1907 Massachusetts legislature

128th
Massachusetts General Court
128th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 6, 1906
Senate
Members	40
President	William D. Chapple
Party control	Republican (28–12)
House
Members	240
Speaker	John N. Cole
Party control	Republican (173–63–4)
Sessions
1st
1st	January 2, 1907 – June 28, 1907

Last updated July 22, 2023

William Chapple, Senate president.

John Cole, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1907.

The 128th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1907 during the governorship of Curtis Guild Jr. William D. Chapple served as president of the Senate and John N. Cole served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

image	name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district
	Edward J. Bromberg	July 20, 1864
	William J. Bullock	January 31, 1864
	Allan G. Buttrick	March 16, 1876
	Thomas F. Cassidy	June 1, 1875
	Frank M. Chace	April 16, 1856
	William D. Chapple	August 6, 1868
	William W. Clarke	March 10, 1870
	Guy W. Cox	January 19, 1871
	Thomas F. Curley	March 22, 1871
	Charles Leroy Dean	May 29, 1844
	Edward W. Dixon	November 9, 1846
	Joseph Donovan	1870
	William Otis Faxon	October 24, 1853
	William H. Feiker	March 11, 1870
	George J. Gallond	October 23, 1852
	George H. Garfield	July 18, 1858
	James Wilson Grimes	November 21, 1865
	Alfred Sigourney Hall	August 27, 1861
	William P. Hayes	March 27, 1866
	Charles F. Jenney	September 16, 1860
	John Lovell Johnson	June 26, 1876
	Eben S. S. Keith	October 24, 1872
	Thomas Leavitt	August 28, 1872
	Frank J. Linehan	January 31, 1870
	Frederick J. Macleod	June 30, 1870
	Daniel D. Mahoney	March 27, 1862
	John J. McManmon	April 5, 1871
	James J. Mellen	March 30, 1875
	John Joseph Mitchell	May 9, 1873
	Harry Payson Morse	July 27, 1854
	Charles N. Prouty	October 6, 1842
	Herbert S. Riley	December 20, 1859
	William R. Salter	July 6, 1861
	Winfield S. Schuster	December 29, 1855
	James F. Shaw	July 18, 1873
	Elmer A. Stevens	January 15, 1862
	Arthur M. Taft	January 28, 1854
	James H. Vahey	December 29, 1871
	Frank G. Wheatley	July 6, 1851
	Thomas W. Williams	September 15, 1865

