| 91st Massachusetts General Court | |||||
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| 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] | ||||
| House | |||||
| Members | 240 | ||||
| Speaker | Harvey Jewell | ||||
| Party control | Republican (160 R, 58 D, 22 other)[1][3] | ||||
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Horace Coolidge, Senate president.
Harvey Jewell, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1870.
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]
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Senators
| Image | Name [6] | Date of birth [7] | District | Party |
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| Nathaniel Ellis Atwood | September 13, 1807 | |||
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Jacob Bates | 1819 | ||
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Joseph Augustus Benjamin | 1817 | ||
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George Marshall Buttrick | 1822 | ||
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Andrew Jackson Clark | 1835 | ||
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Benjamin Franklin Clark | 1808 | ||
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Waldo Colburn | November 13, 1824 | ||
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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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Edmund Dowse | 1813 | ||
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John Fletcher | 1827 | ||
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James Augustus Fox | August 11, 1827 | ||
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Alonzo Madison Giles | 1821 | ||
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Henry Clay Greeley | 1830 | ||
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John Brown Hathaway | 1809 | ||
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John Alexander Hawes | 1823 | ||
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Francis Allen Hobart | 1833 | ||
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Nathaniel Jay Holden | 1827 | ||
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Joseph Sidney Howe | 1832 | ||
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Willard Woodman Jenness | 1827 | ||
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George William Johnson | 1827 | ||
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William Wallace Kellogg | 1824 | ||
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George Augustus King | 1834 | ||
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Charles James Kittredge | 1818 | ||
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Charles Rensselaer Ladd | April 9, 1822 | ||
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James Henry Leland | 1833 | ||
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George Harris Monroe | 1826 | ||
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Ellis Wesley Morton | 1840 | ||
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James Pierce | 1837 | ||
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Joseph Greeley Pollard | 1833 | ||
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Jeremiah Hobbs Pote | 1820 | ||
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Stephen Holbrook Rhodes | November 7, 1825 | ||
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George Merrick Rice | November 20, 1808 | ||
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James Granville Sproat | 1835 | ||
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Orlando Barnard Tenney | 1816 | ||
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Francis Thompson | 1826 | ||
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William W. Warren | February 27, 1834 | ||
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Charles Augustus Wheelock | 1812 | ||
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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
- ^ 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+.
- ^ "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 (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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