1916 Massachusetts legislature

137th
Massachusetts General Court
137th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Senate
Members	40
House
Members	240

Last updated August 08, 2023

The 137th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1916.^[1]

Senators

name ^[1]	date of birth ^[2]	district ^[2]
Frank Bartlett
Sanford Bates	July 17, 1884
William A. L. Bazeley	1872
Charles Sumner Beal	August 14, 1856	1st Plymouth
James W. Bean	May 11, 1866
John E. Beck	May 10, 1869
Charles Donnell Brown	June 5, 1862
James F. Cavanagh
Daniel J. Chapman	January 18, 1878
Ezra W. Clark	October 12, 1842
Herbert E. Cummings
Charles W. Eldridge	October 16, 1877
George H. Ellis	October 3, 1848
Frank S. Farnsworth
Wilton B. Fay
Charles L. Gifford	March 15, 1871
Gurdon W. Gordon
James I. Green	April 9, 1885
John W. Haigis	July 31, 1881
Martin Hays	October 14, 1876
Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr.	October 1, 1878
John B. Hull Jr.	July 17, 1871
George H. Jackson	March 9, 1865
Charles A. Kimball
Richard Knowles
Louis F. R. Langelier
George Edward Marchand	December 22, 1877
Joseph W. Martin Jr.	November 3, 1884
Orion T. Mason
Philip J. McGonagle	October 21, 1871
Walter E. McLane
Edward F. McLaughlin	June 6, 1883
W. Prentiss Parker	December 11, 1857
E. Howard Perley
John F. Sheehan
James R. Tetler	August 26, 1877
James P. Timilty	March 28, 1865
Nathan A. Tufts	April 15, 1879
Robert M. Washburn	January 4, 1868
Henry Gordon Wells	October 12, 1879

