1915 Massachusetts legislature

The 136th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1915 during the governorship of David I. Walsh. Calvin Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Channing H. Cox served as speaker of the House.[4]

136th
Massachusetts General Court
135th 137th
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 3, 1914
Senate
Members40
PresidentCalvin Coolidge
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerChanning H. Cox
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 6, 1915 (1915-01-06) – June 4, 1915 (1915-06-04) [3]
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, Senate president.
Channing H. Cox
Channing Cox, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1915.

Senators

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Edward C. R. Bagley
 
Frank Bartlett
 
Sanford Bates July 17, 1884 9th Suffolk
 
William A. L. Bazeley 1872
 
Charles Sumner Beal August 14, 1856
 
James W. Bean May 11, 1866
 
James F. Cavanagh
 
Ezra W. Clark October 12, 1842
 
Calvin Coolidge July 4, 1872
 
Herbert E. Cummings
 
Andrew P. Doyle August 15, 1869
 
Charles W. Eldridge October 16, 1877
 
George H. Ellis October 3, 1848
 
Frank S. Farnsworth
 
Wilton B. Fay
 
Redmond S. Fitzgerald
 
Julius Garst
 
Charles L. Gifford March 15, 1871
 
Gurdon W. Gordon
 
James I. Green April 9, 1885
 
John W. Haigis July 31, 1881
 
Martin Hays October 14, 1876
 
Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr. October 1, 1878
 
George H. Jackson March 9, 1865
 
Charles A. Kimball
 
Louis F. R. Langelier
 
Joseph Leonard
 
George Edward Marchand December 22, 1877
 
Joseph W. Martin Jr. November 3, 1884
 
Orion T. Mason
 
Philip J. McGonagle October 21, 1871
 
Walter E. McLane
 
C. Augustus Norwood
 
E. Howard Perley
John F. Sheehan
 
William J. Sullivan April 14, 1865
 
James R. Tetler August 26, 1877
 
James P. Timilty March 28, 1865
 
Nathan A. Tufts April 15, 1879
 
Henry Gordon Wells October 12, 1879

Representatives

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Essex S. Abbott
 
Henry Achin Jr. June 30, 1883
 
Austin Flint Adams 3rd Worcester
 
J. Weston Allen April 19, 1872
 
Charles H. Annis January 12, 1869
 
William M. Armstrong August 17, 1850
 
Harrison Henry Atwood August 26, 1863
 
James T. Bagshaw
 
Samuel H. Bailey
 
Edmund Baker
 
Philip Hosmer Ball
 
Arthur W. Barker
 
Joseph L. Barry
 
William J. Barry 1861
 
Addison P. Beardsley
 
Joseph Belcher
 
Joseph J. Benson
 
Jacob Bitzer January 16, 1865
 
Thomas William Blanchard
 
Alvin E. Bliss
 
Henry E. Bothfeld March 4, 1859
 
Arthur Bower
 
Eden K. Bowser
 
Thomas H. Brennan
 
James J. Brennan May 2, 1882
 
Fred Johnson Brown
 
Daniel J. Buckley
 
George Bunting August 31, 1868
 
Frederic W. Burke
 
Arthur E. Burr
 
Frederick Butler
 
Fred E. Cady
 
Matthew J. Carbary
 
Julius F. Carman August 7, 1861
 
Maurice Caro
 
Peter Carr May 2, 1883
 
Andrew A. Casassa
 
Daniel W. Casey
 
Allison G. Catheron June 26, 1878
 
George Dudley Chamberlain
 
Albert Minot Chandler
 
Edward Earl Chapman
 
John W. Churchill November 17, 1853
 
A. Schuyler Clapp
 
Frederic F. Clauss
 
James Coffey May 17, 1849
 
Arthur Willard Colburn December 1, 1877
 
Benjamin G. Collins
 
Samuel I. Collins March 4, 1851
 
D. Herbert Cook June 2, 1851
 
Thomas J. Cooley
 
Michael H. Cotter
 
John J. Courtney
 
Walter D. Cowls
 
George H. Creighton
 
William N. Cronin
 
Burton H. Crosby
 
Fred Wilder Cross September 15, 1868
 
John T. Crowley November 15, 1872
 
Patrick J. Curley
 
George E. Curran
 
Edward J. Dailey
 
Samuel Davis June 4, 1866
 
Ernest F. Davis
 
Theodore H. Day
 
William Abner Dodge
 
John F. Doherty June 9, 1881
 
Peter J. Donaghue
 
William J. Donahoe
 
Joseph Joyce Donahue
 
John A. Donoghue
 
John L. Donovan June 3, 1876
 
Thomas E. Dowd
 
Aaron Coolidge Dowse
 
George P. Drury
 
Dennis Francis Duggan
 
Frank B. Edgell
 
Carl C. Emery November 4, 1888
 
Charles A. Ericson
 
John G. Faxon
 
Frederick B. Felton
 
Horace F. Field
 
Joseph La Flamme
 
Maurice R. Flynn July 28, 1889
 
William J. Foley March 2, 1887
 
Harry C. Foster August 27, 1871
 
Harvey E. Frost October 2, 1875
 
Charles Benjamin Frothingham November 11, 1858
 
Alvan T. Fuller February 27, 1878
 
Howard F. Furness
 
Charles F. Garrity
 
Harry C. Gates
 
Joseph S. Gates October 3, 1856
 
John Mellen Gibbs
 
Thomas J. Giblin
 
John J. Gilbride
 
Joseph P. Good
 
Shirley P. Graves
 
Fred Parker Greenwood
 
Edgar H. Hall
 
John Halliwell February 21, 1864
 
Edward F. Harrington (state representative) August 10, 1878
 
James L. Harrop
 
George F. Hart November 9, 1859
 
John F. Hatch Jr.
 
