1902 Massachusetts legislature

123rd
Massachusetts General Court
←122nd 124th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 5, 1901
Senate
Members40
PresidentRufus A. Soule
Party controlRepublican (33–7)[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerJames J. Myers
Party controlRepublican (159—70—11)[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 1, 1902 (1902-01-01) – June 28, 1902 (1902-06-28)[3]
Rufus A. Soule
Rufus Soule, Senate president.
James J. Myers
James Myers, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1902.

The 123rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1902 during the governorship of Winthrop M. Crane. Rufus A. Soule served as president of the Senate and James J. Myers served as speaker of the House.[4]

Senators

image name [5] date of birth [6] district
Albert S. Apsey November 27, 1870
John K. Berry November 8, 1854
Henry Clay Bliss May 5, 1846
Edward F. Blodgett August 9, 1848
Leonard B. Chandler August 29, 1851
Cornelius R. Day December 29, 1847
George Z. Dean February 22, 1844
Perlie A. Dyar March 26, 1857
Frank A. Fales October 13, 1848
Henry S. Fitzgerald October 24, 1875
W. T. A. Fitzgerald December 19, 1871
Herbert E. Fletcher May 10, 1862
Harry C. Foster August 27, 1871
Archie N. Frost July 26, 1872
Henry E. Gaylord June 5, 1846
Elisha T. Harvell December 18, 1841
Edward C. Holt January 13, 1850
Carleton F. How April 20, 1863
Willard Howland December 3, 1852
George R. Jones February 8, 1862
David Manning August 29, 1846
John F. Marsh February 1, 1828
Andrew H. Morrison June 27, 1871
Merrick A. Morse May 1, 1847
John P. Munroe June 28, 1850
William A. Nye May 26, 1850
J. Frank Porter April 8, 1847
Thomas F. Porter October 30, 1847
David G. Pratt November 7, 1848
Edward Seaver June 3, 1849
Henry R. Skinner May 9, 1860
Rufus Albertson Soule 1839
John Thomas Sparks July 9, 1865
Eugene H. Sprague May 23, 1864
Charles S. Sullivan June 29, 1875
John Andrew Sullivan May 10, 1868
Michael J. Sullivan October 23, 1870
George Keyes Tufts October 17, 1841
Chester B. Williams October 10, 1870
Alva S. Wood May 12, 1828

