1896 Massachusetts legislature explained

117th Massachusetts General Court
Body:	General Court
Election:	November 5, 1895
Session1 End:	^[1]
Before:	116th
After:	118th
Chamber1:	Senate
Membership1:	40
Control1:	Republican (33–7)
Chamber1 Leader1 Type:	President
Chamber1 Leader1:	George P. Lawrence
Chamber2:	House
Membership2:	240
Control2:	Republican (182–58)
Chamber2 Leader1 Type:	Speaker
Chamber2 Leader1:	George von Lengerke Meyer

The 117th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1896 during the governorship of Roger Wolcott. George P. Lawrence served as president of the Senate and George von Lengerke Meyer served as speaker of the House.^[2]

Notable legislation included "An Act to Provide for the Security and Preservation of the So-called Bulfinch Portion of the State House."

Senators

image	name ^[3]	data-sort-type=date	date of birth	district
	Horace H. Atherton	October 23, 1847
	Albert F. Barker	October 24, 1859
	Lewis H. Bartlett	April 2, 1854
	Percival Blodgett	July 18, 1841
	Edward S. Bradford	December 1, 1842
	George J. Burns	July 14, 1855
	William A. Chase	May 31, 1845
	William H. Cook	January 7, 1843
	Joseph J. Corbett	December 24, 1863
	Frederick W. Dallinger	October 2, 1871
	Francis W. Darling	December 16, 1852
	James H. Derbyshire	June 11, 1855
	Noble W. Everett	February 20, 1827
	George A. Galloupe	October 28, 1850
	Clarke Partridge Harding	June 20, 1853
	Isaac P. Hutchinson	February 26, 1860
	Richard William Irwin	February 18, 1857
	Erastus Jones	September 11, 1825
	George P. Lawrence	May 19, 1859
	Martin Lomasney	December 3, 1859
	Joseph B. Maccabe	November 19, 1857
	Dana Malone	October 8, 1857
	William Henry McMorrow	March 23, 1871
	Joel D. Miller	October 10, 1837
	William A. Morse	July 27, 1863
	Joseph O. Neill	January 31, 1838
	James P. Niles	September 30, 1849
	Fisher H. Pearson	November 29, 1866
	George W. Perkins	July 1, 1842
	John Jacob Prevaux	March 16, 1857
	John Quinn, Jr.	December 16, 1859
	George A. Reed	September 10, 1842
	Alfred Seelye Roe	June 8, 1844
	George P. Sanger	September 6, 1852
	Rufus Albertson Soule	1839
	Louis C. Southard	April 1, 1854
	Charles F. Sprague	June 10, 1857
	Richard Sullivan	February 24, 1856
	Arthur Holbrook Wellman	October 30, 1855
	John Loring Woodfall	September 15, 1847

