1918 Massachusetts legislature

139th
Massachusetts General Court
139th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 6, 1917
Senate
Members	40
President	Henry Gordon Wells
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	Channing H. Cox
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 2, 1918 – June 3, 1918

Last updated August 15, 2023

Henry Gordon Wells, Senate president.

Channing H. Cox, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1918.

The 139th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1918 during the governorship of Samuel W. McCall. Henry Gordon Wells 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]
John E. Beck	May 10, 1869	1st Suffolk
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
George E. Curran
Edward N. Dahlborg
Edward B. Eames	April 15, 1856
John I. Fitzgerald	July 18, 1882
Charles L. Gifford	March 15, 1871
John Halliwell	February 21, 1864
Leonard F. Hardy
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
George H. Jackson	March 9, 1865
Joseph O. Knox
Charles S. Lawler
James E. MacPherson
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
Harold L. Perrin
Silas D. Reed
William Eustis Russell
Alpheus Sanford
Charles Sumner Smith
James R. Tetler	August 26, 1877
Henry Gordon Wells	October 12, 1879
Herbert A. Wilson	November 27, 1870

Representatives

name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district ^[6]
Essex S. Abbott
Henry Achin Jr.	June 30, 1883
Peter I. Adams
Frank G. Allen	October 6, 1874	8th Norfolk
J. Weston Allen	April 19, 1872
Ernest William Allen
George C. F. Allen
Philip R. Ammidon
Seth Fenelon Arnold	December 21, 1878
Harrison Henry Atwood	August 26, 1863
Charles M. Austin	May 2, 1884
George W. P. Babb
James T. Bagshaw
John Henry Baker
William B. Baldwin	September 18, 1854
George Storer Baldwin
John Ballantyne	July 9, 1869
Joseph L. Barry
Herbert Amiel Bartlett
Frank Bartlett
William A. Bartlett
Russell T. Bates
George J. Bates	February 25, 1891
Thomas William Baxter
Charles H. Beaman
Alton Leroy Bellows
Chauncey A. Bennett
James D. Bentley	February 6, 1884
Jay Rogers Benton
Alfred M. Bessette	March 25, 1876
Jacob Bitzer	January 16, 1865
Giles Blague
Arthur Franklin Blanchard	January 27, 1883
Alvin E. Bliss
Cornelius Boothman
Arthur Bower
Eden K. Bowser
Albert C. Bray
Elmer L. Briggs
Fred Johnson Brown
Arthur Stanley Browne
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
George H. Carrick
John B. Cashman
Herman Stanley Cheney
Henry S. Clark
Frederic F. Clauss
Benjamin G. Collins
William S. Conroy	October 2, 1877
Harry A. Cooke
Charles L. Cooley
Thomas J. Corbett	May 10, 1883
Edwin S. Corey
Robert Shaw Corrigan
Patrick M. Costello
Henry E. Cowdrey
Edward J. Cox
William F. Craig	September 15, 1866
John W. Craig
John Cronin
Clarence A. Crooks
John T. Crowley	November 15, 1872
Warren Chapman Daggett	May 10, 1868
Henry Ellsworth Dean	September 29, 1862
George F. Dennis
Thomas F. Donovan	September 26, 1890
John L. Donovan	June 3, 1876
James Beattie Dow
Andrew P. Doyle	August 15, 1869
Timothy J. Driscoll
Eddy P. Dunbar
Horace E. Dunkle
William F. Dwyer
Carl C. Emery	November 4, 1888
John P. Englert
Philip J. Feinberg
James R. Ferry
Samuel B. Finkel
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
Joseph E. Freeling
William F. French	March 21, 1873
William P. French	April 30, 1874
Charles Benjamin Frothingham	November 11, 1858
Howard F. Furness
John Mellen Gibbs
Edwin H. Gibson
Daniel J. Gillen
Nesbit G. Gleason
Charles Waite Gould	May 8, 1891
William J. Granfield	December 18, 1889
Clarence H. Granger
Thomas H. Green	May 11, 1883
Fred Parker Greenwood
