1914 Massachusetts legislature

135th
Massachusetts General Court
135th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 4, 1913
Senate
Members	40
President	Calvin Coolidge
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	Grafton D. Cushing
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 7, 1914 – July 7, 1914

Last updated August 09, 2023

Calvin Coolidge, Senate president.

Grafton D. Cushing, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1914.

The 135th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1914 during the governorship of David I. Walsh. Calvin Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Grafton D. Cushing served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Committees

Joint committees: Agriculture; Banks and Banking; Cities; Constitutional Amendments; Counties; Education; Election Laws; Federal Relations; Fisheries and Game; Harbors and Public Lands; Insurance; Labor; Legal Affairs; Mercantile Affairs; Metropolitan Affairs; Military Affairs; Municipal Finance; Public Health; Public Institutions; Public Lighting; Public Service; Railroads; Roads and Bridges; Social Welfare; State House and Libraries; Street Railways; Taxation; Towns; Water Supply.^[5]
Senate committees: Bills in the Third Reading; Engrossed Bills; Judiciary; Rules; Ways and Means.^[5]
House committees: Bills in the Third Reading; Elections; Engrossed Bills; Judiciary; Pay-Roll; Rules; Ways and Means.^[5]

Senators

name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district ^[6]
Edward C. R. Bagley		1st Suffolk
William A. L. Bazeley	1872
William A. Bellamy
Alexis Boyer Jr.	January 17, 1875
John P. Brennan	March 1, 1876
James Henry Brennan	December 21, 1888
Charles E. Burbank
Arthur Preston Chase	January 25, 1866
Ezra W. Clark	October 12, 1842
Calvin Coolidge	July 4, 1872
Charles M. Cox
Charles A. Dean	March 26, 1856
Andrew P. Doyle	August 15, 1869
Henry J. Draper
Charles W. Eldridge	October 16, 1877
Edward Fisher
Redmond S. Fitzgerald
Charles L. Gifford	March 15, 1871
Gurdon W. Gordon
William P. Hickey	November 17, 1871
Frederic H. Hilton
Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr.	October 1, 1878
Francis J. Horgan
Charles Cabot Johnson	December 9, 1876
Louis F. R. Langelier
Joseph Leonard
John H. Mack
Charles F. McCarthy	August 15, 1876
Philip J. McGonagle	October 21, 1871
Walter E. McLane
Malcolm Nichols	May 8, 1876
C. Augustus Norwood
Hugh O'Rourke
John F. Sheehan
Edward N. Sibley
James R. Tetler	August 26, 1877
James P. Timilty	March 28, 1865
Charles E. Ward
Henry Gordon Wells	October 12, 1879
Lombard Williams

