1880 Massachusetts legislature

101st
Massachusetts General Court
←100th 102nd→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 4, 1879
Senate
Members40
PresidentRobert R. Bishop
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerCharles J. Noyes
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 7, 1880 (1880-01-07) – April 24, 1880 (1880-04-24) [3]
Robert R. Bishop
Robert Bishop, Senate president.
Charles J. Noyes
Charles Noyes, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1880.

The 101st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1880 during the governorship of John Davis Long. Robert R. Bishop served as president of the Senate and Charles J. Noyes served as speaker of the House.[4]

Senators

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Image Name [5] Date of birth [6] District Party
William Abbott 1834 2nd Worcester
Samuel N. Aldrich February 3, 1839 4th Middlesex
Oliver Ames February 4, 1831 1st Bristol
Stephen Francis Blaney 1844 2nd Essex
Charles J. Brooks July 6, 1844 8th Suffolk
Elisha S. Converse July 28, 1820 1st Middlesex
Charles T. Crocker March 2, 1833 5th Worcester
George Glover Crocker December 15, 1843 4th Suffolk
Warren Currier July 20, 1830 4th Essex
James William Dwyer 1845 North Berkshire
Anson D. Fessenden February 18, 1839 5th Middlesex
Ebenezer T. Fogg October 30, 1826 1st Plymouth
Jonas Harrod French November 4, 1829 3rd Essex
Henry William Fuller June 30, 1839 7th Suffolk
Emerson Gaylord September 2, 1817 2nd Hampden
Harmon Hall July 18, 1818 1st Essex
Alpheus Harding January 12, 1818 4th Worcester
Eben Hutchinson 1841 1st Suffolk
Marcus Perrin Knowlton February 3, 1839 1st Hampden
Charles S. Lilley December 13, 1851 7th Middlesex
Asa Porter Morse 1818 3rd Middlesex
Stephen Osgood November 16, 1826 5th Essex
John Lord Otis 1827 Hampshire
James Paine Ray 1820 2nd Norfolk
Henry C. Rice August 22, 1827 1st Worcester
George B. Richmond November 9, 1821 3rd Bristol
Joseph Hubbard Root 1823 Franklin
Daniel Russell July 16, 1824 6th Middlesex
Elizur Smith January 5, 1812 South Berkshire
Samuel Snow 1828 Cape
James W. Stockwell December 6, 1837 3rd Worcester
Andrew C. Stone May 16, 1839 6th Essex
William Taylor 1831 3rd Suffolk
Nathaniel Wales November 25, 1819 1st Norfolk
Alonzo Warren 1827 5th Suffolk
Thomas Webb October 24, 1819 2nd Bristol
Starkes Whiton April 11, 1829 2nd Plymouth
Calvin M. Winch November 26, 1832 6th Suffolk

