1872 Massachusetts legislature explained

93rd
Massachusetts General Court
Body:General Court
Election:November 7, 1871
Session1 End:
+ extra session[1]
Before:92nd
After:94th
Chamber1:Senate
Membership1:40
Control1:Republican
(35 R, 0 D, 5 other)[2]
Chamber1 Leader1 Type:President
Chamber1 Leader1:Horace H. Coolidge
Chamber2:House
Membership2:240
Control2:Republican
(176 R, 0 D, 64 other)
Chamber2 Leader1 Type:Speaker
Chamber2 Leader1:John E. Sanford

The 93rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1872 during the governorship of Republican William B. Washburn. Horace H. Coolidge served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford served as speaker of the House.[3] [4]

Senators

ImageName [5] data-sort-type=date Date of birth DistrictParty
Frederick Lothrop AmesJune 8, 1835
Joseph Kelley Baker1827
Andrew Jackson Bartholomew1834
Alonzo Warren Boardman1828
Charles Bradley1816
Elisha Huntington Brewster
Erastus Payson CarpenterNovember 23, 1822
Isaac Henry Coe1818
Horace Hopkins CoolidgeFebruary 11, 1832
Rufus Smith FrostJuly 18, 1826
Robert Oliver Fuller1829
Newell Giles1818
Samuel Moulton Griggs1822
Orrin Hewes1833
James Humphrey1819
Francis Wayland Jacobs1837
Robert Johnson1823
William Henry Learnard1828
George Walter Lobdell1823
William Bennet Long1827
Reuben Noble1820
Lloyd Parsons1816
Josiah Newton Pike1824
Joseph Samson Potter1822
George Francis RichardsonDecember 6, 1829
Daniel Ephraim Safford1826
George SheldonNovember 30, 1818
William Lafayette Smith1824
Charles Pickett Stickney1824
John Kemble TarboxMay 6, 1838
Adin Thayer1828
Shepard Thayer1827
George Arnold Torrey1838
Thomas Lafayette Wakefield1817
Levi Wallace1831
Baxter Dodridge Whitney1817
James Scollay WhitneyMay 19, 1811
Rufus Dodd Woods1818
David Titcomb Woodwell1820
Carroll D. WrightJuly 25, 1840