Representatives

image name [5] date of birth [6] district
Charles H. Adams April 22, 1859
Eben Timothy Adams January 7, 1857
Horace C. Adams July 18, 1848
Wilbur F. Adams March 6, 1865
Charles I. Albee January 17, 1862
Henry Morton Aldrich November 20, 1841
William A. Andrews July 31, 1859
Warren P. Babb November 10, 1850
Andrew A. Badaracco August 28, 1860
Frank E. Badger January 12, 1853
A. Dudley Bagley February 27, 1869
William Selby Bamford August 11, 1864
William F. Barrington April 15, 1877
Frank Bartlett September 5, 1854
J. Franklin Batchelder December 24, 1870
Fred Alfred Bearse February 15, 1871
John E. Beck May 10, 1869
Thomas E. Begley February 23, 1871
Albion F. Bemis July 19, 1856
Fred F. Bennett February 24, 1870
Patrick H. Bradley October 17, 1874
Henry Brandes January 23, 1848
Charles P. Brewer August 1, 1852
Elisha Hume Brewster September 10, 1871
William M. Brigham January 23, 1864
Abram English Brown January 21, 1849
George P. Bullard June 25, 1857
George Walton Bullard May 24, 1841
William J. Bullock January 31, 1864
James M. Burke September 11, 1873
Joseph E. Buswell August 7, 1842
Edward B. Callender February 23, 1851
James F. Carey August 19, 1867
Frank M. Chace April 16, 1856
Edwards Cheney May 3, 1861
Luther W. Clark September 19, 1851
A. Chalkley Collins March 27, 1857
Benjamin G. Collins December 25, 1860
John J. Collins August 27, 1865
Thomas J. Collins October 28, 1868
John A. Coulthurst June 24, 1871
William F. Craig September 15, 1866
Arthur G. Crane July 18, 1871
Frank G. Creamer July 20, 1861
David W. Creed November 5, 1867
Thomas Laurie Creeley May 23, 1849
J. Howell Crosby December 30, 1867
Joseph H. Cummings June 16, 1840
John J. Cunningham May 7, 1873
James Michael Curley[5][7] November 20, 1874
Henry Morse Cutler July 19, 1865
William F. Dana June 26, 1863
Alphonso Davis September 4, 1863
Daniel W. Davis October 3, 1846
Thomas L. Davis March 15, 1852
Benjamin C. Dean March 8, 1843
Charles Austin Dean March 26, 1856
F. Dorr Deming August 1, 1833
Jeremiah J. Desmond November 3, 1867
George H. Dinan May 18, 1871
Wooster F. Dodge March 28, 1841
Thomas Donahue August 20, 1853
Jeremiah F. Donovan May 10, 1856
James J. Dowd March 7, 1858
Aaron Coolidge Dowse March 27, 1856
Charles M. Draper November 1, 1869
Horace Rogers Drinkwater May 28, 1872
John Duff August 30, 1870
Edward Quincy Dyer October 4, 1841
Karl M. Ebert July 26, 1867
Fred Albert Emery November 22, 1869
James R. Entwistle June 5, 1845
Edward A. Estabrook December 21, 1842
Noble W. Everett February 20, 1827
George H. Fall October 19, 1858
William Newhall Felton December 25, 1835
Frank W. Fenno October 24, 1861
Henry M. Fern December 23, 1862
John Eben Fisher May 30, 1861
Richard H. Foley June 16, 1867
John F. Foster October 22, 1862
Louis A. Frothingham July 13, 1871
Fred Eugene Fuller September 10, 1862
Arthur H. Gardner August 4, 1854
Charles N. Gardner March 29, 1845
George H. Garfield July 18, 1858
John J. Gartland November 27, 1871
Frank Gerrett February 4, 1857
George H. Gibney October 24, 1858
Fred C. Gilpatric August 22, 1865
David J. Gleason July 14, 1864
C. Burr Goodrich January 13, 1875
Eben H. Googins July 28, 1845
Charles H. Goulding March 24, 1838
Charles H. Green January 11, 1842
Henry G. Greene October 26, 1843
John G. Hagberg August 24, 1873
George A. Hall November 28, 1848
Portus B. Hancock February 19, 1836
Edwin A. Harney February 22, 1862
Ulysses G. Haskell October 3, 1863
Elbridge Gerry Hastings July 21, 1840
Arthur W. Hatch December 26, 1865
William Henry Hayes November 26, 1866
William Henry Irving Hayes June 21, 1848
Frank M. Heath September 8, 1852
Joseph F. Hickey January 20, 1875
Albert S. N. Hickford January 24, 1859
Martin P. Higgins October 16, 1857
Sidney Adelvin Hill August 26, 1849
Alexander Holmes July 28, 1867
Robert Homans October 3, 1873
Timothy Howard October 19, 1863
George C. Hunt April 7, 1859
Harry Draper Hunt December 27, 1874
Harrie C. Hunter March 16, 1869
John C. Hurley December 19, 1875
George H. Jackson March 9, 1865
Joseph G. Jackson February 13, 1860
Warren Carlton Jewett January 28, 1855
Thomas F. Keenan March 11, 1854
Edward H. Keith October 23, 1859
Thomas A. Kelley May 10, 1875
Daniel J. Kiley July 27, 1874
Moody Kimball July 2, 1862
Homer R. King June 4, 1846
Alfred Franklin Kinney October 25, 1851
Dwight Freeman Lane September 4, 1862
Thomas P. Larkin February 6, 1862
Joseph S. Leach November 14, 1860
