1903 Massachusetts legislature

124th
Massachusetts General Court
124th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 4, 1902
Senate
Members	40
President	George R. Jones
Party control	Republican (31–9)
House
Members	240
Speaker	James J. Myers
Party control	Republican (154–83–3)
Sessions
1st
1st	January 7, 1903 – June 26, 1903

Last updated August 06, 2023

George Jones, Senate president.

James Myers, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1903.

The 124th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1903 during the governorship of John L. Bates. George R. Jones 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
	Francis H. Appleton	June 17, 1847
	Albert S. Apsey	November 27, 1870
	A. Dudley Bagley	February 27, 1869
	Albion F. Bemis	July 19, 1856
	Albert A. Brackett	December 5, 1850
	Leonard B. Chandler	August 29, 1851
	Charles S. Clerke	January 10, 1850
	Samuel Cole	December 15, 1856
	Thomas J. Dillon	April 20, 1869
	Perlie A. Dyar	March 26, 1857
	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
	George N. Goff	July 24, 1837
	Frederick S. Gore	April 15, 1862
	Otis M. Gove	May 3, 1851
	Arthur Harrington	July 23, 1874
	Elisha T. Harvell	December 18, 1841
	Frank M. Heath	September 8, 1852
	Carleton F. How	April 20, 1863
	George R. Jones	February 8, 1862
	William H. MacInnis	November 22, 1861
	James H. McKinley	May 21, 1860
	John P. Munroe	June 28, 1850
	Herbert Newell	April 2, 1855
	Benjamin F. Nickerson	June 23, 1842
	William A. Nye	May 26, 1850
	Edward L. Osgood	August 6, 1844
	Thomas F. Porter	October 30, 1847
	David G. Pratt	November 7, 1848
	Henry F. Sampson	May 12, 1835
	Edward Seaver	June 3, 1849
	Henry R. Skinner	May 9, 1860
	Rufus Albertson Soule	1839
	Michael J. Sullivan	October 23, 1870
	George Keyes Tufts	October 17, 1841
	George R. Wallace	June 20, 1859

