1897 Massachusetts legislature

The 118th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1897 during the governorship of Roger Wolcott. George P. Lawrence served as president of the Senate and John L. Bates served as speaker of the House.[4]

118th
Massachusetts General Court
117th 119th
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 3, 1896
Senate
Members40
PresidentGeorge P. Lawrence
Party controlRepublican (35–5)[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerJohn L. Bates
Party controlRepublican (202–38)[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 6, 1897 (1897-01-06) – June 12, 1897 (1897-06-12) [3]
George P. Lawrence
George Lawrence, Senate president.
John L. Bates
John Bates, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1897.

The 1897 legislature is the high-water mark for the Massachusetts Republican Party, which held 35 seats in the Senate and 202 in the House. Republicans have not surpassed either number since, though they would match their high of 35 Senate seats again in 1920.[1][2]

Senators

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James Alderson Bailey Jr. March 25, 1867
 
Harding R. Barber December 20, 1839
 
Albert F. Barker October 24, 1859
 
Lewis H. Bartlett April 2, 1854
 
William R. Black August 23, 1830
 
Edward S. Bradford December 1, 1842
 
William Hartwell Brigham February 1, 1863
 
William H. Cook January 7, 1843
 
Ellery B. Crane November 12, 1836
 
Frederick W. Dallinger October 2, 1871
 
William W. Davis August 8, 1862
 
James H. Derbyshire June 11, 1855
 
Noble W. Everett February 20, 1827
 
Joseph Byron Farley October 10, 1847
 
James H. Flint June 25, 1852
 
Charles E. Folsom February 24, 1855
 
James A. Gallivan October 22, 1866
 
John Dennis Hammond Gauss January 4, 1861
 
Clarke Partridge Harding June 20, 1853
 
Albert L. Harwood September 10, 1847
 
James E. Hayes August 10, 1865
 
Joshua B. Holden March 5, 1850
 
Richard William Irwin February 18, 1857
 
Dwight H. Ives January 28, 1837
 
Erastus Jones September 11, 1825
 
George P. Lawrence May 19, 1859
 
Martin Lomasney December 3, 1859
 
William Moran September 6, 1855
 
William A. Morse July 27, 1863
 
Henry Parsons February 2, 1842
 
John Jacob Prevaux March 16, 1857
 
George E. Putnam February 9, 1851
 
John Quinn, Jr. December 16, 1859
 
Ernest W. Roberts November 22, 1858
 
Alfred Seelye Roe June 8, 1844
 
George Edwin Smith April 5, 1849
 
Rufus Albertson Soule 1839
 
William W. Towle August 21, 1860
 
John Loring Woodfall September 15, 1847
 
Charles F. Woodward November 19, 1852

Representatives

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Albert E. Addis May 4, 1864
 
Benjamin C. Ames December 20, 1859
 
Richard F. Andrews, Jr April 13, 1863
 
Julius C. Anthony September 24, 1856
 
Edward R. Ashley May 15, 1824
 
Henry C. Attwill March 11, 1872
 
Gustavus Atwood November 18, 1843
 
Thomas C. Bachelder November 6, 1860
 
Charles O. Bailey January 24, 1863
 
Horace P. Bailey March 3, 1840
 
John E. Baldwin June 26, 1869
 
Frank W. Barnard January 3, 1853
 
Franklin O. Barnes November 11, 1841
 
George H. Bartlett September 6, 1857
 
Jonathan B. L. Bartlett October 11, 1849
 
John L. Bates September 18, 1859
 
Charles O. Beede December 29, 1840
 
Henry A. Belcher August 6, 1845
 
Scott F. Bickford November 14, 1864
 
Osgood C. Blaney January 20, 1860
 
John Bleiler May 9, 1837
 
Henry H. Bosworth March 16, 1868
 
Harvey L. Boutwell April 5, 1860
 
Walter L. Bouve October 28, 1849
 
Henry J. Boyd May 9, 1831
Cary C. Bradford February 8, 1855
 
Manassah Edward Bradley August 15, 1863
 
Charles Donnell Brown June 5, 1862
 
Charles E. Brown November 18, 1850
 
George A. Brown November 24, 1854
 
Joseph G. Brown January 19, 1825
 
Aaron R. Bunting August 26, 1833
 
Clement F. Burr January 22, 1849
 
Ernest W. Calkins December 25, 1855
 
