1873 Massachusetts legislature explained

94th
Massachusetts General Court
Body:General Court
Election:November 5, 1872
Session1 End: [1]
Before:93rd
After:95th
Chamber1:Senate
Membership1:40
Control1:Republican
(39 R, 1 D)[2]
Chamber1 Leader1 Type:President
Chamber1 Leader1:George B. Loring
Chamber2:House
Membership2:240
Control2:Republican
(211 R, 24 D, 5 other)
Chamber2 Leader1 Type:Speaker
Chamber2 Leader1:John E. Sanford

The 94th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1873 during the governorship of Republican William B. Washburn. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford served as speaker of the House.[3]

Senators

ImageName [4] data-sort-type=date Date of birth DistrictParty
Prentiss Chaffee Baird1832
Joseph Kelley Baker1827
Henry Lewis Bancroft1821
Julius Kirkland Banister1833
James Brown1828
Erastus Payson CarpenterNovember 23, 1822
Jeremiah Clark1819
Isaac Henry Coe1818
Jedediah Dwelley1834
Charles Howe French1814
Robert Oliver Fuller1829
Newell Giles1818
Martin Griffin1825
Samuel Moulton Griggs1822
Nathan Williams Harmon1813
Francis Wayland Jacobs1837
Nathaniel Lafayette Johnson1822
Robert Johnson1823
Edward Lawrence1810
William Henry Learnard1828
Edward Learned1820
George Walter Lobdell1823
George B. LoringNovember 8, 1817
Moody Merrill1836
Newton Morse1832
Francis Augustus Nye1823
Timothy Fairbanks Packard1812
Lloyd Parsons1816
Joseph Samson Potter1822
Charles Pickett Stickney1824
George Franklin Thompson1827
John Douglas Todd1814
George Arnold Torrey1838
Levi Wallace1831
Henry Stevenson Washburn1813
William Whiting IIMay 24, 1841
George Danforth Whittle1838
Rufus Dodd Woods1818
David Titcomb Woodwell1820
Carroll D. WrightJuly 25, 1840

