1868 Massachusetts legislature

89th
Massachusetts General Court
←88th 90th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 5, 1867
Senate
Members40
PresidentGeorge O. Brastow
Party controlRepublican
(30 R, 10 D)[1][2]
House
Members240
SpeakerHarvey Jewell
Party controlRepublican
(180 R, 60 D)[1][3]
Sessions
1stJanuary 1, 1868 (1868-01-01) – June 12, 1868 (1868-06-12)[4]
George O. Brastow
George Brastow, Senate president.
Harvey Jewell
Harvey Jewell, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1868.

The 89th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1868 during the governorship of Republican Alexander Bullock. George O. Brastow served as president of the Senate and Harvey Jewell served as speaker of the House.[5]

Senators

Image Name[6] Date of birth[7] District Party
Edward Avery 1828
Samuel Wells Bowerman 1830
George Oliver Brastow September 8, 1811
Silas Newton Brooks 1825
Frederick Davis Brown 1824
Samuel Angier Chace 1820
Knowlton Sampson Chaffee 1814
Tracy Patch Cheever 1824
Lee Claflin 1791
Benjamin Franklin Clark 1808
Samuel Dexter Crane 1816
Edward Crocker 1814
Charles Chase Dame 1819
Francis B. Fay June 12, 1793
Henry Fuller 1825
William Gaston October 3, 1820
Alonzo Madison Giles 1821
Erasmus Gould 1817
Andrew Malcolm McPhail 1817
John Green Mudge 1823
Daniel Needham 1822
James Oliver 1820
Clark Partridge 1809
George Penniman 1810
Lucius Wilson Pond 1826
Edmund Houghton Sawyer 1821
William Schouler December 31, 1814
Oliver Hazard Perry Smith 1824
Chester Snow 1817
Moses Tyler Stevens October 10, 1825
William Sutton 1800
Joseph Scott Todd 1828
Harrison Tweed 1806
Gershom Bradford Weston August 27, 1799
Jonathan Dodge Wheeler 1806
Marshall Wilcox 1821

