1915 Massachusetts legislature

136th
Massachusetts General Court
136th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 3, 1914
Senate
Members	40
President	Calvin Coolidge
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	Channing H. Cox
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 6, 1915 – June 4, 1915

Last updated June 28, 2023

Calvin Coolidge, Senate president.

Channing Cox, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1915.

The 136th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1915 during the governorship of David I. Walsh. Calvin Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Channing H. Cox served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district ^[6]
Edward C. R. Bagley
Frank Bartlett
Sanford Bates	July 17, 1884	9th Suffolk
William A. L. Bazeley	1872
Charles Sumner Beal	August 14, 1856
James W. Bean	May 11, 1866
James F. Cavanagh
Ezra W. Clark	October 12, 1842
Calvin Coolidge	July 4, 1872
Herbert E. Cummings
Andrew P. Doyle	August 15, 1869
Charles W. Eldridge	October 16, 1877
George H. Ellis	October 3, 1848
Frank S. Farnsworth
Wilton B. Fay
Redmond S. Fitzgerald
Julius Garst
Charles L. Gifford	March 15, 1871
Gurdon W. Gordon
James I. Green	April 9, 1885
John W. Haigis	July 31, 1881
Martin Hays	October 14, 1876
Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr.	October 1, 1878
George H. Jackson	March 9, 1865
Charles A. Kimball
Louis F. R. Langelier
Joseph Leonard
George Edward Marchand	December 22, 1877
Joseph W. Martin Jr.	November 3, 1884
Orion T. Mason
Philip J. McGonagle	October 21, 1871
Walter E. McLane
C. Augustus Norwood
E. Howard Perley
John F. Sheehan
William J. Sullivan	April 14, 1865
James R. Tetler	August 26, 1877
James P. Timilty	March 28, 1865
Nathan A. Tufts	April 15, 1879
Henry Gordon Wells	October 12, 1879

