The 92nd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1871 during the governorship of Republican William Claflin.[5] Horace H. Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Harvey Jewell served as speaker of the House.[6]
| 92nd Massachusetts General Court | |||||
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| Overview | |||||
| Legislative body | General Court | ||||
| Election | November 8, 1870 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 40 | ||||
| President | Horace H. Coolidge | ||||
| Party control | Republican (34 R, 5 D, 1 other)[1][2] | ||||
| House | |||||
| Members | 240 | ||||
| Speaker | Harvey Jewell | ||||
| Party control | Republican (195 R, 34 D, 11 other)[1][3] | ||||
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Horace Coolidge, Senate president.
Harvey Jewell, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1871.
Senators
edit| Image | Name [7] | Date of birth [8] | District | Party |
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| Nathaniel Ellis Atwood | September 13, 1807 | |||
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Andrew Jackson Bartholomew | 1834 | ||
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Jacob Bates | 1819 | ||
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Francis William Bird | 1809 | ||
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Alonzo Warren Boardman | 1828 | ||
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Charles Bradley | 1816 | ||
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William Hooper Caswell | 1837 | ||
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Andrew Jackson Clark | 1835 | ||
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James Wilson Clark | 1802 | ||
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Patrick Andrew Collins | March 12, 1844 | ||
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Horace Hopkins Coolidge | February 11, 1832 | ||
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Stephen Moody Crosby | 1827 | ||
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George Perkins Elliott | 1804 | ||
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John Fletcher | 1827 | ||
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James Augustus Fox | August 11, 1827 | ||
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Rufus Smith Frost | July 18, 1826 | ||
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Richard Goodman | 1818 | ||
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Henry Clay Greeley | 1830 | ||
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John Alexander Hawes | 1823 | ||
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Estes Howe | 1814 | ||
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Nathan Swett Kimball | 1820 | ||
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William Bennet Long | 1827 | ||
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George Harris Monroe | 1826 | ||
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Timothy Fairbanks Packard | 1812 | ||
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William Driver Park | 1831 | ||
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James Pierce | 1837 | ||
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Stephen Holbrook Rhodes | November 7, 1825 | ||
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George Francis Richardson | December 6, 1829 | ||
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Daniel Ephraim Safford | 1826 | ||
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James Granville Sproat | 1835 | ||
| George Monroe Stearns | April 18, 1831 | |||
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Charles Pickett Stickney | 1824 | ||
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Orlando Barnard Tenney | 1816 | ||
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Adin Thayer | 1828 | ||
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Shepard Thayer | 1827 | ||
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Thomas Lafayette Wakefield | 1817 | ||
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Amasa Whiting | 1821 | ||
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Baxter Dodridge Whitney | 1817 | ||
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Frederick H. Willcomb | 1831 | ||
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Jonathan Henry Wood | 1822 |
Representatives
edit- Henry S. Adams [7]
- John Quincy Adams II
- Charles L. Allen
- James S. Allen
- William H. Anderson
- Francis P. Arnold
- William F. Arnold
- George H. Babbitt, Jr
- Andrew J. Bailey
- Prentiss C. Baird
- John I. Baker
- Joseph K. Baker
- Irwin D. W. Baldwin
- John S. Baldwin
- Henry J. Barker
- William Barker, Jr
- Lewis Barnard
- Daniel N. Barrett
- Leonard Barton
