1871 Massachusetts legislature
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| 92nd Massachusetts General Court | |||||
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| Legislative body | General Court | ||||
| Election | November 8, 1870 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 40 | ||||
| President | Horace H. Coolidge | ||||
| Party control | Republican (34 R, 5 D, 1 other)[1][2] | ||||
| House | |||||
| Members | 240 | ||||
| Speaker | Harvey Jewell | ||||
| Party control | Republican (195 R, 34 D, 11 other)[1][3] | ||||
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Horace Coolidge, Senate president.
Harvey Jewell, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1871.
The 92nd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1871 during the governorship of Republican William Claflin.[5] Horace H. Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Harvey Jewell served as speaker of the House.[6]
Senators
[edit]| Image | Name [7] | Date of birth [8] | District | Party |
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| Nathaniel Ellis Atwood | September 13, 1807 | |||
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Andrew Jackson Bartholomew | 1834 | ||
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Jacob Bates | 1819 | ||
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Francis William Bird | 1809 | ||
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Alonzo Warren Boardman | 1828 | ||
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Charles Bradley | 1816 | ||
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William Hooper Caswell | 1837 | ||
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Andrew Jackson Clark | 1835 | ||
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James Wilson Clark | 1802 | ||
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Patrick Andrew Collins | March 12, 1844 | ||
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Horace Hopkins Coolidge | February 11, 1832 | ||
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Stephen Moody Crosby | 1827 | ||
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George Perkins Elliott | 1804 | ||
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John Fletcher | 1827 | ||
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James Augustus Fox | August 11, 1827 | ||
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Rufus Smith Frost | July 18, 1826 | ||
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Richard Goodman | 1818 | ||
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Henry Clay Greeley | 1830 | ||
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John Alexander Hawes | 1823 | ||
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Estes Howe | 1814 | ||
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Nathan Swett Kimball | 1820 | ||
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William Bennet Long | 1827 | ||
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George Harris Monroe | 1826 | ||
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Timothy Fairbanks Packard | 1812 | ||
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William Driver Park | 1831 | ||
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James Pierce | 1837 | ||
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Stephen Holbrook Rhodes | November 7, 1825 | ||
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George Francis Richardson | December 6, 1829 | ||
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Daniel Ephraim Safford | 1826 | ||
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James Granville Sproat | 1835 | ||
| George Monroe Stearns | April 18, 1831 | |||
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Charles Pickett Stickney | 1824 | ||
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Orlando Barnard Tenney | 1816 | ||
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Adin Thayer | 1828 | ||
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Shepard Thayer | 1827 | ||
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Thomas Lafayette Wakefield | 1817 | ||
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Amasa Whiting | 1821 | ||
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Baxter Dodridge Whitney | 1817 | ||
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Frederick H. Willcomb | 1831 | ||
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Jonathan Henry Wood | 1822 |
Representatives
[edit]- Henry S. Adams [7]
- John Quincy Adams II
- Charles L. Allen
- James S. Allen
- William H. Anderson
- Francis P. Arnold
- William F. Arnold
- George H. Babbitt, Jr
- Andrew J. Bailey
- Prentiss C. Baird
- John I. Baker
- Joseph K. Baker
- Irwin D. W. Baldwin
- John S. Baldwin
- Henry J. Barker
- William Barker, Jr
- Lewis Barnard
- Daniel N. Barrett
- Leonard Barton
- John T. Bates
- Alanson W. Beard
- Alden Besse
- Henry A. Bidwell
- Gurdon Bill
- Arthur G. Biscoe
- Lowell R. Blake
- William E. Blunt
- Josiah W. Bonney
