1870 Massachusetts legislature
Appearance
91st Massachusetts General Court | |||||
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Overview | |||||
Legislative body | General Court | ||||
Election | November 2, 1869 | ||||
Senate | |||||
Members | 40 | ||||
President | Horace H. Coolidge | ||||
Party control | Republican[1] | ||||
House | |||||
Members | 240 | ||||
Speaker | Harvey Jewell | ||||
Party control | Republican[2] | ||||
Sessions | |||||
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The 91st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1870 during the governorship of William Claflin. Horace H. Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Harvey Jewell served as speaker of the House.[4]
Senators
- Nathaniel E. Atwood [5]
- Jacob Bates
- Joseph A. Benjamin
- George M. Buttrick
- Andrew J. Clark
- Benjamin F. Clark
- Waldo Colburn
- Patrick A. Collins
- Horace H. Coolidge
- Stephen M. Crosby
- Edmund Dowse
- John Fletcher Jr.
- James A. Fox
- Alonzo M. Giles
- Henry C. Greeley
- John B. Hathaway
- John A. Hawes
- Francis A. Hobart
- Nathaniel J. Holden
- Joseph S. Howe
- W. W. Jenness
- George W. Johnson
- William Kellogg
- George A. King
- Charles J. Kittredge
- Charles R. Ladd
- James H. Leland
- George H. Monroe
- Ellis W. Morton
- Jaines Pierce
- Joseph G. Pollard
- Jeremiah H. Pote
- Stephen H. Rhodes
- George M. Rice
- James G. Sproat
- Orlando B. Tenney
- Francis Thompson
- William W. Warren
- Charles A. Wheelock
- Frederick Willcomb
Representatives
- John A. P. Allen [5]
- 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 [6][5]
- 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
- ^ "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+.
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- ^ Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, 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 – via HathiTrust.
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External links
- Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1870, hdl:2452/619059 – via State Library of Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1870, hdl:2452/92952