Representatives

image	name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district
	Chester H. Abbe	April 5, 1860
	Henry Morton Aldrich	November 20, 1841
	James Sidney Allen	July 3, 1831
	William A. Andrews	July 31, 1859
	James F. Aylward	August 4, 1862
	Andrew A. Badaracco	August 28, 1860
	William Selby Bamford	August 11, 1864
	James Barr	September 20, 1854
	William F. Barrington	April 15, 1877
	J. Franklin Batchelder	December 24, 1870
	Francis Batcheller	June 3, 1858
	George H. Battis	1863
	Fred Alfred Bearse	February 15, 1871
	John E. Beck	May 10, 1869
	Thomas E. Begley	February 23, 1871
	Frank P. Bennett	May 2, 1853
	Fred F. Bennett	February 24, 1870
	John Williston Blaney	September 18, 1841
	Ernest Linwood Bonney	June 23, 1864
	Henry A. Booth	October 30, 1866
	Manassah Edward Bradley	August 15, 1863
	Lewis S. Breed	November 4, 1866
	Charles P. Brewer	August 1, 1852
	Elisha Hume Brewster	September 10, 1871
	William M. Brigham	January 23, 1864
	William R. Brooks	March 1, 1865
	William W. Brooks	June 27, 1829
	Abram English Brown	January 21, 1849
	Franklin Brown	November 11, 1837
	William Harrison Brown	February 16, 1852
	William J. Bullock	January 31, 1864
	William A. Burns	January 9, 1875
	Thomas H. Buttimer	March 17, 1868
	Edward B. Callender	February 23, 1851
	James F. Carey	August 19, 1867
	Edwin J. Castle	April 15, 1853
	Frank M. Chace	April 16, 1856
	Charles Albert Claflin	December 8, 1843
	James Colby Dorr Clark	June 10, 1872
	Luther W. Clark	September 19, 1851
	Samuel F. Coffin	December 27, 1851
	John N. Cole	November 4, 1863
	Michael James Collins	July 8, 1852
	Edmund C. Cottle	October 1, 1842
	John A. Coulthurst	June 24, 1871
	Guy W. Cox	January 19, 1871
	William F. Craig	September 15, 1866
	David W. Creed	November 5, 1867
	James Crichton	October 31, 1846
	John J. Cunningham	May 7, 1873
	James Michael Curley ^[7]	November 20, 1874
	Michael F. Curran	November 30, 1875
	William F. Dana	June 26, 1863
	Daniel W. Davis	October 3, 1846
	Thomas L. Davis	March 15, 1852
	William J. Davison	March 20, 1873
	Benjamin C. Dean	March 8, 1843
	Charles Austin Dean	March 26, 1856
	Frederick Simpson Deitrick	April 9, 1875
	Daniel J. Dempsey	June 8, 1866
	Wooster F. Dodge	March 28, 1841
	Thomas Donahue	August 20, 1853
	Daniel J. Donnelly	October 13, 1868
	Jeremiah F. Donovan	May 10, 1856
	George H. Doty	May 9, 1861
	Thomas E. Dougherty	June 4, 1848
	James J. Dowd	March 7, 1858
	Aaron Coolidge Dowse	March 27, 1856
	Horace Rogers Drinkwater	May 28, 1872
	John Duff	August 30, 1870
	Edward Quincy Dyer	October 4, 1841
	Fred Albert Emery	November 22, 1869
	James R. Entwistle	June 5, 1845
	Noble W. Everett	February 20, 1827
	William A. Fahey	July 26, 1875
	Lowell Ethan Fales	September 28, 1858
	Peter T. Fallon	July 16, 1856
	Frank W. Fenno	October 24, 1861
	Ernest C. Field	February 6, 1852
	Dennis H. Finn	April 2, 1870
	Michael FitzGerald	September 29, 1869
	Richard Rich Freeman	November 19, 1860
	Fred M. French	November 5, 1861
	Louis A. Frothingham	July 13, 1871
	Arthur H. Gardner	August 4, 1854
	John D. Gardner	April 19, 1860
	George H. Garfield	July 18, 1858
	Guy W. Garland	December 11, 1844
	Julius Garst	December 12, 1855
	John J. Gartland	November 27, 1871
	Arthur L. Gavin	June 11, 1876
	Frank E. Gaylord	May 1, 1868
	Frank Gerrett	February 4, 1857
	Charles Giddings	May 10, 1867
	Arthur B. Gillpatrick	March 28, 1861
	Jeremiah J. Good	May 6, 1865
	C. Burr Goodrich	January 13, 1875
	Eben H. Googins	July 28, 1845
	William H. Gove	September 4, 1851
	Thomas J. Grady	December 16, 1877
	Alfred Sigourney Hall	August 27, 1861
	Guy Andrews Ham	July 8, 1878
	William E. Hannan	October 26, 1873
	Heman A. Harding	February 6, 1871
	Edwin A. Harney	February 22, 1862
	Michael F. Hart	September 22, 1873
	Arthur W. Hatch	December 26, 1865
	James Austin Hawkes	July 3, 1848
	William Henry Hayes	November 26, 1866
	William Henry Irving Hayes	June 21, 1848
	William C. S. Healey	September 26, 1873
	Thomas F. Hederman	March 4, 1873
	Sidney Adelvin Hill	August 26, 1849
	Herbert N. Hinckley	December 31, 1864
	Robert Homans	October 3, 1873
	Adin Baker Horton	November 7, 1855
	Isaiah H. Horton	November 14, 1835
	Frank H. Howe	January 22, 1861
	Augustus Hubbard	June 27, 1849
	George C. Hunt	April 7, 1859
	George H. Jackson	March 9, 1865
	Joseph G. Jackson	February 13, 1860
	William B. Jackson	February 4, 1866
	Warren Carlton Jewett	January 28, 1855
	John M. Johnson	March 15, 1868
	Thomas A. Kelley	May 10, 1875
	William A. Kelley	April 27, 1868
	Thomas J. Kennedy	May 20, 1857
	Daniel J. Kiley	July 27, 1874
