1910 Massachusetts legislature explained

131st Massachusetts General Court
Body:	General Court
Election:	November 2, 1909
Session1 End:	^[1]
Before:	130th
After:	132nd
Chamber1:	Senate
Membership1:	40
Control1:	Republican (33–7)
Chamber1 Leader1 Type:	President
Chamber1 Leader1:	Allen T. Treadway
Chamber2:	House
Membership2:	240
Control2:	Republican (169–69–2)
Chamber2 Leader1 Type:	Speaker
Chamber2 Leader1:	Joseph Walker

The 131st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1910 during the governorship of Eben Sumner Draper. Allen T. Treadway served as president of the Senate and Joseph Walker served as speaker of the House.^[2]

Senators

image	name	data-sort-type=date	date of birth	district
	Gideon B. Abbott
	Frank P. Bennett Jr.	December 30, 1878	7th Middlesex
	Charles V. Blanchard	February 2, 1866
	Clifford B. Bray
	George Bunting	August 31, 1868
	Lewis Burnham
	John J. Butler
	J. Howell Crosby
	Daniel E. Denny	July 14, 1845
	James H. Doyle
	Wilmot R. Evans Jr.
	Dennis E. Farley	June 12, 1852
	Levi H. Greenwood	December 22, 1872
	John L. Harvey	December 5, 1857
	Joseph H. Hibbard
	Eugene Hultman	July 13, 1875
	Roland M. Keith	March 16, 1847
	Joseph P. Lomasney
	Daniel D. Mahoney
	John F. Meaney
	Walter B. Mellen
	Henry C. Mulligan
	Melvin S. Nash	August 3, 1857
	Arthur L. Nason	October 24, 1872
	George H. Newhall	October 24, 1850
	Patrick H. O'Connor	1882
	W. Prentiss Parker	December 11, 1857
	John H. Pickford	September 9, 1849
	John L. Rankin
	Bradley M. Rockwood	May 24, 1862
	Samuel Ross	February 2, 1865
	Thorndike Spalding
	Richard S. Teeling
	George H. Tinkham	October 29, 1870
	James E. Tolman	November 8, 1867
	Allen T. Treadway	September 16, 1867
	Joseph Turner
	William Turtle
	Thomas S. Walsh	1859
	John E. White	December 13, 1873

