1871 Massachusetts legislature

92nd Massachusetts General Court
← 91st 93rd →
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 8, 1870
Senate
Members	40
President	Horace H. Coolidge
Party control	Republican (34 R, 5 D, 1 other)[1][2]
House
Members	240
Speaker	Harvey Jewell
Party control	Republican (195 R, 34 D, 11 other)[1][3]
Sessions
1st January 4, 1871 (1871-01-04) – May 31, 1871 (1871-05-31) [4]

Horace Coolidge, Senate president.

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

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

• 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

• 42nd United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

References

1. 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. 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

• "Massachusetts". American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1871. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1875. (includes description of legislature)

External links

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