1902 Massachusetts legislature

123rd
Massachusetts General Court
123rd; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 5, 1901
Senate
Members	40
President	Rufus A. Soule
Party control	Republican (33–7)
House
Members	240
Speaker	James J. Myers
Party control	Republican (159—70—11)
Sessions
1st
1st	January 1, 1902 – June 28, 1902

Last updated December 28, 2022

Rufus Soule, Senate president.

James Myers, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1902.

The 123rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1902 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
	Albert S. Apsey	November 27, 1870
	John K. Berry	November 8, 1854
	Henry Clay Bliss	May 5, 1846
	Edward F. Blodgett	August 9, 1848
	Leonard B. Chandler	August 29, 1851
	Cornelius R. Day	December 29, 1847
	George Z. Dean	February 22, 1844
	Perlie A. Dyar	March 26, 1857
	Frank A. Fales	October 13, 1848
	Henry S. Fitzgerald	October 24, 1875
	W. T. A. Fitzgerald	December 19, 1871
	Herbert E. Fletcher	May 10, 1862
	Harry C. Foster	August 27, 1871
	Archie N. Frost	July 26, 1872
	Henry E. Gaylord	June 5, 1846
	Elisha T. Harvell	December 18, 1841
	Edward C. Holt	January 13, 1850
	Carleton F. How	April 20, 1863
	Willard Howland	December 3, 1852
	George R. Jones	February 8, 1862
	David Manning	August 29, 1846
	John F. Marsh	February 1, 1828
	Andrew H. Morrison	June 27, 1871
	Merrick A. Morse	May 1, 1847
	John P. Munroe	June 28, 1850
	William A. Nye	May 26, 1850
	J. Frank Porter	April 8, 1847
	Thomas F. Porter	October 30, 1847
	David G. Pratt	November 7, 1848
	Edward Seaver	June 3, 1849
	Henry R. Skinner	May 9, 1860
	Rufus Albertson Soule	1839
	John Thomas Sparks	July 9, 1865
	Eugene H. Sprague	May 23, 1864
	Charles S. Sullivan	June 29, 1875
	John Andrew Sullivan	May 10, 1868
	Michael J. Sullivan	October 23, 1870
	George Keyes Tufts	October 17, 1841
	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
	Henry Morton Aldrich	November 20, 1841
	William A. Andrews	July 31, 1859
	Warren P. Babb	November 10, 1850
	Andrew A. Badaracco	August 28, 1860
	Frank E. Badger	January 12, 1853
	A. Dudley Bagley	February 27, 1869
	William Selby Bamford	August 11, 1864
	William F. Barrington	April 15, 1877
	Frank Bartlett	September 5, 1854
	J. Franklin Batchelder	December 24, 1870
	Fred Alfred Bearse	February 15, 1871
	John E. Beck	May 10, 1869
	Thomas E. Begley	February 23, 1871
	Albion F. Bemis	July 19, 1856
	Fred F. Bennett	February 24, 1870
	Patrick H. Bradley	October 17, 1874
	Henry Brandes	January 23, 1848
	Charles P. Brewer	August 1, 1852
	Elisha Hume Brewster	September 10, 1871
	William M. Brigham	January 23, 1864
	Abram English Brown	January 21, 1849
	George P. Bullard	June 25, 1857
	George Walton Bullard	May 24, 1841
	William J. Bullock	January 31, 1864
	James M. Burke	September 11, 1873
	Joseph E. Buswell	August 7, 1842
	Edward B. Callender	February 23, 1851
	James F. Carey	August 19, 1867
	Frank M. Chace	April 16, 1856
	Edwards Cheney	May 3, 1861
	Luther W. Clark	September 19, 1851
	A. Chalkley Collins	March 27, 1857
	Benjamin G. Collins	December 25, 1860
	John J. Collins	August 27, 1865
	Thomas J. Collins	October 28, 1868
	John A. Coulthurst	June 24, 1871
	William F. Craig	September 15, 1866
	Arthur G. Crane	July 18, 1871
	Frank G. Creamer	July 20, 1861
	David W. Creed	November 5, 1867
	Thomas Laurie Creeley	May 23, 1849
	J. Howell Crosby	December 30, 1867
	Joseph H. Cummings	June 16, 1840
	John J. Cunningham	May 7, 1873
	James Michael Curley ^[5]^[7]	November 20, 1874
	Henry Morse Cutler	July 19, 1865
	William F. Dana	June 26, 1863
	Alphonso Davis	September 4, 1863
	Daniel W. Davis	October 3, 1846
	Thomas L. Davis	March 15, 1852
	Benjamin C. Dean	March 8, 1843
	Charles Austin Dean	March 26, 1856
	F. Dorr Deming	August 1, 1833
