1911 Massachusetts legislature

132nd
Massachusetts General Court
132nd; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 8, 1910
Senate
Members	40
President	Allen T. Treadway
Party control	Republican (26–14)
House
Members	240
Speaker	Joseph Walker
Party control	Republican (127–112–1)
Sessions
1st
1st	January 4, 1911 – July 28, 1911

Last updated July 28, 2023

Allen Treadway, Senate president.

Joseph Walker, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1911.

The 132nd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1911 during the governorship of Eugene Foss. Allen T. Treadway served as president of the Senate and Joseph Walker served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

Name ^[5]	Date of birth	District ^[6]	Party
Arthur S. Adams	February 14, 1869	2nd Essex
George L. Barnes		1st Norfolk
Frank P. Bennett Jr.	December 30, 1878	7th Middlesex	Republican
Charles V. Blanchard	February 2, 1866	3rd Middlesex	Republican
Charles H. Brown	January 19, 1879	6th Middlesex
Charles S. Chace		1st Bristol
Martin P. F. Curley		8th Suffolk	Democratic
Daniel E. Denny	July 14, 1845	2nd Worcester
James H. Doyle		4th Suffolk
Wilmot R. Evans Jr.		4th Middlesex
Joseph S. Gates	October 3, 1856	4th Worcester
Edward J. Grainger		1st Suffolk
Levi H. Greenwood	December 22, 1872	3rd Worcester	Republican
Dennis E. Halley		5th Essex
James A. Hatton		2nd Suffolk
Joseph H. Hibbard		8th Middlesex
Roger Sherman Hoar	April 8, 1887	5th Middlesex	Democratic
John H. Hunt		1st Worcester
Roland M. Keith	March 16, 1847	2nd Plymouth
Joseph P. Lomasney		3rd Suffolk	Democratic
John H. Mack		Berkshire
John F. Malley		1st Hampden
Walter B. Mellen		Worcester and Hampden
Henry C. Mulligan		1st Middlesex
Michael J. Murray	July 11, 1860	9th Suffolk
Melvin S. Nash	August 3, 1857	1st Plymouth
Arthur L. Nason	October 24, 1872	4th Essex
George H. Newhall	October 24, 1850	1st Essex	Republican
Charles H. Pearson		2nd Norfolk
James F. Powers	October 1, 1872	6th Suffolk
Francis X. Quigley	November 20, 1882	2nd Hampden
Samuel Ross	February 2, 1865	3rd Bristol
John H. Schoonmaker	February 14, 1869	Franklin and Hampshire
Harry N. Stearns	October 5, 1874	2nd Middlesex
James P. Timilty	March 28, 1865	7th Suffolk	Democratic
George H. Tinkham	October 29, 1870	5th Suffolk	Republican
James E. Tolman	November 8, 1867	3rd Essex	Republican
Allen T. Treadway	September 16, 1867	Berkshire, Hampshire and Hampden	Republican
Joseph Turner		2nd Bristol
John E. White	December 13, 1873	Cape	Republican