Representatives

image	name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district
	Gideon B. Abbott	May 4, 1874
	James Sidney Allen	July 3, 1831
	Manuel Andrew	February 10, 1876
	Alvin F. Bailey	May 25, 1840
	Lorenzo D. Baker, Jr.	September 5, 1863
	Arthur Wesley Barker	September 19, 1847
	Frank A. Bayrd	September 1, 1873
	Joseph Eber Beals	March 18, 1834
	John Cunningham Bennett	April 2, 1872
	March G. Bennett	January 31, 1869
	Frederick Leonard Beunke	June 15, 1856
	George Frederick Birch	April 12, 1848
	Elias B. Bishop	August 2, 1869
	Charles Bishop Blair	April 10, 1852
	Charles V. Blanchard	February 2, 1866
	George H. Blodgett	July 29, 1862
	G. Arthur Bodwell	July 4, 1859
	Charles E. Boivin	December 12, 1872
	Fred Eldridge Bolton	December 6, 1869
	Alexis Boyer Jr.	January 17, 1875
	William M. Brigham	January 23, 1864
	Deloss M. Bristol	December 25, 1851
	Charles Howard Brown	January 19, 1879
	James H. Bryan	May 12, 1842
	Timothy J. Buckley	April 24, 1870
	George Bunting	August 31, 1868
	Andrew J. Burnett	1860
	Alfred S. Burns	February 6, 1860
	Clenric H. Cahoon	February 4, 1875
	Timothy Francis Callahan	September 5, 1881
	James B. Carbrey	January 16, 1854
	James Chambers	December 8, 1864
	William E. Chester	April 4, 1865
	Ezra W. Clark	October 12, 1842
	Henry S. Clark	January 5, 1858
	Samuel F. Coffin	December 27, 1851
	John N. Cole	November 4, 1863
	Ellenwood B. Coleman	May 31, 1862
	Frank Collette	1871
	James J. Conboy	December 1, 1873
	Martin F. Conley	April 27, 1870
	Atherton D. Converse	January 7, 1877
	John Joseph Conway	September 2, 1874
	John Francis Cook	June 24, 1843
	William H. Cook	March 7, 1856
	William F. Cook	February 4, 1847
	Calvin Coolidge	July 4, 1872
	Frank O. Coombs	December 17, 1857
	Michael J. Coyle	September 27, 1864
	Daniel Joseph Curley	December 23, 1875
	Grafton D. Cushing	August 4, 1864
	Francis O. Dahlquist	June 4, 1848
	Ernest Dalton	January 7, 1869
	Charles L. Davenport	May 4, 1854
	Thomas L. Davis	March 15, 1852
	Henry Ellsworth Dean	September 29, 1862
	Charles Austin Dean	March 26, 1856
	William M. Dean	November 16, 1874
	Robert T. Delano	July 13, 1857
	Charles Edwin Dennett	November 13, 1837
	Daniel Edward Denny	July 14, 1845
	Thomas J. Dillon	April 20, 1869
	William E. Dorman	June 23, 1875
	Andrew P. Doyle	August 15, 1869
	Edward B. Draper	November 27, 1876
	Florence J. Driscoll	October 15, 1871
	John J. Driscoll	March 27, 1876
	Thomas F. Driscoll	November 5, 1860
	Hugh P. Drysdale	December 11, 1875
	Patrick J. Duane	August 18, 1862
	Ebenezer Alden Dyer	July 17, 1857
	Michael J. Eagan	June 17, 1874
	Charles Fremont Elmer	August 25, 1856
	Samuel D. Elmore	December 29, 1868
	Oscar H. Ewing	August 15, 1876
	Dennis Eugene Farley	June 12, 1852
	Thomas J. Fay	April 24, 1879
	Francis Joseph Fennelly	February 18, 1860
	Jacob Bernard Ferber	May 28, 1876
	Fredrick L. Fisher	January 29, 1862
	Charles D. B. Fisk	February 17, 1850
	Michael Henry Fitzgerald	October 1, 1871
	Louis E. Flye	January 18, 1881
	Clarence J. Fogg	July 10, 1853
	Herbert M. Forristall	August 14, 1859
	Edward J. Fuller	January 30, 1854
	William F. Garcelon	October 24, 1868
	Leonard T. Gaskill	January 3, 1843
	Joseph A. Gauthier	August 16, 1878
	George A. Giles	August 4, 1875
	Edward Gilmore	January 4, 1867
	Frank W. Goodwin	October 25, 1876
	Thomas J. Grady	December 16, 1877
	William J. Graham	October 2, 1873
	Albert F. Grant	November 16, 1872
	George D. Green	July 11, 1846
	Lyman W. Griswold	October 16, 1869
	James A. Gunn	September 3, 1848
	William F. Haggerty	June 26, 1872
	Martin Thomas Hall	December 23, 1877
	Harry H. Ham	March 16, 1883
	Portus B. Hancock	February 19, 1836
	Horace D. Hardy	February 28, 1877
	William Henry Irving Hayes	June 21, 1848
	Andrew F. Healy	July 20, 1878
	John J. Higgins	May 17, 1865
	Thomas F. Higgins	October 2, 1880
	William P. Higgins	May 16, 1881
	William Hoag	November 18, 1870
	Ernest Emery Hobson	September 29, 1878
	Frank G. Hodskins	December 26, 1876
	William M. Hogan	June 2, 1876
	Samuel M. Holman	1862
	Charles T. Holt	August 1, 1845
	Barker B. Howard	April 21, 1867
	Alonzo F. Hoyle	October 16, 1861
	Eugene Hultman	July 13, 1875
	George S. J. Hyde	November 1, 1849
	Charles Cabot Johnson	December 9, 1876
	Fred O. Johnson	February 10, 1855
	James Albert Jones	January 14, 1853
	Frederick G. Katzmann	September 12, 1875
	David P. Keefe	September 29, 1855
	Sidney B. Keene	January 10, 1861
	Roland Manning Keith	March 16, 1847
