1899 Massachusetts legislature

120th
Massachusetts General Court
←119th 121st→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 8, 1898
Senate
Members40
PresidentGeorge Edwin Smith
Party controlRepublican (33–7)[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerJohn L. Bates
Party controlRepublican (168–64–8)[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 4, 1899 (1899-01-04) – June 3, 1899 (1899-06-03) [3]
George Edwin Smith
George Smith, Senate president.
John L. Bates
John Bates, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1899.

The 120th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1899 during the governorship of Roger Wolcott. George Edwin Smith served as president of the Senate and John L. Bates served as speaker of the House.[4]

Senators

image name [5] date of birth [6] district
Henry C. Attwill March 11, 1872
Charles O. Bailey January 24, 1863
John E. Baldwin June 26, 1869
Walter L. Bouve October 28, 1849
Loyed E. Chamberlain January 30, 1857
Frederick W. Dallinger October 2, 1871
William J. Donovan October 31, 1862
Wilson H. Fairbank April 3, 1836
John J. Feneno March 24, 1866
Samuel Wesley George April 26, 1862
Samuel S. Gleason May 1, 1842
Francis A. Harrington November 17, 1846
Albert L. Harwood September 10, 1847
William H. Hodgkins June 9, 1840
Charles Hiller Innes August 6, 1870
Fred Joy July 8, 1859
John A. Keliher November 6, 1866
Thomas W. Kenefick September 17, 1855
Warren S. Leach February 23, 1847
William H. Lott September 17, 1852
Walter O. Luscombe August 19, 1852
Arthur A. Maxwell January 24, 1858
John E. McClellan September 5, 1847
William Moran September 6, 1855
Herbert C. Parsons January 15, 1862
Frank A. Patch July 23, 1844
Thomas Post August 16, 1834
George E. Putnam February 9, 1851
William Reynolds June 15, 1843
Howard K. Sanderson July 10, 1865
Charles F. Sargent August 31, 1858
George Edwin Smith April 5, 1849
Rufus Albertson Soule 1839
Peter Francis Tague June 4, 1871
George N. Tyner June 23, 1848
Charles G. Washburn January 28, 1857
William A. Whittlesey February 21, 1849
Fred Homer Williams January 7, 1857
Charles T. Witt July 18, 1848
Benjamin Herbert Woodsum October 4, 1857

