1868 Massachusetts legislature explained

89th
Massachusetts General Court
Body:General Court
Election:November 5, 1867
Session1 End:[1]
Before:88th
After:90th
Chamber1:Senate
Membership1:40
Control1:Republican
(30 R, 10 D)[2]
Chamber1 Leader1 Type:President
Chamber1 Leader1:George O. Brastow
Chamber2:House
Membership2:240
Control2:Republican
(180 R, 60 D)
Chamber2 Leader1 Type:Speaker
Chamber2 Leader1:Harvey Jewell

The 89th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1868 during the governorship of Republican Alexander Bullock. George O. Brastow served as president of the Senate and Harvey Jewell served as speaker of the House.[3]

Senators

ImageName[4] data-sort-type=date Date of birthDistrictParty
Edward Avery1828
Samuel Wells Bowerman1830
George Oliver BrastowSeptember 8, 1811
Silas Newton Brooks1825
Frederick Davis Brown1824
Samuel Angier Chace1820
Knowlton Sampson Chaffee1814
Tracy Patch Cheever1824
Lee Claflin1791
Benjamin Franklin Clark1808
Samuel Dexter Crane1816
Edward Crocker1814
Charles Chase Dame1819
Francis B. FayJune 12, 1793
Henry Fuller1825
William GastonOctober 3, 1820
Alonzo Madison Giles1821
Erasmus Gould1817
Andrew Malcolm McPhail1817
John Green Mudge1823
Daniel Needham1822
James Oliver1820
Clark Partridge1809
George Penniman1810
Lucius Wilson Pond1826
Edmund Houghton Sawyer1821
William SchoulerDecember 31, 1814
Oliver Hazard Perry Smith1824
Chester Snow1817
Moses Tyler StevensOctober 10, 1825
William Sutton1800
Joseph Scott Todd1828
Harrison Tweed1806
Gershom Bradford WestonAugust 27, 1799
Jonathan Dodge Wheeler1806
Marshall Wilcox1821