	Moody Kimball	July 2, 1862
	Frederick W. Klemm	March 7, 1847
	Frank J. Knight	September 29, 1856
	George Sumner Ladd	March 20, 1857
	Dwight Freeman Lane	September 4, 1862
	James M. Lane	December 1, 1872
	Thomas P. Larkin	February 6, 1862
	David Dennis Leahy	April 15, 1876
	Henry F. Lehan	September 16, 1874
	James Patrick Lennon	August 28, 1863
	Frank J. Linehan	January 31, 1870
	Robert Luce	December 2, 1862
	Frederic O. MacCartney	November 2, 1864
	Michael J. Mahoney	December 25, 1861
	John M. Maloney	December 2, 1870
	James A. McDonald, Jr.	May 19, 1871
	James H. McInerney	December 13, 1871
	Edward L. McMahon	October 24, 1869
	Henry Austin McMaster	June 24, 1844
	James J. Mellen	March 30, 1875
	Edwin J. Mills	May 1, 1861
	Bernard Francis Mitchell	March 30, 1867
	John Joseph Mitchell	May 9, 1873
	Harold P. Moseley	November 13, 1871
	James J. Myers	November 20, 1842
	John S. Nason	May 6, 1860
	Francis S. Newhall	December 4, 1860
	H. Huestis Newton	December 2, 1860
	Gilbert M. Nichols	December 20, 1856
	Walter E. Nichols	July 16, 1870
	John Nightingale	September 6, 1838
	Charles Henry Nowell	October 15, 1843
	Daniel J. O'Brien	October 5, 1873
	J. Frank O'Hare	October 14, 1874
	John E. O'Neill	January 15, 1862
	Hugh O'Rourke	March 1, 1869
	Andrew L. O'Toole	March 25, 1878
	Richard Olney II	January 5, 1871
	James Breckenridge Paige	December 28, 1861
	Fordis C. Parker	January 3, 1868
	Thomas Pattison	January 20, 1854
	Pierre F. Peloquin	May 26, 1851
	Charles N. Perley	February 26, 1851
	Winthrop Edmund Perry	November 6, 1842
	William B. Phinney	November 29, 1857
	Mellen A. Pingree	March 9, 1861
	Joseph F. Pitman	May 28, 1848
	William Henry Poole	October 22, 1857
	Elmer C. Potter	August 23, 1868
	Maurice J. Power	July 21, 1872
	John H. Quinlan	February 29, 1864
	John Quinn, Jr.	December 16, 1859
	Thomas E. Raftery	July 10, 1869
	John Laughlin Rankin	December 6, 1850
	Wallace C. Ransden	November 1, 1853
	Benjamin Calvin Reed	December 24, 1849
	Charles H. Reinhart	March 8, 1867
	Royal S. Ripley	April 29, 1840
	Frank Robinson	December 5, 1858
	John G. Robinson	November 24, 1860
	Robert Rogerson	October 11, 1869
	Samuel Ross	February 2, 1865
	Thomas Bradford Rounds	April 2, 1853
	William J. Rounds	June 24, 1855
	William H. Ruston	March 6, 1849
	Simon B. Ryan	October 8, 1874
	George A. Schofield	April 26, 1863
	Frank Seiberlich	October 29, 1874
	Henry Walter Seward	January 18, 1865
	Alvin Arthur Shaw	November 17, 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
	Oliver E. Slocum	February 9, 1837
	Caleb L. Smith	June 23, 1849
	Gurdon Southworth	March 27, 1846
	John H. Spinlow	April 7, 1841
	Frank J. Stanley	August 10, 1868
	Henry Ellsworth Stanton	January 23, 1846
	Everett J. Stevens	May 11, 1847
	Edward Carleton Stone	June 29, 1878
	Isaac M. Story	April 28, 1855
	Peter F. Sullivan	June 29, 1871
	Thomas Sutton	April 2, 1850
	Arthur M. Taft	January 28, 1854
	George W. Tapley	September 1, 1835
	Francois Xavier Tetrault	November 5, 1845
	George Elery Thayer	May 12, 1862
	Herbert W. Thayer	May 7, 1858
	George Henry Thorburn	February 21, 1866
	Charles Harrison Tucker	May 19, 1867
	Elliot Seth Tucker	May 31, 1872
	George A. Turner	June 4, 1857
	Samuel Willard Tyler	February 11, 1866
	Charles L. Underhill	July 20, 1867
	Arthur P. Vinal	June 14, 1854
	Thomas Melville Vinson	April 27, 1868
	Edward A. Walker	May 28, 1869
	William H. Walker	November 30, 1857
	Charles E. Ward	October 17, 1849
	Peter F. Ward	January 16, 1877
	Louis H. Warner	January 8, 1875
	Edgar W. Warren	October 4, 1853
	Henry Endicott Weatherbee	August 24, 1862
	Fred Olvin Welsh	April 4, 1852
	Henry O. Whiting	November 16, 1849
	Charles F. Wildes	October 17, 1848
	Lombard Williams	November 7, 1874
	Thomas W. Williams	September 15, 1865
	Gordon Willis	January 13, 1851
	Charles H. Winslow	May 22, 1866

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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. 1903 – via Internet Archive.
1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1903" (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

External links

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Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1903, hdl:2452/70978

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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. 1903 – via Internet Archive.

[Register-6] 1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1903" (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

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