- John T. Bates
- Alanson W. Beard
- Alden Besse
- Henry A. Bidwell
- Gurdon Bill
- Arthur G. Biscoe
- Lowell R. Blake
- William E. Blunt
- Josiah W. Bonney
- Frederick A. Boomer
- Sylvester F. Boot
- Robert Bower
- Selwin Bowman
- Phineas Bridgman
- Elisha Brimhall
- Ebenezer Brown
- Frederick P. Brown
- Willard A. Brown
- Stephen A. Brownell
- George Buffington
- John R. Bullard
- James T. Burnap
- Henry O. Burr
- Theophilus Burr
- Samuel Calley
- Michael Carney
- Solon Carpenter
- David Chamberlin
- Erastus Chase
- Elijah H. Chisholm
- John H. Church
- John B. D. Cogswell
- William Cogswell
- George J. L. Colby
- Justin M. Cooley
- Benjamin H. Corliss
- Joseph H. Cornell
- Charles A. Corser
- John S. Cotton
- Joseph H. Cotton
- Samuel L. Crane
- Zenas Crane, Jr
- James C. Currier
- Henry J. Curtis
- Avery R. Cushman
- Jacob R. Cushman
- Robert S. Daniels
- Curtis Davie
- George E. Davis
- Timothy Davis
- William L. Davis
- Joseph Dowse, Jr
- John Drynan
- George S. Duell
- Henry J. Dunham
- Lemuel C. Eames
- Samuel S. Eastman
- Samuel P. Everett
- George O. Fairbanks
- James O. Fallon
- Hawkes Fearing
- Alfred E. Fiske
- John E. Fitzgerald
- John D. Flagg
- Hugh Flood
- Thomas Floyd
- Jonathan P. Folsom
- Moses H. Fowler
- Benjamin Franklin
- Robert O. Fuller
- Levi Gardner
- Robert F. Gardner
- George W. Gates
- Thomas Gates
- George D. Glover
- George Going
- Henry A. Goodrich
- Henry Goodspeed
- Lafayette Granger
- Davis P. Gray
- Edward W. Griggs
- Charles H. Guild
- Joseph M. Hall
- Franklin P. Harlow
- Henry H. Harris
- Thomas B. Harris
- A. K. Haskell
- Cephas Haskins
- Bainbridge Hayward
- Paul Hayward
- Stephen Hayward, Jr
- Horatio B. Hersey
- Orrin Hewes
- Levi Heywood
- Thomas Hill
- Stephen Holt
- Thomas Holway
- Samuel W. Hopkinson
- Charles H. Hovey
- Daniel Howard
- Ezra Howard
- George H. Howe
- Samuel Howe
- Elisha Hubbard
- John Hume
- Theodore C. Hurd
- Edwin H. Hutchinson
- Francis James
- Nathaniel M. Jernegan
- Harvey Jewell
- Joseph P. Johnson
- Robert Johnson
- Albert F. Kelley
- Ensign H. Kellogg
- Ozi Kendall
- Moses Kimball
- John A. Lamson
- Albert Leighton
- Benjamin F. Lewis
- Edward Lewis
- Welcome Lewis
- G. H. Lincoln
- Martin Lincoln
- Noah Lincoln
- Caleb Lombard
- Edward T. Lyford
- Hugh A. Madden
- Israel P. Magoun
- Orlando Mason
- John McDuffie
- Curtis C. Mchols
- Alexander McKenzie
- John W. McKim
- John O. McKinstry
- Thomas H. Meek
- William R. Melden
- Charles H. Merriam
- Alfred K. Merrill
- Moody Merrill
- George P. Metcalf
- Ira L. Moore
- George W. Morton
- William Mulligan
- John J. Murphy
- Peter M. Neal
- J. S. Nelson
- John Newell
- Silas Noble
- George Nowell
- William Nutt
- John P. Ober
- Weaver Osborn
- Stephen Osgood
- Lyman Paine
- George A. Parker
- Edwin K. Parkhurst
- Ezra Parmenter
- Lloyd Parsons
- George H. Peabody
- Edward Pearl
- Ellis Perry
- William A. Pew
- Willard P. Phillips
- Nathaniel Pierce
- J. Newton Pike
- Charles Y. Poor
- Asa T. Pratt
- Laban Pratt
- Humphrey Prescott
- Charles L. Putnam
- George Putnam
- Samuel B. Quigley
- Lawrence Reade
- John W. Regan
- A. L. Richards
- Martin L. Richardson
- Isaac N. Ross
- George L. Ruffin[9][7]
- Joseph M. Russell
- John E. Sanford
- Benjamin P. Saunders
- George F. Scribner
- Harvey Severance
- Henry H. Shaw
- James S. Shepard
- H. D. Sisson
- Hambleton E. Smith
- James G. Smith
- George C. S. Southworth
- Walter Spooner
- Francis D. Stedman
- Hiram A. Stiles
- Thomas Swasey, Jr
- Calvin R. Taft
- John K. Tarbox
- Charles P. Thompson
- Edward E. Thompson
- Eben Tirrell, Jr
- Hugh J. Toland
- Joseph R. Torrey
- George E. Towne
- Charles R. Train
- David W. Tucker
- Samuel J. Tuttle
- Samuel W. Twombly
- George H. Vibbert
- Charles F. Walcott
- Welcome H. Wales
- Stephen Wallace
- E. H. Walton
- James J. Walworth
- Henry S. Washburn
- Nathan H. Webb
- George L. Webber
- Edwin Wheeler
- Emerson Wight
- Charles L. Woodbury
- Joseph A. Woodward
- Luther A. Wright
- George T. Wyer
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b 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+.
- ^ Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1871, 1871, hdl:2452/795813
- ^ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
- ^ a b c Court, Massachusetts General (1871). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40649.
- ^ "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1871" (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
edit- "Massachusetts". American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1871. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1875. (includes description of legislature)
External links
edit- Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1871, hdl:2452/619060
- Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1871, hdl:2452/92953