1925–1926 Massachusetts legislature

144th
Massachusetts General Court
144th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Senate
Members	40
House
Members	240

Last updated July 30, 2023

The 144th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1925 and 1926.^[1]

Senators

name ^[1]	date of birth ^[2]	district ^[2]
Gaspar G. Bacon	March 7, 1886	8th Suffolk
Alfred M. Bessette	March 25, 1876
Alvin E. Bliss
John B. Cashman
George Dudley Chamberlain
Edward J. Cox
Hugh Cregg	1888
Warren Chapman Daggett	May 10, 1868
J. Bradford Davis	September 26, 1889
Eben S. Draper Jr.	August 30, 1893
Erland F. Fish	December 7, 1883
William J. Francis
Charles Benjamin Frothingham	November 11, 1858
Harvey A. Gallup	October 16, 1869
Harry Peabody Gifford
John W. Haigis	July 31, 1881
Charles H. Hartshorn
William Ignatius Hennessey
Charles P. Howard
Clarence P. Kidder
William J. Look	June 20, 1867
Daniel Aloysius Martin
John W. McCormack	December 21, 1891
Walter E. McLane
James G. Moran	May 2, 1870
George G. Moyse	December 21, 1878
James J. Mulvey
Christian Nelson
Walter Perham
Frank B. Phinney
Abbott B. Rice
Walter Shuebruk
Dexter Avery Snow	January 3, 1890
John A. Stoddart	May 10, 1869
John E. Thayer Jr.
George M. Webber
Wellington Wells	April 18, 1868
Samuel H. Wragg	June 9, 1882

