889.

[Register2-6] 1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1889" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

[black2010-7] 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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