Edward B. Callender February 23, 1851
 
Andrew Campbell May 3, 1826
 
Leonard B. Chandler August 29, 1851
 
William D. Chapple August 6, 1868
 
George F. Chase December 11, 1851
 
James B. Clancy May 26, 1868
 
Albert B. Clark June 5, 1854
 
Albert Clarke October 13, 1840
 
Samuel Cole December 15, 1856
 
James W. Coleman March 17, 1855
 
Walter S. V. Cooke August 12, 1851
 
George W. Coombs November 4, 1837
 
Edward A. Cowee July 23, 1857
 
Fred E. Crawford July 7, 1857
 
Charles C. Crocker August 21, 1831
 
Thomas W. Crocker December 27, 1832
 
Alfred R. Crosby August 30, 1838
 
Richard Cullinane February 2, 1859
 
Nelson P. Cummings April 27, 1847
 
Daniel J. Curley April 2, 1841
 
William Curtis August 8, 1857
 
Daniel W. Davis October 3, 1846
 
William Ripley Davis March 8, 1862
 
Cornelius R. Day December 29, 1847
 
Charles Leroy Dean May 29, 1844
 
Thomas M. Denham February 2, 1840
 
Robert F. Denvir September 8, 1840
 
John B. Dewing January 28, 1835
 
David T. Dickinson August 13, 1867
 
Richard Dobbins June 2, 1845
 
Thomas Donahue August 20, 1853
 
Jeremiah F. Donovan May 10, 1856
 
Thomas J. Dooling January 28, 1868
 
James M. Douglass February 24, 1839
 
Daniel M. Driscoll January 2, 1861
 
Hugo A. Dubuque November 3, 1854
 
A. Glendon Dyar August 4, 1860
 
Freeman O. Emerson January 12, 1859
 
A. Edwin Enberg September 9, 1866
 
Eugene B. Estes December 7, 1850
 
Frank W. Estey December 16, 1866
 
George S. Evans September 12, 1841
 
E. Walter Everett April 11, 1864
 
Wilson H. Fairbank April 3, 1836
 
John J. Falvey May 26, 1864
 
Francis F. Farrar January 10, 1833
 
John J. Feneno March 24, 1866
 
George E. Fisher January 22, 1823
 
E. Knowlton Fogg October 24, 1837
 
Albert T. Folsom November 9, 1831
 
Otis Foss October 4, 1838
 
Frank W. Francis September 16, 1857
 
George G. Frederick January 14, 1867
 
George F. Fuller March 8, 1842
 
Charles W. Gale October 3, 1846
 
Jefferson C. Gallison August 8, 1841
 
John J. Gardner February 23, 1853
 
Samuel Wesley George April 26, 1862
 
Emery B. Gibbs October 23, 1862
 
Moses D. Gilman May 23, 1846
 
Otis M. Gove May 3, 1851
 
Oliver S. Grant April 30, 1866
 
James Wilson Grimes November 21, 1865
 
Almon E. Hall December 6, 1846
 
Amos E. Hall July 6, 1838
 
Luther Hall November 5, 1842
 
Frederick Hammond February 27, 1847
 
Frederic Hanson May 2, 1835
 
Edward H. Harding April 17, 1854
 
Joseph M. Harrington July 26, 1828
 
Frederic W. Hathaway March 6, 1836
 
William Henry Irving Hayes June 21, 1848
 
Albert F. Hayward January 24, 1840
 
Charles E. Hoag September 18, 1849
 
Charles E. Hosmer May 25, 1837
 
Walter F. Howard September 20, 1855
 
Rufus Howe September 28, 1837
 
Edward H. Hoyt July 11, 1849
 
Franklin E. Huntress April 19, 1866
 
Charles Hiller Innes August 6, 1870
 
John W. Johnson June 14, 1856
 
George R. Jones February 8, 1862
 
Melville D. Jones September 25, 1842
 
William A. Josselyn February 8, 1856
 
James Keenan March 4, 1850
 
Thomas F. Keenan March 11, 1854
 
John A. Keliher November 6, 1866
 
John L. Kelly March 29, 1869
 
George H. Kelton September 20, 1861
 
Thomas W. Kenefick September 17, 1855
 
Patrick J. Kennedy March 20, 1862
 
David T. King January 19, 1864
 
William A. Lang May 26, 1836
 
James Lawrence March 23, 1853
 
James H. Leary November 28, 1868
 
Ottho William Lewis July 17, 1853
 
Charles F. Light August 1, 1860
 
Warren J. Livermore January 5, 1835
 
Alexander Lockhart December 22, 1854
 
Francis Cabot Lowell January 7, 1855
 
Albert W. Lyon March 1, 1869
 
John E. Magenis May 5, 1873
 
Jeremiah E. Mahoney November 8, 1864
 
Forrest C. Manchester September 11, 1859
 
William H. Marden May 30, 1843
 
Lyman Mason April 4, 1838
 
Arthur A. Maxwell January 24, 1858
 
Will W. Mayhew January 15, 1857
 
Benjamin W. Mayo April 17, 1836
 
Jeremiah Justin McCarthy March 29, 1852
 
