1899 Massachusetts legislature explained

120th Massachusetts General Court
Body:	General Court
Election:	November 8, 1898
Session1 End:	^[1]
Before:	119th
After:	121st
Chamber1:	Senate
Membership1:	40
Control1:	Republican (33–7)
Chamber1 Leader1 Type:	President
Chamber1 Leader1:	George Edwin Smith
Chamber2:	House
Membership2:	240
Control2:	Republican (168–64–8)
Chamber2 Leader1 Type:	Speaker
Chamber2 Leader1:	John L. Bates

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.^[2]

Senators

image	name ^[3]	data-sort-type=date	date of birth	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

image	name	data-sort-type=date	date of birth	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

• 56th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

Further reading

• Book: Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators: 1899 . 1899 .
• Book: Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1899 . Massachusetts: Legislative Session . https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924106393550?urlappend=%3Bseq=507 . . D. Appleton and Company . New York . 1900 . 2027/coo.31924106393550?urlappend=%3Bseq=507 .
• (includes 1899 Massachusetts info)

Notes and References

1. Book: https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge00mass2/page/348/mode/1up . 2009 . Boston . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Manual for the Use of the General Court . Length of Legislative Sessions . 348+ .
2. Book: https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge00mass2/page/340/mode/2up . 2009 . Boston . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Manual for the Use of the General Court . Organization of the Legislature Since 1780 . 340+ .
3. Book: Manual for the Use of the General Court . 1899 . Boston . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Internet Archive .