1920 Massachusetts legislature
Appearance
141st Massachusetts General Court | |||||
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Overview | |||||
Legislative body | General Court | ||||
Election | November 4, 1919 | ||||
Senate | |||||
Members | 40 | ||||
President | Edwin T. McKnight (6th Middlesex) | ||||
Party control | Republican[1] | ||||
House | |||||
Members | 240 | ||||
Speaker | Joseph E. Warner (4th Bristol) | ||||
Party control | Republican[2] | ||||
Sessions | |||||
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The 141st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1920 during the governorship of Calvin Coolidge. Edwin T. McKnight served as president of the Senate and Joseph E. Warner served as speaker of the House.[4]
Senators
portrait | name [5] | date of birth [6] | district [6] |
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Frank G. Allen | October 6, 1874 | ||
Alvin E. Bliss | 4th Middlesex | ||
Frederick Butler | |||
George H. Carrick | |||
Andrew A. Casassa | |||
George Dudley Chamberlain | |||
John W. Churchill | November 17, 1853 | ||
Harry A. Cooke | |||
George E. Curran | |||
John A. Curtin | April 3, 1870 | ||
Edward N. Dahlborg | |||
Thomas F. Donovan | September 26, 1890 | ||
Carl C. Emery | November 4, 1888 | ||
Samuel B. Finkel | |||
William J. Foley | March 2, 1887 | ||
John Mellen Gibbs | |||
Lyman W. Griswold | October 16, 1869 | ||
John Halliwell | February 21, 1864 | ||
Leonard F. Hardy | |||
Walter A. Hardy | December 15, 1866 | ||
Joseph O. Knox | |||
Augustus Peabody Loring | 1856 | ||
John J. Mahoney | April 13, 1860 | ||
Daniel Aloysius Martin | |||
David Story McIntosh | |||
Edwin T. McKnight | October 11, 1869 | ||
Walter E. McLane | |||
William C. Moulton | October 15, 1873 | ||
Arthur L. Nason | October 24, 1872 | ||
Christian Nelson | |||
Gardner W. Pearson | |||
Francis Prescott | |||
Frank H. Putnam | |||
Martin Lewis Quinn | January 19, 1862 | ||
Silas D. Reed | |||
Warren E. Tarbell | |||
John J. Walsh | |||
Wellington Wells | April 18, 1868 | ||
Thomas Weston, Jr | |||
Charles A. Winchester |
Representatives
portrait | name [5] | date of birth [6] | district [6] |
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Essex S. Abbott | |||
Henry Achin Jr. | June 30, 1883 | ||
Talbot Aldrich | 4th Norfolk | ||
Charles H. Annis | January 12, 1869 | ||
Seth Fenelon Arnold | December 21, 1878 | ||
Charles M. Austin | May 2, 1884 | ||
James T. Bagshaw | |||
William B. Baldwin | September 18, 1854 | ||
Frank E. Barrows | June 14, 1871 | ||
George J. Bates | February 25, 1891 | ||
Russell T. Bates | |||
Arthur Enoch Beane | |||
Addison P. Beardsley | |||
Erastus T. Bearse | |||
Chauncey A. Bennett | |||
James D. Bentley | February 6, 1884 | ||
Adelard Berard | |||
Alfred M. Bessette | March 25, 1876 | ||
Orlando C. Bidwell | |||
Robert E. Bigney | |||
Edgar A. Bowers | |||
Eden K. Bowser | |||
Alfred Bradbury | |||
Charles D. Bradbury | |||
Louis Adelard Breault | |||
Owen E. Brennen | September 26, 1868 | ||
Frank L. Brier | |||
George E. Briggs | May 3, 1873 | ||
John C. Brimblecom | 1868 | ||
E. Gerry Brown | |||
Charles H. Brown | January 19, 1879 | ||
Samuel F. Brown | December 26, 1878 | ||
Edgar J. Buck | |||
Maurice Allan Buck | |||
Albert W. Bullock | April 18, 1872 | ||
William J. Bullock | |||
Frank James Burke | September 8, 1885 | ||
Herbert W. Burr | June 15, 1866 | ||
