1891 Massachusetts legislature

112th
Massachusetts General Court
←111th 113th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 4, 1890
Senate
Members40
PresidentHenry H. Sprague
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerWilliam Emerson Barrett
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 7, 1891 (1891-01-07) – June 11, 1891 (1891-06-11) [3]
Henry H. Sprague
Henry Sprague, Senate president.
William Emerson Barrett
William Barrett, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1891.

The 112th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1891 during the governorship of William E. Russell. Henry H. Sprague served as president of the Senate and William Emerson Barrett served as speaker of the House.[4]

Senators

image name [5] date of birth [6] district
Thomas Alden August 17, 1827
Joseph Bennett May 26, 1840
Joseph Mathias Bradley August 18, 1852
Arthur Butler Breed June 30, 1857
Benjamin F. Brickett April 10, 1846
Hiram Torrey Cady January 17, 1843
Frank E. Carpenter August 29, 1851
Arthur B. Champlin February 7, 1858
Wilder Philander Clark October 12, 1832
George P. Cooke October 28, 1849
John William Coveney April 10, 1845
James Donovan May 28, 1859
John E. Drury May 11, 1852
William N. Eaton December 29, 1845
B. Marvin Fernald February 14, 1847
Gorham D. Gilman May 29, 1822
Charles Haggerty December 6, 1854
Robert Howard February 8, 1845
Horace G. Kemp August 19, 1849
Henry Albert Kimball May 3, 1842
Aaron Low August 11, 1833
James W. McDonald May 15, 1857
William S. McNary March 29, 1863
Isaac Newton Nutter June 23, 1836
Alfred Stamm Pinkerton March 19, 1856
William Provin February 14, 1842
Francis Henry Raymond February 19, 1836
John Reade December 1, 1826
Frederick S. Risteen August 28, 1840
Morgan Rotch April 8, 1848
Cyrus Savage September 2, 1832
John Simpkins June 27, 1862
Sidney P. Smith July 13, 1850
Benjamin Franklin Southwick July 5, 1835
Henry H. Sprague August 1, 1841
William Stopford February 22, 1848
John R. Thayer March 9, 1845
George Makepeace Towle August 27, 1841
William H. West January 27, 1830
Edwin F. Wyer September 28, 1832