Representatives

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image Name [5] Date of birth [6] District Party
John Ware Adams 1836
Charles Hastings Allen 1828
John Forrester Andrew 1850
Newell Sylvanus Atwood 1834
George Norval Bacon 1835
George Warren Bail 1832
Stephen Powers Bailey 1818
John Israel Baker 1812
Samuel Dwight Bardwell 1819
Samuel Augustus Bartholomew 1824
Philander Bates 1842
Ebenezer Beckford 1833
Lucius Beebe 1810
James William Bennett 1833
George Albert Berry 1837
John Frank Berry 1840
Abraham Orlando Bigelow 1812
Francis Bigelow 1840
John Winthrop Bigelow 1832
Lewis Bigelow 1808
William Blanchard 1821
George Henry Bond 1840
Samuel Wells Bowerman 1830
Benjamin Franklin Boyden 1846
John Quincy Adams Brackett June 8, 1842
Martin Luther Bradford 1821
Henry Harding Brigham 1814
George Bruce Brown 1830
William Austin Brown 1820
William Blanchard Brown 1821
William Wilson Brown 1848
James McKellar Bugbee 1837
Sidney Augustus Bull 1847
John Coburn Burley 1837
George Lathe Burt 1829
Joseph Burt 1821
John Haskell Butler 1841
Dexter Butterfield March 15, 1842
Hobart M. Cable
Peter Cannon 1825
Nathan Dexter Canterbury 1837
William Henry Carberry February 22, 1851
James Albert Carruth 1839
Lewis L. Carter 1822
Joseph Henry Churchill 1820
Frank Allen Clapp 1849
John Milton Cochran 1849
Amos Coffin
Lewis Coleman 1817
Elias Pike Collins 1829
Louis Atwood Cook 1847
John Cornell 1830
Isaac Newton Crosby 1824
Jeremiah John Crowley 1850
Eli Culley 1840
Edwin James Cushing 1842
Henry Putney Danforth 1845
Keyes Danforth 1822
James Franklin Davenport 1832
Person Davis 1819
Joshua Dean 1830
John Henry Dee May 13, 1842
John Delaney 1815
John Francis Dever 1858
Clinton Henry Dodge 1835
James Joseph Doherty 1848
Daniel Francis Dolan 1847
Elbridge Curtis Donnell 1839
James Thompson Drew 1813
George Wells Eddy 1837
George Dyer Eldridge 1848
James Madison Evans 1837
Walter Hamlet Faunce 1832
Charles Henry Ferson 1819
George Batchelder Fiske 1834
Stephen Flanders 1835
George Louis Flint 1852
William Abraham Foss 1838
Jesse Harding Freeman 1826
Edwin Gage 1830
William Howard Gale 1831
John Henry Galligan 1851
Francis Gardner 1828
Charles Frederick Gerry 1823
James Ellis Gifford 1832
Rufus Babcock Gifford 1827
George Dodge Glover 1823
Robert Goulding 1825
Bryan Harding 1842
Calvin Lyon Hartshorn 1832
Thomas Jones Hastings January 24, 1835
Thomas Bly Hathaway December 5, 1825
Edward Daniel Hayden 1833
Thomas Wentworth Higginson December 22, 1823
Hamilton Andrews Hill 1827
Henry Hobbs 1827
Joseph Field Holbrook 1841
Horace Marshall Holmes 1830
Edwin Jackson Horton 1837
Nathaniel Augustus Horton 1830
Russell Spaulding Horton 1825
Charles Henry Howland 1826
Andrew Jackson Huntress 1826
Daniel Bowman Ingalls 1829
William Hutchins Ingraham 1817
Martin Van Buren Jefferson 1833
James Leonard Jenney 1833
George William Johnson 1827
Joseph Prosper Johnson 1813
Edward Dorr Griffin Jones 1824
Thomas Brooks Jones 1839
Benjamin Adams Jourdan July 20, 1832
John Joyce 1837
Albert Keith 1823
Simon Kelley 1846
Lorrin Porter Keyes 1838
James Langford 1847
Daniel Warren Lawrence 1830
James Madison Lawton 1813
Marcus Leonard 1846
Arthur Lincoln 1842
Clark Lincoln 1821
George Brigham Livermore 1836
Henry Cabot Lodge 1850
Dwight B. Look 1820
Daniel Bolles Lord 1821
Marcus Morton Loud 1839
Pardon Macomber February 9, 1833
James Pollock Magee
Patrick Francis Mahoney 1847
James Thomas Mahony 1843
Thomas Main 1807
George Sampson Marshall 1833
Hugh Maxwell 1836
James William McDonald May 15, 1857
Patrick Francis McGaragle 1845
James Aloysius McGeough 1853
Patrick Michael McGlynn 1853
John McSorley 1832
Andrew Nelson Medbery 1827
Christopher Columbus Merritt September 29, 1830
Edwin Dickinson Metcalf March 14, 1848
Eben Colbraith Milliken 1843
Alfred Cushing Monroe 1841
Eugene Michael Moriarty April 15, 1849
Daniel Tilton Morrison 1820
Robert McNeil Morse 1837
John Dennis Mulchinock 1855
Jeremiah Henry Mullane August 15, 1852
Norman Carmi Munson 1820
J. Allston Newhall 1847
Leander Warren Newton 1838
Joseph John Nichols 1850
Erastus Nickerson 1821
Charles Johnson Noyes August 7, 1841
Increase Eldredge Noyes 1834
James H. Nugent 1831
John O'Donnell 1853
Joseph Henry O'Neil March 23, 1853
Henry Paddack April 2, 1838
George Winter Park 1834
Charles Oscar Parmenter 1833
John Wesley Peabody 1837
Edward Pease 1838
Walter Barber Peck 1838
William Gaylord Peck 1841
Henry Moses Phillips 1845
John James Pickman January 9, 1850
Francis Plunkett 1840
Edward Payson Poor 1829
Edwin Bartlett Pratt 1832
Lyman Knight Putney 1833
James Lawrence Quigley 1848
John Dennis Reed 1827
George Willard Rice 1836
Joseph Marcus Rice 1827
Stephen Rich 1834
Richard Roach 1833
Charles Robinson 1829
Horace Tyler Rockwell 1838
Thomas Pitkin Root 1824
Isaac Rosnosky November 6, 1846
George Thomas Sampson 1819
William Sanders 1843
William Henry Sargent 1836
Augustus Elwin Scott 1838
Charles Edwin Seagrave 1825
Dwight Loomis Shaw 1822
James Shead 1818
Seth Carroll Shepard 1815
John Henry Sherburne 1845
Jonathan Edward Shipman 1832
Henry Almy Slocum 1825
William Smeath 1834
Charles Whipple Smith 1846
Hinsdale Smith 1819
Zenas Elmer Smith 1821
Arthur John Clark Sowdon 1835
James Harvey Sparrow 1825
Robert Lyman Spear 1839
George Morrison Starbird 1833
Eben Francis Stone August 3, 1822
Augustus Whittemore Stover 1834
Charles Francis Swift 1825
Joseph Russell Taber 1821
Robert Tarr 1832
Levi Taylor 1824
Michael John Teahan 1840
John Randolph Thayer 1845
Samuel Proctor Thayer 1853
Silas Foster Thayer 1822
Edward Isaiah Thomas 1833
William Tinker 1823
William Ripley Tompkins 1826
William Eaton Topliff 1826
William Henry Tozer 1835
Edward Trask 1843
Arthur Webster Tufts 1828
Joseph Augustine Tufts 1835
Samuel Burns Valpey 1829
Merritt Van Deusen 1820
Leavitt R.J. Varnum 1847
Chester Kingsley Waite 1825
Jonathan Wales 1849
Joseph Henry Walker 1829
William James Wallace 1833
Horace Everett Ware 1845
John Flavel Warner
Lewis Henry Warner 1845
Nathan Warren 1838
William Cullen Warren 1822
Alonzo Carter Webber 1827
Edwin R. Webster 1831
John Gerrish Webster 1811
Henry Jackson Wells 1823
Charles Augustus Wentworth 1830
Howard Alphonso Wheeler 1848
Joseph Dudley Wilde 1829
Hiram Williams 1824
Henry Franklin Wing 1825

See also

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References

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  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. 2009. p. 340+.
  5. ^ a b Court, Massachusetts General (1880). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40658.
  6. ^ a b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1880" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

Further reading

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  • "Massachusetts". Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1880. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1883. (includes description of legislature)
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  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1880, hdl:2452/619069
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1880, hdl:2452/89616
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