Representatives

image	name ^[3]	data-sort-type=date	date of birth	district
	Arthur S. Adams	February 14, 1869
	David C. Ahearn	November 4, 1879	7th Middlesex
	Raymond C. Allen
	William M. Armstrong	August 17, 1850
	Seth Fenelon Arnold	December 21, 1878
	Alfred Arseneault	January 3, 1869
	Charles W. Atkins	June 22, 1854
	William B. Avery	July 11, 1856
	Erson B. Barlow	October 20, 1883
	John J. Barry	January 4, 1877
	Benjamin Fred Bates	May 3, 1862
	Albert Batley
	Edwin A. Bayley	July 30, 1862
	Charles Sumner Beal	August 14, 1856
	James W. Bean	May 11, 1866
	George F. Bean
	William A. Bellamy
	Alvin E. Bliss
	Henry Bond
	William Booth	June 21, 1862
	Henry E. Bothfeld	March 4, 1859
	Samuel H. Boutwell
	Israel Brayton
	Lincoln Breckenridge
	Arthur B. Breed	June 30, 1857
	Francis J. Brennan
	George A. Brigham
	Michael J. Brophy
	Charles H. Brown	January 19, 1879
	Joseph B. Brown
	Robert F. Brown	May 4, 1865
	Alfred J. Burckel	August 7, 1860
	William R. Burke	July 14, 1870
	Timothy F. Callahan	September 5, 1881
	Robert B. Campbell	September 28, 1880
	Ignatius J. Carleton	August 7, 1866
	Cornelius J. Carmody	January 11, 1867
	Charles L. Carr	December 25, 1876
	John Carr
	James F. Cavanagh
	Fred P. Chapman
	Arthur Preston Chase	January 25, 1866
	J. Dudley Clark
	Zebedee E. Cliff	September 23, 1864
	Samuel F. Coffin	December 27, 1851
	John Henry Cogswell	July 4, 1875
	Edward D. Collins	1878
	Francis L. Colpoys
	Harrison J. Conant
	Martin F. Conley	April 27, 1870
	John J. Conway
	Leon M. Conwell	April 15, 1870
	Thomas F. Coogan
	James H. L. Coon
	John S. Cormack	June 7, 1875
	Channing H. Cox	October 28, 1879
	Samuel V. Crane	October 4, 1855
	Russell D. Crane
	Courtenay Crocker	February 4, 1881
	Daniel Francis Cronin
	Thomas S. Cuff
	Harry R. Cumming
	John B. Cummings
	John Henry Curtiss
	Frank Curtiss
	Grafton D. Cushing	August 4, 1864
	Alfred W. Cushman
	Edward D. Cushman
	Francis L. Daly
	Thomas Davies	February 11, 1875
	Arthur S. Davis
	Parker S. Davis	January 4, 1863
	Charles A. Dean	March 26, 1856
	Louis N. M. DesChenes	April 7, 1872
	Clifford H. Dickson
	George E. Doane
	John L. Donovan	June 3, 1876
	George L. Dow
	Charles E. Dow
	Andrew P. Doyle	August 15, 1869
	Francis M. Ducey
	Lawrence J. Dugan
	John F. Dwyer
	Charles E. Ebsen
	Charles N. Edgell
	Henry Allen Ellis	November 5, 1879
	George H. Ellis	October 3, 1848
	Charles E. Elwell
	Freeman O. Emerson
	Winthrop H. Fairbank
	Wilton B. Fay
	William F. Fletcher
	Clarence J. Fogg	July 10, 1853
	Fred W. Ford
	Charles M. Gardner
	William H. Gifford	January 20, 1851
	Ellery L. Goff
	Joseph J. Goode
	Joseph D. Gowing
	William J. Graham	October 2, 1873
	Julius Guild	March 30, 1850
	John W. Haigis	July 31, 1881
	Richard Walden Hale	1871
	Homer A. Hall	November 24, 1871
	William Halliday
	James A. Halliday
	Harry H. Ham
	Oscar C. Hammarstrom	October 18, 1877
	Portus B. Hancock	February 19, 1836
	Leonard F. Hardy
	Frank O. Hardy
	Edward F. Harrington (state representative)	August 10, 1878
	Edward R. Hathaway
	James A. Hatton
	John J. Hayes	October 14, 1875
	Martin Hays	October 14, 1876
	Michael A. Henebery
	William A. Hester
	William P. Hickey	November 17, 1871
	Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr.	October 1, 1878
	Henry E. Holbrook	March 21, 1870
	Joseph W. Holden	October 10, 1867
	Samuel M. Holman	1862
	John P. Holmgren
	Charles T. Holt	August 1, 1845
	Harry R. Holt
	Edgar G. Holt
	Frank E. Holt
	William N. Howard
	John J. Hughes
	Lyman E. Hurd
	Maurice Kane
	John E. Kearns
	David P. Keefe	September 29, 1855
	Sidney B. Keene	January 10, 1861
	James H. Kelly	November 14, 1870
	Daniel W. Kendrick
	Charles T. Killpartrick
	James L. Kimball
	Orvis F. Kinney	May 23, 1880
	James H. Knight	October 11, 1876
	Wilfrid J. Lamoureux	December 13, 1869
	Louis F. R. Langelier
	Albert P. Langtry	July 27, 1860
	Frank H. Lanman
	Louis Leland
	J. Henry Leonard	September 18, 1879
	Charles Lewin
	Paul I. Lombard
	Savillion W. Longley
	David Mancovitz	August 15, 1877
	George Edward Marchand	December 22, 1877
	Charles F. McCarthy	August 15, 1876
	Daniel J. McCarthy
	Thomas F. McCullough
	Michael F. McGrath
	Robert K. McKirdy
	Timothy J. Meade	November 7, 1874
	Charles C. Mellen
	James H. Mellen	November 7, 1845
	Adin A. Messinger
	Julius Meyers	December 6, 1854
	Samuel H. Mildram
	David T. Montague
	Charles A. Montgomery
	William S. Moore	February 23, 1843
	Charles H. Morrill	October 6, 1874
	William G. Moseley (Massachusetts politician)	October 31, 1858
	W. Fred Munroe
	William J. Murray	October 7, 1885
	Clarence V. Nickerson
	Edward T. J. Noonan
	Albin F. Nordbeck
	James M. Noyes
	Michael F. O'Brien	September 18, 1878
	William H. O'Brien	September 9, 1864
	Francis D. O'Donnell
	Dennis A. O'Neil	June 16, 1882
	James Oliver	June 28, 1836
	Joseph A. Parks	May 2, 1877
	Asa L. Pattee
	William E. Payson
	Waldo H. Peirce
	Harry A. Penniman
	Laurence S. Perry
	Walter K. Perry
	Harry L. Pierce
	Frank H. Pope	March 7, 1854
	James F. Powers	October 1, 1872
	Joel L. Powers
	Arthur Franklin Priest
	Francis X. Quigley	November 20, 1882
	Martin Lewis Quinn	January 19, 1862
	Joseph J. Reed
	George A. Reed
	George A. Ricker
	Thomas P. Riley	July 11, 1875
	Leonard G. Roberts
	William M. Robinson	July 21, 1875
	George B. M. Robinson
	John E. Rousmaniere
	Thomas Ryan
	Ralph Sargent	December 5, 1848
	Amos T. Saunders
	Alfred Scigliano
	Michael J. Scully
	Samuel A. Segee
	Benjamin Sharp	1858
	David B. Shaw
	Frank H. Smith
	Theodore L. Sorenson
	George H. Stevens
	Arthur M. Stone
	Elisha D. Stone
	Arthur D. Story
	Franklin Sturgis Jr.	October 18, 1883
	Lynde Sullivan
	Daniel L. Sullivan	October 16, 1878
	George Swann	July 18, 1859
	James R. Tetler	August 26, 1877
	William R. Thomas	September 24, 1871
	Nathan A. Tufts	April 15, 1879
	Robert N. Turner
	Robb dePeyster Tytus	February 2, 1876
	Charles L. Underhill	July 20, 1867
	Alton A. Upton
	Thomas M. Vinson
	Joseph Walker (Massachusetts speaker)	1865
	Clarence A. Warren
	Robert M. Washburn	January 4, 1868
	Wickliffe H. Waterhouse
	William L. Waugh
	Henry Gordon Wells	October 12, 1879
	Thomas W. White	January 10, 1876
	Norman H. White	December 25, 1871
	Isaac E. Willetts	November 8, 1879
	Ernest A. Witt
	Roger Wolcott	July 25, 1877
	Russell A. Wood

See also

• 1910 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
• 61st United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

Further reading

• • Book: Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators: 1910 . 1910 . A. M. Bridgman .
• Book: Who's Who in State Politics: 1910 . 1910 . Practical Politics . Boston .
• The Eight-Hour Day and Prohibition of Night Work. Report of Public Hearing before Committee on Labor, General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts February, 1910 . The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science . 35 . 1910 . 239–274 . 1011414 .

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 . 1910 . Boston . Commonwealth of Massachusetts .