1906 Massachusetts legislature

The 127th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1906 during the governorship of Curtis Guild Jr. William F. Dana served as president of the Senate and John N. Cole served as speaker of the House.

127th Massachusetts General Court
← 126th 128th →
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 7, 1905
Senate
Members	40
President	William F. Dana
Party control	Republican (31–9)
House
Members	240
Speaker	John N. Cole
Party control	Republican (165–69–6)
Sessions
1st January 3, 1906 (1906-01-03) – June 29, 1906 (1906-06-29)

William Dana, Senate president.

John Cole, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1906.

Senators

image	name	date of birth	district
	John E. Beck	May 10, 1869
	William J. Bullock	January 31, 1864
	Allan G. Buttrick	March 16, 1876
	Thomas F. Cassidy	June 1, 1875
	Frank M. Chace	April 16, 1856
	William D. Chapple	August 6, 1868
	Chester W. Clark	August 9, 1851
	Morton E. Converse	November 17, 1837
	Guy W. Cox	January 19, 1871
	Louis Cox	November 22, 1874
	Prentiss Cummings	September 10, 1840
	John F. Cusick	February 20, 1869
	William F. Dana	June 26, 1863
	Charles Leroy Dean	May 29, 1844
	William H. Feiker	March 11, 1870
	George H. Garfield	July 18, 1858
	John J. Gartland	November 27, 1871
	Frank Gerrett	February 4, 1857
	John M. Grosvenor Jr.	April 22, 1864
	Heman A. Harding	February 6, 1871
	Sidney Adelvin Hill	August 26, 1849
	Horton H. Hilton	December 11, 1869
	Samuel E. Hull	August 12, 1843
	Harrie C. Hunter	March 16, 1869
	William S. Kyle	July 12, 1851
	Daniel W. Lane	December 11, 1871
	Edward L. Logan	January 20, 1875
	Frederick J. Macleod	June 30, 1870
	Daniel D. Mahoney	March 27, 1862
	James J. Mellen	March 30, 1875
	Edward B. Nevin	November 10, 1858
	Fordis C. Parker	January 3, 1868
	Charles N. Prouty	October 6, 1842
	Silas Dean Reed	June 25, 1872
	George A. Schofield	April 26, 1863
	Frank Seiberlich	October 29, 1874
	Elmer A. Stevens	January 15, 1862
	Arthur M. Taft	January 28, 1854
	William Taylor	May 5, 1862
	James H. Walker	August 24, 1872