Representatives

imageName data-sort-type=date Date of birth DistrictParty
John Henry Abbott1825
Wales Aldrich1811
Francis Roberts Allen1817
Walter Brown Allen1828
Arlon Sabin Atherton1842 Franklin county No. 1
Horace Clinton Bacon1824
Aaron Bagg1810
Andrew Jackson Bailey1840
Nahum Bailey1823
William Baker1821
George Washington Bardwell1836Franklin county No. 4
James Madison Barker1839
George Bartholmesz1821
John Mason Batchelder1832
Elijah Eastman Belding1813Franklin county No. 3
Ezekiel Dodge Bement1819Franklin county No. 5
Austin Williams Benton1818
Edward Adams Berdge1829
Hiram Berry1820
Edward Lyman Bigelow1839
John Bigelow1841
Sanford Waters Billings1834
William Rufus BlackAugust 23, 1830
George Baylis Blake1823
Peleg Blankinship1809
William Edward Blunt1840
Dennis Bonner1821
Franklin Bonney1822
Horace Leander Bowker1832
James William Bradley1828
Bowman Bigelow Breed1832
Richard Francis Briggs1836
Richard Britton1838
Giles Edwin Brownell1819
Moses Loring Buck1811
William Henry Buck1818
Addison Burnett1810
Henry Burt1811
Jacob Brown Calley1823
Adam Capen1821
Charles Victor Carpenter1830
Sumner CarruthDecember 22, 1834
Henry Bedell Chamberlin1839
Edward Whitman Chapin1840
Elijah Horne Chisholm1824
Albe Cady Clark1826
Francis Warren Clark1829
George Washington Clark1836
Alfred Alonzo Clatur1835
Charles Russell Codman1829
John Bear Doane CogswellJune 6, 1829
John Swain Coney1823
William Henry CookMarch 17, 1842
George Copeland1837
Robert Couch1817
William Augustus Cressy1820
Charles Crittenden1837Franklin county No. 4
George Glover Crocker1843
Daniel Aloysius Cronin1846
Joseph Warren Cross1808
John Cummings1812
Benjamin Connor Currier1822
John Cushing1808
William Frank Darby1838
George Edmund Davis1827
Joshua Wingate DavisNovember 13, 1817
George Jackson Dean1828
William Dean1830
Isaac Walker Derby1835
Seymour Boughton Dewey1814
Lewis J. DudleyNovember 11, 1815
Joseph Dyer1830
Henderson Josiah Edwards1840
Frederick David ElySeptember 24, 1838
Alonzo Hathaway EvansFebruary 24, 1820
George Otis Fairbanks1815
Caleb Clesson Field1810
Harrison Otis Field1810
John Hancock Fisher1807
Eustace Carey Fitz1833
John Edward Fitzgerald1844
Thomas Francis Fitzgerald1848
Daniel Coolidge Fletcher1829
John Ware Fletcher1824
Granville Edward FossAugust 16, 1842
Hiram Munroe French1827
William Frost1822
Kirke Edwin Gardner1833
John Gates1807
Addison Gilbert1808
Charles Albert Gleason1846
Asa Holland Goddard1807
Stephen Dwight Goddard1811
Andrew Jackson Gove1834
Brownell Granger1835
Fitz Edward Griffin1840
Isaac Dennis Hall1807
John Wilkes Hammond1837
Charles Veranus Hanson1844
Simon Hardy1833
George Henry Harlow1820
David Phillips Hatch1814
Austin Hawley1822
Lewis HaydenDecember 2, 1811
Benjamin Franklin HayesJuly 3, 1835
Francis Brown Hayes1819
Samuel Stone Haynes1822
Benjamin Heath1821
Samuel William Heath1804
Lot Higgins1809
Samuel Eldridge Hildreth1829
Amos Hill1830
Henry Bozyol Hill1823
John Warren Hollis1812
Charles Jarvis Holmes1834
Lewis Holmes1806
Samuel Bugbee Hopkins1823
Emory Adams Howard1837
David Porter Howes1815
George Henry HoytNovember 25, 1837
Barney Hull1830
Richard Hales Humphrey1829
Ebenezer Atherton HuntJanuary 26, 1826
Thomas Prentiss Hurlbut1820
Richardson Hutchinson1818
Alexis W. Ide1826
Thomas Ingalls1824
Nathan Sumner Jenkins1820
Jonathan Johnson1818
Edward Jenkins Jones1822
Thomas Milton Judd1840
Jesse Edson Keith1824
George Perry Kendrick1824
William Reed Kentfield1814
Lucius Woodman Knight1830
Charles Rensselaer LaddApril 9, 1822
Noah Davis Ladd1820
Almond Ring Lancaster1829
George Young Learned1827
Willard Lewis1808
William Hamilton Loughlin1847
George A. MardenAugust 9, 1839
Elijah Marion1812
Albert Mason1836
David Mayhew1834
Edward McCleaveNovember 1, 1813
Samuel Walton McDaniel1833
John Brooks Moore1817
Thomas Jones Morgan1823
Charles William Morrill1839
Asa Porter Morse1818
Charles Dimock Morse1827
Andrew Marathon Morton1839
Lewis Rufus Norton1821
John Adams Nowell1817
Edward Ornan Noyes1840
Weaver Osborn1815
Hiram Packard1816
Liberty Dodge Packard1831
Albert PalmerJanuary 17, 1831
John Barnard Parker1812
William Crowell Parker1850
Daniel Augustus Patch1832
John Winslow Peirce1835
John Perkins1825
Charles Perley1823
Henry Willis Phelps1830
Calvin Tilden Phillips1836
Willard Peele Phillips1825
William Caldwell PlunkettOctober 23, 1799
Francis Edward Porter1824
Rodolphus Porter1834
George Purrington1829
Joseph Henry Read1835
John Warren Regan1833
William Roberts1835
Philip Henry Robinson1823
George Thomas Ryder1827
Stephen Decatur Salmon1845
John Samson1821
George Sanborn1816
Edward Sanford1825
John Eliot SanfordNovember 22, 1830
George Jedediah Sanger1826
Joseph Leonard Sargent1829
Amos Joseph Saunders1826
Isaac Fessenden SawtelleAugust 1, 1816
Augustus Jonathan Sawyer1816
Roger Henry Scannell1837
John Cleveland Scott1816
Nathaniel Sears1825
Nathan Beebe Seaver1822
Robert Seaver1812
Henry Perkins Shattuck1844
James Bayard Shaw1837
John Shaw1822
Amos Wight Shumway1819
Henry Clinton Skinner1824
James Smith1831
Joshua Bowen Smith1813
Zoeth Snow1825
Augustus Lord SouleApril 19, 1827
Reuben Goodspeed Sparks1822
Henry Splaine1837
Franklin Harvey Sprague1825
Oliver Martin Stacey1816
Francis Dana Stedman1801
James Aaron Stetson1806
William Stewart1820Franklin county No. 3
Thomas Newcomb Stone1818
William B. StoneJanuary 24, 1811
John Henry Studley1828
Andrew Hodges SweetOctober 2, 1845
Charles Talbot1811
James Gamage TarrJuly 6, 1830
William Taylor1831
Eliphalet Loring Thayer1824
Joseph Augustus Titus1838
Hugh James Toland1844
Marcus Truesdell1813
Quincy Adams Vinal1826
William Nathaniel Walker1823
Rodney WallaceDecember 21, 1823
Andrew Jackson Waters1837
Edward Fox Watson1807
Timothy W. Wellington1811
James Lyman White1821
Tisdale Sanford White1809
William Henry WhitfieldNovember 11, 1804
George Henry Whitman1808
Austin Whitney1817
Robert Rich Wiley1828
Henry Warren Wilson1834
Benjamin Franklin WingOctober 22, 1822
Ezra Dyer Winslow1839
Samuel Winslow1827
Oliver Wolcott1827
Moses Davis Woodbury1821
Elijah Nichols Woods1818

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 . 1873 . Boston . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . 2452/40651 .