Clarence Milton Hall
John Otis Hamilton
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
William H. Hearn
Matthew A. Higgins
John A. Hirsch	1861
William J. Holland
Edgar F. Howland
John Robert Hudson
John C. Hull (politician)	November 1, 1870
Victor Francis Jewett
William Louis Johnson	October 23, 1856
John G. Johnson	May 23, 1864
Arthur Westgate Jones	January 11, 1873
Benjamin Oliver Jones	July 28, 1882
Michael H. Jordan	February 7, 1863
Thomas Martin Joyce
Charles A. Kelley	March 24, 1862
Edward I. Kelley
David Leon Kelley	April 26, 1889
Nathaniel Putnam Kellogg
Robert T. Kent
James F. Kiernan	February 1, 1884
William Aiken Kneeland
Martin R. Lane
Ernest A. LaRocque
Thomas Leavitt
William G. Lord
Frank E. Lyman	September 15, 1866
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
Arthur E. Marsh
George S. Marsh	February 18, 1858
Robert B. Martin
John Henry McAllister
William H. McDonnell	April 9, 1885
Joseph McGrath (American politician)	December 20, 1890
David Story McIntosh
Francis P. McKeon
Francis B. McKinney
Henry J. McLaughlin
William Raymond McMenimen
Michael J. McNamee
Stephen R. Mealey
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
James G. Moran	May 2, 1870
Charles H. Morrill	October 6, 1874
James Morrison	February 17, 1857
George D. Morse
J. Warren Moulton
James J. Moynihan
Frank Mulveny
Daniel C. Murphy	December 14, 1887
Dennis A. Murphy	September 26, 1876
John J. Murphy	March 26, 1889
Arthur L. Nason	October 24, 1872
Christian Nelson
Oscar H. Nelson
Arthur N. Newhall
Frederic C. Nichols
George L. Nourse
Edward H. Nutting	July 6, 1869
Charles S. O'Connor
John D. O'Connor	May 7, 1886
James E. Odlin
William W. Ollendorff
John Glenn Orr	February 27, 1857
John N. Osborne	January 28, 1853
Walter T. Packard
Arthur W. Paine
George Penshorn
Chauncey Pepin
Walter Perham
Frederick Everett Pierce	May 5, 1862
Leland Powers
Francis Prescott
Frank H. Putnam
Lawrence F. Quigley
Timothy F. Quinn
Dennis F. Reardon
George Louis Richards
Arthur W. Robinson
Charles Freeman Rowley
Roland D. Sawyer	January 8, 1874
Edward A. Scigliano
Harry L. Shedd
Michael Nathaniel Slotnick
Charles Henry Slowey
Jerome S. Smith
Fitz-Henry Smith Jr.
Dexter Avery Snow	January 3, 1890
Gilbert G. Southworth
Burgess H. Spinney
William N. Stetson
Simon Swig	1862
Warren E. Tarbell
James E. Tolman	November 8, 1867
Frank A. Torrey	December 21, 1874
Charles L. Underhill	July 20, 1867
Albert P. Wadleigh
George Walker
Albert T. Wall
Joseph E. Warner	May 16, 1884
Jacob Wasserman
George B. Waterman
Thomas Weston, Jr
Joseph W. Wharton
Bion Thomas Wheeler
Albert L. Whitman
George A. Whitney
Alvin R. Wilson
Charles A. Winchester
Carlton Walen Wonson
Isaac U. Wood
Wilbur A. Wood
Harry C. Woodill
George M. Worrall
Myron A. Young
Benjamin Loring Young	1885

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Map of districts of the Massachusetts state senate apportioned in 1916

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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. 1918.
1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1918" (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: 1918 – via State Library of Massachusetts
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1918, hdl:2452/79979

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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+.

[Who1918-5] 1 2 Who's Who in State Politics. Boston: Practical Politics. 1918.

[Register-6] 1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1918" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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