96th
Massachusetts General Court
←95th 97th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 3, 1874
Senate
Members40
PresidentGeorge B. Loring
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerJohn E. Sanford
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 6, 1875 (1875-01-06) – May 19, 1875 (1875-05-19) [3]
George B. Loring
George Loring, Senate president.
John E. Sanford
John Sanford, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1875.

The 96th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1875 during the governorship of William Gaston. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford served as speaker of the House.[4]

Notable legislation included an "Act To Provide For The Supervision Of The Construction And Maintenance Of Reservoirs And Dams."[5]

Senators

Image Name [6] Date of birth [7] District Party
Moses O. Ayres July 21, 1826 4th Worcester
J. White Belcher November 14, 1823 3rd Norfolk
Richard Britton 1838
Andrew Jackson Clark 1835
Timothy John Dacey 1849
George L. Davis June 17, 1816
Francis Edson 1823
Charles Fitz 1806
Eustace Carey Fitz 1833 1st Suffolk
Michael Joseph Flatley 1823
Henry Fuller 1825
Jeremiah Gatchell 1834
Joseph Alfred Harwood March 26, 1827
John Alexander Hawes 1823
Ezra Coffin Howard September 1, 1831
Ebenezer Atherton Hunt January 26, 1826
Henry Stanley Hyde August 18, 1837
Thomas Ingalls 1824
Jonathan Jones May 25, 1812
Jonathan A. Lane 1822
William E. Livingston June 25, 1832
George B. Loring November 8, 1817
William Croade Lovering February 25, 1835
Lysander John Orcutt 1826
Albert Palmer January 17, 1831
Ezra Parmenter March 20, 1823
William H. Phillips November 16, 1830
Henry W. Robinson October 9, 1819
Christopher E. Rymes September 27, 1827
Henry Smith July 16, 1827
Charles H. B. Snow August 7, 1822
Francis Dana Stedman 1801
Thomas Newcomb Stone 1818
Hugh James Toland 1844
Washington Tufts
George F. Verry July 14, 1826
Zenas Caldwell Wardwell 1831
Tisdale Sanford White 1809
Robert Rich Wiley 1828
Ezra Dyer Winslow 1839

