1912 Massachusetts legislature

133rd
Massachusetts General Court
133rd; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 7, 1911
Senate
Members	40
President	Levi H. Greenwood
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	Grafton D. Cushing
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 3, 1912 – June 13, 1912

Last updated August 10, 2023

Levi Greenwood, Senate president.

Grafton Cushing, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1912.

The 133rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1912 during the governorship of Eugene Foss. Levi H. Greenwood served as president of the Senate and Grafton D. Cushing served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

name ^[7]	date of birth ^[8]	district ^[8]
Arthur S. Adams	February 14, 1869
Claude L. Allen		4th Middlesex
Erson B. Barlow	October 20, 1883
George L. Barnes
Frank P. Bennett Jr.	December 30, 1878
Charles V. Blanchard	February 2, 1866
Charles H. Brown	January 19, 1879
William R. Burke	July 14, 1870
Charles S. Chace
Ezra W. Clark	October 12, 1842
Calvin Coolidge	July 4, 1872
Daniel E. Denny	July 14, 1845
Edric Eldridge
Edward J. Grainger
Levi H. Greenwood	December 22, 1872
Dennis E. Halley
James A. Hatton
Frederic M. Hersey
Francis J. Horgan
John H. Hunt
Thomas Martin Joyce
Joseph P. Lomasney
John H. Mack
Charles F. McCarthy	August 15, 1876
Walter E. McLane
Henry C. Mulligan
Arthur L. Nason	October 24, 1872
George H. Newhall	October 24, 1850
Charles H. Pearson
James F. Powers	October 1, 1872
Francis X. Quigley	November 20, 1882
Samuel Ross	February 2, 1865
George A. Schofield
John H. Schoonmaker	February 14, 1869
Harry N. Stearns	October 5, 1874
Luke S. Stowe
James P. Timilty	March 28, 1865
George H. Tinkham	October 29, 1870
Thomas M. Vinson
William H. Wheeler