	Jeremiah J. Desmond	November 3, 1867
	George H. Dinan	May 18, 1871
	Wooster F. Dodge	March 28, 1841
	Thomas Donahue	August 20, 1853
	Jeremiah F. Donovan	May 10, 1856
	James J. Dowd	March 7, 1858
	Aaron Coolidge Dowse	March 27, 1856
	Charles M. Draper	November 1, 1869
	Horace Rogers Drinkwater	May 28, 1872
	John Duff	August 30, 1870
	Edward Quincy Dyer	October 4, 1841
	Karl M. Ebert	July 26, 1867
	Fred Albert Emery	November 22, 1869
	James R. Entwistle	June 5, 1845
	Edward A. Estabrook	December 21, 1842
	Noble W. Everett	February 20, 1827
	George H. Fall	October 19, 1858
	William Newhall Felton	December 25, 1835
	Frank W. Fenno	October 24, 1861
	Henry M. Fern	December 23, 1862
	John Eben Fisher	May 30, 1861
	Richard H. Foley	June 16, 1867
	John F. Foster	October 22, 1862
	Louis A. Frothingham	July 13, 1871
	Fred Eugene Fuller	September 10, 1862
	Arthur H. Gardner	August 4, 1854
	Charles N. Gardner	March 29, 1845
	George H. Garfield	July 18, 1858
	John J. Gartland	November 27, 1871
	Frank Gerrett	February 4, 1857
	George H. Gibney	October 24, 1858
	Fred C. Gilpatric	August 22, 1865
	David J. Gleason	July 14, 1864
	C. Burr Goodrich	January 13, 1875
	Eben H. Googins	July 28, 1845
	Charles H. Goulding	March 24, 1838
	Charles H. Green	January 11, 1842
	Henry G. Greene	October 26, 1843
	John G. Hagberg	August 24, 1873
	George A. Hall	November 28, 1848
	Portus B. Hancock	February 19, 1836
	Edwin A. Harney	February 22, 1862
	Ulysses G. Haskell	October 3, 1863
	Elbridge Gerry Hastings	July 21, 1840
	Arthur W. Hatch	December 26, 1865
	William Henry Hayes	November 26, 1866
	William Henry Irving Hayes	June 21, 1848
	Frank M. Heath	September 8, 1852
	Joseph F. Hickey	January 20, 1875
	Albert S. N. Hickford	January 24, 1859
	Martin P. Higgins	October 16, 1857
	Sidney Adelvin Hill	August 26, 1849
	Alexander Holmes	July 28, 1867
	Robert Homans	October 3, 1873
	Timothy Howard	October 19, 1863
	George C. Hunt	April 7, 1859
	Harry Draper Hunt	December 27, 1874
	Harrie C. Hunter	March 16, 1869
	John C. Hurley	December 19, 1875
	George H. Jackson	March 9, 1865
	Joseph G. Jackson	February 13, 1860
	Warren Carlton Jewett	January 28, 1855
	Thomas F. Keenan	March 11, 1854
	Edward H. Keith	October 23, 1859
	Thomas A. Kelley	May 10, 1875
	Daniel J. Kiley	July 27, 1874
	Moody Kimball	July 2, 1862
	Homer R. King	June 4, 1846
	Alfred Franklin Kinney	October 25, 1851
	Dwight Freeman Lane	September 4, 1862
	Thomas P. Larkin	February 6, 1862
	Joseph S. Leach	November 14, 1860
	David Dennis Leahy	April 15, 1876
	James Patrick Lennon	August 28, 1863
	George F. Leslie	September 12, 1850
	William Henry Lewis ^[8]	November 28, 1868
	William W. Linnehan	August 6, 1861
	William H. Litchfield	August 18, 1855
	Albert Littlefield	May 8, 1856
	Edward L. Logan	January 20, 1875
	Robert Luce	December 2, 1862
	Frederic O. MacCartney	November 2, 1864
	Thomas Mackey	August 6, 1865
	Michael J. Mahoney	December 25, 1861
	John T. Maloney	July 14, 1853
	John J. Mansfield	October 10, 1869
	Eugene Dennis Marchesseault	September 29, 1865
	J. Manuel Marshall	June 1, 1869
	George Washington Maxon	August 3, 1862
	James H. McInerney	December 13, 1871
	John McKnight	March 5, 1872
	Edward L. McMahon	October 24, 1869
	William S. McNary	March 29, 1863
	James J. Mellen	March 30, 1875
	Walter Brown Mellen	September 24, 1860
	John E. Merritt	February 21, 1849
	Edwin J. Mills	May 1, 1861
	Bernard Francis Mitchell	March 30, 1867
	James A. Montgomery	May 17, 1864
	J. Myron Moore	November 3, 1866
	Lucien O. Moore	December 23, 1849
	Harold P. Moseley	November 13, 1871
	James J. Myers	November 20, 1842
	Arthur E. Newcomb	January 31, 1872
	Richard Newell	April 17, 1839
	Francis S. Newhall	December 4, 1860
	Francis Dexter Newton	August 31, 1848