Representatives

image	name	date of birth	district
	Gideon B. Abbott	May 4, 1874
	James Sidney Allen	July 3, 1831
	Henry Stoddard Ames	May 21, 1861
	William H. Ames	March 1, 1861
	Charles A. Andrews	July 2, 1872
	William A. Bailey	September 26, 1849
	Arthur Wesley Barker	September 19, 1847
	George L. Barnes	June 24, 1879
	James Timothy Barrett	February 10, 1870
	James W. Barry	April 6, 1865
	J. Edward Barry	September 18, 1874
	Moses Bassett	March 28, 1869
	Frank A. Bayrd	September 1, 1873
	Fred Alfred Bearse	February 15, 1871
	William A. Bell	December 22, 1856
	March G. Bennett	January 31, 1869
	Frank P. Bennett Jr.	December 30, 1878
	Frederick Leonard Beunke	June 15, 1856
	George Frederick Birch	April 12, 1848
	C. Edward Blanchard	August 20, 1861
	Charles V. Blanchard	February 2, 1866
	Stephen H. Bodurtha	March 10, 1858
	G. Arthur Bodwell	July 4, 1859
	Fred Eldridge Bolton	December 6, 1869
	Bart Bossidy	September 30, 1876
	Edward A. Bower	August 1, 1869
	Eugene T. Brazzell	March 21, 1878
	William M. Brigham	January 23, 1864
	William R. Brooks	March 1, 1865
	Timothy J. Buckley	April 24, 1870
	Addison Eleazer Bullard	March 7, 1855
	Andrew J. Burnett	1860
	Herbert W. Burr	June 15, 1866
	John J. Butler	June 7, 1865
	Edward C. Callahan	March 14, 1874
	William Henry Carter	June 15, 1864
	Clarence A. Chandler	October 27, 1852
	Ezra W. Clark	October 12, 1842
	Allen Clark	April 1, 1870
	Samuel A. Clark	December 10, 1852
	Samuel F. Coffin	December 27, 1851
	John N. Cole	November 4, 1863
	Martin F. Conley	April 27, 1870
	John J. Conway	September 12, 1873
	William H. Cook	March 7, 1856
	Michael J. Coyle	September 27, 1864
	Lyman Alexander Crafts	October 28, 1854
	Edward C. Creed	January 5, 1877
	Grafton D. Cushing	August 4, 1864
	Michael P. Daly	January 14, 1876
	Charles L. Davenport	May 4, 1854
	Thomas L. Davis	March 15, 1852
	Charles Austin Dean	March 26, 1856
	William M. Dean	November 16, 1874
	Robert T. Delano	July 13, 1857
	Charles Edwin Dennett	November 13, 1837
	Daniel Edward Denny	July 14, 1845
	John Diggins	November 14, 1877
	J. Frank Donahue	August 29, 1865
	William J. Doogue	April 28, 1876
	John J. Douglass	February 9, 1873
	Thomas Dowd	May 1, 1864
	Jeremiah F. Downey	February 9, 1878
	Andrew P. Doyle	August 15, 1869
	John J. Driscoll	March 27, 1876
	Thomas F. Driscoll	November 5, 1860
	Patrick J. Duane	August 18, 1862
	William C. Dunham	September 14, 1830
	Theodore F. Dwight	September 19, 1863
	Ebenezer Alden Dyer	July 17, 1857
	Jonathan P. Edwards	April 7, 1854
	Winslow H. Edwards	August 13, 1870
	John F. Egan	July 6, 1874
	Eugene F. Endicott	October 14, 1848
	Wilmot R. Evans Jr.	March 18, 1878
	Fred A. Ewell	June 12, 1865
	William Otis Faxon	October 24, 1853
	Francis Joseph Fennelly	February 18, 1860
	Jacob Bernard Ferber	May 28, 1876
	Edward F. Fitzgerald	December 2, 1872
	Josiah Willard Flint	November 4, 1840
	Clarence J. Fogg	July 10, 1853
	Watson P. Gage	July 9, 1841
	Warren E. Gammell	August 25, 1831
	Félix Gatineau	November 12, 1857
	Frank E. Gaylord	May 1, 1868
	Frank J. Gethro	April 20, 1872
	Chester E. Gleason	March 13, 1869
	Theodore A. Glynn	November 8, 1881
	Joseph D. Goddu	October 22, 1867
	John W. Goodhue	April 10, 1858
	Frank W. Goodwin	October 25, 1876
	Robert J. Gove	May 22, 1863
	Thomas J. Grady	December 16, 1877
	William J. Graham	October 2, 1873
	William H. Granger	June 28, 1838
	Albert F. Grant	November 16, 1872
	Lyman W. Griswold	October 16, 1869
	William F. Haggerty	June 26, 1872
	Frederick P. Hall	December 10, 1868
	Delette H. Hall	March 20, 1843
	Portus B. Hancock	February 19, 1836
	William Henry Irving Hayes	June 21, 1848
	Andrew F. Healy	July 20, 1878
	Joseph H. Hibbard	April 5, 1860
	John J. Higgins	May 17, 1865
	Aubrey Hilliard	April 6, 1861
	Michael B. Houlihan	March 24, 1874
	Barker B. Howard	April 21, 1867
	Alonzo F. Hoyle	October 16, 1861
	Eugene Hultman	July 13, 1875
	James H. Hutchings	October 20, 1862
	George H. Jackson	March 9, 1865
	George L. Jaques	May 5, 1866
	Charles Cabot Johnson	December 9, 1876
	James Albert Jones	January 14, 1853
	Samuel O. Jones	November 17, 1858
	David P. Keefe	September 29, 1855
	William A. Kelleher	May 27, 1875
	Clesson Kenney	May 31, 1839
	Philip A. Kiely	February 16, 1874
	Alec E. Knowlton	October 29, 1857
	S. John Lamoureux	April 30, 1877
	Thomas Leavitt	August 28, 1872
	Edwin F. Leonard	July 15, 1862
	John B. Locke	March 7, 1856
