97th
Massachusetts General Court
←96th 98th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 2, 1875
Senate
Members40
PresidentGeorge B. Loring
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerJohn Davis Long
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 5, 1876 (1876-01-05) – April 28, 1876 (1876-04-28) [3]
George B. Loring
George Loring, Senate president.
John Davis Long
John Davis Long, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1876.

The 97th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1876 during the governorship of Alexander H. Rice. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John Davis Long served as speaker of the House.[4]

Members earned a salary of $650 per year.[5]

Senators

Image Name [6] Date of birth [7] District Party
Moses O. Ayres July 21, 1826 4th Worcester
Emery L. Bates March 16, 1823 3rd Worcester
J. White Belcher November 14, 1823 3rd Norfolk
Selwyn Zadock Bowman May 11, 1840 2nd Middlesex
Elisha Brimhall March 25, 1825 5th Worcester
Haydn Brown February 16, 1819 4th Essex
Samuel Dexter Crane 1816 5th Suffolk
John Cummings 1812 6th Middlesex
Timothy John Dacey 1849 2nd Suffolk
Edward Livingston Davis 1834 2nd Suffolk
George L. Davis June 17, 1816 3rd Essex
Joseph Emery Fiske 1839 2nd Norfolk
Eustace Carey Fitz 1833 1st Suffolk
Thomas Francis Fitzgerald 1848 6th Suffolk
Michael Joseph Flatley 1823 3rd Suffolk
William Miner Gaylord 1821 Hampshire
Samuel Slocum Ginnodo 1816 1st Bristol
Joseph Alfred Harwood March 26, 1827 5th Middlesex
Tilly Haynes February 13, 1828 1st Hampden
Jonathan Higgins November 21, 1816 Cape
Ezra Coffin Howard September 1, 1831 Islands
Charles Howes October 26, 1826 5th Essex
Ebenezer Atherton Hunt January 26, 1826 Norfolk & Plymouth
William E. Livingston June 25, 1832 7th Middlesex
George B. Loring November 8, 1817 2nd Essex
Horace Hawkes Mayhew 1826 Franklin
Peter M. Neal September 21, 1811 1st Essex
Albert Palmer January 17, 1831 1st Norfolk
Francis J. Parker March 3, 1825 4th Middlesex
Caleb Rand 1817 1st Middlesex
Everett Robinson January 22, 1816 1st Plymouth
George D. Robinson January 20, 1834 2nd Hampden
Henry W. Robinson October 9, 1819 2nd Plymouth
John Sargent June 21, 1799 3rd Middlesex
Norman W. Shores 1834 Berkshire & Hampshire
Francis Dana Stedman 1801 4th Suffolk
Philip J. Tripp October 28, 1822 3rd Bristol
Byron Weston April 9, 1832 Berkshire
Benjamin Franklin Wing October 22, 1822 2nd Bristol

