1871 Massachusetts legislature

92nd
Massachusetts General Court
←91st 93rd→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 8, 1870
Senate
Members40
PresidentHorace H. Coolidge
Party controlRepublican
(34 R, 5 D, 1 other)[1][2]
House
Members240
SpeakerHarvey Jewell
Party controlRepublican
(195 R, 34 D, 11 other)[1][3]
Sessions
1stJanuary 4, 1871 (1871-01-04) – May 31, 1871 (1871-05-31) [4]
Horace H. Coolidge
Horace Coolidge, Senate president.
Harvey Jewell
Harvey Jewell, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1871.

The 92nd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1871 during the governorship of Republican William Claflin.[5] Horace H. Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Harvey Jewell served as speaker of the House.[6]

Senators

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Image Name [7] Date of birth [8] District Party
Nathaniel Ellis Atwood September 13, 1807
Andrew Jackson Bartholomew 1834
Jacob Bates 1819
Francis William Bird 1809
Alonzo Warren Boardman 1828
Charles Bradley 1816
William Hooper Caswell 1837
Andrew Jackson Clark 1835
James Wilson Clark 1802
Patrick Andrew Collins March 12, 1844
Horace Hopkins Coolidge February 11, 1832
Stephen Moody Crosby 1827
George Perkins Elliott 1804
John Fletcher 1827
James Augustus Fox August 11, 1827
Rufus Smith Frost July 18, 1826
Richard Goodman 1818
Henry Clay Greeley 1830
John Alexander Hawes 1823
Estes Howe 1814
Nathan Swett Kimball 1820
William Bennet Long 1827
George Harris Monroe 1826
Timothy Fairbanks Packard 1812
William Driver Park 1831
James Pierce 1837
Stephen Holbrook Rhodes November 7, 1825
George Francis Richardson December 6, 1829
Daniel Ephraim Safford 1826
James Granville Sproat 1835
George Monroe Stearns April 18, 1831
Charles Pickett Stickney 1824
Orlando Barnard Tenney 1816
Adin Thayer 1828
Shepard Thayer 1827
Thomas Lafayette Wakefield 1817
Amasa Whiting 1821
Baxter Dodridge Whitney 1817
Frederick H. Willcomb 1831
Jonathan Henry Wood 1822

