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1899 Massachusetts legislature

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The 120th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1899 during the governorship of Roger Wolcott. George Edwin Smith served as president of the Senate and John L. Bates served as speaker of the House.[4]

120th
Massachusetts General Court
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Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 8, 1898
Senate
Members40
PresidentGeorge Edwin Smith
Party controlRepublican (33–7)[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerJohn L. Bates
Party controlRepublican (168–64–8)[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 4, 1899 (1899-01-04) – June 3, 1899 (1899-06-03) [3]
George Edwin Smith
George Smith, Senate president.
John L. Bates
John Bates, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1899.

Senators edit

image name [5] date of birth [6] district
 
 Henry C. Attwill March 11, 1872
 
 Charles O. Bailey January 24, 1863
 
 John E. Baldwin June 26, 1869
 
 Walter L. Bouve October 28, 1849
 
 Loyed E. Chamberlain January 30, 1857
 
 Frederick W. Dallinger October 2, 1871
 
 William J. Donovan October 31, 1862
 
 Wilson H. Fairbank April 3, 1836
 
 John J. Feneno March 24, 1866
 
 Samuel Wesley George April 26, 1862
 
 Samuel S. Gleason May 1, 1842
 
 Francis A. Harrington November 17, 1846
 
 Albert L. Harwood September 10, 1847
 
 William H. Hodgkins June 9, 1840
 
 Charles Hiller Innes August 6, 1870
 
 Fred Joy July 8, 1859
 
 John A. Keliher November 6, 1866
 
 Thomas W. Kenefick September 17, 1855
 
 Warren S. Leach February 23, 1847
 
 William H. Lott September 17, 1852
 
 Walter O. Luscombe August 19, 1852
 
 Arthur A. Maxwell January 24, 1858
 
 John E. McClellan September 5, 1847
 
 William Moran September 6, 1855
 
 Herbert C. Parsons January 15, 1862
 
 Frank A. Patch July 23, 1844
 
 Thomas Post August 16, 1834
 
 George E. Putnam February 9, 1851
 
 William Reynolds June 15, 1843
 
 Howard K. Sanderson July 10, 1865
 
 Charles F. Sargent August 31, 1858
 
 George Edwin Smith April 5, 1849
 
 Rufus Albertson Soule 1839
 
 Peter Francis Tague June 4, 1871
George N. Tyner June 23, 1848
 
 Charles G. Washburn January 28, 1857
 
 William A. Whittlesey February 21, 1849
 
 Fred Homer Williams January 7, 1857
 
 Charles T. Witt July 18, 1848
 
 Benjamin Herbert Woodsum October 4, 1857

Representatives edit

image name [5] date of birth [6] district
 
 Austin Flint Adams July 15, 1840
 
 Charles H. Adams April 22, 1859
Wilfred Ainsworth March 31, 1867
 
 Butler Ames August 22, 1871
David B. Andrews August 12, 1838
 
 Richard F. Andrews, Jr April 13, 1863
 
 Albert S. Apsey November 27, 1870
 
 George Balcom January 23, 1832
Edwin Bartlett October 25, 1833
 
 John L. Bates September 18, 1859
 
 David W. Battles January 20, 1854
 
 Frank P. Bennett May 2, 1853
 
 John Bleiler May 9, 1837
 
 Charles H. Blood December 10, 1858
 
 Ward N. Boylston December 17, 1871
 
 Hugh W. Bresnahan November 25, 1869
 
 William Bridgeo October 14, 1849
 
 Clarence A. Briggs August 21, 1871
 
 William M. Brigham January 23, 1864
 
 Charles C. Brooks May 3, 1851
 
 Henry L. Brown January 10, 1840
 
 Willard Madison Brown April 24, 1861
 
 Nelson Aluren Bugbee August 8, 1853
 
 William J. Bullock January 31, 1864
 
 Albert H. Burgess May 19, 1843
 
 Lester L. Burrington March 24, 1838
S. Hopkins Bushnell October 6, 1834
 
 Andrew Campbell May 3, 1826
 
 James F. Carey August 19, 1867
 
 George Henry Carleton August 6, 1840
 
 N. Henry Chadwick March 17, 1838
 
 Leonard B. Chandler August 29, 1851
 
 William D. Chapple August 6, 1868
 
 Henry L. Chase February 5, 1853
 
 Charles S. Clerke January 10, 1850
 
 Arthur H. Cluer April 12, 1853
 
 Samuel Cole December 15, 1856
 
 Thomas A. Conroy September 9, 1869
 
 Robert Eugene Conwell June 12, 1854
 
 Clifford A. Cook September 3, 1860
 
 Daniel S. Coolidge September 21, 1845
Charles V. Corey July 8, 1838
 