Representatives

image Name [6] Date of birth [7] District Party
 James Abbe 1822
Ebenezer Adams 1830
Stillman Boyd Allen September 8, 1830
William Augustus Alley 1841
Edwin Amsden 1828
Jacob Franklin Appell 1840
Michael A. Atkinson 1813
Edwin Ayer 1827
John James Babson 1809
Daniel Danforth Bailey 1834
Monroe Elias Ballou 1836
Giles Gould Barker 1838
Patrick Barry 1834
Daniel Walton Bartlett 1829
James Edward Taylor Bartlett 1825
Benjamin Samuel Batchelor 1829
Eliakim Adams Bates 1817
Warren Augustus Bird 1837
Warren Palmer Bird 1843
Francis Charles Bowen 1834
Osgood Bradley 1836
Amos Franklin Breed October 15, 1830
Lysander Nelson Brownell 1817
Orrin Bryant 1837
Joseph Buckminster 1821
Francis Bugbee 1829
Isaac Tucker Burr 1828
Charles Cargill Capron 1841
Michael Carney 1827
Frederick Thomas Chase 1844
Gardner Asaph Churchill 1839
Frederick Waterston Clapp 1843
Lafayette Clapp 1824
John P. Clark 1837
Edward Coburn 1820
Henry Fayette Coggshall 1823
Charles Samuel Converse 1821
Horace Cook April 24, 1829
John Hawkins Cook 1841
Thomas Francis Cordis 1843
Jeremiah William Coveney 1840
Michael J. Croak 1843
Elisha Crocker 1814
Albert Willoughby Curtiss 1820
Charles Henry Danforth 1837
George Fisher Daniels 1820
Dallas Jay Dean 1816
Herbert Augustus Dean 1841
Henry Dennis 1827
Freeman Doane 1819
Neil Doherty 1838
Francis Elisha Downer 1832
Adin Cady Estabrook 1828
Alonzo Hathaway Evans February 24, 1820
George Otis Fairbanks 1815
William Wallace Fish 1832
Luther Fisk 1832
Wesley Lewis Fiske 1823
Theodore Narcisse Foque 1831
John Freeto 1825
Charles Fuller 1811
Henry William Fuller June 30, 1839
Charles Lefevre Gardner 1839
Thomas John Gargan 1844
Thomas Rogers Garity 1838
John Murray Gibbons 1833
Benjamin Gifford 1824
Onslow Gilmore 1832
Samuel Slater Gleason 1842
Curtis Banks Goodsell 1821
George Washington Granger 1821
Charles Hale June 7, 1831
Andrew Hall 1833
Leander Moody Hannum 1837
Lyman Sawin Hapgood 1822
Joseph Tolman Hartt 1830
James Dana Hartwell 1831
George Haskell 1809
Frederick Hathaway 1810
Isaac Newton Hathaway 1819
Nathan Mortimer Hawkes 1843
Alanson Knox Hawks 1828
Samuel Richardson Heywood 1821
Samuel Dexter Hicks 1824
Henry Bozyol Hill 1823
John Beckford Hill 1824
Joseph Warren Hill 1837
Otis M. Hitchings 1822
Ira Wilmarth Hoffman 1830
Richard Holley January 30, 1829
Henry Tolman Holmes 1829
George Francis Howe 1825
Weston Howland 1813
Jonas Sewall Hunt 1827
Caleb Burroughs Huse September 13, 1833
Ephraim Alfred Ingalls 1826
Thomas Leighton Jenks 1829
Jesse Henry Jones 1836
Ambrose Keith 1814
Isaac Newton Keith November 14, 1838
Monroe Keith 1835
Ziba Cary Keith July 13, 1842
Ensign Hosmer Kellogg July 6, 1812
Edward Kendall 1822
Patrick Kennedy 1838
Ensign Kimball 1818
Moses Kimball October 24, 1809
William Sterling King 1818
Joseph Addison Kingsbury 1837
Edwin Leander Kirtland 1832
Joel Knapp 1835
John Knowles 1823
Henry Charles Knowlton 1833
Hosea Morrill Knowlton 1847
Daniel Warren Lawrence 1830
Henry Lee 1817
Nathaniel Evan Lindsey 1843
Samuel Longley 1823
Charles Addison Loud 1829
James Mackintosh 1838
Seth Mann 1817
Andrus March 1812
Edward Franklin Mayo 1826
Ebenezer Martin McPherson 1836
Christopher Columbus Merritt September 29, 1830
George Whitney Merritt 1831
Henry Sherman Miner 1820
Joseph Mitchell 1809
Thomas Mooney 1840
John Morissey 1818
George Washington Morrill 1818
Elijah Adams Morse 1841
William Morse 1822
Frederick Pierce Moseley 1826
Jeremiah Murphy 1834
John Joseph Murphy 1842
Sherman Nelson 1834
John Burbank Nichols 1814
Reuben Noble 1820
Daniel Noonan 1834
John B. Norton 1823
Benjamin Alden Nourse 1836
Isaac Newton Nutter June 23, 1836
Weaver Osborn 1815
Charles Stuart Osgood 1839
Harvey McCullock Owen 1833
Frederick Parker 1810
George Gedney Parker 1826
David Allen Partridge 1833
Joseph Frost Paul 1824
George Robbins Perry 1836
Charles Hiram Pew 1842
Stephen Cobb Phinney 1829
Edward L. Pierce March 29, 1829
Albert Enoch Pillsbury August 19, 1849
Charles Greenwood Pope 1840
David Alden Preston 1846
David Prouty 1813
Henry Wheatland Putnam 1843
Charles Henry Read 1830
Henry Clifford Read 1810
Washington Read 1813
George Randall Reed 1832
George Williams Reed 1826
Rice Munn Reynolds 1838
Charles Baker Rice 1829
Charles Warren Richards 1824
Jonathan Cady Richmond 1821
Wallace Fullum Robinson 1832
Charles Alvan Rogers 1836
Joseph Hubbard Root 1823
Joseph Samuel Ropes February 6, 1818
Solomon Nash Russell 1822
Nathaniel Johnson Rust 1833
Addison Sandford 1821
Amos Joseph Saunders 1826
Samuel Dexter Sawin 1835
Ebenezer Sawyer 1809
Enoch Sawyer 1841
John Francis Searle 1839
Calvin Wilbur Shattuck 1811
Elijah Carter Shattuck 1820
Elon Sherman 1820
Albion King Slade 1822
Solomon Sias Sleeper 1815
Isaiah Atkins Small 1825
Andrew Smith 1838
Newton Smith 1837
Robert Dickson Smith 1838
Webster Smith 1825
Samuel Snow 1828
John Russell Southwick 1819
Benjamin Franklin Stacey 1834
James Trimble Stevens 1835
Frederick Mason Stone 1825
Michael Sullivan 1837
James Francis Supple 1844
Charles Alfonso Fletcher Swan 1830
Jackson Benjamin Swett 1815
Noah Swett 1826
Samuel Talbot 1822
Charles Andrews Taylor 1826
Oliver Taylor 1826
Davis Thayer 1816
Byron Truell 1834
Henry Grant Tuttle 1812
William Ingersoll Van Deusen 1819
Levi Clifford Wade 1843
Alexander Wadsworth 1806
Edwin Walden November 25, 1818
William Sprague Wallace 1838
Alanson Wendell Ward 1827
Alonzo Warren 1827
John Davis Washburn 1833
Eleazer Everett Waterman 1810
William Watts 1835
David Locke Webster 1813
Austin Clark Wellington 1840
John Wetherbee 1828
John Wolcott Wetherell 1820
John Dwelle Whicher 1825
Benjamin White 1826
James White 1828
Joseph Wilder White 1825
Edward Whitney 1815
Moses Williams 1846
George Colburn Wilson 1809
John Gilbert Wilson 1825
Daniel Wing 1841
Thomas Winship 1826
Isaac Winslow 1827
Eliphaz Hibbard Wood 1810
William Woods 1840
James Clifton Woodward 1825

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. ↑ John F. Parker (1985), "Legislative Compensation (a 350 Year-Old Issue)", Legislative Life, Its Realities, Facts, Wit & Humor, New Legislators' Orientation, State House, Boston
  6. 1 2 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1876. hdl:2452/40654.
  7. 1 2 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1876" (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 1876. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1883. (includes description of legislature)
  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1876, hdl:2452/619065
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1876, hdl:2452/89612
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