Representatives

image Name[6] Date of birth[7] District Party
Levi Augustus Abbott 1824
John Quincy Adams II September 22, 1833
Rufus Adams 1829
George Ellis Allen 1817
Samuel Appleton 1841
Elisha Watson Arnold 1837
William Frederick Arnold 1815
John Henry Bangs 1829
William Barker 1820
Henry Bassett 1820
William Gelston Bates November 17, 1803
Irving Bates 1839
Phineas Alden Beaman 1819
Hugh Ramsey Bean 1820
Charles Bird 1829
Charles Chauncey Bixby 1824
Willard Blackinton 1800
Charles Henry Blanchard 1828
John Currier Blasdell 1809
Albert Blood 1818
Morton Van Buren Bonney 1841
Charles Bradley 1816
George Egbert Bridges 1827
Oliver Hazard Perry Brown 1813
Ralph Steele Brown 1828
William Blanchard Brown 1821
Ezra Plummer Brownell 1819
John Richards Bullard 1846
William Henry Burbeck 1822
Hodgdon Fowler Buzzell 1834
James Capen 1823
Thomas Hale Carruth 1810
Dennis Cawley 1834
Jonas Allen Champney 1831
Philo Chapin 1806
Charles William Chase 1822
Heman Baker Chase 1825
Linus Mason Child 1835
Henry Martyn Clarke 1826
Patrick Andrew Collins March 12, 1844
Benjamin Franklin Cook 1833
Henry Harvey Cook 1804
Lament Bacon Corbin 1813
Joseph Warren Cornell 1810
George Parker Cox 1814
Orlando Bradford Crane 1835
Alanson Crittenden 1814
Thomas Cunningham 1826
David Cushing 1813
Francis Everett Cushing 1825
Richard Henry Dana August 1, 1815
George Keith Daniell 1810
Leander Sloan Daniels 1834
Curtis Davis 1814
Jeremy Bentham Dennett 1833
Thaddeus Kingsley DeWolf 1801
Charles Henry Drew 1838
Silas Dunton 1818
Moses Farnum 1826
Thomas Joseph Fay 1832
Stephen Chapman Felton 1835
Frederick William Field 1819
Samuel Tobey Field 1820
Thomas Jackson Field 1822
Charles Henry Fiske 1840
Ezra Hastings Flagg 1823
John Dana Flagg 1817
James Turner Ford 1827
Dudley Foster 1809
James Augustus Fox August 11, 1827
Charles Amasa Fox 1832
James Bicheno Francis May 18, 1815
Andrew Jackson Freeman 1819
Samuel Freeman 1830
Josiah Ober Friend 1835
Roscoe Wisner Gage 1839
Thomas John Gargan 1844
Josiah Gates 1805
Noah Murray Gaylord 1822
Delano Alexander Goddard 1831
Levi Swanton Gould March 27, 1831
Samuel Herrick Gould 1814
John Otis Hale 1831
Josiah Sturtevant Hammond 1810
Abraham Gifford Hart 1831
David Dexter Hart 1819
Joseph Hall Hathaway 1812
James Aigin Hervey 1828
Charles Amasa Hewins 1822
Charles Heywood 1831
George Washington Heywood 1829
Noble Hind Hill 1821
George Miller Hobbs 1827
Alvah Holway 1809
Anson Parker Hooker 1829
Daniel Howard 1823
Solomon Henry Howe 1821
William Howland 1822
John Avery Hughes 1822
Edward Alden Hulbert 1824
Jacob Randall Huntington 1829
Melville E. Ingalls 1842
George Washington Jackman 1814
Harvey Jewell May 26, 1820
William Drury Jones 1815
Lewis Strong Judd 1827
William Wallace Kellogg 1824
Dexter S. King 1806
William Alonzo King 1822
Richmond Kingman 1821
Charles James Kittredge 1818
William Knowlton 1809
Augustus Lane 1818
Howard Malcom Lane 1833
Edward Howard Lathrop 1838
Roger Hooker Leavitt July 21, 1805
Joseph Leavitt 1802
John Lee 1813
Job Mason Leonard 1824
John Livermore 1813
James Lovering Locke 1832
George Howard Long 1842
Willard Mann 1818
James Fisk Mansfield 1837
John Manson 1805
Murdock Matheson 1827
John McDuffie 1828
Wallace McFarland 1825
William McFarlin 1806
Leonard McKenzie 1815
Isaac Hall Meserve 1813
William Mixter 1809
Frederick Augustus Morey 1840
Amasa Childs Morse 1833
Ellis Wesley Morton 1840
Edwin Mudge 1818
Nathaniel Cushing Nash 1804
Henry Newton 1811
John Pond Ordway August 1, 1824
Weaver Osborn 1815
George Henry Peirson 1816
Simeon Perkins 1801
John Perley 1808
George Phipps 1802
Edward Henry Pierce 1841
Jonathan Pierce 1815
Thomas Fitzpatrick Plunkett 1804
Henry Eliphalet Pond 1823
Moses Pool 1815
Henry Smith Porter 1821
Joseph Samson Potter 1822
Nathan Parker Pratt 1811
Benjamin Proctor 1811
Caleb Rand 1817
Henry Sears Ranney 1817
Alvah Raymond 1829
William Hathaway Reynard 1808
Jeremiah A. Rich 1823
Otis Rich 1806
Eleazer Richmond 1804
John Howe Robinson 1809
Ensign Bassett Rogers 1825
Joseph Ross 1822
Edward Hutchins Robbins Ruggles 1800
Otis Taft Ruggles 1829
John Runey 1814
George Sanford 1830
William Seaver 1806
William Seaver 1818
William Robert Sessions 1835
Charles Luther Shaw 1823
William Sherburne 1825
Henry Shortle 1834
Hiram Smith Shurtleff 1841
Lemuel Bacon Simmons 1802
Iram Smith 1807
John James Smith[8][9] 1825
Oliver W. Smith 1828
Edwin Nathaniel Snow 1828
Henry Souther 1810
Walter Scott Sprague 1835
Charles Stanwood 1816
Isaac Holden Stearns 1825
John Warren Stevens 1833
Walter Briggs Studley 1827
John Howland Swain 1823
John Kemble Tarbox May 6, 1838
James Gardner Tewksbury 1828
Shepard Thayer 1827
Prescott Alexander Thompson 1825
Hubbard Winslow Tilton 1835
John Michael Tobin 1841
Dexter Alley Tompkins 1827
Samuel Knapp Towle 1829
George Edwin Towne 1829
Jacob Perkins Towne 1803
Charles Russell Train October 18, 1817
Mason Van Deusen 1802
Eden Wadsworth 1793
William Henry Waitt 1819
Aaron Gifford Walker 1815
George Walker 1824
Levi Wallace 1831
Horace Ward 1819
Eben Nichols Wardwell 1825
Francis Warland Warren 1819
Royal Sibley Warren 1822
Thomas Shales Waters 1818
Willard Wheeler 1804
Rufus A. White 1840
Windsor Newton White 1823
Sydney Franklin Whitehouse 1822
William Whiting 1816
Daniel H. Whitney 1825
Charles Woodward Wilder 1819
John Adams Wiley 1825
Benjamin Jenkins Williams 1840
George Frederick Williams 1817
Joel Benedict Williams 1818
Nathan Sumner Williams 1829
Warren Williams 1811
John William Fletcher Wilson 1828
Joseph Wilson 1819
Charles Wing 1816
James Baxter Wood 1809
Jonathan Henry Wood 1822
George Washington Woodwell 1829
James Sullivan Woodworth 1805
Charles Whiting Worcester 1808
William Henry Prentiss Wright 1828
Patrick Ambrose Young 1834

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. ^ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
  6. ^ a b Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1868. hdl:2452/40646.
  7. ^ a b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1868" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  8. ^ Kaitlin Connolly (March 4, 2013), "Massachusetts Legislators: John James Smith", State Library of Massachusetts blog
  9. ^ Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905

Further reading

  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1868, hdl:2452/619057
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1868, hdl:2452/92950