 Aaron S. Crosby October 6, 1842
 
 Alfred R. Crosby August 30, 1838
 
 J. Howell Crosby December 30, 1867
 
 Charles S. Crouch 1833
 
 Richard Cullinane February 2, 1859
 
 Guy W. Currier December 22, 1867
 
 J. Frank Dalton April 19, 1842
 
 William Daly April 3, 1864
 
 William Aiken Davenport October 23, 1869
 
 Daniel W. Davis October 3, 1846
 
 William Ripley Davis March 8, 1862
 
 Benjamin C. Dean March 8, 1843
 
 Charles Austin Dean March 26, 1856
 
 George Z. Dean February 22, 1844
 
 Frank S. Dewey, Jr. March 22, 1857
 
 Thomas J. Dillon April 20, 1869
 
 Thomas Donahue August 20, 1853
 
 Edward J. Donovan March 15, 1864
 
 Eugene E. Donovan November 21, 1858
 
 James H. Donovan August 31, 1855
 
 Michael J. Donovan November 1, 1864
 
 Thomas J. Dooling January 28, 1868
 
 John J. Douglass February 9, 1873
 
 Frederic P. Drake March 16, 1851
 
 Daniel J. Driscoll, 2d November 20, 1868
George J. Dudley February 17, 1849
 
 John B. Dumond December 25, 1862
 
 George N. Dyer December 17, 1850
 
 Curtis Eddy May 18, 1838
 
 J. Lewis Ellsworth November 8, 1848
 
 Eugene B. Estes December 7, 1850
 
 Frederick W. Farwell November 29, 1854
 
 John Favor March 1, 1859
 
 William H. Feiker March 11, 1870
 
 George E. Fisher January 22, 1823
 
 Frank E. Fitts May 26, 1848
 
 W. T. A. Fitzgerald December 19, 1871
John J. Flanagan December 4, 1869
 
 Albert T. Folsom November 9, 1831
 
 Frank A. Foster February 15, 1859
 
 Frank W. Francis September 16, 1857
 
 Archie N. Frost July 26, 1872
 
 Michael E. Gaddis February 21, 1869
 
 John J. Gartland November 27, 1871
 
 Fred C. Gilpatric August 22, 1865
 
 Albert M. Goulding May 17, 1844
 
 Oliver S. Grant April 30, 1866
 
 Thomas H. Green March 17, 1847
 
 James Wilson Grimes November 21, 1865
 
 John G. Hagberg August 24, 1873
 
 Portus B. Hancock February 19, 1836
 
 Franklin P. Harlow
Charles H. Harriman November 16, 1852
 
 Elisha T. Harvell December 18, 1841
Robert B. Harvie October 28, 1841
 
 George F. Harwood July 7, 1844
Herbert J. Harwood September 6, 1854
 
 Leander Miller Haskins June 20, 1842
 
 Martin E. Hawes October 25, 1834
 
 William Henry Irving Hayes June 21, 1848
 
 Charles E. Haywood October 11, 1868
Guilford P. Heath September 3, 1842
 
 Francis D. Henderson March 6, 1847
 
 Franklin K. Hooper February 2, 1849
 
 William Hopewell June 24, 1867
Henry T. Horton December 11, 1845
 
 Robert Howard May 7, 1855
Charles W. Howland March 25, 1860
 
 Willard Howland December 3, 1852
 
 James Hunt January 27, 1833
 
 Franklin E. Huntress April 19, 1866
 
 Charles R. Johnson December 28, 1852
 
 Michael Bernard Jones August 20, 1864
William E. Judd September 3, 1855
 
 Daniel Joseph Kane April 14, 1872
 
 John E. Kavenaugh October 19, 1864
 
 Charles P. Keith March 14, 1843
 
 William Kells, Jr. October 23, 1861
Nicholas B. Keyou April 25, 1828
 
 Charles Francis King January 29, 1871
 
 Randolph V. King January 20, 1853
 
 William S. Kyle July 12, 1851
 
 John Philip Lanergan December 31, 1874
 
 John T. Langford February 8, 1842
 
 Addison P. Learoyd February 11, 1838
 
 Francis Leland October 3, 1839
 
 George F. Leslie September 12, 1850
 
 John F. Libby February 3, 1863
James A. Litchfield March 14, 1844
 
 William C. Litchfield March 31, 1840
 
 Alexander Lockhart December 22, 1854
 
 Martin Lomasney December 3, 1859
Edward M. Lombard August 31, 1843
 
 Joseph Patrick Love August 26, 1852
John H. Lowe January 8, 1848
 
 Robert Luce December 2, 1862
 
 Thomas Mackey August 6, 1865
 
 David A. Mahoney December 21, 1867
 
 Frederick C. Mahony January 18, 1875
 
 Matthew M. Mansfield September 25, 1866
 
 Eugene Dennis Marchesseault September 29, 1865
 
 William H. Marden May 30, 1843
 
 Jeremiah F. McCarthy July 7, 1857
 
 Jeremiah Justin McCarthy March 29, 1852
 
 Daniel V. McIsaac November 6, 1871
 
 William I. McLoughlin January 16, 1872
 
 Edward C. Mead December 25, 1858
 
 James H. Mellen November 7, 1845
Calvin S. Miller December 22, 1833
Charles H. Miller January 14, 1848
 