Representatives

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  • Henry S. Adams [7]
  • John Quincy Adams II
  • Charles L. Allen
  • James S. Allen
  • William H. Anderson
  • Francis P. Arnold
  • William F. Arnold
  • George H. Babbitt, Jr
  • Andrew J. Bailey
  • Prentiss C. Baird
  • John I. Baker
  • Joseph K. Baker
  • Irwin D. W. Baldwin
  • John S. Baldwin
  • Henry J. Barker
  • William Barker, Jr
  • Lewis Barnard
  • Daniel N. Barrett
  • Leonard Barton
  • John T. Bates
  • Alanson W. Beard
  • Alden Besse
  • Henry A. Bidwell
  • Gurdon Bill
  • Arthur G. Biscoe
  • Lowell R. Blake
  • William E. Blunt
  • Josiah W. Bonney
  • Frederick A. Boomer
  • Sylvester F. Boot
  • Robert Bower
  • Selwin Bowman
  • Phineas Bridgman
  • Elisha Brimhall
  • Ebenezer Brown
  • Frederick P. Brown
  • Willard A. Brown
  • Stephen A. Brownell
  • George Buffington
  • John R. Bullard
  • James T. Burnap
  • Henry O. Burr
  • Theophilus Burr
  • Samuel Calley
  • Michael Carney
  • Solon Carpenter
  • David Chamberlin
  • Erastus Chase
  • Elijah H. Chisholm
  • John H. Church
  • John B. D. Cogswell
  • William Cogswell
  • George J. L. Colby
  • Justin M. Cooley
  • Benjamin H. Corliss
  • Joseph H. Cornell
  • Charles A. Corser
  • John S. Cotton
  • Joseph H. Cotton
  • Samuel L. Crane
  • Zenas Crane, Jr
  • James C. Currier
  • Henry J. Curtis
  • Avery R. Cushman
  • Jacob R. Cushman
  • Robert S. Daniels
  • Curtis Davie
  • George E. Davis
  • Timothy Davis
  • William L. Davis
  • Joseph Dowse, Jr
  • John Drynan
  • George S. Duell
  • Henry J. Dunham
  • Lemuel C. Eames
  • Samuel S. Eastman
  • Samuel P. Everett
  • George O. Fairbanks
  • James O. Fallon
  • Hawkes Fearing
  • Alfred E. Fiske
  • John E. Fitzgerald
  • John D. Flagg
  • Hugh Flood
  • Thomas Floyd
  • Jonathan P. Folsom
  • Moses H. Fowler
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Robert O. Fuller
  • Levi Gardner
  • Robert F. Gardner
  • George W. Gates
  • Thomas Gates
  • George D. Glover
  • George Going
  • Henry A. Goodrich
  • Henry Goodspeed
  • Lafayette Granger
  • Davis P. Gray
  • Edward W. Griggs
  • Charles H. Guild
  • Joseph M. Hall
  • Franklin P. Harlow
  • Henry H. Harris
  • Thomas B. Harris
  • A. K. Haskell
  • Cephas Haskins
  • Bainbridge Hayward
  • Paul Hayward
  • Stephen Hayward, Jr
  • Horatio B. Hersey
  • Orrin Hewes
  • Levi Heywood
  • Thomas Hill
  • Stephen Holt
  • Thomas Holway
  • Samuel W. Hopkinson
  • Charles H. Hovey
  • Daniel Howard
  • Ezra Howard
  • George H. Howe
  • Samuel Howe
  • Elisha Hubbard
  • John Hume
  • Theodore C. Hurd
  • Edwin H. Hutchinson
  • Francis James
  • Nathaniel M. Jernegan
  • Harvey Jewell
  • Joseph P. Johnson
  • Robert Johnson
  • Albert F. Kelley
  • Ensign H. Kellogg
  • Ozi Kendall
  • Moses Kimball
  • John A. Lamson
  • Albert Leighton
  • Benjamin F. Lewis
  • Edward Lewis
  • Welcome Lewis
  • G. H. Lincoln
  • Martin Lincoln
  • Noah Lincoln
  • Caleb Lombard
  • Edward T. Lyford
  • Hugh A. Madden
  • Israel P. Magoun
  • Orlando Mason
  • John McDuffie
  • Curtis C. Mchols
  • Alexander McKenzie
  • John W. McKim
  • John O. McKinstry
  • Thomas H. Meek
  • William R. Melden
  • Charles H. Merriam
  • Alfred K. Merrill
  • Moody Merrill
  • George P. Metcalf
  • Ira L. Moore
  • George W. Morton
  • William Mulligan
  • John J. Murphy
  • Peter M. Neal
  • J. S. Nelson
  • John Newell
  • Silas Noble
  • George Nowell
  • William Nutt
  • John P. Ober
  • Weaver Osborn
  • Stephen Osgood
  • Lyman Paine
  • George A. Parker
  • Edwin K. Parkhurst
  • Ezra Parmenter
  • Lloyd Parsons
  • George H. Peabody
  • Edward Pearl
  • Ellis Perry
  • William A. Pew
  • Willard P. Phillips
  • Nathaniel Pierce
  • J. Newton Pike
  • Charles Y. Poor
  • Asa T. Pratt
  • Laban Pratt
  • Humphrey Prescott
  • Charles L. Putnam
  • George Putnam
  • Samuel B. Quigley
  • Lawrence Reade
  • John W. Regan
  • A. L. Richards
  • Martin L. Richardson
  • Isaac N. Ross
  • George L. Ruffin[9][7]
  • Joseph M. Russell
  • John E. Sanford
  • Benjamin P. Saunders
  • George F. Scribner
  • Harvey Severance
  • Henry H. Shaw
  • James S. Shepard
  • H. D. Sisson
  • Hambleton E. Smith
  • James G. Smith
  • George C. S. Southworth
  • Walter Spooner
  • Francis D. Stedman
  • Hiram A. Stiles
  • Thomas Swasey, Jr
  • Calvin R. Taft
  • John K. Tarbox
  • Charles P. Thompson
  • Edward E. Thompson
  • Eben Tirrell, Jr
  • Hugh J. Toland
  • Joseph R. Torrey
  • George E. Towne
  • Charles R. Train
  • David W. Tucker
  • Samuel J. Tuttle
  • Samuel W. Twombly
  • George H. Vibbert
  • Charles F. Walcott
  • Welcome H. Wales
  • Stephen Wallace
  • E. H. Walton
  • James J. Walworth
  • Henry S. Washburn
  • Nathan H. Webb
  • George L. Webber
  • Edwin Wheeler
  • Emerson Wight
  • Charles L. Woodbury
  • Joseph A. Woodward
  • Luther A. Wright
  • George T. Wyer

See also

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References

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  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, 1871, 1871, hdl:2452/795813
  6. ^ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
  7. ^ a b c Court, Massachusetts General (1871). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40649.
  8. ^ "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1871" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  9. ^ 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

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  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1871, hdl:2452/619060
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1871, hdl:2452/92953
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