1901 Massachusetts legislature

122nd
Massachusetts General Court
122nd; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 6, 1900
Senate
Members	40
President	Rufus A. Soule
Party control	Republican (31—9)
House
Members	240
Speaker	James J. Myers
Party control	Republican (179–58–3)
Sessions
1st
1st	January 2, 1901 – June 19, 1901; + extra session

Last updated May 31, 2022

Rufus Soule, Senate president.

James Myers, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1901.

The 122nd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1901 during the governorship of Winthrop M. Crane. Rufus A. Soule served as president of the Senate and James J. Myers served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

image	name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district
	Henry C. Attwill	March 11, 1872
	Edward F. Blodgett	August 9, 1848
	William A. Butler	February 4, 1859
	Loyed E. Chamberlain	January 30, 1857
	James B. Clancy	May 26, 1868
	George L. Clemence	February 17, 1852
	Franklin L. Codman	September 9, 1867
	Charles A. Corser	September 21, 1832
	Guy W. Currier	December 22, 1867
	Cornelius R. Day	December 29, 1847
	Thomas H. Dowd	March 24, 1872
	Frank A. Fales	October 13, 1848
	W. T. A. Fitzgerald	December 19, 1871
	Herbert E. Fletcher	May 10, 1862
	Augustus Peabody Gardner	November 5, 1865
	Francis A. Harrington	November 17, 1846
	Edward C. Holt	January 13, 1850
	Willard Howland	December 3, 1852
	Franklin E. Huntress	April 19, 1866
	George R. Jones	February 8, 1862
	Amos A. Lawrence	November 3, 1847
	Walter O. Luscombe	August 19, 1852
	Jeremiah E. Mahoney	November 8, 1864
	David Manning	August 29, 1846
	John F. Marsh	February 1, 1828
	Andrew H. Morrison	June 27, 1871
	Merrick A. Morse	May 1, 1847
	William Nutt	August 5, 1836
	John E. Parry	July 3, 1854
	J. Frank Porter	April 8, 1847
	Edward Seaver	June 3, 1849
	David B. Shaw	August 20, 1870
	Rufus Albertson Soule	1839
	John Thomas Sparks	July 9, 1865
	Eugene H. Sprague	May 23, 1864
	John Andrew Sullivan	May 10, 1868
	William Tolman	June 2, 1858
	Chester B. Williams	October 10, 1870
	Alva S. Wood	May 12, 1828

