1870 Massachusetts legislature
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91st
Massachusetts General Court |
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Overview | ||||
Legislative body | General Court | |||
Election | November 2, 1869 | |||
Senate | ||||
Members | 40 | |||
President | Horace H. Coolidge | |||
Party control |
Republican
(29 R, 10 D, 1 other) [1] [2] |
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House | ||||
Members | 240 | |||
Speaker | Harvey Jewell | |||
Party control |
Republican
(160 R, 58 D, 22 other) [1] [3] |
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Sessions | ||||
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The 91st Massachusetts General Court , consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives , met in 1870 during the governorship of Republican William Claflin . Horace H. Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Harvey Jewell served as speaker of the House. [5]
Senators
Image | Name [6] | Date of birth [7] | District | Party |
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Nathaniel Ellis Atwood | September 13, 1807 | |||
Jacob Bates | 1819 | |||
Joseph Augustus Benjamin | 1817 | |||
George Marshall Buttrick | 1822 | |||
Andrew Jackson Clark | 1835 | |||
Benjamin Franklin Clark | 1808 | |||
Waldo Colburn | November 13, 1824 | |||
Patrick Andrew Collins | March 12, 1844 | |||
Horace Hopkins Coolidge | February 11, 1832 | |||
Stephen Moody Crosby | 1827 | |||
Edmund Dowse | 1813 | |||
John Fletcher | 1827 | |||
James Augustus Fox | August 11, 1827 | |||
Alonzo Madison Giles | 1821 | |||
Henry Clay Greeley | 1830 | |||
John Brown Hathaway | 1809 | |||
John Alexander Hawes | 1823 | |||
Francis Allen Hobart | 1833 | |||
Nathaniel Jay Holden | 1827 | |||
Joseph Sidney Howe | 1832 | |||
Willard Woodman Jenness | 1827 | |||
George William Johnson | 1827 | |||
William Wallace Kellogg | 1824 | |||
George Augustus King | 1834 | |||
Charles James Kittredge | 1818 | |||
Charles Rensselaer Ladd | April 9, 1822 | |||
James Henry Leland | 1833 | |||
George Harris Monroe | 1826 | |||
Ellis Wesley Morton | 1840 | |||
James Pierce | 1837 | |||
Joseph Greeley Pollard | 1833 | |||
Jeremiah Hobbs Pote | 1820 | |||
Stephen Holbrook Rhodes | November 7, 1825 | |||
George Merrick Rice | November 20, 1808 | |||
James Granville Sproat | 1835 | |||
Orlando Barnard Tenney | 1816 | |||
Francis Thompson | 1826 | |||
William W. Warren | February 27, 1834 | |||
Charles Augustus Wheelock | 1812 | |||
Frederick H. Willcomb | 1831 |
Representatives
- John A. P. Allen [6]
- William H. Ames
- Benjamin F. Angell
- John Armitage
- William F. Arnold
- Jonathan Arnold, Jr
- Samuel Atherton
- John Ayars, Jr
- George H. Babbitt, Jr
- Jesse Bacon
- Amasa W. Bailey
- Joseph K. Baker, Jr
- Dana Bancroft
- Henry J. Barker
- William Barker, Jr
- John Barlow
- Daniel N. Barrett
- Patrick Barry
- William Bartlett
- Carlos Batchelder
- Eliakim A. Bates
- Thomas Bean
- Alanson W. Beard
- Wesley K. Bell
- Daniel W. Bemis
- Edward L. Bigelow
- John W. Blaney
- Robert Bower
- Selwin Z. Bowman
- Benjamin H. Brown
- Samuel W. Brown
- Ezra P. Brownell
- George L. Buffin
- Elias Bullard
- John R. Bullard
- John D. Burtch
- Hodgdon F. Buzzell
- Michael Carney
- James E. Carpenter
- Solomon Carter
- Albert Chamberlin
- Alexander H. Champlin
- William M. Child
- Elijah H. Chisholm
- Horace Choate
- Samuel A. Churchill
- Edward Clarke
- William Cogswell
- George J. L. Colby
- Justin M. Cooley
- George P. Cox
- Alanson Crittenden
- S. Frank Crockett
- William H. Cundy
- Marshall N. Cutter
- Samuel R. Damon
- George K. Daniell
- Robert S. Daniels
- William F. Darby
- Curtis Davis
- Elisha Davis
- John H. Davis
- Timothy Davis
- John A. Day
- Franklin Derby
- David S. Draper
- Jeremiah J. Driscoll
- John Drynan
- Thomas Earle
- Richard Eddy
- Francis Edson
- Pliny Edson
- James H. Ellis
- George O. Fairbanks
- James O. Fallon
- Lewis M. Ferry
- Adams Fiske
- John E. Fitzgerald
- Hugh Flood
- Reuben P. Folger
- Benjamin Franklin
- Rodney French
- Daniel Gale
- Samuel Galley
- Thomas J. Gargan
- Thomas Gates
- Jubal C. Gleason
- Dorrance S. Goddard
- Henry A. Goodrich
- John B. Goodrich
- Henry Goodspeed
- Charles J. Goodwin
- Dennis J. Gorman
- George H. Goward
- William T. Grammer
- Thomas B. Griffith
- Lucas W. Hannum
- James L. Harriman
- Daniel L. Harris
- Thomas B. Harris
- Abraham G. Hart
- Andrew L. Haskell
- Guilford Hathaway
- Bainbridge Hayward
- James A. Hervey