George M. McClain March 9, 1842
 
John E. McClellan September 5, 1847
 
James S. McKenna January 11, 1864
 
Levi G. McKnight April 30, 1843
 
John A. McManus March 9, 1860
 
George F. Mead May 22, 1854
 
George W. Mellen May 11, 1837
 
William H. Mellen November 9, 1842
 
John M. Merriam September 20, 1862
 
Charles E. Mills December 28, 1847
 
Charles P. Mills August 22, 1853
 
Eugene Michael Moriarty April 15, 1849
 
William L. Morse May 1, 1849
 
James J. Myers November 20, 1842
 
Joseph O. Neill January 31, 1838
 
Edward B. Nevin November 10, 1858
 
Thaddeus H. Newcomb March 15, 1826
 
George H. Norton May 28, 1863
B. Alden Nourse July 19, 1836
 
Frank J. O'Toole October 13, 1867
 
William Odlin April 5, 1865
 
John B. Packard February 22, 1837
 
Herbert C. Parsons January 15, 1862
 
Joseph E. Pattee April 24, 1843
 
Francis C. Perry June 27, 1853
 
Frank H. Pervere March 24, 1831
 
Lemuel W. Peters July 29, 1860
 
Franklin F. Phillips December 21, 1852
 
Edward L. Pickard December 25, 1834
 
Edward L. Pierce March 29, 1829
 
Oliver K. Pierce January 27, 1835
 
John H. Ponce November 1, 1857
 
Burrill Porter February 22, 1832
 
William H. Porter May 8, 1856
 
Thomas Post August 16, 1834
 
John A. Powers September 15, 1853
 
David G. Pratt November 7, 1848
 
Nicolas M. Quint July 18, 1838
 
Charles I. Quirk August 15, 1871
 
James P. Ramsay April 30, 1861
 
Silas Dean Reed June 25, 1872
 
William Louis Reed[7] April 5, 1866
 
Michael J. Reidy August 8, 1870
 
George M. Rice October 20, 1843
 
Clinton Q. Richmond December 17, 1859
 
Atherton W. Rogers August 10, 1848
 
Samuel Ross February 2, 1865
 
Daniel D. Rourke July 16, 1869
 
Edward T. Rowell 1836
 
Michael L. Russell December 15, 1860
 
Howard K. Sanderson July 10, 1865
 
Frank P. Sargent November 4, 1854
 
Tristram T. Savory September 19, 1834
 
William H. Severance January 12, 1857
 
Charles S. Shattuck June 5, 1840
 
David B. Shaw August 20, 1870
 
John F. Sheehan September 2, 1861
 
P. Howard Shirley August 15, 1857
 
William E. Skillings October 23, 1843
 
George B. Smart February 25, 1835
 
Harvey C. Smith November 20, 1847
 
Henry R. Smith October 7, 1842
 
Mark E. Smith June 22, 1871
 
Cyrus Spaulding April 17, 1835
 
Hugh L. Stalker December 31, 1857
 
Fred D. Stanley October 17, 1863
 
Edward A. Stevens December 9, 1841
 
John M. Stevenson August 31, 1846
 
Joseph I. Stewart April 25, 1847
 
Joseph W. Stocker April 6, 1824
 
Willmore B. Stone June 24, 1853
 
Cornelius F. Sullivan June 15, 1865
 
Simon S. Sullivan August 5, 1868
 
Peter Francis Tague June 4, 1871
 
James Thompson May 18, 1848
 
Henry Thrasher May 29, 1837
 
Charles W. Tilton April 6, 1836
 
John J. Toomey September 18, 1868
 
Charles E. Trow April 18, 1833
 
J. Gilman Waite March 20, 1837
 
Charles G. Washburn January 28, 1857
 
Eben C. Waterman March 1, 1840
 
Otis V. Waterman August 13, 1834
 
William W. Waterman December 4, 1831
 
Jackson Webster March 14, 1849
 
George W. Whidden June 15, 1858
 
Horace C. White January 26, 1836
 
Zadoc L. White December 29, 1854
 
James Whitehead December 20, 1857
 
William A. Whittlesey February 21, 1849
 
Francis O. Winslow March 20, 1844
 
Alva S. Wood May 12, 1828
 
John A. Woodbury August 22, 1836
 
Daniel S. Woodman April 12, 1842
 
Joseph W. Woodman January 25, 1847
 
Willie C. Young May 28, 1848

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "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
  2. ^ a b "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. ^ a b Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1897 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ a b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1897" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  7. ^ Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905

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