Representatives

image	name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district
	Charles H. Adams	April 22, 1859
	Eben Timothy Adams	January 7, 1857
	Horace C. Adams	July 18, 1848
	Wilbur F. Adams	March 6, 1865
	Charles I. Albee	January 17, 1862
	Charles H. Allen	June 17, 1841
	George D. Allen	October 28, 1843
	Frank W. Amazeen	March 10, 1853
	Albert S. Apsey	November 27, 1870
	Warren P. Babb	November 10, 1850
	Frank E. Badger	January 12, 1853
	A. Dudley Bagley	February 27, 1869
	John N. Ball	November 19, 1835
	William L. Barber	April 9, 1859
	Daniel J. Barry	August 27, 1859
	Edward P. Bartlett	September 9, 1849
	Frank Bartlett	September 5, 1854
	Frederick W. Bateman	December 17, 1852
	Fred Alfred Bearse	February 15, 1871
	George C. Belcher	August 26, 1844
	Harry L. Belden	January 7, 1864
	Albion F. Bemis	July 19, 1856
	Austin Bigelow	September 8, 1840
	John Bleiler	May 9, 1837
	James F. Bliss	April 7, 1847
	Charles H. Blood	December 10, 1858
	Samuel H. Borofsky	April 25, 1865
	Ward N. Boylston	December 17, 1871
	J. Walter Bradlee	January 27, 1867
	Patrick H. Bradley	October 17, 1874
	Lewis S. Breed	November 4, 1866
	Charles P. Brewer	August 1, 1852
	Clarence A. Briggs	August 21, 1871
	William M. Brigham	January 23, 1864
	Edward L. Brown	April 3, 1861
	John A. Brown	July 7, 1844
	Henry Cushing Bulfinch	February 16, 1859
	George P. Bullard	June 25, 1857
	George Walton Bullard	May 24, 1841
	William J. Bullock	January 31, 1864
	Edward D. Bunyan	June 14, 1871
	George S. Burgess	January 30, 1876
	James Burns	May 20, 1838
	Joseph E. Buswell	August 7, 1842
	A. Webster Butler	August 22, 1858
	Dexter Butterfield	March 15, 1842
	Edward B. Callender	February 23, 1851
	Charles A. Card	October 12, 1849
	James F. Carey	August 19, 1867
	Charles A. Carruth	December 13, 1853
	John H. Casey	July 22, 1848
	Frank M. Chace	April 16, 1856
	Alfred M. Chaffee	August 16, 1859
	John F. Chase	May 19, 1871
	Edwards Cheney	May 3, 1861
	Charles Edwin Childs	July 17, 1860
	Chester W. Clark	August 9, 1851
	Amedee Cloutier	April 25, 1868
	Benjamin G. Collins	December 25, 1860
	John J. Collins	August 27, 1865
	Henry Cook	April 4, 1835
	Leroy E. Coolidge	June 12, 1847
	Thomas Laurie Creeley	May 23, 1849
	J. Howell Crosby	December 30, 1867
	William F. Dana	June 26, 1863
	Alphonso Davis	September 4, 1863
	Daniel W. Davis	October 3, 1846
	Thomas L. Davis	March 15, 1852
	Isaac C. Day	June 2, 1843
	Benjamin C. Dean	March 8, 1843
	Charles Austin Dean	March 26, 1856
	Jeremiah J. Desmond	November 3, 1867
	Frank S. Dewey, Jr.	March 22, 1857
	Thomas J. Dillon	April 20, 1869
	George H. Dinan	May 18, 1871
	Thomas Donahue	August 20, 1853
	Jeremiah F. Donovan	May 10, 1856
	John L. Donovan	June 3, 1876
	William H. Downs	December 29, 1845
	Aaron Coolidge Dowse	March 27, 1856
	Charles M. Draper	November 1, 1869
	Charles V. Dudley	September 2, 1852
	J. Lewis Ellsworth	November 8, 1848
	Freeman O. Emerson	January 12, 1859
	George H. Fall	October 19, 1858
	John F. Farrar	August 31, 1856
	John D. Fenton	July 31, 1865
	Henry M. Fern	December 23, 1862
	John F. Foster	October 22, 1862
	Frank W. Francis	September 16, 1857
	Archie N. Frost	July 26, 1872
	Louis A. Frothingham	July 13, 1871
	Fred Eugene Fuller	September 10, 1862
	Michael E. Gaddis	February 21, 1869
	Horace B. Gale	December 27, 1861
	Irving P. Gammon	September 23, 1862
	Arthur H. Gardner	August 4, 1854
	Charles N. Gardner	March 29, 1845
	Eugene Clarence Gardner	March 26, 1836
	George H. Garfield	July 18, 1858
	Richard W. Garrity	March 14, 1864
	John J. Gartland	November 27, 1871
	Frank Gerrett	February 4, 1857
	Thomas E. Gibney	June 25, 1843
	Fred C. Gilpatric	August 22, 1865
	George H. Goddard	November 24, 1844
	Eben H. Googins	July 28, 1845
	Edward T. Goward	August 10, 1862
	John G. Hagberg	August 24, 1873
	George A. Hall	November 28, 1848
	Portus B. Hancock	February 19, 1836
	Arthur Harrington	July 23, 1874
	Ulysses G. Haskell	October 3, 1863
	Richard J. Hayes	October 4, 1861
	William C. S. Healey	September 26, 1873
	Frank M. Heath	September 8, 1852
	James F. Heath	March 10, 1860
	Frederic M. Hersey	January 8, 1853
	Joseph F. Hickey	January 20, 1875
	Albert S. N. Hickford	January 24, 1859
	Alexander Holmes	July 28, 1867
	Francis J. Horgan	July 2, 1869
	Robert Howard	May 7, 1855
	James Howell	December 19, 1845
	Samuel E. Hull	August 12, 1843
	Bennett B. Humphrey	April 11, 1838
	Edward W. Hunt	November 29, 1859
	George C. Hunt	April 7, 1859
	Harry Draper Hunt	December 27, 1874
	Harrie C. Hunter	March 16, 1869
	John C. Hurley	December 19, 1875