Representatives

name ^[1]	date of birth ^[2]	district ^[2]
Essex S. Abbott
Henry Achin Jr.	June 30, 1883
George C. F. Allen		14th Essex
Philip R. Ammidon
Algodt N. Anderson
Charles H. Annis	January 12, 1869
William M. Armstrong	August 17, 1850
Benjamin S. Atwood
George W. P. Babb
James T. Bagshaw
Edmund Baker
William B. Baldwin	September 18, 1854
Philip Hosmer Ball
Arthur W. Barker
William J. Barry	1861
Thomas William Baxter
Addison P. Beardsley
Joseph Belcher
Joseph J. Benson
James D. Bentley	February 6, 1884
Jacob Bitzer	January 16, 1865
Alvin E. Bliss
Cornelius Boothman
Eden K. Bowser
Manassah Edward Bradley
Thomas H. Brennan
James J. Brennan	May 2, 1882
Clarence A. Briggs
Vincent Brogna
Fred Johnson Brown
Charles Henry Brown	September 25, 1873
Daniel J. Buckley
George Bunting	August 31, 1868
Arthur E. Burr
Frederick Butler
Fred E. Cady
Julius F. Carman	August 7, 1861
Daniel W. Casey
Allison G. Catheron	June 26, 1878
George Dudley Chamberlain
Albert Minot Chandler
Edward Earl Chapman
Charles Chapman
John W. Churchill	November 17, 1853
Frederic F. Clauss
James Coffey	May 17, 1849
Arthur Willard Colburn	December 1, 1877
Benjamin G. Collins
Samuel I. Collins	March 4, 1851
D. Herbert Cook	June 2, 1851
Thomas J. Cooley
John J. Courtney
Channing H. Cox	October 28, 1879
John W. Craig
Burton H. Crosby
Fred Wilder Cross	September 15, 1868
John J. Cummings
George E. Curran
Edward N. Dahlborg
Samuel Davis	June 4, 1866
Theodore H. Day
George F. Dennis
Thomas F. Donovan	September 26, 1890
John L. Donovan	June 3, 1876
Thomas E. Dowd
Frederic E. Dowling
George P. Drury
Edward B. Eames	April 15, 1856
Carl C. Emery	November 4, 1888
John P. Englert
John G. Faxon
Horace F. Field
Charles D. Fisher
Michael J. Fitzgerald	March 10, 1878
John I. Fitzgerald	July 18, 1882
William J. Foley	March 2, 1887
Harry C. Foster	August 27, 1871
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
Mauran I. Furbish
Charles F. Garrity
Harry C. Gates
John Mellen Gibbs
Thomas J. Giblin
John J. Gillis
Nesbit G. Gleason
Fred Parker Greenwood
Julius Guild	March 30, 1850
Edgar H. Hall
John Halliwell	February 21, 1864
Walter A. Hardy	December 15, 1866
Edward F. Harrington (state representative)	August 10, 1878
James L. Harrop
George F. Hart	November 9, 1859
Charles H. Hartshorn
William M. Haskins
James William Hayes
Matthew A. Higgins
Francis M. Hill
Kenneth Page Hill
John A. Hirsch	1861
William J. Holland
Peter Holt
Horace W. Hosie	February 2, 1864
John C. Hull (politician)	November 1, 1870
Charles N. James	September 3, 1853
Henry W. Jarvis
Victor Francis Jewett
John G. Johnson	May 23, 1864
Michael H. Jordan	February 7, 1863
Thomas Martin Joyce
John Joseph Kearney
David Leon Kelley	April 26, 1889
Edward I. Kelley
William W. Kennard
Robert T. Kent
Joseph O. Knox
Arthur F. Lamb
Ernest A. LaRocque
Charles S. Lawler
Joseph M. Levenson
John N. Levins
Fred Oliver Lewis	June 12, 1878
George E. Lilley
Daniel Waldo Lincoln	September 2, 1882
George A. Lindberg
George Washington Love
James MacFarlane Lyle
Frank E. Lyman	September 15, 1866
Luther B. Lyman	November 13, 1853
John H. Lynch	October 28, 1884
James E. MacPherson
John P. Mahoney	May 26, 1888
Lloyd Makepeace
Michael F. Malone
David Mancovitz	August 15, 1877
Frank A. Manning
Felix A. Marcella
Robert B. Martin
John Edwin Maybury
John Henry McAllister
Peter F. McCarty
Joseph McGrath (American politician)	December 20, 1890
James H. McInerney	December 13, 1871
Frederick William McKenzie
Michael J. McNamee
Charles J. McNulty
Samuel H. Mildram
John Mitchell	September 4, 1877
John L. Monahan
Wesley E. Monk	August 1, 1874
Alfred James Moore	August 7, 1891
Daniel T. Morrill
Edward G. Morris
James Morrison	February 17, 1857
Frank Mulveny
John J. Murphy	March 26, 1889
Dennis A. Murphy	September 26, 1876
William A. Murray	June 17, 1889
Ken Nash
Arthur N. Newhall
John P. Nickerson
Francis Norwood
John Joseph O'Brien
John Joseph O'Connell
James T. O'Dowd
Joseph A. Oakhem
James E. Odlin
Ambrose F. Ogden
John N. Osborne	January 28, 1853
George E. Osgood
Peter C. Paradis
John H. Parker	August 27, 1859
Ward Mayhew Parker
Chauncey Pepin
Harold L. Perrin
Edward Howland Perry
Joseph H. Perry	May 4, 1869
Joseph C. Perry	May 1, 1856
James E. Phelan	October 21, 1884
Frederick Everett Pierce	May 5, 1862
James Tracy Potter	January 26, 1870
Francis Prescott
Albert T. Quiry
William C. Renne
George Louis Richards
Charles Freeman Rowley
Louis Hooker Ruggles
William F. Runnells	February 18, 1865
G. Oscar Russell
John D. Ryan	July 30, 1868
Edward Julius Sandberg	October 21, 1866
Joseph A. Saunders
Frederick W. Schlapp
C. Burnside Seagrave
C. Edgar Searing
John Henry Sherburne	1877
Michael J. Sherry
Samuel Silverman
Allston M. Sinnott
Jerome S. Smith
Fitz-Henry Smith Jr.
William O. Souther Jr.
Joseph Fayette Stone	February 8, 1858
Merrill E. Streeter
Denis J. Sullivan	July 24, 1889
William H. Sullivan	February 20, 1869
Simon Swig	1862
James E. Tolman	November 8, 1867
Albert Mason Tyler
George J. Wall
Robert J. Ware
Joseph E. Warner	May 16, 1884
George B. Waterman
William E. Weeks	1880
Thomas Weston, Jr
Albert L. Whitman
Edgar H. Whitney
Waterman Lester Williams	August 10, 1867
Alvin R. Wilson
Herbert A. Wilson	November 27, 1870
Walter Edgar Wolfe
Isaac U. Wood
William H. Woodhead	September 17, 1860
Harry C. Woodill
George M. Worrall
Benjamin Loring Young	1885

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References

1 2 3 Who's Who in State Politics. Boston: Practical Politics. 1916.
1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1916" (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: 1916, hdl:2452/303855
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1916, hdl:2452/60138

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[Who-1] 1 2 3 Who's Who in State Politics. Boston: Practical Politics. 1916.

[Register-2] 1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1916" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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