Representatives

image Name [6] Date of birth [7] District Party
 James Abbe 1822
Ebenezer Adams 1830
Samuel Allen 1825
Stephen Merrill Allen 1819
Andrew Athy 1832
Michael A. Atkinson 1813
John James Babson 1809
Amasa Winchester Bailey 1820
Daniel Danforth Bailey 1834
Cyrus Franklin Baker 1831
John Israel Baker 1812
Joseph Heaton Baker 1820
Giles Gould Barker 1838
Theodore Dwight Beach 1821
George Beal 1824
John Henry Bell 1829
William Harrison Bent 1840
James Bergin 1825
John Best 1836
John Charles Bickford 1836
John Henry Blake 1831
Stephen Francis Blaney 1844
William Edward Blunt 1840
Frederick Lincoln Bosworth 1836
Sylvester Warren Bowen 1833
Horace Leander Bowker 1832
Selwyn Zadock Bowman May 11, 1840
Reuben Boynton 1815
Osgood Bradley 1836
William Eustis Bridgman 1836
Wilbur Franklin Brigham 1839
William Ellery Bright 1831
Samuel Rhoden Brintnall 1820
Charles Morrill Brown 1820
Isaac Tucker Burr 1828
James Hazen Carleton 1818
Michael Carney 1827
William Carroll 1838
William Chase 1817
Gardner Asaph Churchill 1839
Isaiah Churchill 1806
Charles Russell Codman 1829
Abraham Burbank Coffin 1831
Patrick Collins 1830
Austin Henry Connell 1846
Owen Coogan 1820
Augustine Porter Cook 1843
Frederick Spaulding Coolidge December 7, 1841
Lowell Coolidge 1819
Alfred Minott Copeland 1830
Jeremiah William Coveney 1840
John Addison Cummings 1838
Benjamin Connor Currier 1822
Francis Chester Curtis 1836
William Derbyshire Curtis 1843
Levi Lincoln Cushing 1825
Benjamin Franklin Davis 1837
Epes Davis 1799
Jacob Winnie Davis 1824
Lewis Day 1835
Henry Dennis 1827
Neil Doherty 1838
Cornelius William Duggan 1844
James William Dwyer 1845
George Whitefield Dyer 1836
Edwin Ellis 1823
James Edward Estabrook
John Brooks Fairbanks 1822
Luther Fisk 1832
Thomas Francis Fitzgerald 1848
Samuel Flower 1815
John David Flynn 1842
Alpheus Fobes 1829
Joseph Fobes 1811
William Frost 1822
Henry William Fuller June 30, 1839
Charles Lefevre Gardner 1839
Albert Warren Gaskill 1831
James Willis Gaylord 1844
William Miner Gaylord 1821
Emerson Geer 1835
Edward Eli Gibbs 1836
Benjamin Gifford 1824
Levi Lincoln Goodspeed 1822
Elbridge Henry Goss 1830
Charles Henry Green January 11, 1842
Daniel Gardner Green 1817
Thomas Thurston Griggs 1818
Dexter Grose 1830
Charles Hale June 7, 1831
Gayton Montgomery Hall 1835
George Hall 1831
Solomon Eldridge Hallett 1833
David Evans Harding 1826
William Ambrose Haskell 1826
Nicholas Hatheway 1824
George Haven 1809
Nathan Mortimer Hawkes 1843
George Heywood 1826
Moses Burpee Heywood 1827
Samuel Richardson Heywood 1821
James Edward Hill 1838
Joseph Warren Hill 1837
Beriah Tilton Hillman 1843
William Allen Hodges 1834
Elisha Everett Holbrook 1835
Amos Bradley Holden 1823
Henry Tolman Holmes 1829
Salmon Dutton Hood 1830
Daniel Parker Hopkinson 1835
Marius Milner Hovey 1818
William Brewster Howard 1836
Frederick George Howes 1832
Francis M. Hughes 1845
Simeon Alonzo Jacobs 1835
Henry Lyman James 1829
Edward Jonathan Johnson 1832
Thomas Johnson 1824
George Washington Jones 1822
Isaac Newton Keith November 14, 1838
Philo Keith 1806
William Keith 1810
Ziba Cary Keith July 13, 1842
Edward Kendall 1822
Moses Kimball October 24, 1809
William Sterling King 1818
George Parkman Kingsley 1840
Joel Knapp 1835
William Shadrach Knox September 10, 1843
Daniel Warren Lawrence 1830
John Burt Le Baron 1817
Benjamin Flint Leighton 1820
Daniel James Lewis 1810
George Tyler Lincoln 1840
Pliny Thurston Litchfield 1827
James Lovering Locke 1832
John Davis Long October 27, 1838
James Thomas Mahony 1843
John Bernard Martin 1848
William Martin 1815
Joseph Tinsley Massey 1808
Edward Selden May 1809
Samuel May 1810
James Athansius McDonald 1842
John Johnson McNutt 1822
William Branwell Merrill 1827
Clement Meserve 1822
Southard Harrison Miller 1811
Henry Sherman Miner 1820
Joseph Mitchell 1809
Franklin Gerrish Morris 1841
John Torrey Morse 1840
Frederick Pierce Moseley 1826
Willard Stanley Newhall 1831
George Lincoln Newton 1841
Edward Wolcott Noble 1811
Reuben Noble 1820
Daniel Noonan 1834
Isaac Newton Nutter June 23, 1836
Charles Stuart Osgood 1839
Harrison Davis Packard 1840
Joseph Frost Paul 1824
Charles Mason Peirce 1823
William Edward Perkins 1838
Charles Hiram Pew 1842
Willard Peele Phillips 1825
Stephen Cobb Phinney 1829
Edward L. Pierce March 29, 1829
James Pierce 1837
Thomas Fitzpatrick Plunkett 1804
Alanson Brown Pomeroy 1842
Richard Pope 1843
Isaac Pratt 1814
Willard Putnam 1838
Edward Benedict Rankin 1846
George Williams Reed 1826
Albert Edward Rice 1845
William Whitney Rice March 7, 1826
Thomas Rich 1820
Jonathan Cady Richmond 1821
John Lombard Robinson 1835
Joshua Crowell Robinson 1834
Wallace Fullum Robinson 1832
Charles Alvan Rogers 1836
Joseph Samuel Ropes February 6, 1818
Cyrus King Russell 1815
Nathaniel Johnson Rust 1833
John Stevens Ryder 1822
John Sanborn 1799
Edward Sanderson 1829
Charles Brigham Sanford 1817
John Eliot Sanford November 22, 1830
Cyrus Savage September 2, 1832
John Savery 1815
Ebenezer Sawyer 1809
Nathaniel Seaver 1807
John Mark Seeley 1814
Charles Luther Shaw 1823
Frederick Plummer Shaw 1811
Isaiah Atkins Small 1825
George Dillingham Smalley 1824
Abraham Howland Smith 1833
Albert Smith 1823
Edward F. Smith 1835
John Low Smith 1837
Edwin Adolphus Spaulding 1832
Richard Hall Stearns December 25, 1824
Isaac Stebbins 1817
Lafayette Stevens 1824
John Conant Stimpson 1813
Isaac Stone 1822
Charles Alfonso Fletcher Swan 1830
Daniel Joseph Sweeney 1834
Samuel Talbot 1822
Leonard Alden Thayer 1834
William Allen Thompson 1810
Daniel Holt Thurston 1813
Dexter Alley Tompkins 1827
George Howard Torrey 1819
Enoch Henry Towne 1835
Byron Truell 1834
Albert Jesse Trull 1845
Charles Russell Tucker 1844
Artemas Stanley Tyler 1824
Edmond Maxam Vincent 1828
Cranmore Nesmith Wallace 1844
George Milton Warren 1832
Austin Clark Wellington 1840
Joseph Wilder White 1825
Felix Grundy Whitney 1818
Wilbur Fisk Whitney 1839
Henry Munson Wilcox 1843
Ebenezer Crosby Willard 1821
Moses Williams 1846
William Winn 1809
Nathan Montgomery Wood 1825
John H. Woodbury 1840
William Woods 1840
Walter Wyman 1806

See also

References

  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. ↑ April Pierce (May 17, 2011), "Five Feet High and Rising", State Library of Massachusetts blog
  6. 1 2 Court, Massachusetts General (1875). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40653.
  7. 1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1875" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

Further reading

  • "Massachusetts". Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1875. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1876. (includes description of legislature)
  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1875, hdl:2452/619064
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1875, hdl:2452/92957
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