 William J. Miller June 8, 1867
 
 Charles P. Mills August 22, 1853
 
 Cornelius Minihan August 15, 1862
 
 John M. Minton March 23, 1872
 
 James A. Montgomery May 17, 1864
James S. Moore May 31, 1842
 
 Andrew H. Morrison June 27, 1871
 
 Merrick A. Morse May 1, 1847
 
 John P. Munroe June 28, 1850
 
 Mortimer D. A. Murphy May 9, 1867
 
 James J. Myers November 20, 1842
David Neal April 18, 1828
 
 H. Heustis Newton December 2, 1860
Phinehas S. Newton August 2, 1833
 
 Darius M. Nickerson, Jr. July 11, 1863
 
 William Odlin April 5, 1865
 
 William Colvard Parker April 12, 1858
 
 Alexander Sinclair Paton November 20, 1854
 
 Charles H. Persons January 5, 1859
William T. Pike August 23, 1854
 
 Thomas F. Porter October 30, 1847
 
 John A. Powers September 15, 1853
 
 John F. Prindle September 15, 1851
Herbert C. Puffer February 3, 1842
James H. Queeney April 23, 1865
 
 William Joseph Quigley
 
 Charles H. Ramsdell September 26, 1840
 
 Albert Hoyt Ray May 24, 1865
 
 Silas Dean Reed June 25, 1872
 
 Lewis D. Robinson June 21, 1842
Albert B. Root June 13, 1858
 
 Leonard W. Ross October 5, 1856
 
 Samuel Ross February 2, 1865
Albert Rounseville May 10, 1871
 
 Arthur P. Russell June 16, 1871
 
 William R. Salter July 6, 1861
Edward P. Sands February 14, 1871
 
 Charles R. Saunders November 22, 1862
Louis M. Scates January 17, 1863
 
 William Schofield February 14, 1857
 
 James F. Seavey December 6, 1842
 
 George Shepley Selfridge September 25, 1868
Joseph C. Severance September 7, 1841
Nathan W. Shaw October 11, 1823
 
 Ebenezer Wallen Sheppard May 7, 1860
Arthur A. Simmons January 28, 1852
 
 Robert S. Sisson June 4, 1846
 
 William E. Skillings October 23, 1843
 
 Henry R. Skinner May 9, 1860
Allen F. Smith September 27, 1862
 
 Charles F. A. Smith July 18, 1866
Charles G. Smith 1844
 
 John Thomas Sparks July 9, 1865
 
 Wallace Spooner November 28, 1856
 
 Eugene H. Sprague May 23, 1864
 
 Hugh L. Stalker December 31, 1857
 
 Benjamin F. Stanley November 6, 1823
 
 Joseph I. Stewart April 25, 1847
 
 Silas A. Stone February 3, 1843
 
 Willmore B. Stone June 24, 1853
 
 Michael J. Sullivan October 23, 1870
Timothy F. Sullivan August 21, 1867
 
 Charles T. Tatman December 16, 1871
 
 John I. Toland September 6, 1874
 
 William Tolman June 2, 1858
 
 John J. Toomey September 18, 1868
 
 Charles E. Trow April 18, 1833
 
 Henry Edward Turner May 4, 1842
 
 William Turtle June 20, 1855
 
 Horatio Fogg Twombly
 
 Edmund J. Twomey July 16, 1860
 
 Charles H. Upson June 4, 1848
 
 George E. Varney July 8, 1864
 
 Silas Ives Wallace
 
 Walter S. Watson September 11, 1851
 
 Abelard E. Wells June 17, 1854
 
 Edward E. Wentworth June 27, 1845
 
 Walter S. Weston November 12, 1852
 
 Harry Bertram Whall September 5, 1868
 
 William D. Wheeler May 7, 1868
 
 John B. Whelan February 19, 1864
 
 John Jay Whipple December 31, 1847
 
 Horace C. White January 26, 1836
 
 Edward E. Willard September 25, 1862
 
 George F. Williams April 28, 1856
 
 Alva S. Wood May 12, 1828

See also edit

References edit

  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
  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. ^ a b Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1899 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ a b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1899" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

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External links edit

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