1923–1924 Massachusetts legislature

143rd
Massachusetts General Court
143rd; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 7, 1922
Senate
Members	40
President	Frank G. Allen (Norfolk district)
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	Benjamin Loring Young (13th Middlesex)
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 3, 1923 – May 26, 1923
2nd	January 2, 1924 – June 5, 1924

Last updated August 01, 2023

Frank Allen, Senate president.

Benjamin Loring Young, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1923.

The 143rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1923 and 1924 during the governorship of Channing H. Cox. Frank G. Allen served as president of the Senate and Benjamin Loring Young served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district ^[6]
Frank G. Allen	October 6, 1874
Charles M. Austin	May 2, 1884
George W. P. Babb		8th Suffolk
Alvin E. Bliss
George H. Carrick
George Dudley Chamberlain
Henry S. Clark
Edward J. Cox
Walter Thomas Creese
Eben S. Draper Jr.	August 30, 1893
William J. Francis
Charles Benjamin Frothingham	November 11, 1858
Richard A. Gibbons
John Mellen Gibbs
John W. Haigis	July 31, 1881
John Halliwell	February 21, 1864
Charles H. Hartshorn
William Ignatius Hennessey
Charles P. Howard
William J. Look	June 20, 1867
John W. McCormack	December 21, 1891
Walter E. McLane
Patrick J. Melody
James G. Moran	May 2, 1870
James J. Mulvey
Christian Nelson
William A. O'Hearn	March 8, 1887
Frank H. Putnam
Albert Taylor Rhodes
Abbott B. Rice
John Francis Shea	August 21, 1882
Walter Shuebruk
Dexter Avery Snow	January 3, 1890
John A. Stoddart	May 10, 1869
Warren E. Tarbell
Albert P. Wadleigh
Charles C. Warren
George M. Webber
Wellington Wells	April 18, 1868