Representatives

imageNamedata-sort-type=date Date of birthDistrictParty
Levi Augustus Abbott1824
John Quincy Adams IISeptember 22, 1833
Rufus Adams1829
George Ellis Allen1817
Samuel Appleton1841
Elisha Watson Arnold1837
William Frederick Arnold1815
John Henry Bangs1829
William Barker1820
Henry Bassett1820
William Gelston BatesNovember 17, 1803
Irving Bates1839
Phineas Alden Beaman1819
Hugh Ramsey Bean1820
Charles Bird1829
Charles Chauncey Bixby1824
Willard Blackinton1800
Charles Henry Blanchard1828
John Currier Blasdell1809
Albert Blood1818
Morton Van Buren Bonney1841
Charles Bradley1816
George Egbert Bridges1827
Oliver Hazard Perry Brown1813
Ralph Steele Brown1828
William Blanchard Brown1821
Ezra Plummer Brownell1819
John Richards Bullard1846
William Henry Burbeck1822
Hodgdon Fowler Buzzell1834
James Capen1823
Thomas Hale Carruth1810
Dennis Cawley1834
Jonas Allen Champney1831
Philo Chapin1806
Charles William Chase1822
Heman Baker Chase1825
Linus Mason Child1835
Henry Martyn Clarke1826
Patrick Andrew CollinsMarch 12, 1844
Benjamin Franklin Cook1833
Henry Harvey Cook1804
Lament Bacon Corbin1813
Joseph Warren Cornell1810
George Parker Cox1814
Orlando Bradford Crane1835
Alanson Crittenden1814
Thomas Cunningham1826
David Cushing1813
Francis Everett Cushing1825
Richard Henry DanaAugust 1, 1815
George Keith Daniell1810
Leander Sloan Daniels1834
Curtis Davis1814
Jeremy Bentham Dennett1833
Thaddeus Kingsley DeWolf1801
Charles Henry Drew1838
Silas Dunton1818
Moses Farnum1826
Thomas Joseph Fay1832
Stephen Chapman Felton1835
Frederick William Field1819
Samuel Tobey Field1820
Thomas Jackson Field1822
Charles Henry Fiske1840
Ezra Hastings Flagg1823
John Dana Flagg1817
James Turner Ford1827
Dudley Foster1809
James Augustus FoxAugust 11, 1827
Charles Amasa Fox1832
James Bicheno FrancisMay 18, 1815
Andrew Jackson Freeman1819
Samuel Freeman1830
Josiah Ober Friend1835
Roscoe Wisner Gage1839
Thomas John Gargan1844
Josiah Gates1805
Noah Murray Gaylord1822
Delano Alexander Goddard1831
Levi Swanton GouldMarch 27, 1831
Samuel Herrick Gould1814
John Otis Hale1831
Josiah Sturtevant Hammond1810
Abraham Gifford Hart1831
David Dexter Hart1819
Joseph Hall Hathaway1812
James Aigin Hervey1828
Charles Amasa Hewins1822
Charles Heywood1831
George Washington Heywood1829
Noble Hind Hill1821
George Miller Hobbs1827
Alvah Holway1809
Anson Parker Hooker1829
Daniel Howard1823
Solomon Henry Howe1821
William Howland1822
John Avery Hughes1822
Edward Alden Hulbert1824
Jacob Randall Huntington1829
Melville E. Ingalls1842
George Washington Jackman1814
Harvey JewellMay 26, 1820
William Drury Jones1815
Lewis Strong Judd1827
William Wallace Kellogg1824
Dexter S. King1806
William Alonzo King1822
Richmond Kingman1821
Charles James Kittredge1818
William Knowlton1809
Augustus Lane1818
Howard Malcom Lane1833
Edward Howard Lathrop1838
Roger Hooker LeavittJuly 21, 1805
Joseph Leavitt1802
John Lee1813
Job Mason Leonard1824
John Livermore1813
James Lovering Locke1832
George Howard Long1842
Willard Mann1818
James Fisk Mansfield1837
John Manson1805
Murdock Matheson1827
John McDuffie1828
Wallace McFarland1825
William McFarlin1806
Leonard McKenzie1815
Isaac Hall Meserve1813
William Mixter1809
Frederick Augustus Morey1840
Amasa Childs Morse1833
Ellis Wesley Morton1840
Edwin Mudge1818
Nathaniel Cushing Nash1804
Henry Newton1811
John Pond OrdwayAugust 1, 1824
Weaver Osborn1815
George Henry Peirson1816
Simeon Perkins1801
John Perley1808
George Phipps1802
Edward Henry Pierce1841
Jonathan Pierce1815
Thomas Fitzpatrick Plunkett1804
Henry Eliphalet Pond1823
Moses Pool1815
Henry Smith Porter1821
Joseph Samson Potter1822
Nathan Parker Pratt1811
Benjamin Proctor1811
Caleb Rand1817
Henry Sears Ranney1817
Alvah Raymond1829
William Hathaway Reynard1808
Jeremiah A. Rich1823
Otis Rich1806
Eleazer Richmond1804
John Howe Robinson1809
Ensign Bassett Rogers1825
Joseph Ross1822
Edward Hutchins Robbins Ruggles1800
Otis Taft Ruggles1829
John Runey1814
George Sanford1830
William Seaver1806
William Seaver1818
William Robert Sessions1835
Charles Luther Shaw1823
William Sherburne1825
Henry Shortle1834
Hiram Smith Shurtleff1841
Lemuel Bacon Simmons1802
Iram Smith1807
John James Smith1825
Oliver W. Smith1828
Edwin Nathaniel Snow1828
Henry Souther1810
Walter Scott Sprague1835
Charles Stanwood1816
Isaac Holden Stearns1825
John Warren Stevens1833
Walter Briggs Studley1827
John Howland Swain1823
John Kemble TarboxMay 6, 1838
James Gardner Tewksbury1828
Shepard Thayer1827
Prescott Alexander Thompson1825
Hubbard Winslow Tilton1835
John Michael Tobin1841
Dexter Alley Tompkins1827
Samuel Knapp Towle1829
George Edwin Towne1829
Jacob Perkins Towne1803
Charles Russell TrainOctober 18, 1817
Mason Van Deusen1802
Eden Wadsworth1793
William Henry Waitt1819
Aaron Gifford Walker1815
George Walker1824
Levi Wallace1831
Horace Ward1819
Eben Nichols Wardwell1825
Francis Warland Warren1819
Royal Sibley Warren1822
Thomas Shales Waters1818
Willard Wheeler1804
Rufus A. White1840
Windsor Newton White1823
Sydney Franklin Whitehouse1822
William Whiting1816
Daniel H. Whitney1825
Charles Woodward Wilder1819
John Adams Wiley1825
Benjamin Jenkins Williams1840
George Frederick Williams1817
Joel Benedict Williams1818
Nathan Sumner Williams1829
Warren Williams1811
John William Fletcher Wilson1828
Joseph Wilson1819
Charles Wing1816
James Baxter Wood1809
Jonathan Henry Wood1822
George Washington Woodwell1829
James Sullivan Woodworth1805
Charles Whiting Worcester1808
William Henry Prentiss Wright1828
Patrick Ambrose Young1834

See also

Further reading

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: Leading the Way: a History of the Massachusetts General Court, 1629-1980 . Cornelius Dalton . John Wirkkala . Anne Thomas . 0961391502 . Massachusetts Secretary of State . 1984 . Boston . Political Complexion of the General Court 1867-1980 . 441+ .
  3. 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+ .
  4. Book: Manual for the Use of the General Court . 1868 . Boston . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . 2452/40646 .