	William A. Kelleher	May 27, 1875
	Frank D. Kemp	June 9, 1862
	Michael J. Kenney	July 12, 1863
	Clesson Kenney	May 31, 1839
	Philip A. Kiely	February 16, 1874
	S. John Lamoureux	April 30, 1877
	William F. Learned	January 12, 1850
	Adam Leining	December 4, 1836
	Edwin F. Leonard	July 15, 1862
	John B. Lewis, Jr.	August 30, 1841
	Andrew R. Linscott	March 6, 1844
	Martin Lomasney	December 3, 1859
	George W. Long	July 28, 1872
	Hiram W. Loring	October 11, 1842
	John Fitch Lothrop	December 17, 1847
	Robert Luce	December 2, 1862
	Darwin E. Lyman	July 26, 1846
	William J. Lyons	September 25, 1877
	Charles H. Macomber	August 6, 1872
	Charles Addison Malley	January 22, 1876
	Harry E. Mapes	July 8, 1867
	John H. Marcy	January 23, 1867
	Charles Mayberry	April 27, 1876
	Ulysses Everett Mayhew	August 16, 1848
	Matthew McCann	1863
	Daniel J. McCarthy	March 6, 1876
	Daniel J. McDonald	August 14, 1872
	John M. McDonald	June 2, 1873
	Michael J. McEttrick	June 22, 1848
	Philip J. McGonagle	October 21, 1871
	John F. McGrath	January 10, 1881
	John H. McKenney	October 12, 1839
	Lewis B. McKie	August 14, 1875
	Robert K. McKirdy	October 4, 1870
	Edwin T. McKnight	October 11, 1869
	John F. Meehan	November 24, 1875
	Julius Meyers	December 6, 1854
	Samuel H. Mildram	December 4, 1867
	Jacob H. Mock	May 14, 1863
	Daniel H. Morgan	January 14, 1879
	Leslie K. Morse	January 18, 1860
	Emil J. Muehlig	November 26, 1873
	Joseph J. Murley	October 8, 1876
	William F. Murray, Jr.	September 7, 1881
	Melvin S. Nash	August 3, 1857
	Arthur L. Nason	October 24, 1872
	George H. Newhall	October 24, 1850
	William L. V. Newton	February 28, 1881
	Malcolm Nichols	May 8, 1876
	David Curtis Nickerson	January 21, 1854
	Edward H. O'Brien	February 1, 1874
	M. Fred O'Connell	June 14, 1870
	Patrick H. O'Connor	1882
	Hugh O'Rourke	March 1, 1869
	James Oliver	June 28, 1836
	Charles William Paradise	May 31, 1857
	Ralph Tappan Parker	September 28, 1876
	Joseph A. Parks	May 2, 1877
	Albion F. Parmenter	May 19, 1862
	Thomas Pattison	January 20, 1854
	Edwin C. Perham	March 4, 1858
	John H. Pickford	September 9, 1849
	Ernest H. Pierce	May 12, 1863
	Robert E. Pollock	October 23, 1851
	Samuel L. Porter	November 10, 1869
	Elmer C. Potter	August 23, 1868
	William J. Potter	April 20, 1859
	James F. Powers	October 1, 1872
	John F. Prindle	September 15, 1851
	Melvin B. Putnam	April 8, 1845
	John Quinn, Jr.	December 16, 1859
	Henry F. Rice	January 29, 1844
	William M. Robinson	July 21, 1875
	William L. Robinson	December 15, 1855
	Bradley M. Rockwood	May 24, 1862
	Samuel Ross	February 2, 1865
	Hezekiah S. Russell	December 7, 1835
	Edward Julius Sandberg	October 21, 1866
	Henry O. Sawyer	June 10, 1844
	John H. Schoonmaker	February 14, 1869
	Charles H. Shaylor	December 24, 1861
	Joseph J. Shepherd	February 5, 1855
	William H. Smith	November 11, 1875
	Joseph Soliday	1869
	Nathaniel P. Sowle	October 30, 1857
	Waldo Spaulding	March 29, 1845
	Harry N. Stearns	October 5, 1874
	John Adam Stoddart	May 10, 1869
	Lucian B. Stone	September 9, 1829
	Arthur H. Streeter	July 4, 1870
	John F. Sullivan	May 17, 1875
	Daniel L. Sullivan	October 16, 1878
	Henry F. Taber	April 15, 1860
	Richard S. Teeling	December 26, 1878
	Clifford B. Terry	December 16, 1876
	John Hugh Toland	October 8, 1870
	William H. Trudel	July 19, 1866
	Fred F. Trull	February 11, 1856
	Joseph Turner	March 23, 1852
	William Turtle	June 20, 1855
	Charles F. Varnum	June 28, 1846
	Albert Vittum	December 29, 1857
	Joseph Walker	1865
	William L. Waugh	October 11, 1864
	Walter Archibald Webster	December 4, 1875
	William E. Weeks	1880
	A. S. Parker Weeks	April 29, 1857
	Joseph O. Wellington	June 22, 1850
	William E. Westall	January 5, 1853
	Norman H. White	December 25, 1871
	Charles J. Wier	February 24, 1868
	Harry N. Winch	October 8, 1868
	Wilbur A. Wood	February 4, 1865
	Russell B. Worster	June 30, 1872
	Alvin L. Wright	October 28, 1857

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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. 1907 – via Internet Archive.
1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1907" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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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. 1907 – via Internet Archive.

[Register-6] 1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1907" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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