1874 Massachusetts legislature explained

95th
Massachusetts General Court
Body:General Court
Election:November 4, 1873
Session1 End:[1]
Before:94th
After:96th
Chamber1:Senate
Membership1:40
Control1:Republican
Chamber1 Leader1 Type:President
Chamber1 Leader1:George B. Loring
Chamber2:House of Representatives
Membership2:240
Control2:Republican
Chamber2 Leader1 Type:Speaker
Chamber2 Leader1:John E. Sanford

The 95th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1874 during the governorships of William B. Washburn and Thomas Talbot. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford served as speaker of the House.[2] [3]

Senators

ImageName data-sort-type=date Date of birth DistrictParty
David Aiken 1804
Horace Clinton Bacon 1824
Andrew Jackson Bailey 1840
Prentiss Chaffee Baird 1832
Henry Lewis Bancroft 1821
Julius K. Banister
January 30, 1816
Brooks Trull Batcheller 1813
Erastus P. Carpenter November 23, 1822
Jedediah Dwelley 1834
Francis Edson 1823
Charles Fitz 1806
Charles Howe French 1814
Henry Fuller 1825
Jeremiah Gatchell 1834
John A. Hawes 1823
Francis B. Hayes 1819
Thomas Prentiss Hurlbut 1820
Thomas Ingalls 1824
Francis Wayland Jacobs 1837
Nathaniel Lafayette Johnson 1822
Jonathan A. Lane 1822
Edward Howard Lathrop 1838
Edward Learned 1820
November 8, 1817
February 25, 1835
Walter Neal Mason 1824
Moody Merrill1836
January 26, 1824
Francis Augustus Nye 1823
March 20, 1823
Edward Payson Reed 1836
William Francis Salmon 1831
Charles Pickett Stickney 1824
Thomas Newcomb Stone 1818
Hugh James Toland 1844
July 14, 1826
Zenas Caldwell Wardwell 1831
Henry Stevenson Washburn 1813
Tisdale Sanford White 1809