William A. Canty | |||
John J. Carey | February 28, 1888 | ||
Julius F. Carman | August 7, 1861 | ||
John B. Cashman | |||
Mial W. Chase | |||
Henry S. Clark | |||
Everett W. Coleman | |||
William J. Conlon | March 14, 1868 | ||
William S. Conroy | October 2, 1877 | ||
D. Herbert Cook | June 2, 1851 | ||
Richard B. Coolidge | September 14, 1879 | ||
Thomas J. Corbett | May 10, 1883 | ||
Frank N. Coulson | |||
Frank H. Cowin | |||
William F. Craig | September 15, 1866 | ||
Samuel V. Crane | October 4, 1855 | ||
Walter Thomas Creese | |||
William Cyril Crossley | |||
James E. Curry | |||
Warren Chapman Daggett | May 10, 1868 | ||
Elbridge Gerry Davis | August 20, 1877 | ||
Henry Ellsworth Dean | September 29, 1862 | ||
James P. Donnelly | February 26, 1890 | ||
Robert W. Dow | July 15, 1868 | ||
Lawrence F. Dowd | |||
Andrew P. Doyle | August 15, 1869 | ||
Cornelius J. Driscoll | |||
Timothy J. Driscoll | |||
Henry Francis Duggan | |||
Bernard Earley | |||
James Joseph Early | |||
George R. Ellis | July 29, 1876 | ||
Vernon W. Evans | January 5, 1895 | ||
Erland F. Fish | December 7, 1883 | ||
John I. Fitzgerald | July 18, 1882 | ||
Michael J. Fitzgerald | March 1, 1891 | ||
William Fleming | |||
Charles R. Foote | July 9, 1865 | ||
William J. Francis | |||
John F. Freeland | |||
Harvey E. Frost | October 2, 1875 | ||
Tony Garofano | May 28, 1885 | ||
Daniel J. Gillen | |||
George A. Gilman | August 16, 1880 | ||
Frederick P. Glazier | September 27, 1859 | ||
Albert C. Goff | |||
James A. Goode | |||
Charles Waite Gould | May 8, 1891 | ||
William H. Grady | |||
William Grant | January 4, 1855 | ||
Louis L. Green | |||
Thomas H. Green | May 11, 1883 | ||
Herbert S. Grutchfield | |||
Fred C. Haigis | |||
Walter S. Hale | |||
Cornelius F. Haley | July 15, 1875 | ||
Leo Spotten Hamburger | |||
William H. Hannagan | |||
Edward F. Harrington | August 10, 1878 | ||
Edward Joseph Harrington | 1894 | ||
Charles H. Hartshorn | |||
John Francis Harvey | January 30, 1891 | ||
Brad Dudley Harvey | |||
Daniel J. Hayden | |||
James William Hayes | |||
Walter Haynes | |||
Martin Hays | October 14, 1876 | ||
Joseph E. Herrick | |||
William P. Hickey | November 17, 1871 | ||
Matthew A. Higgins | |||
Edward Carroll Hinckley | |||
Charles Sumner Holden | May 2, 1857 | ||
Edgar F. Howland | |||
George C. F. Hudson | |||
John C. Hull (politician) | November 1, 1870 | ||
James Melville Hunnewell | |||
Victor Francis Jewett | |||
Arthur Westgate Jones | January 11, 1873 | ||
Michael H. Jordan | February 7, 1863 | ||
Thomas Martin Joyce | |||
Jeremiah P. Keating | |||
Kenneth W. Keith | |||
James H. Kelleher | |||
James J. Kelley | |||
Frank M. Kelley | |||
Walter H. Kemp | |||
Davis B. Keniston | |||
Clarence P. Kidder | |||
Joseph E. King | |||
Frederic W. Kingman | |||
Hugh J. Lacey | |||
Wilfrid J. Lamoureux | December 13, 1869 | ||
Benjamin C. Lane | |||
Ernest A. LaRocque | |||
Joseph Lawrence Larson | |||
James F. Leland | |||
Wilbur F. Lewis | |||
Willard P. Lombard | |||
William J. Look | June 20, 1867 | ||
Frank E. Lyman | September 15, 1866 | ||
Lloyd Makepeace | |||
Robert L. Manley | |||
Frank A. Manning | |||
William J. Manning | |||
Arthur E. Marsh | |||
Daniel J. Marshall | |||
John C. Marshall | November 28, 1877 | ||
John Henry McAllister | |||
John W. McCormack | December 21, 1891 | ||
Elmer L. McCulloch | |||
Allan R. McDonald | |||