Representatives

name ^[7]	date of birth ^[8]	district ^[8]
Henry Achin Jr.	June 30, 1883	17th Middlesex
Henry L. Andrews
Oscar E. Arkwell
Frank W. Atkins
Edward C. R. Bagley
J. Herbert Baker
Willie W. Baker
John Ballantyne	July 9, 1869
Clarence A. Barnes	August 28, 1882
James F. Barry	December 4, 1857
Frederick D. Bartlett
A. Willis Bartlett	September 21, 1853
Sanford Bates	July 17, 1884
William A. L. Bazeley	1872
John Van Beal
Harry Clayton Beaman	March 9, 1863
James W. Bean	May 11, 1866
William A. Bellamy
Arthur H. Bicknell	March 31, 1873
Enos H. Bigelow
Alvin E. Bliss
Charles M. Blodgett
William Booth	June 21, 1862
Henry E. Bothfeld	March 4, 1859
George E. Bowker
John G. Brackett
George A. Braley	April 23, 1863
Melvin B. Breath	March 28, 1881
James Henry Brennan	December 21, 1888
James J. Brennan	May 2, 1882
John P. Brennan	March 1, 1876
Vincent Brogna
Michael J. Brophy
George J. Brunell	November 1, 1865
Daniel J. Buckley
Morton Henry Burdick
George R. Burns	January 4, 1882
James D. Burns	July 4, 1876
Adolphus M. Burroughs
Otis W. Butler
Thomas F. J. Callahan
Matthew J. Carbary
John J. Carmody
Patrick B. Carr
James F. Cavanagh
Wendell P. Clark
Albert B. Clark
Zebedee E. Cliff	September 23, 1864
John Henry Cogswell	July 4, 1875
Samuel I. Collins	March 4, 1851
John D. Connors
Leon M. Conwell	April 15, 1870
James H. L. Coon
Michael H. Cotter
Channing H. Cox	October 28, 1879
Joseph Craig
Russell D. Crane
John J. Creed
Courtenay Crocker	February 4, 1881
Daniel Francis Cronin
Charles A. Crowley	June 11, 1873
Thomas S. Cuff
Francis M. Cummings	October 4, 1885
John A. Curtin	April 3, 1870
Grafton D. Cushing	August 4, 1864
George T. Daly
Thomas Davies	February 11, 1875
Charles A. Dean	March 26, 1856
John L. Donovan	June 3, 1876
Andrew P. Doyle	August 15, 1869
George P. Drury
William S. Duncan
John F. Dwyer
James Frank Eagan
Harry Millett Eames
George W. W. Edson
Charles W. Eldridge	October 16, 1877
George H. Ellis	October 3, 1848
William F. Emerson	October 6, 1849
Wilton B. Fay
John B. Fellows
Edward Fisher
Daniel Fitzpatrick
John T. Flanagan	May 25, 1869
Harold H. Flower
Louis A. Foley
Fred W. Ford
James Eugene Fowle	November 22, 1880
Gerrett Geils, Jr.
Benjamin D. Gifford
William H. Gifford	January 20, 1851
Charles L. Gifford	March 15, 1871
Gurdon W. Gordon
Isaac Gordon
Frederic J. Grady
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
Freeman Hall	July 22, 1867
Edward M. Hall
Clarence W. Harding
Leonard F. Hardy
Edward F. Harrington (state representative)	August 10, 1878
James A. Hart	October 29, 1864
Edward R. Hathaway
Truman R. Hawley
Martin Hays	October 14, 1876
Michael A. Henebery
Ira G. Hersey
William P. Hickey	November 17, 1871
Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr.	October 1, 1878
Henry W. Holbrook	February 18, 1875
Alexander Holmes
Charles T. Holt	August 1, 1845
Charles H. Howe
Frederick W. Hurlburt
James M. Hurley
Lester W. Jenney	April 24, 1876
Victor Francis Jewett
John E. Kearns
Michael S. Keenan
Michael Kelly	June 17, 1840
William W. Kennard
Louis R. Kiernan
Clifford L. King
William S. Kinney
James Kittle
H. Bert Knowles
Francis X. Le Boeuf
Joseph Leonard
William J. Leslie
George W. Libbey
Edwin F. Lilley
Martin Lomasney	December 3, 1859
Paul I. Lombard
John E. Lyman	July 1, 1859
Herman A. MacDonald	November 11, 1881
James P. Maguire
John C. Mahoney
Joseph W. Martin Jr.	November 3, 1884
John F. McCarthy
Almiron J. McCulloch	October 29, 1847
Leo F. McCullough
Edward J. McDermott
James A. McElaney Jr.
John D. McGivern
Edward E. McGrath
James H. McInerney	December 13, 1871
Hugh M. McKay
Stewart H. McLeod
William M. McMorrow
Timothy J. Meade	November 7, 1874
John F. Meaney
Walter R. Meins	January 14, 1883
John Mitchell	September 4, 1877
Charles H. Morgan	January 15, 1869
Charles H. Morrill	October 6, 1874
Edward T. Morse
Frank Mulveny
John J. Murphy	March 26, 1889
James J. Murphy	February 11, 1885
David W. Murray	September 9, 1874
William J. Murray	October 7, 1885
William J. Naphen
Arthur N. Newhall
C. Augustus Norwood
William P. O'Brien
Charles R. O'Connell	September 16, 1874
Francis D. O'Donnell
William A. O'Hearn	March 8, 1887
J. Howard O'Keefe
Charles A. Orstrom
Charles B. Packard	January 29, 1858
Joseph H. Parker Jr.	April 16, 1871
Joseph A. Parks	May 2, 1877
Henry H. Parsons	August 11, 1866
Norman B. Parsons
Joseph H. Pendergast	December 9, 1879
Chauncey Pepin
Laurence S. Perry
Walter E. Piper	September 22, 1857
Frank H. Pope	March 7, 1854
Arthur Franklin Priest
Harry Bancroft Putnam	September 7, 1878
Martin Lewis Quinn	January 19, 1862
John E. Quinn
George Francis Reardon	February 2, 1878
Joseph J. Reed
Michael J. Reidy
Ralph R. Rideout
Louis O. Rieutord
John Lee Saltonstall	May 23, 1878
John C. Sanborn
Edgar E. Sargent
Frederick W. Schlapp
C. Burnside Seagrave
Alexander Sedgwick	1867
Benjamin Sharp	1858
John Henry Sherburne	1877
Albert H. Silvester
Jerome S. Smith
Charles D. Smith
John G. Stevens
Waldo L. Stone
Henry M. Storm
William H. Sullivan	February 20, 1869
William J. Sullivan	April 14, 1865
Benjamin F. Sullivan
Edward A. Sweeney
Daniel W. Teehan
Alfred Tewksbury
Herbert E. Thompson
Eugene F. Toomey
Nathan A. Tufts	April 15, 1879
William D. Turner	October 22, 1866
James D. Tyler	June 15, 1848
E. Warren Tyler
Charles L. Underhill	July 20, 1867
John R. Wallace
Henry W. Warner	November 12, 1858
Robert M. Washburn	January 4, 1868
J. Thomas Webb	September 16, 1838
George Pearl Webster	January 9, 1877
Henry Gordon Wells	October 12, 1879
Thomas W. White	January 10, 1876
Isaac E. Willetts	November 8, 1879
Henry J. Winslow	June 27, 1880
Ernest A. Witt
Roger Wolcott	July 25, 1877
Charles J. Wood	March 18, 1854
Russell A. Wood
Norman P. Wood	July 30, 1846
Otis L. Wright	October 4, 1853
Henry D. 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. 2009. p. 340+.
↑ Andrew Glass (June 4, 2015), "Massachusetts law requires wage boards to set new wage rates, June 4, 1912", Politico.com , archived from the original on February 9, 2016, retrieved June 4, 2020
↑ "1912 Chap. 0706. An Act To Establish The Minimum Wage Commission And To Provide For The Determination Of Minimum Wages For Women And Minors", Massachusetts Acts and Resolves, 1912, hdl:2452/78308
1 2 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1912.
1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1912" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

External links

Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1912, hdl:2452/429129
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1912, hdl:2452/73500

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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+.

[5] Andrew Glass (June 4, 2015), "Massachusetts law requires wage boards to set new wage rates, June 4, 1912", Politico.com , archived from the original on February 9, 2016, retrieved June 4, 2020

[6] "1912 Chap. 0706. An Act To Establish The Minimum Wage Commission And To Provide For The Determination Of Minimum Wages For Women And Minors", Massachusetts Acts and Resolves, 1912, hdl:2452/78308

[Manual-7] 1 2 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1912.

[Register-8] 1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1912" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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