Representatives

image name [5] date of birth [6] district
Stephen Anderson December 24, 1840
Francis H. Appleton June 17, 1847
Edward A. Atkins October 22, 1832
James Lewis Austin March 19, 1851
Fitz J. Babson February 14, 1828
Charles M. Bacheller June 29, 1863
Charles H. Baker February 2, 1847
Harry H. Barrett March 10, 1851
Richard F. Barrett August 4, 1848
William Emerson Barrett December 29, 1858
Robert G. Bartlett April 8, 1834
Frank P. Bennett May 2, 1853
Zechariah L. Bicknell June 20, 1820
Ledyard Bill 1836
Henry T. Bingham March 9, 1839
S. Stillman Blanchard June 23, 1835
Frederic Wright Bliss October 14, 1852
Charles H. Boodey December 27, 1838
Daniel F. Breen June 7, 1860
Elmer H. Bright June 26, 1860
Henry W. Britton February 13, 1851
Lemuel M. Brock November 6, 1837
Ethan Brooks January 10, 1832
James L. Brophy November 14, 1852
George H. Brown September 3, 1838
Herman Buchholz November 23, 1839
William P. Buckley August 15, 1859
Andrew J. Bucklin February 23, 1829
Henry Beecher Bullard April 9, 1839
Walter Jesse David Bullock July 11, 1860
James F. Burke November 2, 1861
William M. Butler January 29, 1861
Patrick Cannon May 2, 1854
William Cannon November 15, 1829
Robert P. Capen May 6, 1824
Erastus P. Carpenter November 23, 1822
George N. Carpenter January 26, 1840
Michael Carroll July 11, 1849
James H. Carter November 16, 1832
Richard A. Carter February 16, 1862
Charles J. Chance December 19, 1857
Salem D. Charles March 19, 1850
Dwight Chester March 2, 1835
Daniel R. Child June 23, 1827
James W. Clapp July 30, 1842
Hiram E. W. Clark April 15, 1835
Louis M. Clark December 14, 1858
George E. Clarke October 30, 1822
George S. Clough May 2, 1839
Clarence G. Coburn January 15, 1850
John H. Coffey 1860
Morton E. Converse November 17, 1837
Myron L. Corbett October 28, 1844
Jeremiah J. Crowley 1852
Francis C. Curtis March 13, 1836
Samuel N. Curtis June 26, 1824
John Morton Danforth 1840
Squire S. Davis November 3, 1852
Frederick B. Day March 20, 1843
Henry S. Dewey 1856
Henry S. Dickinson September 26, 1863
Perlie A. Dyar March 26, 1857
Nathan Edson September 16, 1817
Edward C. Ellis May 30, 1848
S. Hopkins Emery August 22, 1815
Charles S. Ensign July 26, 1842
John W. Fairbanks October 12, 1843
Nathan H. Fales January 17, 1847
James O. Fallon March 16, 1840
Thomas F. Fallon December 7, 1857
Isaac P. Fears November 12, 1838
Myron J. Ferren August 16, 1836
Elkanah Finney October 31, 1849
Charles T. Fletcher March 23, 1826
Charles W. Flint May 3, 1827
Nathan B. Flood November 16, 1854
Charles A. Frazer July 4, 1852
John A. Gale November 24, 1848
Benjamin Gammons February 12, 1832
Arthur H. Gardner August 4, 1854
Joseph J. Giles March 24, 1842
Frederick H. Gillett October 16, 1851
Edward A. Goddard 1845
John Golding 1849
David E. Gould April 14, 1863
Edward W. Greene September 4, 1843
Roger Haggerty 1846
Henry Clay Hall 1838
Aaron C. Handley October 7, 1823
Nathan F. Harding November 3, 1843
Charles H. Harriman November 16, 1852
James A. Hartshorn February 24, 1856
Edward J. Heffernan November 4, 1858
Patrick J. Heffernin 1856
Augustus Hemenway 1853
Charles W. Henderson June 3, 1842
Edward E. Herrod November 4, 1857
Thomas David Hevey August 14, 1846
Stephen A. Hickox May 20, 1839
Charles E. Hinckley November 4, 1826
John Franklin Hinds May 1, 1819
Charles H. Hobson June 20, 1857
William D. Hodges March 9, 1854
Everett S. Horton June 15, 1836
Squire E. Howard May 15, 1840
Timothy Howard October 19, 1863
Archibald M. Howe May 20, 1848
Edward C. Howe August 9, 1847
Simeon Augustus Howe July 2, 1839
Amos Hunting April 12, 1835
John T. Hurley October 26, 1855
Isaac P. Hutchinson February 26, 1860
Robert B. Jenkins September 16, 1837
Henry H. Johnson March 24, 1840
Myron H. Judd October 19, 1848
Thomas J. Keliher October 13, 1858
Charles Aloysius Kelly April 7, 1858
Parker J. Kemp June 2, 1847
John Kenrick Jr. October 25, 1857
Charles G. Keyes October 19, 1832
Frederick M. Kilmer February 8, 1852
John W. Kimball February 27, 1828
Albert C. Kirby March 17, 1841
Francis W. Kittredge June 4, 1843
George K. Knowlton July 8, 1840