	William A. Jenks	June 10, 1853
	Michael Bernard Jones	August 20, 1864
	Walter S. Keene	November 9, 1858
	Edward H. Keith	October 23, 1859
	Michael Kelly	June 17, 1840
	Moody Kimball	July 2, 1862
	Homer R. King	June 4, 1846
	Alfred Franklin Kinney	October 25, 1851
	Joseph S. Leach	November 14, 1860
	George F. Leslie	September 12, 1850
	Edward L. Logan	January 20, 1875
	Joseph P. Lomasney	March 10, 1863
	Melvin W. Longley	February 2, 1849
	Joseph H. Loudon	September 25, 1861
	Joseph Patrick Love	August 26, 1852
	Robert Luce	December 2, 1862
	Michael J. Lydon	September 13, 1872
	Frederic O. MacCartney	November 2, 1864
	William A. MacCord	March 14, 1871
	Thomas Mackey	August 6, 1865
	John T. Maloney	July 14, 1853
	John J. Mansfield	October 10, 1869
	William H. Marnell	August 8, 1869
	J. Manuel Marshall	June 1, 1869
	James H. McInerney	December 13, 1871
	James H. McKinley	May 21, 1860
	William S. McNary	March 29, 1863
	Charles J. McPherson	February 20, 1856
	Edward C. Mead	December 25, 1858
	Alexander Cheny Methven	November 7, 1864
	Bernard Francis Mitchell	March 30, 1867
	Francis C. Montague	August 5, 1859
	James A. Montgomery	May 17, 1864
	William L. Mooney	February 16, 1867
	J. Myron Moore	November 3, 1866
	Harold P. Moseley	November 13, 1871
	James J. Myers	November 20, 1842
	Arthur E. Newcomb	January 31, 1872
	H. Huestis Newton	December 2, 1860
	George Augustus Nickerson	January 12, 1854
	John Nightingale	September 6, 1838
	William S. O'Brien	August 16, 1856
	John E. O'Neill	January 15, 1862
	James E. Odlin	April 9, 1857
	James Ord	September 11, 1843
	Edward L. Osgood	August 6, 1844
	Harold S. Packard	October 16, 1860
	Timothy Paige	July 14, 1851
	Fordis C. Parker	January 3, 1868
	William H. Parker	November 10, 1863
	James Pearce	May 7, 1843
	Arthur K. Peck	September 24, 1867
	William Perkins	January 4, 1854
	John Q. A. Pettengill	July 12, 1856
	Wellington Pool	July 5, 1831
	James C. Poor	June 25, 1851
	Charles H. Preston	March 22, 1863
	John H. Quinlan	February 29, 1864
	Frank H. Radford	June 29, 1859
	Silas Dean Reed	June 25, 1872
	Samuel Roads, Jr.	October 22, 1853
	Arthur E. Roberts	June 22, 1861
	William J. Rounds	June 24, 1855
	Arthur P. Russell	June 16, 1871
	William R. Salter	July 6, 1861
	Charles R. Saunders	November 22, 1862
	William Schofield	February 14, 1857
	Ebenezer Wallen Sheppard	May 7, 1860
	William H. Sherrill	October 26, 1857
	Harvey F. Shufelt	March 19, 1860
	Mark N. Skerrett	February 23, 1870
	George T. Sleeper	September 15, 1852
	Isaac M. Small	March 18, 1846
	Fred M. Smith	September 19, 1862
	Henry A. Smith	November 11, 1850
	J. Henry Smith	June 5, 1848
	Levi M. Snow	April 19, 1841
	Wallace Spooner	November 28, 1856
	George H. Stackpole	September 7, 1843
	Charles Ephraim Stearns	April 27, 1868
	Frank K. Stearns	November 26, 1854
	George W. Stone	August 1, 1840
	Edwin F. Stowell	July 19, 1857
	Charles S. Sullivan	June 29, 1875
	Peter F. Sullivan	June 29, 1871
	William J. Sullivan	April 14, 1865
	Charles W. Swift	December 26, 1866
	Arthur M. Taft	January 28, 1854
	William J. Taft	May 19, 1860
	John I. Toland	September 6, 1874
	Appleton H. Torrey	December 25, 1847
	William Turtle	June 20, 1855
	Samuel Walker Twombly	July 31, 1822
	David I. Walsh	November 11, 1872
	Louis H. Warner	January 8, 1875
	William S. Warriner	July 15, 1866
	Moses C. Waterhouse	April 29, 1855
	David P. Waters	March 16, 1838
	James A. Watson	June 24, 1870
	Alvin G. Weeks	October 22, 1866
	Joseph Welch	April 7, 1851
	Frank E. Wells	January 4, 1874
	Frank E. Wetherell	December 18, 1843
	Orange Whitney	March 16, 1849
	Charles F. Wildes	October 17, 1848
	J. William Williams	June 11, 1849
	Thomas W. Williams	September 15, 1865
	Gordon Willis	January 13, 1851
	James Irish Wingate	June 4, 1837

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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 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1901 – via Internet Archive.
1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1901" (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: 1901, hdl:2452/429118
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1901, hdl:2452/70976

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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 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1901 – via Internet Archive.

[Register-6] 1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1901" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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