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139th
Massachusetts General Court
←138th 140th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 6, 1917
Senate
Members40
PresidentHenry Gordon Wells
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerChanning H. Cox
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 2, 1918 (1918-01-02) – June 3, 1918 (1918-06-03) [3]
Henry Gordon Wells
Henry Gordon Wells, Senate president.
Channing H. Cox
Channing H. Cox, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1918.

The 139th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1918 during the governorship of Samuel W. McCall. Henry Gordon Wells served as president of the Senate and Channing H. Cox served as speaker of the House.[4]

Senators

image name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
John E. Beck May 10, 1869 1st Suffolk
Charles Donnell Brown June 5, 1862
Daniel J. Buckley
James F. Cavanagh
George Dudley Chamberlain
George B. Churchill October 24, 1866
Arthur Willard Colburn December 1, 1877
Fred Wilder Cross September 15, 1868
George E. Curran
Edward N. Dahlborg
Edward B. Eames April 15, 1856
John I. Fitzgerald July 18, 1882
Charles L. Gifford March 15, 1871
John Halliwell February 21, 1864
Leonard F. Hardy
James L. Harrop
George Fred Hart November 9, 1859
George A. Hastings
Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr. October 1, 1878
Ernest E. Hobson September 29, 1878
Herman Hormel
George H. Jackson March 9, 1865
Joseph O. Knox
Charles S. Lawler
James E. MacPherson
Edwin T. McKnight October 11, 1869
Walter E. McLane
Edward F. McLaughlin June 6, 1883
Edward G. Morris
Kenneth L. Nash
Malcolm Nichols May 8, 1876
E. Howard Perley
Harold L. Perrin
Silas D. Reed
William Eustis Russell
Alpheus Sanford
Charles Sumner Smith
James R. Tetler August 26, 1877
Henry Gordon Wells October 12, 1879
Herbert A. Wilson November 27, 1870