Representatives

image	name	data-sort-type=date	date of birth	district
	Walter Adams	May 15, 1848
	Albert E. Addis	May 4, 1864
	Daniel W. Allen	June 17, 1827
	S. Augustus Allen	February 14, 1855
	Frederick Atherton	May 8, 1865
	Henry C. Attwill	March 11, 1872
	Waldo E. Austin	August 31, 1839
	Charles O. Bailey	January 24, 1863
	George W. Bailey	March 20, 1848
	Horace P. Bailey	March 3, 1840
	Theophilus B. Baker	May 16, 1830
	Solon Bancroft	June 22, 1839
	Harding R. Barber	December 20, 1839
	Franklin O. Barnes	November 11, 1841
	Daniel J. Barry	August 27, 1859
	Myron S. Barton	December 24, 1837
	John L. Bates	September 18, 1859
	Horace S. Bean	September 17, 1867
	William Beggs	August 7, 1844
	Charles E. Bennett	May 8, 1861
	George B. Bird	February 15, 1867
	Avander N. Blood	September 4, 1839
	Charles P. Bond	July 24, 1855
	Samuel S. Bourne	December 9, 1850
	Harvey L. Boutwell	April 5, 1860
	Walter L. Bouve	October 28, 1849
	Henry J. Boyd	May 9, 1831
	Manassah Edward Bradley	August 15, 1863
	J. Dwight Brady	December 15, 1859
	Charles Donnell Brown	June 5, 1862
	Daniel Brown	December 26, 1842
	George A. Brown	November 24, 1854
	Joseph G. Brown	January 19, 1825
	Aaron R. Bunting	August 26, 1833
	T. Preston Burt	July 20, 1844
	A. Webster Butler	August 22, 1858
	Ernest W. Calkins	December 25, 1855
	Patrick J. Carroll	May 11, 1865
	Daniel C. Casey	August 10, 1867
	Frank Chandler	February 20, 1852
	George F. Chase	December 11, 1851
	Albert Clarke	October 13, 1840
	Arthur L. Coburn	June 18, 1860
	James A. Cochran	June 27, 1847
	George F. Coleman	April 10, 1863
	James W. Coleman	March 17, 1855
	Walter S. V. Cooke	August 12, 1851
	Edward A. Cowee	July 23, 1857
	Ellery B. Crane	November 12, 1836
	James F. Creed	December 4, 1869
	Charles C. Crocker	August 21, 1831
	Harvey Crocker	September 11, 1847
	Edward S. Crockett	July 22, 1869
	Nelson P. Cummings	April 27, 1847
	Daniel J. Curley	April 2, 1841
	Nathan R. Davis	August 18, 1828
	William W. Davis	August 8, 1862
	Cornelius R. Day	December 29, 1847
	Thomas M. Denham	February 2, 1840
	Robert F. Denvir	September 8, 1840
	David T. Dickinson	August 13, 1867
	Thomas Donahue	August 20, 1853
	Jeremiah F. Donovan	May 10, 1856
	Timothy J. Donovan	April 7, 1867
	James M. Douglass	February 24, 1839
	Harry R. Dow	February 12, 1862
	Charles H. Dowse	September 12, 1853
	Daniel M. Driscoll	January 2, 1861
	James Driscoll	August 14, 1856
	William P. Driscoll	May 1, 1857
	Levi A. Drury	August 9, 1847
	George N. Dyer	December 17, 1850
	Benjamin F. Estes	August 28, 1836
	George S. Evans	September 12, 1841
	Wilson H. Fairbank	April 3, 1836
	Daniel B. Fenn	May 31, 1836
	Wellington Fillmore	October 18, 1850
	James H. Flint	June 25, 1852
	Silas W. Flint	September 4, 1843
	Joseph J. Flynn	May 1, 1862
	E. Knowlton Fogg	October 24, 1837
	John Malcolm Forbes	1847
	William E. Ford	July 20, 1823
	Otis Foss	October 4, 1838
	Frank W. Francis	September 16, 1857
	George F. Fuller	March 8, 1842
	Jefferson C. Gallison	August 8, 1841
	James A. Gallivan	October 22, 1866
	John J. Gardner	February 23, 1853
	John Dennis Hammond Gauss	January 4, 1861
	Samuel Wesley George	April 26, 1862
	Charles A. Grant	October 15, 1848
	Joshua S. Gray	August 16, 1840
	William Halliday	June 13, 1853
	Lloyd F. Hammond	March 1, 1860
	Frederic Hanson	May 2, 1835
	Edward H. Harding	April 17, 1854
	Benjamin C. Harvey	September 4, 1847
	Albert L. Harwood	September 10, 1847
	William R. Hayden	May 7, 1820
	William Henry Irving Hayes	June 21, 1848
	Thomas F. Hoban	December 20, 1860
	Joshua B. Holden	March 5, 1850
	J. Edward Hollis	1840
	E. Clarence Holt	January 13, 1850
	Seba A. Holton	August 30, 1847
	Charles E. Hosmer	May 25, 1837
	Walter F. Howard	September 20, 1855
	Roger S. Howe	November 20, 1849
	Henry D. Humphrey	June 20, 1861
	Caleb Burroughs Huse	September 13, 1833
	John W. Johnson	June 14, 1856
	George R. Jones	February 8, 1862
	Frank W. Kaan	September 11, 1861
	George H. Kearn	January 6, 1839
	James Keenan	March 4, 1850
	Thomas F. Keenan	March 11, 1854
	John A. Keliher	November 6, 1866
	George H. Kelton	September 20, 1861
	Thomas W. Kenefick	September 17, 1855
	Patrick J. Kennedy	March 20, 1862
	Charles W. King	September 8, 1861
	David T. King	January 19, 1864
	Francis M. Kingman	May 25, 1837
	Franz H. Krebs, Jr	1868
	James H. Leary	November 28, 1868
	Michael J. Leary	November 16, 1869
	Charles F. Light	August 1, 1860
	Warren J. Livermore	January 5, 1835
