1917 Massachusetts legislature

138th
Massachusetts General Court
138th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Senate
Members	40
House
Members	240

Last updated August 15, 2023

The 138th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1917.^[1]

Senators

name ^[1]	date of birth ^[2]	district ^[2]
James W. Bean	May 11, 1866	2nd Middlesex
John E. Beck	May 10, 1869
Charles Donnell Brown	June 5, 1862
Daniel J. Buckley
James F. Cavanagh
George Dudley Chamberlain
George B. Churchill	October 24, 1866
Arthur Willard Colburn	December 1, 1877
Fred Wilder Cross	September 15, 1868
Edward N. Dahlborg
Charles W. Eldridge	October 16, 1877
John I. Fitzgerald	July 18, 1882
Charles L. Gifford	March 15, 1871
James L. Harrop
George Fred Hart	November 9, 1859
George A. Hastings
Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr.	October 1, 1878
Ernest E. Hobson	September 29, 1878
Herman Hormel
John B. Hull Jr.	July 17, 1871
George H. Jackson	March 9, 1865
Charles A. Kimball
Richard Knowles
Charles S. Lawler
James E. MacPherson
Joseph W. Martin Jr.	November 3, 1884
Orion T. Mason
Edwin T. McKnight	October 11, 1869
Walter E. McLane
Edward F. McLaughlin	June 6, 1883
Edward G. Morris
Ken Nash
Malcolm Nichols	May 8, 1876
E. Howard Perley
Alpheus Sanford
Charles Sumner Smith
James R. Tetler	August 26, 1877
James P. Timilty	March 28, 1865
Henry Gordon Wells	October 12, 1879
Herbert A. Wilson	November 27, 1870