	Martin Lomasney	December 3, 1859
	George W. Long	July 28, 1872
	John Fitch Lothrop	December 17, 1847
	James Arnold Lowell	February 5, 1869
	John B. Lowney	March 17, 1879
	Robert Luce	December 2, 1862
	James Michael Lynch	July 7, 1864
	Charles H. Macomber	August 6, 1872
	Harry E. Mapes	July 8, 1867
	Charles Mayberry	April 27, 1876
	Ulysses Everett Mayhew	August 16, 1848
	Matthew McCann	1863
	James F. McDermott	March 1, 1877
	Daniel J. McDonald	August 14, 1872
	John M. McDonald	June 2, 1873
	Michael J. McEttrick	June 22, 1848
	Robert K. McKirdy	October 4, 1870
	Edwin T. McKnight	October 11, 1869
	John J. McManmon	April 5, 1871
	Edward L. McManus	December 22, 1866
	Frank McNerney	September 4, 1870
	James H. Mellen	November 7, 1845
	Julius Meyers	December 6, 1854
	John Joseph Mitchell	May 9, 1873
	Jacob H. Mock	May 14, 1863
	Joseph E. Mooney	June 25, 1874
	George Henry Moore	May 16, 1844
	Harry Payson Morse	July 27, 1854
	Emil J. Muehlig	November 26, 1873
	Timothy S. Murphy	June 27, 1877
	Arthur L. Nason	October 24, 1872
	Francis T. Nelson	November 11, 1851
	George H. Newhall	October 24, 1850
	William L. V. Newton	February 28, 1881
	Arthur D. Norcross	November 7, 1848
	Edward H. O'Brien	February 1, 1874
	M. Fred O'Connell	June 14, 1870
	Hugh O'Rourke	March 1, 1869
	Frank E. Packard	May 7, 1857
	Joseph A. Parks	May 2, 1877
	W. Rodman Peabody	March 3, 1874
	Pierre F. Peloquin	May 26, 1851
	Michael F. Phelan	October 22, 1875
	Amos A. Phelps	January 12, 1867
	Stephen W. Phillips	January 9, 1873
	John H. Pickford	September 9, 1849
	Nathan H. Poor	April 14, 1840
	Samuel L. Porter	November 10, 1869
	Elmer C. Potter	August 23, 1868
	Maurice J. Power	July 21, 1872
	Melvin B. Putnam	April 8, 1845
	John H. Quinlan	February 29, 1864
	John Quinn, Jr.	December 16, 1859
	Herbert S. Riley	December 20, 1859
	Bradley M. Rockwood	May 24, 1862
	Samuel Ross	February 2, 1865
	Gilbert Jones Rugg	March 27, 1836
	Edward Julius Sandberg	October 21, 1866
	Henry O. Sawyer	June 10, 1844
	George A. Scigliano	August 26, 1874
	Henry Walter Seward	January 18, 1865
	George A. Shackford	June 7, 1854
	Nelson Sherburne	November 18, 1864
	Joseph Sherman	September 7, 1840
	Patrick J. Shiels	August 9, 1873
	Levi M. Snow	April 19, 1841
	Elijah Olin Snow	April 24, 1851
	Joseph Soliday	1869
	Nathaniel P. Sowle	October 30, 1857
	Gilbert M. Stalker	February 19, 1857
	Frank D. Stevens	November 13, 1852
	John Adam Stoddart	May 10, 1869
	Luke S. Stowe	August 9, 1834
	Arthur H. Streeter	July 4, 1870
	John F. Sullivan	May 17, 1875
	Patrick John Sullivan	August 23, 1860
	Simon Swig	May 15, 1865
	Warren E. Tarbell	April 18, 1860
	John Tarr	May 25, 1870
	Richard S. Teeling	December 26, 1878
	Clifford B. Terry	December 16, 1876
	Frank W. Thayer	July 2, 1865
	Jabez P. Thompson	July 24, 1853
	Frederick H. Tilton	November 28, 1879
	John Hugh Toland	October 8, 1870
	Frank A. Torrey	December 21, 1874
	Albert Totten	November 1, 1849
	William H. Trudel	July 19, 1866
	Noble B. Turner	November 5, 1848
	William Turtle	June 20, 1855
	Samuel A. Tuttle	September 11, 1837
	Arthur P. Vinal	June 14, 1854
	Albert Vittum	December 29, 1857
	Joseph Walker	1865
	Edward A. Walker	May 28, 1869
	Joseph Walsh	December 16, 1875
	Charles E. Ward	October 17, 1849
	Walter Archibald Webster	December 4, 1875
	A. S. Parker Weeks	April 29, 1857
	William E. Weeks	1880
	Arthur J. Wellington	July 21, 1871
	Harvey Wheeler	November 5, 1847
	Frank L. White	August 10, 1869
	Henry O. Whiting	November 16, 1849
	Charles J. Wier	February 24, 1868
	Isaac E. Willetts	November 8, 1879
	Thomas W. Williams	September 15, 1865
	Harry N. Winch	October 8, 1868
	Frederick G. Wooden	May 26, 1871
	William H. Woodhead	September 17, 1860
	John Wooldredge	September 9, 1851
	Alvin L. Wright	October 28, 1857
	Charles D. Young	June 10, 1857

See also

• 59th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

Further reading

• Number of assessed polls, registered voters and persons who voted in each voting precinct in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at the state, city and town elections (1905), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1906, hdl:2452/43497
• Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators: 1906. A. M. Bridgman. 1906.

External links

• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1906, hdl:2452/429123
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1906, hdl:2452/73494