1876 Massachusetts legislature

97th
Massachusetts General Court
97th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 2, 1875
Senate
Members	40
President	George B. Loring
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	John Davis Long
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 5, 1876 – April 28, 1876

Last updated August 10, 2023

George Loring, Senate president.

John Davis Long, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1876.

The 97th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1876 during the governorship of Alexander H. Rice. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John Davis Long served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

Name ^[6]	Date of birth ^[7]	District
Moses O. Ayres	July 21, 1826	4th Worcester
Emery L. Bates	March 16, 1823	3rd Worcester
J. White Belcher	November 14, 1823	3rd Norfolk
Selwyn Zadock Bowman	May 11, 1840	2nd Middlesex
Elisha Brimhall	March 25, 1825	5th Worcester
Haydn Brown	February 16, 1819	4th Essex
Samuel Dexter Crane	1816	5th Suffolk
John Cummings	1812	6th Middlesex
Timothy John Dacey	1849	2nd Suffolk
Edward Livingston Davis	1834	2nd Suffolk
George L. Davis	June 17, 1816	3rd Essex
Joseph Emery Fiske	1839	2nd Norfolk
Eustace Carey Fitz	1833	1st Suffolk
Thomas Francis Fitzgerald	1848	6th Suffolk
Michael Joseph Flatley	1823	3rd Suffolk
William Miner Gaylord	1821	Hampshire
Samuel Slocum Ginnodo	1816	1st Bristol
Joseph Alfred Harwood	March 26, 1827	5th Middlesex
Tilly Haynes	February 13, 1828	1st Hampden
Jonathan Higgins	November 21, 1816	Cape
Ezra Coffin Howard	September 1, 1831	Islands
Charles Howes	October 26, 1826	5th Essex
Ebenezer Atherton Hunt	January 26, 1826	Norfolk & Plymouth
William E. Livingston	June 25, 1832	7th Middlesex
George B. Loring	November 8, 1817	2nd Essex
Horace Hawkes Mayhew	1826	Franklin
Peter M. Neal	September 21, 1811	1st Essex
Albert Palmer	January 17, 1831	1st Norfolk
Francis J. Parker	March 3, 1825	4th Middlesex
Caleb Rand	1817	1st Middlesex
Everett Robinson	January 22, 1816	1st Plymouth
George D. Robinson	January 20, 1834	2nd Hampden
Henry W. Robinson	October 9, 1819	2nd Plymouth
John Sargent	June 21, 1799	3rd Middlesex
Norman W. Shores	1834	Berkshire & Hampshire
Francis Dana Stedman	1801	4th Suffolk
Philip J. Tripp	October 28, 1822	3rd Bristol
Byron Weston	April 9, 1832	Berkshire
Benjamin Franklin Wing	October 22, 1822	2nd Bristol