	H. Huestis Newton	December 2, 1860
	Walter E. Nichols	July 16, 1870
	John Nightingale	September 6, 1838
	Daniel J. O'Brien	October 5, 1873
	John E. O'Neill	January 15, 1862
	Edward L. Osgood	August 6, 1844
	Henry K. Palmer	March 3, 1869
	Fordis C. Parker	January 3, 1868
	James Pearce	May 7, 1843
	Pierre F. Peloquin	May 26, 1851
	Andrew James Peters	April 3, 1872
	William B. Phinney	November 29, 1857
	Joseph F. Pitman	May 28, 1848
	Charles H. Pratt	November 11, 1848
	Charles H. Preston	March 22, 1863
	John H. Quinlan	February 29, 1864
	John Quinn, Jr.	December 16, 1859
	Thomas E. Raftery	July 10, 1869
	Joseph C. Randlett	May 22, 1859
	John Laughlin Rankin	December 6, 1850
	Benjamin Calvin Reed	December 24, 1849
	Silas Dean Reed	June 25, 1872
	Charles H. Reinhart	March 8, 1867
	Samuel Roads, Jr.	October 22, 1853
	Webster Cushing Robbins	January 28, 1860
	Arthur E. Roberts	June 22, 1861
	Robert Rogerson	October 11, 1869
	Samuel Ross	February 2, 1865
	Thomas Bradford Rounds	April 2, 1853
	William J. Rounds	June 24, 1855
	Arthur P. Russell	June 16, 1871
	Simon B. Ryan	October 8, 1874
	Henry F. Sampson	May 12, 1835
	George A. Schofield	April 26, 1863
	William Schofield	February 14, 1857
	Winfield S. Schuster	December 29, 1855
	Daniel J. Sheehan	August 11, 1857
	Edmund C. Shepardson	December 2, 1848
	James Clifford Sherman	May 23, 1874
	Mark N. Skerrett	February 23, 1870
	Arthur P. Sleeper	September 21, 1875
	George T. Sleeper	September 15, 1852
	Caleb L. Smith	June 23, 1849
	Fred M. Smith	September 19, 1862
	Henry Ellsworth Stanton	January 23, 1846
	Charles Ephraim Stearns	April 27, 1868
	Frank K. Stearns	November 26, 1854
	Isaac M. Story	April 28, 1855
	Peter F. Sullivan	June 29, 1871
	William J. Sullivan	April 14, 1865
	Thomas Sutton	April 2, 1850
	Charles W. Swift	December 26, 1866
	Arthur M. Taft	January 28, 1854
	George W. Tapley	September 1, 1835
	Francis Xavier Tetrault	November 5, 1845
	James N. Thompson	March 3, 1839
	Charles Harrison Tucker	May 19, 1867
	Maurice Endicott Tyler	January 27, 1843
	Samuel Willard Tyler	February 11, 1866
	Charles L. Underhill	July 20, 1867
	Thomas Melville Vinson	April 27, 1868
	Charles E. Ward	October 17, 1849
	Louis H. Warner	January 8, 1875
	Handel E. Washburn	August 25, 1859
	Moses C. Waterhouse	April 29, 1855
	David P. Waters	March 16, 1838
	Joseph Warren Wattles	August 7, 1862
	Horace I. Whipple	March 30, 1859
	Charles F. Wildes	October 17, 1848
	J. William Williams	June 11, 1849
	Lombard Williams	November 7, 1874
	Thomas W. Williams	September 15, 1865
	Gordon Willis	January 13, 1851
	James Irish Wingate	June 4, 1837
	John Young, Jr.	February 6, 1871

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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. 1902 – via Internet Archive.
1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1902" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts
↑ Pamela W. Schofield (April 14, 2014), "Some Mayors of Boston who had been members of the General Court", State Library of Massachusetts blog
↑ Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905

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Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1902, hdl:2452/70977

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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. 1902 – via Internet Archive.

[Register-6] 1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1902" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

[7] Pamela W. Schofield (April 14, 2014), "Some Mayors of Boston who had been members of the General Court", State Library of Massachusetts blog

[black2010-8] Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905

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