	Walter E. Lord	January 22, 1856
	Francis Cabot Lowell	January 7, 1855
	Jeremiah E. Mahoney	November 8, 1864
	Forrest C. Manchester	September 11, 1859
	William H. Marden	May 30, 1843
	Arthur A. Maxwell	January 24, 1858
	Will W. Mayhew	January 15, 1857
	Benjamin W. Mayo	April 17, 1836
	Samuel N. Mayo	May 24, 1839
	Jeremiah Justin McCarthy	March 29, 1852
	George M. McClain	March 9, 1842
	John E. McClellan	September 5, 1847
	James S. McKenna	January 11, 1864
	James F. Melaven	November 19, 1858
	George H. Mellen	October 7, 1850
	James H. Mellen	November 7, 1845
	George von Lengerke Meyer	June 24, 1858
	Charles E. Mills	December 28, 1847
	Samuel H. Mitchell	November 2, 1854
	Charles D. Monroe	January 15, 1856
	Eugene Michael Moriarty	April 15, 1849
	James J. Myers	November 20, 1842
	Thaddeus H. Newcomb	March 15, 1826
	Henry C. Newell	March 9, 1843
	Luther Nickerson	July 9, 1829
	Edward O. Northway	December 12, 1867
	Joseph J. Norton	November 19, 1870
	John J. O'Connor	April 13, 1871
	John M. O'Hara	July 2, 1865
	Frank J. O'Toole	October 13, 1867
	John B. Packard	February 22, 1837
	Clarence H. Parker	October 31, 1849
	Herbert C. Parsons	January 15, 1862
	Frank A. Patch	July 23, 1844
	John H. Ponce	November 1, 1857
	Burrill Porter	February 22, 1832
	George W. Porter	January 30, 1844
	George E. Putnam	February 9, 1851
	Nicolas M. Quint	July 18, 1838
	Charles I. Quirk	August 15, 1871
	Charles W. Ray	August 16, 1847
	William Louis Reed	April 5, 1866
	Michael J. Reidy	August 8, 1870
	George M. Rice	October 20, 1843
	Clinton Q. Richmond	December 17, 1859
	Francis R. Richmond	April 20, 1851
	Thomas Riley	December 22, 1843
	Ernest W. Roberts	November 22, 1858
	J. Henry Robinson	February 9, 1831
	Atherton W. Rogers	August 10, 1848
	George A. Roper	July 25, 1849
	Samuel Ross	February 2, 1865
	Daniel D. Rourke	July 16, 1869
	Fred H. Rourke	May 23, 1867
	George G. Russell	November 4, 1845
	Howard K. Sanderson	July 10, 1865
	Charles F. Sargent	August 31, 1858
	Tristram T. Savory	September 19, 1834
	William P. Searls	June 3, 1851
	Chester Wells Severence	February 27, 1831
	Charles S. Shattuck	June 5, 1840
	David B. Shaw	August 20, 1870
	John F. Sheehan	September 2, 1861
	William Shepherd	September 17, 1837
	P. Howard Shirley	August 15, 1857
	David F. Slade	November 5, 1855
	John O. Slocum	March 13, 1842
	Albert C. Smith	March 14, 1845
	Charles W. Smith	March 6, 1846
	Henry R. Smith	October 7, 1842
	Amasa E. Southworth	May 19, 1844
	Cyrus Spaulding	April 17, 1835
	Albert T. Sprague	June 18, 1843
	Thomas E. St. John	March 2, 1831
	Fred D. Stanley	October 17, 1863
	Arlin V. Stevens	June 15, 1854
	Edward A. Stevens	December 9, 1841
	Elmer A. Stevens	January 15, 1862
	Ezra A. Stevens	March 12, 1827
	Joseph W. Stocker	April 6, 1824
	Willmore B. Stone	June 24, 1853
	George D. Storrs	September 19, 1866
	Arthur D. Story	October 11, 1854
	Cornelius F. Sullivan	June 15, 1865
	George J. Tarr	February 1, 1832
	James Thompson	May 18, 1848
	Henry Thrasher	May 29, 1837
	John Rogers Thurston	September 4, 1831
	Charles W. Tilton	April 6, 1836
	William Tolman	June 2, 1858
	Frank M. Trafton	January 4, 1858
	John E. Tuttle	November 3, 1835
	Charles Henry Utley	November 27, 1857
	Henry M. Van Deusen	September 29, 1850
	Henry R. Van Rensselaer	December 12, 1855
	George Albert Wales	March 26, 1858
	William W. Waterman	December 4, 1831
	Jackson Webster	March 14, 1849
	Clarence P. Weston	August 23, 1845
	George W. Weymouth	August 25, 1850
	Mark O. Wheaton	November 22, 1833
	George L. Whitcomb	March 18, 1855
	Edward E. Willard	September 25, 1862
	Edward H. Wilson	September 26, 1848
	George G. Withington	July 31, 1831
	John A. Woodbury	August 22, 1836
	Joseph W. Woodman	January 25, 1847
	Charles L. Young	May 23, 1850
	Willie C. Young	May 28, 1848

See also

• 54th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

Further reading

• Book: Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators: 1896 . 1896 . A. M. Bridgman .
• Book: Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1896 . Massachusetts: Legislative Session . https://archive.org/details/appletonsannualc01newyuoft/page/456/mode/1up . D. Appleton and Company . New York . 1897 .
• Francis C. Lowell . Legislative Shortcomings . Atlantic Monthly . 79 . 1897 . 2027/coo.31924079579540?urlappend=%3Bseq=372 . .

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 . 1896 . Boston . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Internet Archive .