Representatives

imageName data-sort-type=date Date of birth DistrictParty
Milton Abbey1819
John Henry Abbott1825
Henry Sewall Adams1832
William Augustus Adams1830
William Hastings Aldrich1825
Ephraim Allen1806
Lafayette Anderson1824
William Henry Anderson1836
William Frederick Arnold1815
William Markwick Ashby1821
Oliver Ayers1821
William Babbitt1817
James Prentiss Bacheller1840
Horace Clinton Bacon1824
Andrew Jackson Bailey1840
John Stanton Baldwin1834
Edward Dana Bancroft1821
Julius Kirkland Banister1833
James Madison Barker1839
Lewis Barnard1815
George Bartholmesz1821
George Hubert Bates1839
Austin Williams Benton1818
Alden Besse1821
Edward Lyman Bigelow1839
William Rufus BlackAugust 23, 1830
George Baylis Blake1823
John Williston Blaney1815
William Edward Blunt1840
James William Bradley1828
Bowman Bigelow Breed1832
Frederic Perry Brown1840
Willard Augustus Brown1828
Giles Edwin Brownell1819
Henry Oliver Burr1829
Seneca Burr1831
Samuel Augustus Carlton1827
Michael Carney1827
Thomas Marshall CarterJuly 17, 1832
Erastus Chase1826
John Cummings Choate1832
John Henry Church1836
Sumner Uriah Church1810
George Washington Clark1836
Nelson Cochran1824
Charles Russell Codman1829
John Bear Doane CogswellJune 6, 1829
Moses Rich Colman1806
Chapin Converse1811
Benjamin Hough Corliss1818
Joseph Howland CornellMarch 23, 1818
Joseph Henry Cotton1833
Robert Couch1817
Roswell P. CraftsSeptember 17, 1822
Seth Brockway Crafts1844
Freeborn Woodbury Cressy1839
William Augustus Cressy1820
Michael J. Croak1843
Charles Curtis1836
William Cushing1823
Christopher Columbus Denny1813
Elbridge Curtis Donnell1839
Simeon Parker Dresser1845
James Henry Durgin1833
David Eastman1806
George Henry Eddy1829
Alfred Brewster Ely1817
Augustus Bradford EndicottSeptember 10, 1818
George Otis Fairbanks1815
Henry Hardwick Faxon1823
Hawkes Fearing1826
Francis Fisher1811
Jonathan Philbrick FolsomOctober 9, 1820
Job Gardner
Robert Folger Gardner1815
John Gates1807
Benjamin Whitney Gleason1806
George Going1824
Brownell Granger1835
Edward Waldo Griggs1834
Isaac Dennis Hall1807
John Wilkes Hammond1837
Charles Veranus Hanson1844
Franklin Powers HarlowDecember 8, 1827
Southworth Harlow1824
John Morton Harris1819
Thomas Burdett Harris1825
George Hatch1832
Benjamin Franklin HayesJuly 3, 1835
Horace Heard1804
Horatio Brooks Hersey1823
Lot Higgins1809
Amos Hill1830
Henry Bozyol Hill1823
George Webster Hobbs1839
Thomas Fry Holder1839
Asa Alexander Holton1818
Samuel Bugbee Hopkins1823
Leverett Hopkinson1822
Ezra Coffin HowardSeptember 1, 1831
Jonas Elijah Howe1814
Joseph Sidney Howe1832
Emerson Harris Howland1846
George Henry HoytNovember 25, 1837
Barney Hull1830
George W. Humphrey1826
Nathaniel Mayhew Jernegan1820
Peter Rogers Johnson1824
Henry Jones1821
Horace Israel Joslin1836
Timothy Keefe1839
William Keith1810
Albert Francis Kelley1840
Jonas Kendall1804
George Perry Kendrick1824
Asa Keyes1805
John White KimballFebruary 27, 1828
Moses KimballOctober 24, 1809
Charles M. Kingsley1811
Daniel Webster Knight1835
William Knowlton1809
John Augustus Lamson1831
Almond Ring Lancaster1829
Alvin Lawton1833
Frederick Walker Lincoln1817
Noah Lincoln1810
Edward Payson Loring1837
William Hamilton Loughlin1847
Henry Bacon LoveringApril 8, 1841
Alvin Marshall1815
John McDuffie1828
Anson McLoud
Christopher Columbus MerrittSeptember 29, 1830
Ira Loriston Moore1824
Benjamin Lyman Morrison1828
Rice Shaw Munn1814
John Joseph Murphy1842
Patrick Murphy1837
William Henry Murray1826
John Newell1816
Jeremiah Lemuel Newton
Curtis Coe Nichols1814
Lewis Rufus Norton1821
William NuttAugust 5, 1836
Patrick O'Connor1842
William Henry Osborne1840
Liberty Dodge Packard1831
Albert PalmerJanuary 17, 1831
George Alanson Parker1821
James Parker1815
Ezra ParmenterMarch 20, 1823
Daniel Augustus Patch1832
George Howe Peabody1838
Edward Pearl1825
George O. Peck1817
Francis Ellis Pedrick1829
Jesse Small Pendergrast1835
Noah Cushman Perkins1810
William Perkins1824
Ellis Perry1809
Ralph Perry1811
Josiah Peterson1820
John Wesley Phelps1844
Willard Peele Phillips1825
Charles Varnum Poor1817
George Horace Poor1841
Thomas Whittier Porter1820
Burton Willis Potter1843
Laban Pratt1829
Artemus Conant Putnam1805
Samuel Bell Quigley1821
Samuel Miller QuincyJune 13, 1832
Edward Benedict Rankin1846
Joseph Henry Read1835
John Wales Robinson1826
John Randolph Rogerson1812
Joseph Hubbard Root1823
Isaac Newton Ross1824
George Sanborn1816
John Eliot SanfordNovember 22, 1830
Benjamin Franklin Sargent1813
Irving Bertoldo Sayles1839
Charles Augustus Sayward1837
George Franklin Scribner1830
Nathaniel Sears1825
Robert Seaver1812
George Atwood Shaw1816
George Sheldon1817
James Stratton Shepard1815
Simon Harrison Sibley1816
Reuben Sikes1824
Albert Gallatin Sinclair1845
David Nelson Skillings1818
Charles Eber Slater1830
George Fayette Slocomb1823
Cyrus Burnet Smith1839
John James Smith 1825
Zoeth Snow1825
Reuben Goodspeed Sparks1822
Chauncey Loren Spear1819
Henry Splaine1837
Charles Stanwood1816
Francis Dana Stedman1801
William Stone1827
Warner Claflin Sturtevant1809
Charles H. Taylor1846
William Taylor1831
Eliphalet Loring Thayer1824
Noah Blanchard Thayer1830
William Henry Thomas1829
Charles Perkins ThompsonJuly 7, 1827
John Thomas Zebediah Thompson1811
Charles Q. TirrellDecember 10, 1844
Hugh James Toland1844
Joseph Rice Torrey1828
Edward Justus Tower1833
George Edwin Towne1829
Thomas Bush Tripp1838
David Warren Tucker1820
Obed Chester Turner1840
William Upham1825
Charles Folsom WalcottDecember 22, 1836
Ansel Hill Ward1837
George Washington Ware1837
Henry Stevenson Washburn1813
Thomas Barstow Waterman1830
Nathan Horace Webb1835
Tisdale Sanford White1809
William Henry WhitfieldNovember 11, 1804
Frederick Theodore Whiting1825
William Joseph Wightman1810
Ludovicus French Wild1825
Benjamin Franklin WingOctober 22, 1822
Ezra Dyer Winslow1839
Harding Woods1822
Lyman Woodward1831
Albert Judd Wright
Ira Berkeley Wright1830
Walter Wyman1806

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: Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts . 19+ . https://archive.org/details/massachusettsreg1872bost/page/10/mode/2up . Massachusetts Register, 1872 . 1872 . Sampson, Davenport, & Company . Boston . .
  5. Book: Manual for the Use of the General Court . 1872 . Boston . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . 2452/40650 . Court . Massachusetts General .