1877 Massachusetts legislature

98th
Massachusetts General Court
←97th 99th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 7, 1876
Senate
Members40
PresidentJohn B. D. Cogswell
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerJohn Davis Long
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 3, 1877 (1877-01-03) – May 17, 1877 (1877-05-17) [3]
John B. D. Cogswell
John Cogswell, Senate president.
John Davis Long
John Long, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1877.

The 98th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1877 during the governorship of Alexander H. Rice. John B. D. Cogswell served as president of the Senate and John Davis Long served as speaker of the House.[4]

Senators

Image Name [5] Date of birth [6] District Party
Charles Adams Jr. 1810
Stephen Merrill Allen 1819
George Sumner Barton 1825
Selwyn Zadock Bowman May 11, 1840
Amos Franklin Breed October 15, 1830
Elisha Brimhall March 25, 1825
Haydn Brown February 16, 1819
Abraham Burbank Coffin 1831
John Bear Doane Cogswell June 6, 1829
Samuel Dexter Crane 1816
George Parkman Denny 1826
Henry Clandins Ewing 1844
Joseph Emery Fiske 1839
Thomas Francis Fitzgerald 1848
Michael Joseph Flatley 1823
Harrison Garfield June 27, 1810
Lewis Newton Gilbert 1836
Samuel Slocum Ginnodo 1816
James John Howard Gregory 1827
Tilly Haynes February 13, 1828
Henry Bozyol Hill 1823
Charles Jarvis Holmes 1834
Charles Howes October 26, 1826
Francis Jewett September 19, 1820
Ensign Hosmer Kellogg July 6, 1812
Ebenezer Bissell Lynde 1823
Aaron C. Mayhew 1812
John Farwell Moors December 10, 1819
Joshua Morse February 24, 1822
Caleb Rand 1817
Charles Theodore Russell November 20, 1815
Amos Joseph Saunders 1826
Luther Henry Sherman 1838
John Sherburne Sleeper September 25, 1794
Frederick Mason Stone 1825
Jackson Benjamin Swett 1815
Byron Truell 1834
Francis M. Weld 1815
John Dwelle Whicher 1825
Jonathan White 1819