Representatives

name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district ^[6]
Charles E. Abbott	February 22, 1856	9th Essex
Henry Achin Jr.	June 30, 1883
Elijah Adlow	August 15, 1896
Walter Dickey Allen	March 15, 1896
Charles W. Ames	March 10, 1860
Charles H. Annis	January 12, 1869
Charles H. Ashley	February 13, 1860
Harrison Henry Atwood	August 26, 1863
Frank E. Barrows	June 14, 1871
Thomas R. Bateman	October 11, 1878
George J. Bates	February 25, 1891
John E. Beck	May 10, 1869
William J. Bell	December 7, 1884
James D. Bentley	February 6, 1884
Alfred M. Bessette	March 25, 1876
Thomas H. Bilodeau	February 3, 1885
Arthur Franklin Blanchard	January 27, 1883
Owen E. Brennen	September 26, 1868
George E. Briggs	May 3, 1873
John C. Brimblecom	1868
George Francis Brooks	August 23, 1856
James B. Brown	March 3, 1885
Albert W. Bullock	April 18, 1872
Ralph Howard Burckes
Hugh Joseph Campbell	September 28, 1896
William A. Canty
Edward J. Carey	January 29, 1884
Julius F. Carman	August 7, 1861
William Casey	November 20, 1884
James Bernard Casey	June 19, 1897
Francis E. Cassidy	February 14, 1888
Francis Peter Clark	August 22, 1896
Ezra W. Clark	October 12, 1842
Maynard Clemons	December 11, 1866
William J. Conlon	March 14, 1868
William S. Conroy	October 2, 1877
D. Herbert Cook	June 2, 1851
Fred Robbins Cooksey	April 14, 1893
Thomas J. Corbett	May 10, 1883
Joseph R. Cotton	November 16, 1890
Francis X. Coyne	March 15, 1892
Elbert M. Crockett	August 14, 1871
Richard D. Crockwell	October 23, 1886
Thomas Charles Crowther	April 28, 1892
P. Sarsfield Cunniff	September 12, 1874
Bert S. Currier	August 2, 1864
J. Frederick Curtin	November 30, 1892
Joseph D. Curtis	November 2, 1868
Warren Chapman Daggett	May 10, 1868
David D. Daley	March 23, 1872
Herbert King Davidson	October 19, 1882
J. Bradford Davis	September 26, 1889
Elbridge Gerry Davis	August 20, 1877
Elmer E. Dawson	October 11, 1861
Ernest J. Dean	April 5, 1883
Hiram Nichols Dearborn	December 21, 1867
Louis N. M. DesChenes	April 7, 1872
Burt Dewar	December 29, 1884
Robert Dinsmore	December 22, 1897
Timothy D. Donahue	November 3, 1869
Sylvia Donaldson ^[7]	July 12, 1849
John F. Donovan	April 26, 1897
Timothy Francis Donovan	August 21, 1889
Walter Franklyn Douglas	August 22, 1869
Robert W. Dow	July 15, 1868
Andrew P. Doyle	August 15, 1869
John H. Drew	August 23, 1890
William L. DuBois	July 31, 1892
Edward Nelson Eames	October 19, 1858
Bernard Early
Frank W. Eaton	February 22, 1871
Vernon W. Evans	January 5, 1895
Gustave William Everberg	June 24, 1890
John T. Farrell	January 30, 1893
Bernard Finkelstein	July 4, 1887
Erland F. Fish	December 7, 1883
William Arthur Fish	July 4, 1885
Susan Walker Fitzgerald ^[7]	May 9, 1871
John I. Fitzgerald	July 18, 1882
Maurice E. Foley	February 8, 1893
George F. Foley	November 6, 1896
Tony Garofano	May 28, 1885
Hugh H. Garrity	May 4, 1883
Richard J. Garvey	July 19, 1892
Herbert J. George	May 16, 1868
George A. Gilman	August 16, 1880
Charles H. Gilmore	February 27, 1878
Frederick P. Glazier	September 27, 1859
Richard D. Gleason	September 22, 1896
Harold R. Goewey	October 12, 1893
Andrew J. Gorey	January 13, 1898
Patrick E. Granfield	March 17, 1894
Walter Bernard Grant	February 11, 1885
Merle Dixon Graves	October 13, 1887
Maurice F. Greaney
Louis L. Green
Eugene B. Griffin
Frank W. Guillo
C. Wesley Hale	February 13, 1872
Albert Harrison Hall
Leo J. Halloran
William H. Hannagan
Edward F. Harrington (state representative)	August 10, 1878
John A. Hawson
James William Hayes
Martin Hays	October 14, 1876
Jeremiah Joseph Healy	July 2, 1872
John J. Heffernan	January 27, 1893
William P. Hickey	November 17, 1871
Matthew A. Higgins
Charles R. Hillberg
Edward Carroll Hinckley
Charles Sumner Holden
Robert H. J. Holden
Elisha Hooper
Michael F. Hourihan
Harold E. Howard
Edgar F. Howland
John C. Hull (politician)	November 1, 1870
James Melville Hunnewell
Albert E. Hutt
Alfred Wesley Ingalls
George Frederick James
Victor Francis Jewett
Thomas H. Johnston	March 5, 1872
John Alfred Jones
Arthur Westgate Jones	January 11, 1873
Michael H. Jordan	February 7, 1863
Thomas Martin Joyce
Frederick E. Judd
Roland M. Keith	March 16, 1847
James H. Kelleher
John Augustine Kelleher	May 15, 1891
Charles A. Kelley	March 24, 1862
Edward J. Kelley	December 25, 1897
Peter L. Kelley
Coleman E. Kelly
Joseph Francis Kelly
Davis B. Keniston
Harry P. Kent
Clarence P. Kidder
Howard F. King
John Fenderson Kyes
William D. Lancaster
Joseph A. Langone Sr.	August 10, 1866
Ernest A. LaRocque
Joseph Lawrence Larson
Allen Lawson
Fred Oliver Lewis	June 12, 1878
Wilbur F. Lewis
Jeremiah M. Linnehan
John Tilton Litch
Arthur E. Littlefield
John H. Logue
Robert L. Manley
William Henry McCarthy
John J. McCarthy
Richard J. McCormick	August 11, 1888
Elmer L. McCulloch
Carroll Meins	October 22, 1892
James J. Mellen	March 30, 1875
John L. Mitchell
John Mitchell	September 4, 1877
Edward Brastow Moor
Thomas J. Morton	March 2, 1856
George G. Moyse	December 21, 1878
Daniel C. Murphy	December 14, 1887
George Henry Newhall
Thomas H. Nickerson
Edward H. Nutting	July 6, 1869
John J. O'Brien	October 18, 1879
Daniel W. O'Connor	March 12, 1877
James H. O'Dea
Olof F. Ohlson
Henry F. Paige	January 30, 1853
Herman Pehrsson
George Peirce
George Penshorn
Chauncey Pepin
Lewis Hilton Peters
Frank B. Phinney
Chester Arthur Pike
George K. Pond
Everett R. Prout
George Louis Richards
Joseph N. Roach	March 22, 1883
Everett William Robinson
Morrill S. Ryder
Leverett Saltonstall	September 1, 1892
Edward Julius Sandberg	October 21, 1866
Roland D. Sawyer	January 8, 1874
Frank O. Scott
Leo P. Senecal
Henry Lee Shattuck	October 12, 1879
Michael F. Shaw	September 12, 1865
Charles H. Shaylor
John P. Shepard
George S. Sinnicks
Charles Henry Slowey
Francis W. K. Smith
Almond Smith
Fred L. Snow
Walter Herbert Snow
Frederick Dexter Sowle
Ernest H. Sparrell
Lemuel W. Standish
William E. Staples
James D. Stewart
Ralph Raymond Stratton
Albert Austin Sutherland
James F. Sweeney
Charles Symonds
Valmore P. Tetreault
John E. Thayer Jr.
William Franklin Thomas Jr.
John Thomas	January 27, 1859
Harlie E. Thompson
Elwin L. Thompson
Prince H. Tirrell
Joseph D. Toomey
James A. Torrey	September 27, 1868
George M. Underwood
Edward F. Wallace
Richard McClennan Walsh	February 5, 1878
Robert Burns Walsh
James E. Warren
Frederick A. Warren
Slater Washburn
George Pearl Webster	January 9, 1877
James T. Welch
Henry H. Wheelock
Renton Whidden
Benjamin Franklin White Jr.
Herbert Francis Winn
William Henry Winnett
Temple A. Winsloe
Thomas A. Winston
Samuel H. Wragg	June 9, 1882
Benjamin Loring Young	1885

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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 Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1923.
1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1923" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts
1 2 Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators (2015), "Important Dates for Women in Massachusetts Government", History of Women in the Massachusetts Legislature 1923–2015

External links

Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1923, hdl:2452/265583
Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1924, hdl:2452/393335
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1923, hdl:2452/64535
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1924, hdl:2452/64536

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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+.

[Officials-5] 1 2 Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1923.

[Register-6] 1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1923" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

[Women2015-7] 1 2 Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators (2015), "Important Dates for Women in Massachusetts Government", History of Women in the Massachusetts Legislature 1923–2015

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