Matthew A. Higgins
 
Albert Holway
 
John C. Hull (politician) November 1, 1870
 
Charles N. James September 3, 1853
 
Victor Francis Jewett
 
John Joseph Kearney
 
Thomas R. Kelley
 
Jeremiah J. Kelly
 
William W. Kennard
 
Robert T. Kent
 
Richard Knowles
 
Joseph O. Knox
 
Louis LaDame
 
Arthur F. Lamb
 
Francis X. Le Boeuf
 
George B. Leonard
 
John N. Levins
 
Fred Oliver Lewis June 12, 1878
 
E. Ellsworth Lincoln
 
George A. Lindberg
 
Martin Lomasney December 3, 1859
 
Henry Follansbee Long
 
Frederick H. Lucke
 
James MacFarlane Lyle
 
Frank E. Lyman September 15, 1866
 
John H. Lynch October 28, 1884
 
Frederick William MacKenzie
 
James E. MacPherson
 
Frederick H. Magison
 
John P. Mahoney May 26, 1888
 
Michael F. Malone
 
Frank A. Manning
 
Felix A. Marcella
 
John L. Mather
 
John Edwin Maybury
 
John Henry McAllister
 
John F. McCarthy
 
Charles H. McGlue
 
Joseph McGrath (American politician) December 20, 1890
 
Orlando McKenzie
 
Jared B. McLane
 
Henry J. McLaughlin
 
Edward F. McLaughlin June 6, 1883
 
William M. McMorrow
 
Michael J. McNamee
 
Samuel H. Mildram
 
John Mitchell September 4, 1877
 
John L. Monahan
 
Wesley E. Monk August 1, 1874
 
Alfred James Moore August 7, 1891
 
Charles H. Morrill October 6, 1874
 
Edward G. Morris
 
George D. Morse
 
Hugh E. Mullen
 
Thomas B. Mulvehill
 
Frank Mulveny
 
John J. Murphy March 26, 1889
 
Dennis A. Murphy September 26, 1876
 
Edward P. Murphy
 
James J. Murphy February 11, 1885
 
Patrick E. Murray August 22, 1869
 
David W. Murray September 9, 1874
 
Ken Nash
 
Arthur N. Newhall
 
John P. Nickerson
 
Francis Norwood
 
Edward H. Nutting July 6, 1869
 
James T. O'Dowd
 
Joseph A. Oakhem
 
Ambrose F. Ogden
 
John N. Osborne January 28, 1853
 
James Goodridge Page
 
Peter C. Paradis
 
John H. Parker August 27, 1859
 
Chauncey Pepin
 
Edward Howland Perry
 
Joseph H. Perry May 4, 1869
 
Joseph C. Perry May 1, 1856
 
Immanuel Pfeiffer Jr.
 
James E. Phelan October 21, 1884
 
James Tracy Potter January 26, 1870
 
Winfield F. Prime November 22, 1860
 
Martin Lewis Quinn January 19, 1862
 
Albert T. Quiry
 
George J. Rabouin
 
Cyril R. Read
 
Dennis F. Reardon
 
John J. Reilly
 
William C. Renne
 
Robert Robinson January 4, 1889
 
William M. Robinson July 21, 1875
 
Silas B. Root
 
Charles Freeman Rowley
 
G. Oscar Russell
 
Walter F. Russell
 
John D. Ryan July 30, 1868
 
Edward Julius Sandberg October 21, 1866
 
Alfred Santosuosso
 
Joseph A. Saunders
 
Roland D. Sawyer January 8, 1874
 
C. Burnside Seagrave
 
John Francis Sheehan August 25, 1879
 
John H. Sherburne 1877
 
Michael J. Sherry
 
Allston M. Sinnott
 
Jerome S. Smith
 
Fitz-Henry Smith Jr.
 
Ralph M. Smith
 
William O. Souther Jr.
 
Charles Elmer Stanwood
 
Joseph Fayette Stone February 8, 1858
 
Merrill E. Streeter
 
Denis J. Sullivan July 24, 1889
 
Lewis R. Sullivan
 
William H. Sullivan February 20, 1869
 
John F. Sullivan May 17, 1875
 
Edmond P. Talbot 1884
 
Warren E. Tarbell
 
James E. Tolman November 8, 1867
 
George J. Wall
 
Joseph E. Warner May 16, 1884
 
Robert M. Washburn January 4, 1868
 
George B. Waterman
 
Samuel W. Weare
 
Thomas Weston, Jr
 
Hartley L. White
 
George A. Whitney
 
Edgar H. Whitney
 
Herbert A. Wilson November 27, 1870
 
Herbert Wing
 
Walter Edgar Wolfe
 
Harry C. Woodill
 
George M. Worrall

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "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
  2. ^ "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
  3. ^ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
  4. ^ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338+.
  5. ^ a b Who's Who in State Politics. Boston: Practical Politics. 1915.
  6. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1915" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

Further reading

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  • 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 (1914), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1915, hdl:2452/43506
  • Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1915. hdl:2452/40693.
  • Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators: 1915. A. M. Bridgman. 1915. hdl:2452/43361.
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  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1915, hdl:2452/303853
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1915, hdl:2452/79976