Representatives

image name [5] date of birth [6] district
Austin Flint Adams July 15, 1840
Charles H. Adams April 22, 1859
Wilfred Ainsworth March 31, 1867
Butler Ames August 22, 1871
David B. Andrews August 12, 1838
Richard F. Andrews, Jr April 13, 1863
Albert S. Apsey November 27, 1870
George Balcom January 23, 1832
Edwin Bartlett October 25, 1833
John L. Bates September 18, 1859
David W. Battles January 20, 1854
Frank P. Bennett May 2, 1853
John Bleiler May 9, 1837
Charles H. Blood December 10, 1858
Ward N. Boylston December 17, 1871
Hugh W. Bresnahan November 25, 1869
William Bridgeo October 14, 1849
Clarence A. Briggs August 21, 1871
William M. Brigham January 23, 1864
Charles C. Brooks May 3, 1851
Henry L. Brown January 10, 1840
Willard Madison Brown April 24, 1861
Nelson Aluren Bugbee August 8, 1853
William J. Bullock January 31, 1864
Albert H. Burgess May 19, 1843
Lester L. Burrington March 24, 1838
S. Hopkins Bushnell October 6, 1834
Andrew Campbell May 3, 1826
James F. Carey August 19, 1867
George Henry Carleton August 6, 1840
N. Henry Chadwick March 17, 1838
Leonard B. Chandler August 29, 1851
William D. Chapple August 6, 1868
Henry L. Chase February 5, 1853
Charles S. Clerke January 10, 1850
Arthur H. Cluer April 12, 1853
Samuel Cole December 15, 1856
Thomas A. Conroy September 9, 1869
Robert Eugene Conwell June 12, 1854
Clifford A. Cook September 3, 1860
Daniel S. Coolidge September 21, 1845
Charles V. Corey July 8, 1838
Aaron S. Crosby October 6, 1842
Alfred R. Crosby August 30, 1838
J. Howell Crosby December 30, 1867
Charles S. Crouch 1833
Richard Cullinane February 2, 1859
Guy W. Currier December 22, 1867
J. Frank Dalton April 19, 1842
William Daly April 3, 1864
William Aiken Davenport October 23, 1869
Daniel W. Davis October 3, 1846
William Ripley Davis March 8, 1862
Benjamin C. Dean March 8, 1843
Charles Austin Dean March 26, 1856
George Z. Dean February 22, 1844
Frank S. Dewey, Jr. March 22, 1857
Thomas J. Dillon April 20, 1869
Thomas Donahue August 20, 1853
Edward J. Donovan March 15, 1864
Eugene E. Donovan November 21, 1858
James H. Donovan August 31, 1855
Michael J. Donovan November 1, 1864
Thomas J. Dooling January 28, 1868
John J. Douglass February 9, 1873
Frederic P. Drake March 16, 1851
Daniel J. Driscoll, 2d November 20, 1868
George J. Dudley February 17, 1849
John B. Dumond December 25, 1862
George N. Dyer December 17, 1850
Curtis Eddy May 18, 1838
J. Lewis Ellsworth November 8, 1848
Eugene B. Estes December 7, 1850
Frederick W. Farwell November 29, 1854
John Favor March 1, 1859
William H. Feiker March 11, 1870
George E. Fisher January 22, 1823
Frank E. Fitts May 26, 1848
W. T. A. Fitzgerald December 19, 1871
John J. Flanagan December 4, 1869
Albert T. Folsom November 9, 1831
Frank A. Foster February 15, 1859
Frank W. Francis September 16, 1857
Archie N. Frost July 26, 1872
Michael E. Gaddis February 21, 1869
John J. Gartland November 27, 1871
Fred C. Gilpatric August 22, 1865
Albert M. Goulding May 17, 1844
Oliver S. Grant April 30, 1866
Thomas H. Green March 17, 1847
James Wilson Grimes November 21, 1865
John G. Hagberg August 24, 1873
Portus B. Hancock February 19, 1836
Franklin P. Harlow
Charles H. Harriman November 16, 1852
Elisha T. Harvell December 18, 1841
Robert B. Harvie October 28, 1841
George F. Harwood July 7, 1844
Herbert J. Harwood September 6, 1854
Leander Miller Haskins June 20, 1842
Martin E. Hawes October 25, 1834
William Henry Irving Hayes June 21, 1848
Charles E. Haywood October 11, 1868
Guilford P. Heath September 3, 1842
Francis D. Henderson March 6, 1847
Franklin K. Hooper February 2, 1849
William Hopewell June 24, 1867
Henry T. Horton December 11, 1845
Robert Howard May 7, 1855
Charles W. Howland March 25, 1860
Willard Howland December 3, 1852
James Hunt January 27, 1833
Franklin E. Huntress April 19, 1866
Charles R. Johnson December 28, 1852
Michael Bernard Jones August 20, 1864
William E. Judd September 3, 1855
Daniel Joseph Kane April 14, 1872
John E. Kavenaugh October 19, 1864
Charles P. Keith March 14, 1843
William Kells, Jr. October 23, 1861
Nicholas B. Keyou April 25, 1828