Representatives

name ^[1]	date of birth ^[2]	district ^[2]
Charles E. Abbott	February 22, 1856	9th Essex
Henry Achin Jr.	June 30, 1883
Elijah Adlow	August 15, 1896
George B. Ager	December 30, 1860
William A. Akeroyd	October 24, 1883
Harry Benjamin Albro	January 21, 1887
Walter Dickey Allen	March 15, 1896
Charles W. Ames	March 10, 1860
George P. Anderson	February 19, 1873
Charles H. Annis	January 12, 1869
Charles H. Ashley	February 13, 1860
Thomas N. Ashton	April 27, 1884
Josiah Babcock Jr.	May 21, 1880
Benjamin Barnes	October 19, 1880
Edmund M. Bartlett	March 15, 1886
Charles Rodman Bassett	October 2, 1865
Thomas R. Bateman	October 11, 1878
Robert L. Baylies	July 26, 1864
John E. Beck	May 10, 1869
William J. Bell	December 7, 1884
William A. Bennett	March 7, 1887
James D. Bentley	February 6, 1884
Thomas H. Bilodeau	February 3, 1885
Leo Birmingham	April 14, 1893
Arthur Franklin Blanchard	January 27, 1883
Harold M. Bradbury	July 9, 1886
Frank A. Brainerd	May 6, 1870
George Francis Brooks	August 23, 1856
Robert S. Brown	November 20, 1869
John P. Buckley	June 12, 1889
Albert W. Bullock	April 18, 1872
John K. Burgess	1863
Garrett H. Byrne	November 29, 1897
Julius F. Carman	August 7, 1861
George H. Carpenter	November 14, 1869
Charles L. Carr	December 25, 1876
Lemuel D. Carter	October 25, 1872
Bernard P. Casey	July 29, 1894
James Bernard Casey	June 19, 1897
Francis E. Cassidy	February 14, 1888
Clifford F. Chamberlain	February 17, 1879
Francis Peter Clark	August 22, 1896
Ezra W. Clark	October 12, 1842
Maynard Clemons	December 11, 1866
Daniel J. Coakley	November 18, 1880
Arthur Willard Colburn	December 1, 1877
Emerson J. Coldwell	April 29, 1888
William J. Conlon	March 14, 1868
William S. Conroy	October 2, 1877
Francis X. Coyne	March 15, 1892
Richard D. Crockwell	October 23, 1886
Arthur Payne Crosby	August 1, 1879
Thomas Charles Crowther	April 28, 1892
Daniel Joseph Curley	December 23, 1875
Bert S. Currier	August 2, 1864
George H. Dale	November 25, 1870
Elbridge Gerry Davis	August 20, 1877
John P. Day	January 25, 1878
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
Oscar U. Dionne	March 3, 1897
George Lincoln Dodd	May 3, 1868
Sylvia Donaldson	July 12, 1849
John F. Donovan	April 26, 1897
Thomas F. Donovan	September 26, 1890
Timothy Francis Donovan	August 21, 1889
Walter Franklyn Douglas	August 22, 1869
Robert W. Dow	July 15, 1868
Andrew P. Doyle	August 15, 1869
William L. DuBois	July 31, 1892
Eugene Patrick Durgin	December 12, 1884
Henry T. G. Dyson	October 4, 1858
Frank W. Eaton	February 22, 1871
Henry A. Estabrook	April 22, 1850
Gustave William Everberg	June 24, 1890
John T. Farrell	January 30, 1893
Allan S. Farwell	July 2, 1867
Walter H. Faunce
Bernard Finkelstein	July 4, 1887
William Arthur Fish	July 4, 1885
Peter J. Fitzgerald	September 13, 1899
John I. Fitzgerald	July 18, 1882
Maurice E. Foley	February 8, 1893
Charles R. Foote	July 9, 1865
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
Bernard Ginsburg	August 1, 1898
Angier Goodwin	January 30, 1881
Patrick E. Granfield	March 17, 1894
Walter Bernard Grant	February 11, 1885
Louis L. Green
William Jeremiah Greenler
Thomas J. Griffin
Fred D. Griggs
C. Wesley Hale	February 13, 1872
Albert Harrison Hall
Arthur Alexander Hansen
Harriet Russell Hart	February 1, 1878
Leslie T. Haskins
Benjamin A. Hastings
James William Hayes
Martin Hays	October 14, 1876
Jeremiah Joseph Healy	July 2, 1872
William H. Hearn
Thomas J. Hefferon
William P. Hickey	November 17, 1871
Matthew A. Higgins
Lyman A. Hodgdon
Charles Sumner Holden
Robert H. J. Holden
Arthur W. Hollis	April 29, 1877
Newland H. Holmes	August 30, 1891
Elisha Hooper
Michael F. Hourihan
Harold E. Howard
Edgar F. Howland
John C. Hull (politician)	November 1, 1870
James Melville Hunnewell
Joseph L. Hurley	April 20, 1898
Fred A. Hutchinson	April 5, 1881
Alfred Wesley Ingalls
Herbert Jackson
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
Frederick E. Judd
George Edward Keegan
Roland M. Keith	March 16, 1847
Francis Joseph Kelley	March 21, 1890
Charles A. Kelley	March 24, 1862
Edward J. Kelley	December 25, 1897
Thomas S. Kennedy
William E. Kirkpatrick	November 12, 1901
John Fenderson Kyes
Alfred Napoleon LaBrecque
William D. Lancaster
Joseph Lawrence Larson
Robert Sumner Leonard
Joseph W. Leyden
Arthur E. Littlefield
Clarence S. Luitwieler
James H. Lyons
Allan Barker MacGregor
George E. Malcolm
Felix A. Marcella
Joseph Martin	February 18, 1867
Edward M. Matz
John J. McCarthy
Richard J. McCormick	August 11, 1888
Elmer L. McCulloch
Willard Spaulding McKay
Bennett V. McLaughlin
George C. McMenimen
Carroll Meins	October 22, 1892
John Mitchell	September 4, 1877
Daniel F. Moriarty
Thomas J. Morton	March 2, 1856
James Ashton Mulhall
Joseph J. Mulhern
Luke David Mullen
Patrick Francis Nestor
Donald W. Nicholson	August 11, 1888
Edward H. Nutting	July 6, 1869
John J. O'Brien	October 18, 1879
Daniel W. O'Connor	March 12, 1877
James H. O'Dea
Joseph N. O'Kane	May 26, 1873
Cornelius Jerome O'Neill
Olof F. Ohlson
Frank Wellman Osborne
Ralph Emerson Otis	January 16, 1890
Herman Pehrsson
George Penshorn
Chauncey Pepin
Francis H. Perry	June 24, 1855
Joseph Earl Perry	December 30, 1884
Lewis Hilton Peters
Charles Stuart Phelps
Chester Arthur Pike
George K. Pond
Leonard H. Porter
Edgar F. Power
Thomas Joseph Powers
William Patrick Prendergast
Everett R. Prout
Langdon Prouty
Francis E. Rafter	November 14, 1892
Harry C. Rice
George Louis Richards
Henry Francis Ripley
Joseph N. Roach	March 22, 1883
Leverett Saltonstall	September 1, 1892
Edward Julius Sandberg	October 21, 1866
Roland D. Sawyer	January 8, 1874
Walter E. Schuster
Frank O. Scott
Henry Lee Shattuck	October 12, 1879
Michael F. Shaw	September 12, 1865
Charles H. Shaylor
Charles Henry Slowey
Walter Herbert Snow
Ernest H. Sparrell
Elmer E. Spear	January 2, 1887
Lemuel W. Standish
J. Sidney Stone
Ralph Raymond Stratton
Patrick J. Sullivan
Albert Austin Sutherland
Charles Symonds
George Ira Tarr
Frank A. Teele	August 25, 1866
William Franklin Thomas Jr.
John Thomas	January 27, 1859
Elwin L. Thompson
James A. Torrey	September 27, 1868
James J. Twohig	September 26, 1886
George M. Underwood
Herbert W. Urquhart	October 19, 1883
Irving Everett Walker
Edward F. Wallace
Joseph M. Ward
James E. Warren
Frederick A. Warren
Slater Washburn
James T. Welch
William H. Wellen
Sargent Holbrook Wellman
Renton Whidden
Lawrence Theodore Woolfenden
Willard Otis Wylie

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References

1 2 3 Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1925.
1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1925" (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: 1925, hdl:2452/279545
Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1926, hdl:2452/279546
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1925, hdl:2452/64537
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1926, hdl:2452/64538

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[Officials-1] 1 2 3 Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1925.

[Register-2] 1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1925" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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1925–1926 Massachusetts legislature

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