Representatives

imageName [4] data-sort-type=date Date of birth DistrictParty
William A. Abbott1834
John Quincy Adams IISeptember 22, 1833
William Augustus Adams1830
Charles Alden1819
Andrew Athy1832
Joseph Edmond Bailey1839
Emory Banister1809
Patrick Barry1834
George Bartholmesz1821
William Garry Bassett1843
John Henry Bell1829
John Bigelow1841
Samuel Partridge Billings1819
Sanford Waters Billings1834
Robert Roberts BishopMarch 13, 1834
Stephen Francis Blaney1844
Richard Delano Blinn1831
John Cutter Blood1836
William Edward Blunt1840
Enos Watson Boise1840
Dennis Bonner1821
Frederick Lincoln Bosworth1836
Samuel Hyde Boutwell1838
Reuben Boynton1815
Shubael Wilmarth Brayton1822
Richard Britton1838
William Blanchard Brown1821
James Needham Buffum1807
Stillman Butterworth1817
Aaron Ozias Buxton1832
James Hazen Carleton1818
Alonzo Augustus Carr1836
Cyrus William Chapman1813
Damon Ebenezer Cheney1828
Elijah Horne Chisholm1824
Albe Cady Clark1826
Francis Elliot Clark1830
Alfred Alonzo Clatur1835
Charles R. Codman1829
Lansing James Cole1803
Patrick Collins1830
Austin Henry Connell1846
Henry Joseph Couch1831
Jeremiah William Coveney1840
George Glover Crocker1843
John Addison Cummings1838
John Cummings1812
Benjamin Connor Currier1822
Francis Chester Curtis1836
John Cushing1808
Levi Lincoln Cushing1825
Thomas Seabury Cushman1809
Timothy John Dacey1849
Curtis Davis1814
Henry Charles Davis1843
John Davol1822
Isaac Walker Derby1835
Edward Dickinson1803
Jarvis Nelson Dunham1828
Edward Eaton1818
Joseph Merrill Eaton1834
Lucian Farnham Eldridge1839
Augustus Bradford EndicottSeptember 10, 1818
James Edward Estabrook
George Otis Fairbanks1815
John Brooks Fairbanks1822
Caleb Clesson Field1810
John Hancock Fisher1807
Joseph Emery Fiske1839
Eustace Carey Fitz1833
John Edward Fitzgerald1844
Thomas Francis Fitzgerald1848
John Ware Fletcher1824
William Frost1822
Asabel Gates1827
George Samuel Gates1817
Thomas Gates1822
Ziba Gay1823
William Benedict Gibson1819
Addison Gilbert1808
John James Giles1810
Samuel Slocum Ginnodo1816
Samuel Staples Gleason1841
Levi Lincoln Goodspeed1822
Elbridge Henry Goss1830
Andrew Jackson Gove1834
Brownell Granger1835
Francis Edward Gray1844
Charles HaleJune 7, 1831
Gayton Montgomery Hall1835
Nahum Bathrick Hall1823
Solomon Eldridge Hallett1833
Abraham Wilkinson Harris1829
Joshua Prentiss Haskell1835
Horace Haskins1829
John Ferguson Haskins1831
Benjamin Franklin Hayes
Samuel Morse Haynes1833
Benjamin Heath1821
Allen Higginbottom1826
James Edward Hill1838
John Beckford Hill1824
Joseph Warren Hill1837
George Hodges1822
Norton Eugene Hollis1840
Theodore Myers House1840
Benjamin Howard1819
Andrew Howes1826
David Porter Howes1815
Francis M. Hughes1845
Edward Gilbert Hull1834
J. B. Hull
James Douglass Hurlburt1832
Richardson Hutchinson1818
Nathan Sumner Jenkins1820
Edward Jonathan Johnson1832
Jonathan Johnson1818
Laburton Johnson1827
Edward Jenkins Jones1822
Erastus JonesSeptember 11, 1825
George Washington Jones1822
Thomas Milton Judd1840
Jesse Edson Keith1824
Elbridge Gerry Kelley
Charles Henry Killam1832
Moses KimballOctober 24, 1809
Ebenezer Kimball1818
George Parkman Kingsley1840
Lucius Woodman Knight1830
William Shadrach KnoxSeptember 10, 1843
Samuel Orson Lamb1821
Henry Douglas Lay1824
Daniel James Lewis1810
Willard Lewis1808
Frederick Walker Lincoln1817
Joseph Chase Little
Lewis Lombard1819
Edward Payson Loring1837
Samuel Loring
Charles Addison Loud1829
Henry Bacon LoveringApril 8, 1841
Aaron LowAugust 11, 1833
Horatio Atwood Lucas1827
Julius Miner Lyon1828
John Thomson Manny
Albert Mason1836
Lyman Mason1815
David Mayhew1834
Horace Hawkes Mayhew1826
Edward McCleave
Daniel McCowan1838
John Johnson McNutt1822
James Lincoln Merritt1816
Albert Montague1822
John Brooks Moore1817
John Farwell Moors
Joseph Brown Morss1808
Andrew Marathon Morton1839
William Henry Murray1826
Avery Williams Nelson1821
Willard Stanley Newhall1831
Reuben Noble1820
Edward Ornan Noyes1840
Porter Nutting1814
Richard E. Olney1835
Almond Mitchell Orcutt1824
Lysander John Orcutt1826
Charles Stuart Osgood1839
Albert PalmerJanuary 17, 1831
James Orlando ParkerNovember 22, 1827
William Crowell Parker1850
William Edward Perkins1838
Henry Willis Phelps1830
Smith Robinson Phillips1837
Willard Peele Phillips1825
Richard Pope1843
Francis Edward Porter1824
Charles Lyman Pratt1839
Henry Loring Pratt1833
Edward Benedict Rankin1846
Lawrence Reade1835
Daniel Franklin Reed1834
John Wilder Rice1818
Jeremiah A. Rich1823
John Andrew Grant Richardson1840
George D. RobinsonJanuary 20, 1834
Charles Robinson1829
Joshua Crowell Robinson1834
Philip Henry Robinson1823
Joseph Warren Rogers1828
William Rea Roundy1823
Nathaniel Johnson Rust1833
John Eliot SanfordNovember 22, 1830
George Jedediah Sanger1826
Cyrus SavageSeptember 2, 1832
John Savery1815
Levi Heywood Sawin1816
Isaac Fessenden Sawtelle
Nathaniel Seaver1807
Edwin Henry Seymour1834
Henry Perkins Shattuck1844
Charles Luther Shaw1823
George Atwood Shaw1816
John Shaw1822
Henry Shortle1834
Warren Sibley1819
William Lawton Slade1817
John Killbourne Clough Sleeper1828
George Dillingham Smalley1824
Joshua Bowen Smith1813
Abraham Howland Smith1833
Albert Smith1823
Moses Smith1815
Rufus Smith1816
Sumner Southworth1804
Franklin Harvey Sprague1825
Richard Hall StearnsDecember 25, 1824
Ezra Stearns1812
Isaac Stebbins1817
John Henry Studley1828
Daniel Joseph Sweeney1834
George Washington Taft1823
James Gamage Tarr
Daniel Holt Thurston1813
Artemas Stanley Tyler1824
Warren Tyler1819
Leonard Washburn1813
Timothy W. Wellington1811
Michael Francis Wells1832
Cyrus Martin Wheaton1794
Simon Huntington White1832
William Whiting1816
Robert Rich Wiley1828
James Burr Williams1839
Moses Williams1846
Henry Warren Wilson1834
Samuel Winslow1827
Henry Vose Woods1821
George Cleveland Wright1823
Henry Willis Wright1834

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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: https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge200506mass/page/338/mode/2up . 2005 . Boston . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Manual for the Use of the General Court . Organization of the Legislature Since 1780 . 338+ .
  3. Book: Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts . https://archive.org/details/massachusettsreg1874bost/page/10/mode/2up . Massachusetts Register, 1874 . 1874 . .
  4. Book: Manual for the Use of the General Court . 1874 . Boston . Commonwealth of Massachusetts .