Representatives

name ^[1]	date of birth ^[2]	district ^[2]
Essex S. Abbott
Henry Achin Jr.	June 30, 1883
Peter I. Adams		6th Berkshire
Park W. Allen
Ernest William Allen
George C. F. Allen
J. Weston Allen	April 19, 1872
Philip R. Ammidon
Charles H. Annis	January 12, 1869
Harrison Henry Atwood	August 26, 1863
George W. P. Babb
James T. Bagshaw
William B. Baldwin	September 18, 1854
Joseph L. Barry
Frank Bartlett
William A. Bartlett
Russell T. Bates
Thomas William Baxter
Charles H. Beaman
Addison P. Beardsley
Chauncey A. Bennett
James D. Bentley	February 6, 1884
Jay Rogers Benton
Alfred M. Bessette	March 25, 1876
Jacob Bitzer	January 16, 1865
Alvin E. Bliss
Cornelius Boothman
Arthur Bower
George W. Bowman
Eden K. Bowser
Manassah Edward Bradley
Albert C. Bray
Thomas H. Brennan
Clarence A. Briggs
Elmer L. Briggs
Vincent Brogna
Fred Johnson Brown
George J. Brunell	November 1, 1865
George Bunting	August 31, 1868
Frank James Burke	September 8, 1885
Arthur E. Burr
Fred J. Burrell	March 12, 1889
Frederick Butler
Ralph N. Butterworth
Fred E. Cady
Edward Carr	December 18, 1868
George H. Carrick
Daniel W. Casey
Albert Minot Chandler
Jeremiah K. Chandler	September 30, 1863
Henry S. Clark
Frederic F. Clauss
Samuel I. Collins	March 4, 1851
Benjamin G. Collins
William S. Conroy	October 2, 1877
Thomas J. Corbett	May 10, 1883
Henry E. Cowdrey
Channing H. Cox	October 28, 1879
Edward J. Cox
John W. Craig
John Cronin
John T. Crowley	November 15, 1872
George E. Curran
Henry Ellsworth Dean	September 29, 1862
George F. Dennis
John L. Donovan	June 3, 1876
Thomas F. Donovan	September 26, 1890
Thomas E. Dowd
Eddy P. Dunbar
Horace E. Dunkle
Edward B. Eames	April 15, 1856
Carl C. Emery	November 4, 1888
John P. Englert
James R. Ferry
Michael J. Fitzgerald	March 10, 1878
Michael A. Flanagan	February 21, 1890
William Fleming
William J. Foley	March 2, 1887
William Foster	January 21, 1869
Arthur W. Frail
Joseph E. Freeling
William P. French	April 30, 1874
William F. French	March 21, 1873
Harvey E. Frost	October 2, 1875
Charles Benjamin Frothingham	November 11, 1858
Howard F. Furness
John Mellen Gibbs
Edwin H. Gibson
Nesbit G. Gleason
William J. Granfield	December 18, 1889
Clarence H. Granger
Fred Parker Greenwood
Julius Guild	March 30, 1850
Clarence Milton Hall
John Halliwell	February 21, 1864
Leo Spotten Hamburger
Walter A. Hardy	December 15, 1866
Rowland P. Harriman
Edward F. Harrington (state representative)	August 10, 1878
Charles H. Hartshorn
William M. Haskins
James William Hayes
Walter Haynes
Martin Hays	October 14, 1876
Matthew A. Higgins
Francis M. Hill
Kenneth Page Hill
John A. Hirsch	1861
William J. Holland
Horace W. Hosie	February 2, 1864
John Robert Hudson
John C. Hull (politician)	November 1, 1870
Henry W. Jarvis
Victor Francis Jewett
William Louis Johnson	October 23, 1856
John G. Johnson	May 23, 1864
Michael H. Jordan	February 7, 1863
Thomas Martin Joyce
John Joseph Kearney
David Leon Kelley	April 26, 1889
Charles A. Kelley	March 24, 1862
William W. Kennard
Robert T. Kent
James F. Kiernan	February 1, 1884
William Aiken Kneeland
Joseph O. Knox
Martin R. Lane
Ernest A. LaRocque
Thomas Leavitt
George E. Lilley
Daniel Waldo Lincoln	September 2, 1882
George A. Lindberg
Martin Lomasney	December 3, 1859
William G. Lord
George Washington Love
James MacFarlane Lyle
Frank E. Lyman	September 15, 1866
John H. Lynch	October 28, 1884
Eugene Anthony Lynch
Winthrop Magee
John P. Mahoney	May 26, 1888
William Henry Mahoney
Lloyd Makepeace
Michael F. Malone
David J. Maloney
Frank A. Manning
William J. Manning
George S. Marsh	February 18, 1858
Arthur E. Marsh
Robert B. Martin
John Edwin Maybury
John Henry McAllister
Joseph McGrath (American politician)	December 20, 1890
James H. McInerney	December 13, 1871
David Story McIntosh
Francis B. McKinney
Henry J. McLaughlin
Michael J. McNamee
Charles J. McNulty
Walter L. Mellen	January 10, 1868
Bernard F. Merriam
Julius Meyers	December 6, 1854
John Mitchell	September 4, 1877
Wesley E. Monk	August 1, 1874
William A. Moore
Alfred James Moore	August 7, 1891
James G. Moran	May 2, 1870
Daniel T. Morrill
Charles H. Morrill	October 6, 1874
James Morrison	February 17, 1857
George D. Morse
J. Warren Moulton
Frank Mulveny
John J. Murphy	March 26, 1889
Dennis A. Murphy	September 26, 1876
Daniel C. Murphy	December 14, 1887
William A. Murray	June 17, 1889
Arthur L. Nason	October 24, 1872
Charles S. O'Connor
Joseph A. Oakhem
James E. Odlin
John Glenn Orr	February 27, 1857
John N. Osborne	January 28, 1853
Walter T. Packard
Arthur W. Paine
John H. Parker	August 27, 1859
Ward Mayhew Parker
George Penshorn
Chauncey Pepin
Walter Perham
Harold L. Perrin
Edward Howland Perry
Joseph H. Perry	May 4, 1869
Frederick Everett Pierce	May 5, 1862
James Tracy Potter	January 26, 1870
Frank H. Putnam
Lawrence F. Quigley
Frank E. Raymond
Dennis F. Reardon
George Louis Richards
Charles Freeman Rowley
William F. Runnells	February 18, 1865
G. Oscar Russell
Joseph A. Saunders
Henry A. Savage
Roland D. Sawyer	January 8, 1874
John Henry Sherburne	1877
Charles Henry Slowey
Fitz-Henry Smith Jr.
Jerome S. Smith
Gilbert G. Southworth
Burgess H. Spinney
William N. Stetson
Merrill E. Streeter
Lewis R. Sullivan
Denis J. Sullivan	July 24, 1889
Simon Swig	1862
Warren E. Tarbell
James E. Tolman	November 8, 1867
George Albert Wales
Joseph E. Warner	May 16, 1884
Jacob Wasserman
George B. Waterman
Thomas Weston, Jr
Joseph W. Wharton
Albert L. Whitman
George A. Whitney
Waterman Lester Williams	August 10, 1867
John W. Williams
Alvin R. Wilson
Charles A. Winchester
Thomas A. Winston
Roger Wolcott	July 25, 1877
Isaac U. Wood
Harry C. Woodill
John Wooldredge
George M. Worrall
Daniel J. Young
Myron A. Young
Benjamin Loring Young	1885

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References

1 2 3 Who's Who in State Politics. Boston: Practical Politics. 1917.
1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1917" (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: 1917, hdl:2452/303856
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1917, hdl:2452/60138

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[Who-1] 1 2 3 Who's Who in State Politics. Boston: Practical Politics. 1917.

[Register-2] 1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1917" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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