Representatives

image	name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district ^[6]
	Essex S. Abbott
	Henry Achin Jr.	June 30, 1883
	Timothy J. Ahern	1885
	Frank P. Allen	August 1, 1869
	John A. Anderson
	Henry L. Andrews
	Oscar E. Arkwell
	William M. Armstrong	August 17, 1850
	Charles N. Atwood
	James J. Bacigalupo
	James T. Bagshaw
	Samuel H. Bailey
	James F. Barry	December 4, 1857
	Joseph L. Barry
	Irving F. Batchelder
	Sanford Bates	July 17, 1884
	John E. Beck	May 10, 1869
	Everett E. Belding	February 15, 1879
	Edward P. Bennett
	Enos H. Bigelow
	Edward C. Bodfish
	William Booth	June 21, 1862
	Henry E. Bothfeld	March 4, 1859
	Arthur Bower
	Eden K. Bowser
	Patrick H. Boyle	December 20, 1850
	Alvah J. Bradstreet
	John W. Brennan
	George E. Briggs	May 3, 1873
	Vincent Brogna
	Daniel J. Buckley
	Morton Henry Burdick
	Frederic W. Burke
	Frederick H. Burke
	Frederick Butler
	Matthew J. Carbary
	Julius F. Carman	August 7, 1861
	William E. Carney	January 16, 1878
	Maurice Caro
	Peter Carr	May 2, 1883
	Edward Carr	December 18, 1868
	Andrew A. Casassa
	Thomas J. Casey
	Allison G. Catheron	June 26, 1878
	George Dudley Chamberlain
	Cleaveland A. Chandler
	Daniel J. Chapman	January 18, 1878
	Edward Earl Chapman
	John W. Churchill	November 17, 1853
	Eben S. Cobb
	James Coffey	May 17, 1849
	Samuel I. Collins	March 4, 1851
	Timothy C. Collins
	Walter L. Collins
	John P. Conroy
	D. Herbert Cook	June 2, 1851
	Thomas J. Cooley
	Michael H. Cotter
	John J. Courtney
	Walter D. Cowls
	Channing H. Cox	October 28, 1879
	William N. Cronin
	Fred Wilder Cross	September 15, 1868
	John E. Cuddy, Jr.
	John J. Cummings
	Herbert E. Cummings
	Patrick J. Curley
	George E. Curran
	Rudolph W. Currier
	John A. Curtin	April 3, 1870
	Grafton D. Cushing	August 4, 1864
	Edward N. Dahlborg
	Edward J. Dailey
	Charles Robert Damon	June 21, 1864
	Albert M. Darling
	Alfred Davenport
	Samuel Davis	June 4, 1866
	Theodore H. Day
	Frederick S. Delafield
	John F. Doherty	June 9, 1881
	William H. Dolben	January 23, 1878
	John A. Donoghue
	John L. Donovan	June 3, 1876
	George E. Dow
	Thomas E. Dowd
	William F. Doyle
	George P. Drury
	Frank B. Edgell
	George H. Ellis	October 3, 1848
	John Ennis
	Frank S. Farnsworth
	George W. Faulkner	January 24, 1874
	Frederick B. Felton
	Alfred N. Fessenden
	Joseph La Flamme
	John T. Flanagan	May 25, 1869
	John J. Fleming
	Maurice R. Flynn	July 28, 1889
	Elmer G. Fosgate
	James Eugene Fowle	November 22, 1880
	Harvey E. Frost	October 2, 1875
	John J. Gilbride
	William L. F. Gilman
	Thomas A. Glennon
	John L. G. Glynn
	Arthur G. Greaney
	Fred Parker Greenwood
	James F. Griffin	January 19, 1884
	Harold P. Gurney
	William N. Hackett
	Benjamin F. Haines	November 25, 1876
	Edward M. Hall
	John Halliwell	February 21, 1864
	Bernard F. Hanrahan	July 27, 1875
	Leo M. Harlow
	Stephen H. Harrington
	Edward F. Harrington (state representative)	August 10, 1878
	James L. Harrop
	George Fred Hart	November 9, 1859
	John F. Hatch Jr.
	Martin Hays	October 14, 1876
	Thomas A. Henry
	William Edward Hickey
	Matthew A. Higgins
	Albert Holway
	John B. Hull Jr.	July 17, 1871
	Frederick W. Hurlburt
	James M. Hurley
	Victor Francis Jewett
	Jeremiah J. Kelley
	William W. Kennard
	James T. Kenney	June 20, 1870
	Michael B. Kenney
	John R. Kiggins
	Charles A. Kimball
	Richard Knowles
	Joseph O. Knox
	Charles S. Lawler
	Francis X. Le Boeuf
	Fred Oliver Lewis	June 12, 1878
	E. Ellsworth Lincoln
	Amos R. Little
	Stuart L. Little
	Martin Lomasney	December 3, 1859
	Henry Follansbee Long
	William J. Look	June 20, 1867
	Frederick H. Lucke
	John J. Lydon
	James MacFarlane Lyle
	John H. Lynch	October 28, 1884
	Frederick H. Magison
	John C. Mahoney
	Henry J. Mahoney
	Daniel C. Manning
	Frank A. Manning
	George E. Mansfield
	Joseph W. Martin Jr.	November 3, 1884
	Orion T. Mason
	Alfred E. McCleary
	Leo F. McCullough
	Joseph S. McDonough
	Moses H. McGaughey	December 27, 1880
	Charles H. McGlue
	Michael F. McGrath
	James H. McInerney	December 13, 1871
	Henry J. McLaughlin
	Edward F. McLaughlin	June 6, 1883
	P. Joseph McManus
	William M. McMorrow
	Timothy J. Meade	November 7, 1874
	John Mitchell	September 4, 1877
	Charles H. Morrill	October 6, 1874
	George Frederick Morse Jr.	1885
	Frank Mulveny
	Edward P. Murphy
	James J. Murphy	February 11, 1885
	Dennis A. Murphy	September 26, 1876
	Patrick E. Murray	August 22, 1869
	William J. Naphen
	Ken Nash
	Arthur N. Newhall
	Thomas A. Niland	June 11, 1873
	James T. O'Dowd
	Ambrose F. Ogden
	John N. Osborne	January 28, 1853
	Harry B. Parker
	Chauncey Pepin
	Edward Howland Perry
	Immanuel Pfeiffer Jr.
	James E. Phelan	October 21, 1884
	Eben F. Phillips
	William H. Poole
	Winfield F. Prime	November 22, 1860
	Charles W. Proctor
	Herbert L. Ray
	John J. Reilly
	Frank B. Rich
	Robert Robinson	January 4, 1889
	William M. Robinson	July 21, 1875
	Walter F. Russell
	John D. Ryan	July 30, 1868
	Clifford B. Sanborn
	Edward Julius Sandberg	October 21, 1866
	Roland D. Sawyer	January 8, 1874
	Henry H. Sears
	John Francis Sheehan	August 25, 1879
	John Henry Sherburne	1877
	Ralph M. Smith
	Jerome S. Smith
	Fitz-Henry Smith Jr.
	William O. Souther Jr.
	Charles Elmer Stanwood
	Joseph Fayette Stone	February 8, 1858
	Merrill E. Streeter
	John F. Sullivan	May 17, 1875
	Lewis R. Sullivan
	Michael T. Sullivan
	David F. Sullivan
	Peter Francis Tague	June 4, 1871
	John G. Tilden
	James E. Tolman	November 8, 1867
	Nathan A. Tufts	April 15, 1879
	James J. Twohig	September 26, 1886
	George J. Wall
	Henry W. Warner	November 12, 1858
	Joseph E. Warner	May 16, 1884
	Robert M. Washburn	January 4, 1868
	Charles H. Waterman
	George Pearl Webster	January 9, 1877
	Charles H. Webster
	Thomas W. White	January 10, 1876
	Herbert A. Wilson	November 27, 1870
	Thomas E. P. Wilson
	Herbert Wing
	Abel S. Wolfe
	George M. Worrall
	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+.
1 2 3 4 5 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1914.
1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1914" (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: 1914, hdl:2452/393332
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1914, hdl:2452/73502

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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 4 5 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1914.

[Register-6] 1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1914" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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