Representatives

image	Name ^[6]	Date of birth ^[7]	District	Party
	James Abbe	1822
	Ebenezer Adams	1830
	Stillman Boyd Allen	September 8, 1830
	William Augustus Alley	1841
	Edwin Amsden	1828
	Jacob Franklin Appell	1840
	Michael A. Atkinson	1813
	Edwin Ayer	1827
	John James Babson	1809
	Daniel Danforth Bailey	1834
	Monroe Elias Ballou	1836
	Giles Gould Barker	1838
	Patrick Barry	1834
	Daniel Walton Bartlett	1829
	James Edward Taylor Bartlett	1825
	Benjamin Samuel Batchelor	1829
	Eliakim Adams Bates	1817
	Warren Augustus Bird	1837
	Warren Palmer Bird	1843
	Francis Charles Bowen	1834
	Osgood Bradley	1836
	Amos Franklin Breed	October 15, 1830
	Lysander Nelson Brownell	1817
	Orrin Bryant	1837
	Joseph Buckminster	1821
	Francis Bugbee	1829
	Isaac Tucker Burr	1828
	Charles Cargill Capron	1841
	Michael Carney	1827
	Frederick Thomas Chase	1844
	Gardner Asaph Churchill	1839
	Frederick Waterston Clapp	1843
	Lafayette Clapp	1824
	John P. Clark	1837
	Edward Coburn	1820
	Henry Fayette Coggshall	1823
	Charles Samuel Converse	1821
	Horace Cook	April 24, 1829
	John Hawkins Cook	1841
	Thomas Francis Cordis	1843
	Jeremiah William Coveney	1840
	Michael J. Croak	1843
	Elisha Crocker	1814
	Albert Willoughby Curtiss	1820
	Charles Henry Danforth	1837
	George Fisher Daniels	1820
	Dallas Jay Dean	1816
	Herbert Augustus Dean	1841
	Henry Dennis	1827
	Freeman Doane	1819
	Neil Doherty	1838
	Francis Elisha Downer	1832
	Adin Cady Estabrook	1828
	Alonzo Hathaway Evans	February 24, 1820
	George Otis Fairbanks	1815
	William Wallace Fish	1832
	Luther Fisk	1832
	Wesley Lewis Fiske	1823
	Theodore Narcisse Foque	1831
	John Freeto	1825
	Charles Fuller	1811
	Henry William Fuller	June 30, 1839
	Charles Lefevre Gardner	1839
	Thomas John Gargan	1844
	Thomas Rogers Garity	1838
	John Murray Gibbons	1833
	Benjamin Gifford	1824
	Onslow Gilmore	1832
	Samuel Slater Gleason	1842
	Curtis Banks Goodsell	1821
	George Washington Granger	1821
	Charles Hale	June 7, 1831
	Andrew Hall	1833
	Leander Moody Hannum	1837
	Lyman Sawin Hapgood	1822
	Joseph Tolman Hartt	1830
	James Dana Hartwell	1831
	George Haskell	1809
	Frederick Hathaway	1810
	Isaac Newton Hathaway	1819
	Nathan Mortimer Hawkes	1843
	Alanson Knox Hawks	1828
	Samuel Richardson Heywood	1821
	Samuel Dexter Hicks	1824
	Henry Bozyol Hill	1823
	John Beckford Hill	1824
	Joseph Warren Hill	1837
	Otis M. Hitchings	1822
	Ira Wilmarth Hoffman	1830
	Richard Holley	January 30, 1829
	Henry Tolman Holmes	1829
	George Francis Howe	1825
	Weston Howland	1813
	Jonas Sewall Hunt	1827
	Caleb Burroughs Huse	September 13, 1833
	Ephraim Alfred Ingalls	1826
	Thomas Leighton Jenks	1829
	Jesse Henry Jones	1836
	Ambrose Keith	1814
	Isaac Newton Keith	November 14, 1838
	Monroe Keith	1835
	Ziba Cary Keith	July 13, 1842
	Ensign Hosmer Kellogg	July 6, 1812
	Edward Kendall	1822
	Patrick Kennedy	1838
	Ensign Kimball	1818
	Moses Kimball	October 24, 1809
	William Sterling King	1818
	Joseph Addison Kingsbury	1837
	Edwin Leander Kirtland	1832
	Joel Knapp	1835
	John Knowles	1823
	Henry Charles Knowlton	1833
	Hosea Morrill Knowlton	1847
	Daniel Warren Lawrence	1830
	Henry Lee	1817
	Nathaniel Evan Lindsey	1843
	Samuel Longley	1823
	Charles Addison Loud	1829
	James Mackintosh	1838
	Seth Mann	1817
	Andrus March	1812
	Edward Franklin Mayo	1826
	Ebenezer Martin McPherson	1836
	Christopher Columbus Merritt	September 29, 1830
	George Whitney Merritt	1831
	Henry Sherman Miner	1820
	Joseph Mitchell	1809
	Thomas Mooney	1840
	John Morissey	1818
	George Washington Morrill	1818
	Elijah Adams Morse	1841
	William Morse	1822
	Frederick Pierce Moseley	1826
	Jeremiah Murphy	1834
	John Joseph Murphy	1842
	Sherman Nelson	1834
	John Burbank Nichols	1814