David Dennis Leahy April 15, 1876
James Patrick Lennon August 28, 1863
George F. Leslie September 12, 1850
William Henry Lewis[8] November 28, 1868
William W. Linnehan August 6, 1861
William H. Litchfield August 18, 1855
Albert Littlefield May 8, 1856
Edward L. Logan January 20, 1875
Robert Luce December 2, 1862
Frederic O. MacCartney November 2, 1864
Thomas Mackey August 6, 1865
Michael J. Mahoney December 25, 1861
John T. Maloney July 14, 1853
John J. Mansfield October 10, 1869
Eugene Dennis Marchesseault September 29, 1865
J. Manuel Marshall June 1, 1869
George Washington Maxon August 3, 1862
James H. McInerney December 13, 1871
John McKnight March 5, 1872
Edward L. McMahon October 24, 1869
William S. McNary March 29, 1863
James J. Mellen March 30, 1875
Walter Brown Mellen September 24, 1860
John E. Merritt February 21, 1849
Edwin J. Mills May 1, 1861
Bernard Francis Mitchell March 30, 1867
James A. Montgomery May 17, 1864
J. Myron Moore November 3, 1866
Lucien O. Moore December 23, 1849
Harold P. Moseley November 13, 1871
James J. Myers November 20, 1842
Arthur E. Newcomb January 31, 1872
Richard Newell April 17, 1839
Francis S. Newhall December 4, 1860
Francis Dexter Newton August 31, 1848
H. Huestis Newton December 2, 1860
Walter E. Nichols July 16, 1870
John Nightingale September 6, 1838
Daniel J. O'Brien October 5, 1873
John E. O'Neill January 15, 1862
Edward L. Osgood August 6, 1844
Henry K. Palmer March 3, 1869
Fordis C. Parker January 3, 1868
James Pearce May 7, 1843
Pierre F. Peloquin May 26, 1851
Andrew James Peters April 3, 1872
William B. Phinney November 29, 1857
Joseph F. Pitman May 28, 1848
Charles H. Pratt November 11, 1848
Charles H. Preston March 22, 1863
John H. Quinlan February 29, 1864
John Quinn, Jr. December 16, 1859
Thomas E. Raftery July 10, 1869
Joseph C. Randlett May 22, 1859
John Laughlin Rankin December 6, 1850
Benjamin Calvin Reed December 24, 1849
Silas Dean Reed June 25, 1872
Charles H. Reinhart March 8, 1867
Samuel Roads, Jr. October 22, 1853
Webster Cushing Robbins January 28, 1860
Arthur E. Roberts June 22, 1861
Robert Rogerson October 11, 1869
Samuel Ross February 2, 1865
Thomas Bradford Rounds April 2, 1853
William J. Rounds June 24, 1855
Arthur P. Russell June 16, 1871
Simon B. Ryan October 8, 1874
Henry F. Sampson May 12, 1835
George A. Schofield April 26, 1863
William Schofield February 14, 1857
Winfield S. Schuster December 29, 1855
Daniel J. Sheehan August 11, 1857
Edmund C. Shepardson December 2, 1848
James Clifford Sherman May 23, 1874
Mark N. Skerrett February 23, 1870
Arthur P. Sleeper September 21, 1875
George T. Sleeper September 15, 1852
Caleb L. Smith June 23, 1849
Fred M. Smith September 19, 1862
Henry Ellsworth Stanton January 23, 1846
Charles Ephraim Stearns April 27, 1868
Frank K. Stearns November 26, 1854
Isaac M. Story April 28, 1855
Peter F. Sullivan June 29, 1871
William J. Sullivan April 14, 1865
Thomas Sutton April 2, 1850
Charles W. Swift December 26, 1866
Arthur M. Taft January 28, 1854
George W. Tapley September 1, 1835
Francis Xavier Tetrault November 5, 1845
James N. Thompson March 3, 1839
Charles Harrison Tucker May 19, 1867
Maurice Endicott Tyler January 27, 1843
Samuel Willard Tyler February 11, 1866
Charles L. Underhill July 20, 1867
Thomas Melville Vinson April 27, 1868
Charles E. Ward October 17, 1849
Louis H. Warner January 8, 1875
Handel E. Washburn August 25, 1859
Moses C. Waterhouse April 29, 1855
David P. Waters March 16, 1838
Joseph Warren Wattles August 7, 1862
Horace I. Whipple March 30, 1859
Charles F. Wildes October 17, 1848
J. William Williams June 11, 1849
Lombard Williams November 7, 1874
Thomas W. Williams September 15, 1865
Gordon Willis January 13, 1851
James Irish Wingate June 4, 1837
John Young, Jr. February 6, 1871

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 c Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1902 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ a b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1902" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  7. ^ Pamela W. Schofield (April 14, 2014), "Some Mayors of Boston who had been members of the General Court", State Library of Massachusetts blog
  8. ^ 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 General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1902, hdl:2452/429119
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1902, hdl:2452/70977