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90th
Massachusetts General Court
89th 91st
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 3, 1868
Senate
Members40
PresidentGeorge O. Brastow
Party controlRepublican
(38 R, 2 D)[1][2]
House
Members240
SpeakerHarvey Jewell
Party controlRepublican
(224 R, 16 D)[1][3]
Sessions
1stJanuary 6, 1869 (1869-01-06) – June 24, 1869 (1869-06-24) [4]
George O. Brastow
George Brastow, Senate president.
Harvey Jewell
Harvey Jewell, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1869.

The 90th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1869 during the governorship of Republican William Claflin.[5] George O. Brastow and Robert Carter Pitman served as presidents of the Senate and Harvey Jewell served as speaker of the House.[6][7]

Notable events include the creation of a Joint Special Committee on Woman Suffrage.[8]

Senators

  • Nathaniel E. Atwood [9]
  • George O. Brastow
  • George M. Buttrick
  • Horace H Coolidge
  • Samuel D. Crane
  • Benjamin Dean
  • Francis H. Dewey
  • Edmund Dowse
  • Alonzo M. Giles
  • Whiting Griswold
  • John B. Hathaway
  • Francis A. Hobart
  • Nathaniel J. Holden
  • Estes Howe
  • George A. King
  • Richmond Kingman
  • C. J. Kittredge
  • Lucius J. Knowles
  • Charles R. Ladd
  • John H. Lockey
  • Charles Marsh
  • Joshua N. Marshall
  • Charles R. McLean
  • George H. Monroe
  • Ellis W. Morton
  • Daniel Needham
  • Julius A. Palmer
  • Robert C. Pitman
  • Richard Plumer
  • Joseph G. Pollard
  • Joseph G. Ray
  • O. H. P. Smith
  • George H. Sweetser
  • George S. Taylor
  • Edward A. Thomas
  • J. Scott Todd
  • Harrison Tweed
  • Gershom B. Weston
  • Charles A. Wheelock
  • Jonathan White