James W. Knox June 12, 1836
Nathaniel W. Ladd January 7, 1848
James A. Lakin 1841
Hiram B. Lane August 17, 1824
Howard G. Lane December 15, 1850
Henry W. Langdon December 7, 1847
Andrew M. Lanigan July 10, 1860
William B. Lawrence November 15, 1856
Horace G. Leslie April 13, 1842
James A. Lewis May 20, 1834
Joseph P. Lomasney March 10, 1863
Henry C. Longley January 9, 1841
Lucien Lord October 11, 1840
John C. Loud July 26, 1844
Patrick B. Luby 1859
Haile R. Luther February 7, 1838
John B. Lynch April 13, 1858
Cornelius E. Mahoney January 17, 1858
Dudley J. Marston July 21, 1843
Ulysses Everett Mayhew August 16, 1848
Frank McAnally November 29, 1855
Daniel McCarthy July 1, 1856
Peter J. McDonald May 3, 1860
Thomas O. McEnaney October 23, 1857
Michael J. McEttrick June 22, 1848
Herbert A. McFarland April 14, 1840
John McFethries 1830
George B. McKenna August 31, 1857
Isaac McLean March 3, 1841
John T. McLoughlin June 2, 1865
Jeremiah J. McNamara December 5, 1864
Richard F. McSolla January 27, 1855
William E. Meade August 2, 1839
James H. Mellen November 7, 1845
Michael J. Mitchell July 29, 1855
Hiram A. Monk July 16, 1829
William L. Mooney February 16, 1867
Charles Moore June 13, 1831
Louis E. P. Moreau February 25, 1857
Eugene Michael Moriarty April 15, 1849
Edward Mott June 19, 1830
Michael Joseph Murray June 18, 1867
Charles Baxter Newell October 3, 1839
Arthur F. Nutting February 4, 1861
John J. O'Brien June 11, 1862
John O'Brien October 1, 1855
Eugene J. O'Neil February 29, 1856
William H. Oakes January 24, 1857
James M. Olmstead February 6, 1852
James Orlando Parker November 22, 1827
Wellington Evarts Parkhurst January 19, 1835
Alonzo Penney September 23, 1835
George W. Perkins July 1, 1842
Benjamin F. Peterson October 11, 1836
Benjamin P. Pickering February 22, 1844
John M. Plummer April 1, 1843
John P. Pomeroy August 26, 1836
Wilbur Howard Powers January 22, 1849
Amasa Pratt July 28, 1842
Edward W. Presho May 29, 1859
John E. O. Prouty March 8, 1840
Josiah Quincy October 15, 1859
Patrick James Quinn June 4, 1843
Andrew J. Rady May 1, 1853
Patrick H. Raftery July 17, 1856
James Ramage 1836
Franklin F. Read June 14, 1827
James Reid March 5, 1824
William H. Rice 1841
Albert W. Richardson August 28, 1854
Arthur C. Richardson October 31, 1837
Malcolm E. Rideout June 9, 1851
Samuel E. Ripley June 17, 1845
Isaac Rosnosky November 6, 1846
John J. Salter January 11, 1856
Patrick J. Savage February 26, 1863
Samuel L. Sawyer June 20, 1845
Charles F. Shaw November 28, 1840
Ebenezer Shaw August 24, 1825
Charles S. Smith December 16, 1828
Elvin L. Smith January 30, 1851
William D. Sohier October 22, 1858
Henry C. Sparhawk February 19, 1865
Charles F. Sprague June 10, 1857
William H. Stearns April 11, 1850
William S. Stevens June 13, 1859
Michael F. Sullivan September 21, 1859
George N. Swallow January 2, 1854
Henry Gordon Taft 1836
Harrison O. Thomas June 28, 1840
Edwin D. Thompson August 26, 1848
Lysander Thurston May 25, 1837
Edwin A. Tibbetts April 24, 1840
Charles A. Tilden March 23, 1835
Frank B. Tilton March 15, 1840
George F. Tucker January 19, 1852
Charles W. Turner June 28, 1828
Henry Edward Turner May 4, 1842
William H. H. Tuttle August 17, 1845
Jacob Otis Wardwell March 14, 1857
Bentley W. Warren April 20, 1864
Eben C. Waterman March 1, 1840
Thomas Weston September 23, 1826
Barney T. Wetherell 1822
Henry C. Wheaton May 25, 1839
Franklin B. White 1837
Edwin Whitney November 1, 1835
Fred N. Wier July 4, 1861
Aaron O. Wilder August 4, 1833
Hezekiah W. Williams May 16, 1833
William Power Wilson November 15, 1852
Nathan N. Withington March 9, 1828
Benjamin Herbert Woodsum October 4, 1857
Charles F. Worcester February 25, 1859
William J. Wright 1846

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 Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1891 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ a b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1891" (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: 1891, hdl:2452/429107
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1891, hdl:2452/83197