William H. McDonnell | April 9, 1885 | ||
Francis B. McKinney | |||
James J. Mellen | March 30, 1875 | ||
Walter L. Mellen | January 10, 1868 | ||
Patrick J. Melody | |||
Samuel W. Mendum | |||
Julius Meyers | December 6, 1854 | ||
Herbert L. Miller | |||
John Mitchell | September 4, 1877 | ||
Wesley E. Monk | August 1, 1874 | ||
Patrick F. Moran | |||
James Morrison | February 17, 1857 | ||
J. Warren Moulton | |||
James J. Moynihan | |||
George G. Moyse | December 21, 1878 | ||
James J. Mulvey | |||
Daniel C. Murphy | December 14, 1887 | ||
Albert J. Murphy | |||
George F. Murphy | |||
William J. Naphen | |||
John R. Nelson | November 22, 1871 | ||
George Henry Newhall | |||
Frederic C. Nichols | |||
Thomas A. Niland | June 11, 1873 | ||
Edwin Gates Norman | |||
Daniel W. O'Connor | March 12, 1877 | ||
Frank A. Oberti | |||
William W. Ollendorff | |||
Louis Orenberg | |||
John Glenn Orr | February 27, 1857 | ||
Henry F. Paige | January 30, 1853 | ||
Walter S. Parker | |||
George Penshorn | |||
Chauncey Pepin | |||
Frank B. Phinney | |||
William Plattner | |||
George K. Pond | |||
James Tracy Potter | January 26, 1870 | ||
Arthur K. Reading | |||
Abbott B. Rice | |||
George Louis Richards | |||
Alfred P. Richards | |||
James W. Robertson | |||
Arthur W. Robinson | |||
Carl J. Rolander | |||
Morrill S. Ryder | |||
Roland D. Sawyer | January 8, 1874 | ||
Edward A. Scigliano | |||
Leo P. Senecal | |||
Henry Lee Shattuck | October 12, 1879 | ||
Walter Shuebruk | |||
Coleman Silbert | |||
Charles Henry Slowey | |||
Almond Smith | |||
Jerome S. Smith | |||
Dexter Avery Snow | January 3, 1890 | ||
William L. Stedman | |||
Emil K. Steele | |||
Walter F. Stephens | |||
Elihu D. Stone | |||
James F. Sweeney | |||
Charles Symonds | |||
Edward Willis Taylor | |||
John Thomas | January 27, 1859 | ||
Prince H. Tirrell | |||
James A. Torrey | September 27, 1868 | ||
Raymond H. Trefry | |||
James B. Troy | |||
Arthur H. Turner | |||
Albert T. Wall | |||
Joseph E. Warner | May 16, 1884 | ||
Charles C. Warren | |||
Frederick A. Warren | |||
George M. Webber | |||
George Pearl Webster | January 9, 1877 | ||
Henry H. Wheelock | |||
Renton Whidden | |||
John Addison White | August 8, 1859 | ||
Howard B. White | |||
Alfred H. Whitney | |||
James H. Wilkins | |||
Edward E. Willard | September 25, 1862 | ||
Herbert Wing | |||
Herbert Francis Winn | |||
Isaac U. Wood | |||
William H. Woodhead | September 17, 1860 | ||
Harry C. Woodill | |||
Benjamin H. Woodsum | |||
George M. Worrall | |||
Samuel H. Wragg | June 9, 1882 | ||
Elwin Temple Wright | |||
Benjamin Loring Young | 1885 |
See also
- 1920 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
- 66th United States Congress
- List of Massachusetts General Courts
References
- ^ "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. 2005. p. 338+.
- ^ a b Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1920.
- ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1920" (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 (1919), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1920, hdl:2452/43511
- Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1920. hdl:2452/40698.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1920 Massachusetts legislature.
- Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1920, hdl:2452/393333 – via State Library of Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1920, hdl:2452/64532