Representatives

image	name ^[5]	date of birth	district
	David C. Ahearn	November 4, 1879
	Timothy J. Ahern
	Oscar E. Arkwell
	William M. Armstrong	August 17, 1850
	Alfred Arseneault	January 3, 1869
	Frank W. Atkins
	William B. Avery	July 11, 1856
	Aaron Bagg Jr.
	Edward C. R. Bagley
	J. Herbert Baker
	Willie W. Baker
	Erson B. Barlow	October 20, 1883
	James F. Barry	December 4, 1857
	John J. Barry	January 4, 1877
	Frederick D. Bartlett
	John J. Bastion
	James W. Bean	May 11, 1866
	William A. Bellamy
	Alvin E. Bliss
	Charles M. Blodgett
	Edward C. Bodfish
	Arthur Bogue
	William Booth	June 21, 1862
	Henry E. Bothfeld	March 4, 1859
	George E. Bowker
	John G. Brackett
	Melvin B. Breath	March 28, 1881
	Lincoln Breckenridge
	James Henry Brennan	December 21, 1888
	James J. Brennan	May 2, 1882
	Francis J. Brennan
	Michael J. Brophy
	Herbert N. Buck
	John P. Buckley	May 31, 1853
	William R. Burke	July 14, 1870
	George R. Burns	January 4, 1882
	James D. Burns	July 4, 1876
	Adolphus M. Burroughs
	Thomas F. J. Callahan
	John J. Carmody
	Charles L. Carr	December 25, 1876
	Patrick B. Carr
	John Carr
	Thomas J. Casey
	James F. Cavanagh
	Fred P. Chapman
	Wendell P. Clark
	Allen Clark
	Zebedee E. Cliff	September 23, 1864
	John Henry Cogswell	July 4, 1875
	Samuel I. Collins	March 4, 1851
	Francis L. Colpoys
	Daniel L. Connolly
	John D. Connors
	Eli M. Converse
	John J. Conway
	Leon M. Conwell	April 15, 1870
	James H. L. Coon
	Michael H. Cotter
	Channing H. Cox	October 28, 1879
	Russell D. Crane
	Courtenay Crocker	February 4, 1881
	Daniel Francis Cronin
	William A. Crowley
	Thomas S. Cuff
	Thomas P. Curtin
	Grafton D. Cushing	August 4, 1864
	Alfred W. Cushman
	George T. Daly
	David H. Damon
	Henry G. Danforth	February 6, 1843
	Thomas Davies	February 11, 1875
	Arthur S. Davis
	Nathan W. Davis
	Daniel P. Day
	Charles A. Dean	March 26, 1856
	George L. Dow
	Andrew P. Doyle	August 15, 1869
	Lawrence J. Dugan
	John F. Dwyer
	James Frank Eagan
	Harry Millett Eames
	Charles N. Edgell
	George W. W. Edson
	Charles W. Eldridge	October 16, 1877
	George H. Ellis	October 3, 1848
	Charles E. Elwell
	Wilton B. Fay
	Edward Fisher
	James H. Fitzgerald
	John T. Flanagan	May 25, 1869
	Harold H. Flower
	Clarence J. Fogg	July 10, 1853
	Louis A. Foley
	Herbert M. Forristall	August 14, 1859
	Benjamin D. Gifford
	William H. Gifford	January 20, 1851
	Ellery L. Goff
	William J. Graham	October 2, 1873
	James I. Green	April 9, 1885
	Fred Parker Greenwood
	James F. Griffin	January 19, 1884
	John W. Haigis	July 31, 1881
	Benjamin F. Haines	November 25, 1876
	William Halliday
	Portus B. Hancock	February 19, 1836
	Clarence W. Harding
	Leonard F. Hardy
	Frank O. Hardy
	Edward F. Harrington (state representative)	August 10, 1878
	James A. Hart	October 29, 1864
	Edward R. Hathaway
	Horatio Hathaway Jr.
	Truman R. Hawley
	Michael A. Henebery
	Michael Hennessey
	William P. Hickey	November 17, 1871
	Merrick E. Hildreth
	Francis M. Hill
	Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr.	October 1, 1878
	Henry W. Holbrook	February 18, 1875
	Joseph W. Holden	October 10, 1867
	Alexander Holmes
	Charles T. Holt	August 1, 1845
	Harry L. Howard
	William N. Howard
	Charles H. Howe
	William S. Hoyt
	John J. Hughes
	Lyman E. Hurd
	Frederick W. Hurlburt
	Edward N. Jenckes
	David P. Keefe	September 29, 1855
	Michael Kelly	June 17, 1840
	James T. Kenney	June 20, 1870
	Louis R. Kiernan
	Charles T. Killpartrick
	Clifford L. King
	H. Bert Knowles
	Wilfred J. Lamoureux
	Louis F. R. Langelier
	Albert P. Langtry	July 27, 1860
	Joseph Leonard
	Charles Lewin
	Edwin F. Lilley
	Martin Lomasney	December 3, 1859
	Paul I. Lombard
	William J. Look	June 20, 1867
	Herman A. MacDonald	November 11, 1881
	James P. Maguire
	John C. Mahoney
	George Edward Marchand	December 22, 1877
	John F. McCarthy
	Charles F. McCarthy	August 15, 1876
	Eugene A. McCarthy
	Thomas F. McCullough
	James A. McElaney Jr.
	John D. McGivern
	Michael F. McGrath
	James H. McInerney	December 13, 1871
	Hugh M. McKay
	William M. McMorrow
	Timothy J. Meade	November 7, 1874
	John F. Meaney
	Joseph F. Merritt
	David T. Montague
	Charles H. Morgan	January 15, 1869
	Charles H. Morrill	October 6, 1874
	Edward T. Morse
	Frank Mulveny
	Dennis A. Murphy	September 26, 1876
	James J. Murphy	February 11, 1885
	David W. Murray	September 9, 1874
	William J. Murray	October 7, 1885
	William L. Newton
	Clarence V. Nickerson
	Albin F. Nordbeck
	C. Augustus Norwood
	Michael F. O'Brien	September 18, 1878
	Charles R. O'Connell	September 16, 1874
	Francis D. O'Donnell
	William A. O'Hearn	March 8, 1887
	Jeremiah O'Leary
	Dennis A. O'Neil	June 16, 1882
	Charles A. Orstrom
	Frank A. Palmer
	Joseph H. Parker Jr.	April 16, 1871
	Joseph A. Parks	May 2, 1877
	Asa L. Pattee
	Harry A. Penniman
	Frank H. Pope	March 7, 1854
	Alfred J. Preece
	John J. Purcell
	Harry Bancroft Putnam	September 7, 1878
	Martin Lewis Quinn	January 19, 1862
	Michael F. Quinn
	Joseph J. Reed
	Albert C. Reed
	Michael J. Reidy
	George A. Ricker
	Ralph R. Rideout
	Thomas Ryan
	John Lee Saltonstall	May 23, 1878
	John C. Sanborn
	Edgar E. Sargent
	Amos T. Saunders
	Frederick W. Schlapp
	Alfred Scigliano
	Michael J. Scully
	Norman Shannon
	Benjamin Sharp	1858
	Albert H. Silvester
	Theodore L. Sorenson
	George H. Stevens
	William J. Sullivan	April 14, 1865
	Edward A. Sweeney
	Daniel W. Teehan
	Alfred Tewksbury
	William R. Thomas	September 24, 1871
	Eugene F. Toomey
	Nathan A. Tufts	April 15, 1879
	Robert N. Turner
	Charles L. Underhill	July 20, 1867
	Alton A. Upton
	Robert M. Washburn	January 4, 1868
	Henry Gordon Wells	October 12, 1879
	William H. Wheeler
	Thomas W. White	January 10, 1876
	Norman H. White	December 25, 1871
	Isaac E. Willetts	November 8, 1879
	Ernest A. Witt
	Roger Wolcott	July 25, 1877
	Charles J. Wood	March 18, 1854
	Russell A. Wood
	Augustus E. Wright

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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. 2005. p. 338+.
1 2 Who's Who in State Politics. Boston: Practical Politics. 1911.
↑ Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1911. hdl:2452/40689.

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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. 2005. p. 338+.

[Who-5] 1 2 Who's Who in State Politics. Boston: Practical Politics. 1911.

[Manual-6] Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1911. hdl:2452/40689.

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