Representatives

name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district ^[6]
Essex S. Abbott
Henry Achin Jr.	June 30, 1883
Austin Flint Adams		3rd Worcester
J. Weston Allen	April 19, 1872
Charles H. Annis	January 12, 1869
William M. Armstrong	August 17, 1850
Harrison Henry Atwood	August 26, 1863
James T. Bagshaw
Samuel H. Bailey
Edmund Baker
Philip Hosmer Ball
Arthur W. Barker
Joseph L. Barry
William J. Barry	1861
Addison P. Beardsley
Joseph Belcher
Joseph J. Benson
Jacob Bitzer	January 16, 1865
Thomas William Blanchard
Alvin E. Bliss
Henry E. Bothfeld	March 4, 1859
Arthur Bower
Eden K. Bowser
Thomas H. Brennan
James J. Brennan	May 2, 1882
Fred Johnson Brown
Daniel J. Buckley
George Bunting	August 31, 1868
Frederic W. Burke
Arthur E. Burr
Frederick Butler
Fred E. Cady
Matthew J. Carbary
Julius F. Carman	August 7, 1861
Maurice Caro
Peter Carr	May 2, 1883
Andrew A. Casassa
Daniel W. Casey
Allison G. Catheron	June 26, 1878
George Dudley Chamberlain
Albert Minot Chandler
Edward Earl Chapman
John W. Churchill	November 17, 1853
A. Schuyler Clapp
Frederic F. Clauss
James Coffey	May 17, 1849
Arthur Willard Colburn	December 1, 1877
Benjamin G. Collins
Samuel I. Collins	March 4, 1851
D. Herbert Cook	June 2, 1851
Thomas J. Cooley
Michael H. Cotter
John J. Courtney
Walter D. Cowls
George H. Creighton
William N. Cronin
Burton H. Crosby
Fred Wilder Cross	September 15, 1868
John T. Crowley	November 15, 1872
Patrick J. Curley
George E. Curran
Edward J. Dailey
Samuel Davis	June 4, 1866
Ernest F. Davis
Theodore H. Day
William Abner Dodge
John F. Doherty	June 9, 1881
Peter J. Donaghue
William J. Donahoe
Joseph Joyce Donahue
John A. Donoghue
John L. Donovan	June 3, 1876
Thomas E. Dowd
Aaron Coolidge Dowse
George P. Drury
Dennis Francis Duggan
Frank B. Edgell
Carl C. Emery	November 4, 1888
Charles A. Ericson
John G. Faxon
Frederick B. Felton
Horace F. Field
Joseph La Flamme
Maurice R. Flynn	July 28, 1889
William J. Foley	March 2, 1887
Harry C. Foster	August 27, 1871
Harvey E. Frost	October 2, 1875
Charles Benjamin Frothingham	November 11, 1858
Alvan T. Fuller	February 27, 1878
Howard F. Furness
Charles F. Garrity
Harry C. Gates
Joseph S. Gates	October 3, 1856
John Mellen Gibbs
Thomas J. Giblin
John J. Gilbride
Joseph P. Good
Shirley P. Graves
Fred Parker Greenwood
Edgar H. Hall
John Halliwell	February 21, 1864
Edward F. Harrington (state representative)	August 10, 1878
James L. Harrop
George F. Hart	November 9, 1859
John F. Hatch Jr.
Matthew A. Higgins
Albert Holway
John C. Hull (politician)	November 1, 1870
Charles N. James	September 3, 1853
Victor Francis Jewett
John Joseph Kearney
Thomas R. Kelley
Jeremiah J. Kelly
William W. Kennard
Robert T. Kent
Richard Knowles
Joseph O. Knox
Louis LaDame
Arthur F. Lamb
Francis X. Le Boeuf
George B. Leonard
John N. Levins
Fred Oliver Lewis	June 12, 1878
E. Ellsworth Lincoln
George A. Lindberg
Martin Lomasney	December 3, 1859
Henry Follansbee Long
Frederick H. Lucke
James MacFarlane Lyle
Frank E. Lyman	September 15, 1866
John H. Lynch	October 28, 1884
Frederick William MacKenzie
James E. MacPherson
Frederick H. Magison
John P. Mahoney	May 26, 1888
Michael F. Malone
Frank A. Manning
Felix A. Marcella
John L. Mather
John Edwin Maybury
John Henry McAllister
John F. McCarthy
Charles H. McGlue
Joseph McGrath (American politician)	December 20, 1890
Orlando McKenzie
Jared B. McLane
Henry J. McLaughlin
Edward F. McLaughlin	June 6, 1883
William M. McMorrow
Michael J. McNamee
Samuel H. Mildram
John Mitchell	September 4, 1877
John L. Monahan
Wesley E. Monk	August 1, 1874
Alfred James Moore	August 7, 1891
Charles H. Morrill	October 6, 1874
Edward G. Morris
George D. Morse
Hugh E. Mullen
Thomas B. Mulvehill
Frank Mulveny
John J. Murphy	March 26, 1889
Dennis A. Murphy	September 26, 1876
Edward P. Murphy
James J. Murphy	February 11, 1885
Patrick E. Murray	August 22, 1869
David W. Murray	September 9, 1874
Ken Nash
Arthur N. Newhall
John P. Nickerson
Francis Norwood
Edward H. Nutting	July 6, 1869
James T. O'Dowd
Joseph A. Oakhem
Ambrose F. Ogden
John N. Osborne	January 28, 1853
James Goodridge Page
Peter C. Paradis
John H. Parker	August 27, 1859
Chauncey Pepin
Edward Howland Perry
Joseph H. Perry	May 4, 1869
Joseph C. Perry	May 1, 1856
Immanuel Pfeiffer Jr.
James E. Phelan	October 21, 1884
James Tracy Potter	January 26, 1870
Winfield F. Prime	November 22, 1860
Martin Lewis Quinn	January 19, 1862
Albert T. Quiry
George J. Rabouin
Cyril R. Read
Dennis F. Reardon
John J. Reilly
William C. Renne
Robert Robinson	January 4, 1889
William M. Robinson	July 21, 1875
Silas B. Root
Charles Freeman Rowley
G. Oscar Russell
Walter F. Russell
John D. Ryan	July 30, 1868
Edward Julius Sandberg	October 21, 1866
Alfred Santosuosso
Joseph A. Saunders
Roland D. Sawyer	January 8, 1874
C. Burnside Seagrave
John Francis Sheehan	August 25, 1879
John Henry Sherburne	1877
Michael J. Sherry
Allston M. Sinnott
Jerome S. Smith
Fitz-Henry Smith Jr.
Ralph M. Smith
William O. Souther Jr.
Charles Elmer Stanwood
Joseph Fayette Stone	February 8, 1858
Merrill E. Streeter
Denis J. Sullivan	July 24, 1889
Lewis R. Sullivan
William H. Sullivan	February 20, 1869
John F. Sullivan	May 17, 1875
Edmond P. Talbot	1884
Warren E. Tarbell
James E. Tolman	November 8, 1867
George J. Wall
Joseph E. Warner	May 16, 1884
Robert M. Washburn	January 4, 1868
George B. Waterman
Samuel W. Weare
Thomas Weston, Jr
Hartley L. White
George A. Whitney
Edgar H. Whitney
Herbert A. Wilson	November 27, 1870
Herbert Wing
Walter Edgar Wolfe
Harry C. Woodill
George M. Worrall

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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. 1915.
1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1915" (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: 1915, hdl:2452/303853 – via State Library of Massachusetts
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1915, hdl:2452/79976

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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. 1915.

[Register-6] 1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1915" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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