Representatives

image Name [5] Date of birth [6] District Party
Alfred Mark Adams 1835
Granville Stevens Allen 1825
Stillman Boyd Allen September 8, 1830
Job Kelly Anthony 1834
Samuel Atherton January 26, 1815
Edwin Ayer 1827
John James Babson 1809
Thomas McCrate Babson 1847
Orlando Sargent Baley 1818
Alonzo Bancroft 1820
Henry Francis Barker 1838
Charles Ellis Barnes 1840
James Edward Taylor Bartlett 1825
Perley Bartlett 1807
Henry Allen Barton 1821
Benjamin Samuel Batchelor 1829
Daniel Johnson Bates 1830
Crocker Hinckley Bearse 1810
Charles David Bickford 1821
Abraham Orlando Bigelow 1812
Francis William Bird 1809
Warren Augustus Bird 1837
Stephen Henry Bodurtha 1812
Francis Charles Bowen 1834
John Quincy Adams Brackett June 8, 1842
George Bradford 1819
Warren Sylvester Bragg 1837
Pharcellus Dean Bridges December 21, 1846
John Henry Brown 1844
William Henry Harrison Bryant 1826
Joseph Buckminster 1821
Horace John Canfield 1834
Francis Carll 1825
Nahum Chapin 1820
Charles Henry Chase 1835
Lafayette Clapp 1824
Leonard Clark 1821
Wilder Philander Clark October 12, 1832
John Doggett Cobb 1840
Aaron Cogswell 1807
John Draper Cogswell 1820
John Leonard Cole 1839
George Nelson Cone 1836
John Hawkins Cook 1841
William Henry Cook January 7, 1843
Israel Clark Cornish 1850
Samuel Emmons Crocker 1834
Edward Johnson Crossman 1824
Thomas Cunningham 1815
Daniel Jasper Curley April 2, 1841
George Fisher Daniels 1820
Charles Warren Davis 1826
George Asa Dean 1835
Obed Delano 1814
Cornelius Desmond 1838
Justin Dewey 1836
Abiathar Doane 1820
Daniel Doherty 1838
William Capar Donald 1816
Francis Mattby Draper 1834
Jarvis Nelson Dunham 1828
Curtis Eddy May 18, 1838
Francis Sylvester Egleston 1821
Theodore Waterbury Ellis 1823
William Fuller Ellis 1820
William Irving Ellis 1829
Levi Emery 1817
John Barnard Fairbank 1839
Jackson Benjamin Farnum 1828
George Augustus Flagg 1845
James W. Fox 1849
Andrew Jackson Freeman 1819
Henry William Fuller June 30, 1839
Charles Frederick Gerry 1823
Onslow Gilmore 1832
William Segar Gleason 1809
Martin Thomas Glynn 1848
Frank Palmer Goulding 1837
James Benton Graham 1835
Franklin Gray 1824
Frank Shunk Gross 1836
Charles Hale June 7, 1831
Andrew Hall 1833
Charles Hallett 1825
Patrick Henry Hallinan 1852
Leander Moody Hannum 1837
Henry Martin Hartshorn 1828
Thomas Jones Hastings January 24, 1835
Frederick Hathaway 1810
Nathan Mortimer Hawkes 1843
George Frederic Hayden 1836
Milton Lewis Perry Heustis 1825
Samuel Richardson Heywood 1821
Clement Hugh Hill 1836
John Hillis 1847
Richard Holley January 30, 1829
William Carey Howard 1841
Caleb Burroughs Huse September 13, 1833
Charles Halstead Ingalls 1840
Edward John Jenkins 1854
George William Johnson 1827
Peter Rogers Johnson 1824
Joseph James Kelley 1842
Patrick Keyes 1830
Ensign Kimball 1818
William Bird Kimball 1833
William Hales Kinsman 1821
Hosea Morrill Knowlton 1847
Asa Stillman Lawrence 1820
Alfred Laws 1831
Henry Lee 1817
Chauncey Wheeler Lessey 1829
Thomas Lonergan 1827
John Davis Long October 27, 1838
Benjamin Starks Lovell 1845
John Dana Lovell 1818
Francis Low 1824
Lewis Gold Lowe 1828
Hale Sisson Luther 1830
James Mackintosh 1838
Pardon Macomber February 9, 1833
Hugh Ambrose Madden 1839
James Thomas Mahony 1843
Seth Mann 1817
William Marchant 1817
Isaac Burgess Martin 1825
Matthew James McCafferty 1829
George Brackett Melcher 1836
James Henry Mellen 1845
Francis Peabody Merriam 1818
Frederick Warren Merrill 1842
Simeon Merritt 1823
Alfred Miller 1815
William Haswell Montague 1824
Thomas Mooney 1840
Aaron Rathburn Morse 1839
Enoch Robinson Morse 1822
James Thomas Murphy 1842
Erastus Maltby Nash 1826
Dexter Newton 1823
James Hale Newton 1832
John Franklin Newton 1829
Nathaniel Avery Newton 1814
Charles Johnson Noyes August 7, 1841
Dennis O'Connor 1838
Cornelius O'Sullivan 1825
Weaver Osborn 1815
Charles Stuart Osgood 1839
Henry Bryant Osgood 1818
Edwin Patch 1820
Alonzo Penney September 23, 1835
Ephraim Augustus Perkins 1839
Baxter Edwards Perry April 26, 1826
John Charles Perry 1839
William Cowper Peters 1827
Darius Pierce 1836
Henry Pierce 1826
Albert Enoch Pillsbury August 19, 1849
Samuel Cloon Pitman 1811
Charles Greenwood Pope 1840
Charles Jones Prescott 1838
Dennis George Quirk 1836
Oliver James Rand 1820
David Randall 1818
Charles Everett Ranlett 1816
James Paine Ray 1820
William Arthur Read 1849
George Randall Reed 1832
Rice Munn Reynolds 1838
Charles Baker Rice 1829
Charles Warren Richards 1824
James Henry Richards 1839
Samuel Roads 1825
William Robinson 1835
John Austin Rogers 1828
Cyrus King Russell 1815
John Crockett Sanborn 1832
George Webster Sanderson 1830
Luther Haines Sargent 1842
Horace Mills Sessions 1828
Josephus Shaw 1832
Harrison Allen Sheldon 1830
Henry Shortle 1834
John Killbourne Clough Sleeper 1828
Solomon Sias Sleeper 1815
Dana Zenas Smith 1819
Iram Smith 1807
Peter Dove Smith 1842
Newell Snow 1816
Samuel Snow 1828
Mark Henry Spaulding 1827
Charles Stickney 1829
Eben Francis Stone August 3, 1822
Ezekiel Reed Studley 1831
Charles B. Swain
Noah Swett 1826
Lewis Northey Tappan June 15, 1831
Oliver Taylor 1826
Edward Flint Thayer 1835
Francis Nicholas Thayer 1846
Edward Isaiah Thomas 1833
Leonard Thompson 1817
Charles Frederick Thurston 1844
John Wilson Tilton 1844
Dexter Alley Tompkins 1827
William Ripley Tompkins 1826
Merritt Torrey 1825
William G. Train 1825
John Turner 1827
Augustus Sherman Tuttle 1824
Levi Clifford Wade 1843
Edwin Walden November 25, 1818
Joseph Walker 1825
James Lawrence Walsh 1843
Alonzo Warren 1827
Emory Washburn February 14, 1800
John Davis Washburn 1833
William Watts 1835
Lewis Taylor Webster 1832
Michael Francis Wells 1832
Samuel Hidden Wentworth
John Wilson Wheeler 1832
John Birtwistle Whitaker 1816
James White 1828
Sydney Franklin Whitehouse 1822
Charles Stimson Whitmore 1815
William Gunn Whitmore 1849
Edward Whitney 1815
William Ward Wilde 1821
Henry Hills Wilder 1824
George Andrew Wilson 1825
George Colburn Wilson 1809
Daniel Wing 1841
Henry Winn 1837
Thomas Winship 1826
Isaac Winslow 1827
Joseph Wiswell 1816
Henry Pickett Woodbury 1835
John Henry Wright 1843

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. ^ a b Court, Massachusetts General (1877). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40655.
  6. ^ a b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1877" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

Further reading

  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1877, hdl:2452/619066
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1877, hdl:2452/89613