	Reuben Noble	1820
	Daniel Noonan	1834
	John B. Norton	1823
	Benjamin Alden Nourse	1836
	Isaac Newton Nutter	June 23, 1836
	Weaver Osborn	1815
	Charles Stuart Osgood	1839
	Harvey McCullock Owen	1833
	Frederick Parker	1810
	George Gedney Parker	1826
	David Allen Partridge	1833
	Joseph Frost Paul	1824
	George Robbins Perry	1836
	Charles Hiram Pew	1842
	Stephen Cobb Phinney	1829
	Edward L. Pierce	March 29, 1829
	Albert Enoch Pillsbury	August 19, 1849
	Charles Greenwood Pope	1840
	David Alden Preston	1846
	David Prouty	1813
	Henry Wheatland Putnam	1843
	Charles Henry Read	1830
	Henry Clifford Read	1810
	Washington Read	1813
	George Randall Reed	1832
	George Williams Reed	1826
	Rice Munn Reynolds	1838
	Charles Baker Rice	1829
	Charles Warren Richards	1824
	Jonathan Cady Richmond	1821
	Wallace Fullum Robinson	1832
	Charles Alvan Rogers	1836
	Joseph Hubbard Root	1823
	Joseph Samuel Ropes	February 6, 1818
	Solomon Nash Russell	1822
	Nathaniel Johnson Rust	1833
	Addison Sandford	1821
	Amos Joseph Saunders	1826
	Samuel Dexter Sawin	1835
	Ebenezer Sawyer	1809
	Enoch Sawyer	1841
	John Francis Searle	1839
	Calvin Wilbur Shattuck	1811
	Elijah Carter Shattuck	1820
	Elon Sherman	1820
	Albion King Slade	1822
	Solomon Sias Sleeper	1815
	Isaiah Atkins Small	1825
	Andrew Smith	1838
	Newton Smith	1837
	Robert Dickson Smith	1838
	Webster Smith	1825
	Samuel Snow	1828
	John Russell Southwick	1819
	Benjamin Franklin Stacey	1834
	James Trimble Stevens	1835
	Frederick Mason Stone	1825
	Michael Sullivan	1837
	James Francis Supple	1844
	Charles Alfonso Fletcher Swan	1830
	Jackson Benjamin Swett	1815
	Noah Swett	1826
	Samuel Talbot	1822
	Charles Andrews Taylor	1826
	Oliver Taylor	1826
	Davis Thayer	1816
	Byron Truell	1834
	Henry Grant Tuttle	1812
	William Ingersoll Van Deusen	1819
	Levi Clifford Wade	1843
	Alexander Wadsworth	1806
	Edwin Walden	November 25, 1818
	William Sprague Wallace	1838
	Alanson Wendell Ward	1827
	Alonzo Warren	1827
	John Davis Washburn	1833
	Eleazer Everett Waterman	1810
	William Watts	1835
	David Locke Webster	1813
	Austin Clark Wellington	1840
	John Wetherbee	1828
	John Wolcott Wetherell	1820
	John Dwelle Whicher	1825
	Benjamin White	1826
	James White	1828
	Joseph Wilder White	1825
	Edward Whitney	1815
	Moses Williams	1846
	George Colburn Wilson	1809
	John Gilbert Wilson	1825
	Daniel Wing	1841
	Thomas Winship	1826
	Isaac Winslow	1827
	Eliphaz Hibbard Wood	1810
	William Woods	1840
	James Clifton Woodward	1825

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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. 2009. p. 340+.
↑ John F. Parker (1985), "Legislative Compensation (a 350 Year-Old Issue)", Legislative Life, Its Realities, Facts, Wit & Humor, New Legislators' Orientation, State House, Boston
1 2 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1876. hdl:2452/40654.
1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1876" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

External links

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Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1876, hdl:2452/89612

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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. 2009. p. 340+.

[5] John F. Parker (1985), "Legislative Compensation (a 350 Year-Old Issue)", Legislative Life, Its Realities, Facts, Wit & Humor, New Legislators' Orientation, State House, Boston

[Manual-6] 1 2 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1876. hdl:2452/40654.

[Register2-7] 1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1876" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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