- Frederick A. Boomer
- Sylvester F. Boot
- Robert Bower
- Selwin Bowman
- Phineas Bridgman
- Elisha Brimhall
- Ebenezer Brown
- Frederick P. Brown
- Willard A. Brown
- Stephen A. Brownell
- George Buffington
- John R. Bullard
- James T. Burnap
- Henry O. Burr
- Theophilus Burr
- Samuel Calley
- Michael Carney
- Solon Carpenter
- David Chamberlin
- Erastus Chase
- Elijah H. Chisholm
- John H. Church
- John B. D. Cogswell
- William Cogswell
- George J. L. Colby
- Justin M. Cooley
- Benjamin H. Corliss
- Joseph H. Cornell
- Charles A. Corser
- John S. Cotton
- Joseph H. Cotton
- Samuel L. Crane
- Zenas Crane, Jr
- James C. Currier
- Henry J. Curtis
- Avery R. Cushman
- Jacob R. Cushman
- Robert S. Daniels
- Curtis Davie
- George E. Davis
- Timothy Davis
- William L. Davis
- Joseph Dowse, Jr
- John Drynan
- George S. Duell
- Henry J. Dunham
- Lemuel C. Eames
- Samuel S. Eastman
- Samuel P. Everett
- George O. Fairbanks
- James O. Fallon
- Hawkes Fearing
- Alfred E. Fiske
- John E. Fitzgerald
- John D. Flagg
- Hugh Flood
- Thomas Floyd
- Jonathan P. Folsom
- Moses H. Fowler
- Benjamin Franklin
- Robert O. Fuller
- Levi Gardner
- Robert F. Gardner
- George W. Gates
- Thomas Gates
- George D. Glover
- George Going
- Henry A. Goodrich
- Henry Goodspeed
- Lafayette Granger
- Davis P. Gray
- Edward W. Griggs
- Charles H. Guild
- Joseph M. Hall
- Franklin P. Harlow
- Henry H. Harris
- Thomas B. Harris
- A. K. Haskell
- Cephas Haskins
- Bainbridge Hayward
- Paul Hayward
- Stephen Hayward, Jr
- Horatio B. Hersey
- Orrin Hewes
- Levi Heywood
- Thomas Hill
- Stephen Holt
- Thomas Holway
- Samuel W. Hopkinson
- Charles H. Hovey
- Daniel Howard
- Ezra Howard
- George H. Howe
- Samuel Howe
- Elisha Hubbard
- John Hume
- Theodore C. Hurd
- Edwin H. Hutchinson
- Francis James
- Nathaniel M. Jernegan
- Harvey Jewell
- Joseph P. Johnson
- Robert Johnson
- Albert F. Kelley
- Ensign H. Kellogg
- Ozi Kendall
- Moses Kimball
- John A. Lamson
- Albert Leighton
- Benjamin F. Lewis
- Edward Lewis
- Welcome Lewis
- G. H. Lincoln
- Martin Lincoln
- Noah Lincoln
- Caleb Lombard
- Edward T. Lyford
- Hugh A. Madden
- Israel P. Magoun
- Orlando Mason
- John McDuffie
- Curtis C. Mchols
- Alexander McKenzie
- John W. McKim
- John O. McKinstry
- Thomas H. Meek
- William R. Melden
- Charles H. Merriam
- Alfred K. Merrill
- Moody Merrill
- George P. Metcalf
- Ira L. Moore
- George W. Morton
- William Mulligan
- John J. Murphy
- Peter M. Neal
- J. S. Nelson
- John Newell
- Silas Noble
- George Nowell
- William Nutt
- John P. Ober
- Weaver Osborn
- Stephen Osgood
- Lyman Paine
- George A. Parker
- Edwin K. Parkhurst
- Ezra Parmenter
- Lloyd Parsons
- George H. Peabody
- Edward Pearl
- Ellis Perry
- William A. Pew
- Willard P. Phillips
- Nathaniel Pierce
- J. Newton Pike
- Charles Y. Poor
- Asa T. Pratt
- Laban Pratt
- Humphrey Prescott
- Charles L. Putnam
- George Putnam
- Samuel B. Quigley
- Lawrence Reade
- John W. Regan
- A. L. Richards
- Martin L. Richardson
- Isaac N. Ross
- George L. Ruffin[9][7]
- Joseph M. Russell
- John E. Sanford
- Benjamin P. Saunders
- George F. Scribner
- Harvey Severance
- Henry H. Shaw
- James S. Shepard
- H. D. Sisson
- Hambleton E. Smith
- James G. Smith
- George C. S. Southworth
- Walter Spooner
- Francis D. Stedman
- Hiram A. Stiles
- Thomas Swasey, Jr
- Calvin R. Taft
- John K. Tarbox
- Charles P. Thompson
- Edward E. Thompson
- Eben Tirrell, Jr
- Hugh J. Toland
- Joseph R. Torrey
- George E. Towne
- Charles R. Train
- David W. Tucker
- Samuel J. Tuttle
- Samuel W. Twombly
- George H. Vibbert
- Charles F. Walcott
- Welcome H. Wales
- Stephen Wallace
- E. H. Walton
- James J. Walworth
- Henry S. Washburn
- Nathan H. Webb
- George L. Webber
- Edwin Wheeler
- Emerson Wight
- Charles L. Woodbury
- Joseph A. Woodward
- Luther A. Wright
- George T. Wyer
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Cornelius Dalton; John Wirkkala; Anne Thomas (1984). "Political Complexion of the General Court 1867-1980". Leading the Way: a History of the Massachusetts General Court, 1629-1980. Boston: Massachusetts Secretary of State. p. 441+. ISBN 0961391502.
- ^ "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+.
- ^ Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1871, 1871, hdl:2452/795813
- ^ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
- ^ a b c Court, Massachusetts General (1871). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40649.
- ^ "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1871" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
- ^ Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905
Further reading
[edit]- "Massachusetts". American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1871. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1875. (includes description of legislature)
External links
[edit]- Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1871, hdl:2452/619060
- Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1871, hdl:2452/92953
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