Representatives

image name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
Essex S. Abbott
Henry Achin Jr. June 30, 1883
Peter I. Adams
Frank G. Allen October 6, 1874 8th Norfolk
J. Weston Allen April 19, 1872
Ernest William Allen
George C. F. Allen
Philip R. Ammidon
Seth Fenelon Arnold December 21, 1878
Harrison Henry Atwood August 26, 1863
Charles M. Austin May 2, 1884
George W. P. Babb
James T. Bagshaw
John Henry Baker
William B. Baldwin September 18, 1854
George Storer Baldwin
John Ballantyne July 9, 1869
Joseph L. Barry
Herbert Amiel Bartlett
Frank Bartlett
William A. Bartlett
Russell T. Bates
George J. Bates February 25, 1891
Thomas William Baxter
Charles H. Beaman
Alton Leroy Bellows
Chauncey A. Bennett
James D. Bentley February 6, 1884
Jay Rogers Benton
Alfred M. Bessette March 25, 1876
Jacob Bitzer January 16, 1865
Giles Blague
Arthur Franklin Blanchard January 27, 1883
Alvin E. Bliss
Cornelius Boothman
Arthur Bower
Eden K. Bowser
Albert C. Bray
Elmer L. Briggs
Fred Johnson Brown
Arthur Stanley Browne
George J. Brunell November 1, 1865
George Bunting August 31, 1868
Frank James Burke September 8, 1885
Arthur E. Burr
Fred J. Burrell March 12, 1889
Frederick Butler
Ralph N. Butterworth
George H. Carrick
John B. Cashman
Herman Stanley Cheney
Henry S. Clark
Frederic F. Clauss
Benjamin G. Collins
William S. Conroy October 2, 1877
Harry A. Cooke
Charles L. Cooley
Thomas J. Corbett May 10, 1883
Edwin S. Corey
Robert Shaw Corrigan
Patrick M. Costello
Henry E. Cowdrey
Edward J. Cox
William F. Craig September 15, 1866
John W. Craig
John Cronin
Clarence A. Crooks
John T. Crowley November 15, 1872
Warren Chapman Daggett May 10, 1868
Henry Ellsworth Dean September 29, 1862
George F. Dennis
Thomas F. Donovan September 26, 1890
John L. Donovan June 3, 1876
James Beattie Dow
Andrew P. Doyle August 15, 1869
Timothy J. Driscoll
Eddy P. Dunbar
Horace E. Dunkle
William F. Dwyer
Carl C. Emery November 4, 1888
John P. Englert
Philip J. Feinberg
James R. Ferry
Samuel B. Finkel
Michael J. Fitzgerald March 10, 1878
Michael A. Flanagan February 21, 1890
William Fleming
William J. Foley March 2, 1887
William Foster January 21, 1869
Joseph E. Freeling
William F. French March 21, 1873
William P. French April 30, 1874
Charles Benjamin Frothingham November 11, 1858
Howard F. Furness
John Mellen Gibbs
Edwin H. Gibson
Daniel J. Gillen
Nesbit G. Gleason
Charles Waite Gould May 8, 1891
William J. Granfield December 18, 1889
Clarence H. Granger
Thomas H. Green May 11, 1883
Fred Parker Greenwood
Clarence Milton Hall
John Otis Hamilton
Rowland P. Harriman
Edward F. Harrington (state representative) August 10, 1878
Charles H. Hartshorn
William M. Haskins
James William Hayes
Walter Haynes
Martin Hays October 14, 1876
William H. Hearn
Matthew A. Higgins
John A. Hirsch 1861
William J. Holland
Edgar F. Howland
John Robert Hudson
John C. Hull (politician) November 1, 1870
Victor Francis Jewett
William Louis Johnson October 23, 1856
John G. Johnson May 23, 1864
Arthur Westgate Jones January 11, 1873
Benjamin Oliver Jones July 28, 1882
Michael H. Jordan February 7, 1863
Thomas Martin Joyce
Charles A. Kelley March 24, 1862
Edward I. Kelley
David Leon Kelley April 26, 1889
Nathaniel Putnam Kellogg
Robert T. Kent
James F. Kiernan February 1, 1884
William Aiken Kneeland
Martin R. Lane
Ernest A. LaRocque
Thomas Leavitt
William G. Lord
Frank E. Lyman September 15, 1866
Winthrop Magee
John P. Mahoney May 26, 1888
William Henry Mahoney
Lloyd Makepeace
Michael F. Malone
David J. Maloney
Frank A. Manning
William J. Manning
Arthur E. Marsh
George S. Marsh February 18, 1858
Robert B. Martin
John Henry McAllister
William H. McDonnell April 9, 1885
Joseph McGrath (American politician) December 20, 1890
David Story McIntosh
Francis P. McKeon
Francis B. McKinney
Henry J. McLaughlin
William Raymond McMenimen
Michael J. McNamee
Stephen R. Mealey
Walter L. Mellen January 10, 1868
Bernard F. Merriam
Julius Meyers December 6, 1854
John Mitchell September 4, 1877
Wesley E. Monk August 1, 1874
James G. Moran May 2, 1870
Charles H. Morrill October 6, 1874
James Morrison February 17, 1857
George D. Morse
J. Warren Moulton
James J. Moynihan
Frank Mulveny
Daniel C. Murphy December 14, 1887
Dennis A. Murphy September 26, 1876
John J. Murphy March 26, 1889
Arthur L. Nason October 24, 1872
Christian Nelson
Oscar H. Nelson
Arthur N. Newhall
Frederic C. Nichols
George L. Nourse
Edward H. Nutting July 6, 1869
Charles S. O'Connor
John D. O'Connor May 7, 1886
James E. Odlin
William W. Ollendorff
John Glenn Orr February 27, 1857
John N. Osborne January 28, 1853
Walter T. Packard
Arthur W. Paine
George Penshorn
Chauncey Pepin
Walter Perham
Frederick Everett Pierce May 5, 1862
Leland Powers
Francis Prescott
Frank H. Putnam
Lawrence F. Quigley
Timothy F. Quinn
Dennis F. Reardon
George Louis Richards
Arthur W. Robinson
Charles Freeman Rowley
Roland D. Sawyer January 8, 1874
Edward A. Scigliano
Harry L. Shedd
Michael Nathaniel Slotnick
Charles Henry Slowey
Jerome S. Smith
Fitz-Henry Smith Jr.
Dexter Avery Snow January 3, 1890
Gilbert G. Southworth
Burgess H. Spinney
William N. Stetson
Simon Swig 1862
Warren E. Tarbell
James E. Tolman November 8, 1867
Frank A. Torrey December 21, 1874
Charles L. Underhill July 20, 1867
Albert P. Wadleigh
George Walker
Albert T. Wall
Joseph E. Warner May 16, 1884
Jacob Wasserman
George B. Waterman
Thomas Weston, Jr
Joseph W. Wharton
Bion Thomas Wheeler
Albert L. Whitman
George A. Whitney
Alvin R. Wilson
Charles A. Winchester
Carlton Walen Wonson
Isaac U. Wood
Wilbur A. Wood
Harry C. Woodill
George M. Worrall
Myron A. Young
Benjamin Loring Young 1885

See also

Images

  • Map of districts of the Massachusetts state senate apportioned in 1916
    Map of districts of the Massachusetts state senate apportioned in 1916

References

  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. 1918.
  6. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1918" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

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 (1917), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1918, hdl:2452/43509
  • Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1918. hdl:2452/40696.
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