Charles Francis King January 29, 1871
Randolph V. King January 20, 1853
William S. Kyle July 12, 1851
John Philip Lanergan December 31, 1874
John T. Langford February 8, 1842
Addison P. Learoyd February 11, 1838
Francis Leland October 3, 1839
George F. Leslie September 12, 1850
John F. Libby February 3, 1863
James A. Litchfield March 14, 1844
William C. Litchfield March 31, 1840
Alexander Lockhart December 22, 1854
Martin Lomasney December 3, 1859
Edward M. Lombard August 31, 1843
Joseph Patrick Love August 26, 1852
John H. Lowe January 8, 1848
Robert Luce December 2, 1862
Thomas Mackey August 6, 1865
David A. Mahoney December 21, 1867
Frederick C. Mahony January 18, 1875
Matthew M. Mansfield September 25, 1866
Eugene Dennis Marchesseault September 29, 1865
William H. Marden May 30, 1843
Jeremiah F. McCarthy July 7, 1857
Jeremiah Justin McCarthy March 29, 1852
Daniel V. McIsaac November 6, 1871
William I. McLoughlin January 16, 1872
Edward C. Mead December 25, 1858
James H. Mellen November 7, 1845
Calvin S. Miller December 22, 1833
Charles H. Miller January 14, 1848
William J. Miller June 8, 1867
Charles P. Mills August 22, 1853
Cornelius Minihan August 15, 1862
John M. Minton March 23, 1872
James A. Montgomery May 17, 1864
James S. Moore May 31, 1842
Andrew H. Morrison June 27, 1871
Merrick A. Morse May 1, 1847
John P. Munroe June 28, 1850
Mortimer D. A. Murphy May 9, 1867
James J. Myers November 20, 1842
David Neal April 18, 1828
H. Heustis Newton December 2, 1860
Phinehas S. Newton August 2, 1833
Darius M. Nickerson, Jr. July 11, 1863
William Odlin April 5, 1865
William Colvard Parker April 12, 1858
Alexander Sinclair Paton November 20, 1854
Charles H. Persons January 5, 1859
William T. Pike August 23, 1854
Thomas F. Porter October 30, 1847
John A. Powers September 15, 1853
John F. Prindle September 15, 1851
Herbert C. Puffer February 3, 1842
James H. Queeney April 23, 1865
William Joseph Quigley
Charles H. Ramsdell September 26, 1840
Albert Hoyt Ray May 24, 1865
Silas Dean Reed June 25, 1872
Lewis D. Robinson June 21, 1842
Albert B. Root June 13, 1858
Leonard W. Ross October 5, 1856
Samuel Ross February 2, 1865
Albert Rounseville May 10, 1871
Arthur P. Russell June 16, 1871
William R. Salter July 6, 1861
Edward P. Sands February 14, 1871
Charles R. Saunders November 22, 1862
Louis M. Scates January 17, 1863
William Schofield February 14, 1857
James F. Seavey December 6, 1842
George Shepley Selfridge September 25, 1868
Joseph C. Severance September 7, 1841
Nathan W. Shaw October 11, 1823
Ebenezer Wallen Sheppard May 7, 1860
Arthur A. Simmons January 28, 1852
Robert S. Sisson June 4, 1846
William E. Skillings October 23, 1843
Henry R. Skinner May 9, 1860
Allen F. Smith September 27, 1862
Charles F. A. Smith July 18, 1866
Charles G. Smith 1844
John Thomas Sparks July 9, 1865
Wallace Spooner November 28, 1856
Eugene H. Sprague May 23, 1864
Hugh L. Stalker December 31, 1857
Benjamin F. Stanley November 6, 1823
Joseph I. Stewart April 25, 1847
Silas A. Stone February 3, 1843
Willmore B. Stone June 24, 1853
Michael J. Sullivan October 23, 1870
Timothy F. Sullivan August 21, 1867
Charles T. Tatman December 16, 1871
John I. Toland September 6, 1874
William Tolman June 2, 1858
John J. Toomey September 18, 1868
Charles E. Trow April 18, 1833
Henry Edward Turner May 4, 1842
William Turtle June 20, 1855
Horatio Fogg Twombly
Edmund J. Twomey July 16, 1860
Charles H. Upson June 4, 1848
George E. Varney July 8, 1864
Silas Ives Wallace
Walter S. Watson September 11, 1851
Abelard E. Wells June 17, 1854
Edward E. Wentworth June 27, 1845
Walter S. Weston November 12, 1852
Harry Bertram Whall September 5, 1868
William D. Wheeler May 7, 1868
John B. Whelan February 19, 1864
John Jay Whipple December 31, 1847
Horace C. White January 26, 1836
Edward E. Willard September 25, 1862
George F. Williams April 28, 1856
Alva S. Wood May 12, 1828

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. 1899 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ a b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1899" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

Further reading