- Orrin Hewes
- Luther Hill
- Noble H. Hill
- Sylvester S. Hill
- Larone Hills
- Thomas Holway
- James Horswell
- Samuel Horton
- Charles H. Hovey
- Jonas E. Howe
- Theodore C. Hurd
- Thomas P. Hurlbut
- Francis James
- James W. Jenkins
- Thomas L. Jenks
- Harvey Jewell
- Sylvester Jewett
- Abbott Johnson
- Joseph P. Johnson
- Robert Johnson
- Ensign H. Kellogg
- Shubael B. Kelly
- Warren Kent
- David Lane
- Joseph C. Lewis
- Albert W. Lincoln
- George W. Lobdell
- Caleb Lombard
- Henry A. Lord
- Charles H. Loring
- Hugh A. Madden
- Frederick A. Mann
- Henry Mann
- Edwin T. Marble
- Warren Marchant
- William Marchant
- Charles N. Marsh
- J. Wesley Marshall
- George H. Martin
- Edward T. Marvel
- John W. Mayhew
- Edward F. Mayo
- Edward McDonald
- Moses W. McIntire
- John W. McKim
- Charles J. Mclntire
- Cornelius McMahon
- William H. Mears
- Charles H. Merriam
- Moody Merrill
- William Merrill
- Benjamin F. Mills
- Horatio Moore
- John Harvey Moore
- John M. Moore
- Luther G. Morrison
- Bushrod Morse
- James R. Morse
- Newton Morse
- Henry P. Moulton
- Henry J. Nazro
- Peter M. Neal
- Joseph Newmarch
- George Nowell
- Francis A. Nye
- Benjamin F. Packard
- Charles H. Page
- Samuel S. Paine
- George A. Parker
- William H. Parker
- Dexter Parks
- Lloyd Parsons
- Luke Perkins
- William A. Pew
- Samuel H. Pierce
- Samuel Pierce
- George T. Plunkett
- Ira G. Potter
- David Powers
- Henry A. Pratt
- George Putnam
- Noah Rankin
- John Rhodes
- Thomas Rice
- John H. Roberts
- George Lewis Ruffin [8] [6]
- Joseph M. Russell
- George Sanford
- Samuel D. Sawin
- Henry H. Shaw
- A. A. Sherman
- John Sias
- Ansel C. Smith
- Hambleton E. Smith
- Walter Spooner
- L. Miles Standish
- Levi Stockbridge
- Patrick Sweeney
- Theodore H. Sweetser
- John K. Tarbox
- Edmund B. Taylor
- Edward Taylor
- Levi Z. Thomas
- Dexter A. Tompkins
- Charles R. Train
- Benjamin A. Tripp
- Samuel C. Trull
- Edward Tuck
- Samuel J. Tuttle
- Stephen Wallace
- James J. Walworth
- Zenas C. Wardwell
- Henry A. Warriner
- Andrew J. Waterman
- Lory S. Watson
- Nathan H. Webb
- John D. Weld
- Michael F. Wells
- Alonzo B. Wentworth
- John W. Wetherell
- Sydney F. Whitehouse
- Harrison C. Whitmore
- Daniel H. Whitney
- Emerson Wight
- Charles C. Wilbar
- Alfred M. Williams
- Lester Williams
- Samuel S. Willson
- William Winn
- Timothy D. Wood
- Charles L. Woodbury
- William L. Woodcock
- David T. Woodwell
- William H. Wormstead
- Gardner C. Wright
- George T. Wyer
See also
References
- 1 2 Cornelius Dalton; John Wirkkala; Anne Thomas (1984). "Political Complexion of the General Court 1867-1980". Leading the Way: a History of the Massachusetts General Court, 1629-1980 . Boston: Massachusetts Secretary of State. p. 441+. ISBN 0961391502 .
- ↑ "Composition of the Massachusetts State Senate" , Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library , Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
- ↑ "Composition of the State of Massachusetts House of Representatives" , Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library , Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
- ↑ "Length of Legislative Sessions" . Manual for the Use of the General Court . Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
- ↑ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780" . Manual for the Use of the General Court . Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
- 1 2 3 Court, Massachusetts General (1870). Manual for the Use of the General Court . Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl : 2452/40648 .
- ↑ "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1870" (PDF) , Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
- ↑ Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present , State Library of Massachusetts, hdl : 2452/48905
Further reading
- "Massachusetts" . American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1870 . New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1871. hdl : 2027/uva.x004735564 – via HathiTrust . (includes description of legislature)
- Paul E. Bolin (1995). "Overlooked and Obscured Through History: The Legislative Bill Proposed to Amend the Massachusetts Drawing Act of 1870". Studies in Art Education . 37 (1): 55–64. doi : 10.2307/1320492 . JSTOR 1320492 .
External links
- Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1870 , hdl : 2452/619059
- Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1870 , hdl : 2452/92952
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