Representatives

  • William T. Adams [9]
  • Alexander H. Allen
  • John Allen
  • William W. Amadon
  • Frank M. Ames
  • Isaac A. Anthony
  • E. Foster Bailey
  • John I. Baker
  • Life Baldwin
  • Henry Barker
  • John Barlow
  • William E. Barnes
  • George H. Barrett
  • William Bartlett
  • Ezra Batcheller
  • Jacob Bates
  • Loring Bates
  • Marcus Bates
  • Alfred Belden
  • Francis W. Bird
  • Henry B. Blake
  • Richard D. Blinn
  • Samuel G. Bowdlear
  • Charles Bradley
  • Samuel P. Breed
  • Ezra C. Brett
  • Benjamin A. Bridges
  • Jethro C. Brock
  • William G. Brooks
  • John Brown
  • Obadiah S. Brown
  • Werden R. Brown
  • Ferdinand L. Burley
  • Alvah A. Burrage
  • Alfred A. Burrill
  • Frederick Butler
  • Oliver S. Butler
  • Michael Carney
  • Solomon Carter
  • Dennis Cawley, Jr
  • Albert Chamberlin
  • Henry Chase
  • Linus M. Child
  • William M. Child
  • Horace Choate
  • Le Baron B. Church
  • Joseph N. Clark
  • Samuel Clark
  • Asa Clement
  • Samuel Cloon
  • Aury G. Coes
  • Patrick A. Collins
  • Benjamin F. Cook
  • George P. Cox
  • Freeborn W. Cressey
  • Alanson Crittenden
  • Stephen M. Crosby
  • James M. Cunliff
  • Robert S. Daniels
  • Elnathan Davis
  • William W. Davis
  • Ebenezer Dawes
  • John Dean
  • Avery J. Denison
  • Benjamin Dupar
  • J. Franklin Dyer
  • William I. Edwards
  • Thomas Ellis
  • Addison G. Fay
  • Jacob Fisher
  • Charles A. Fiske
  • William Fletcher
  • James B. Francis
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Rodney French
  • Josiah O. Friend, Jr
  • Chauncey G. Fuller
  • George L. Gibbs
  • Edwin Gilbert
  • Kimball C. Gleason
  • Abijah W. Goddard
  • Stephen D. Goddard
  • John B. Goodrich
  • Thomas H. Goodspeed
  • Dennis J. Gorman
  • Levi S. Gould
  • Samuel H. Gould
  • Wesley A. Gove
  • William T. Grammar
  • C. S. Greenwood
  • Charles H. Guild
  • Moses H. Hale
  • Lyman S. Hapgood
  • R. P. A. Harris
  • Abraham G. Hart
  • Edward H. Hartshorn
  • Andrew L. Haskell
  • William H. Haskell
  • Tilly Haynes
  • James A. Hervey
  • James Hewes
  • Elmer Hewett
  • Charles A. Hewins
  • William Hichborn
  • Levi W. Hobart
  • Thorndike D. Hodges
  • Ambrous Hodgkins
  • Alvah Holway
  • James Horswell
  • Samuel Horton
  • Charles H. Hovey
  • George F. Howland
  • James Humphrey
  • Theodore C. Hurd
  • Harvey Jewell
  • Henri L. Johnson
  • Robert Johnson
  • Herbert C. Joyner
  • Lewis S. Judd
  • Shubael B. Kelley
  • William W. Kellogg
  • Thomas G. Kent
  • Moses Kimball
  • Dexter S. King
  • Enoch King
  • Daniel W. Knight
  • Joseph S. Knight
  • Franklin C. Knox
  • David Lane
  • Albert Langdon
  • Roger H. Leavitt
  • Manning Leonard
  • Nahum Leonard, Jr
  • William Livermore
  • Caleb Lombard
  • Josiah Lord, Jr
  • Marcus M. Luther
  • Charles P. Lyon
  • Hugh A. Madden
  • Charles N. Marsh
  • Murdock Matheson
  • Charles J. Mclntire
  • William Melcher
  • William R. Melden
  • Charles H. Merriam
  • John M. Merrick
  • Moody Merrill
  • William H. Merritt
  • Lansing Millis
  • Eben Mitchell
  • Elliott Montague
  • Lyman E. Moore
  • Asa P. Morse
  • F. H. Morse
  • James R. Morse
  • Newton Morse
  • Edwin Mudge
  • Nathaniel C. Nash
  • Henry J. Nazro
  • Thomas L. Nelson
  • Daniel H. Newton
  • Jeremiah L. Newton
  • George K. Nichols
  • William W. Nichols
  • Francis A. Nye
  • John P. Ober
  • Weaver Osborn
  • Rufus S. Owen
  • Samuel S. Paine
  • William H. Parker
  • John C. Peak
  • Joseph D. Peirce
  • Francis A. Perry
  • M. C. Phipps
  • A. A. Plimpton
  • Avery Plumer
  • Thomas F. Plunkett
  • Thomas K. Plunkett
  • Augustus Pratt
  • Joseph A. Priest
  • Asabel D. Puffer
  • Caleb Rand
  • Eduar H. Reed
  • Ezra Rice
  • Otis Rich
  • James Ritchie
  • James H. Roberts
  • Isaiah F. Robinson
  • Ensign B. Rogers
  • Joseph N. Rolfe
  • John Runey
  • Augustine K. Russell
  • William A. Russell
  • George J. Sanger
  • Joseph L. Sargent
  • Samuel D. Sawin
  • Clark Sears
  • John N. Sherman
  • Lemuel B. Simmons
  • Rufus S. Slade
  • Abner L. Smith
  • Edward Smith
  • Horace Smith
  • Iram Smith
  • John J. Smith [10][11]
  • Martin L. Smith
  • Willis Smith
  • Charles W. Soule
  • Welcome W. Sprague
  • L. Miles Standish
  • Haynes K. Starkweather
  • Eliphalet Stone
  • Edward Stowell
  • Joseph A. Stranger
  • Ruel F. Thayer
  • Shepherd Thayer
  • Justus Tower
  • S. K. Towle
  • William P. Tyler
  • Joseph Vaill
  • Welcome H. Wales
  • S. H. Walker
  • Royal S. Warren
  • Thomas S. Waters
  • Jerome Wells
  • Henry White
  • D. Dwight Whitmore
  • Emerson Wight
  • Charles Wilcox
  • Salem Wilder
  • Alfred M. Williams
  • Warren Williams
  • Samuel S. Willson
  • James Wilson
  • William D. Witherell
  • Orlow Wolcott
  • George M. Woodward
  • David T. Woodwell
  • Luther A. Wright
  • P. Ambrose Young

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "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
  3. ^ "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
  4. ^ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
  5. ^ Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1869, hdl:2452/795808
  6. ^ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
  7. ^ "Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts". Massachusetts Register, 1869 – via Archive.org.
  8. ^ Kaitlin Connolly (September 24, 2012), "Women's Suffrage Movement in Massachusetts", State Library of Massachusetts blog
  9. ^ a b Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1869. hdl:2452/40647.
  10. ^ Kaitlin Connolly (March 4, 2013), "Massachusetts Legislators: John James Smith", State Library of Massachusetts blog
  11. ^ Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905

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