1903 Massachusetts legislature

124th
Massachusetts General Court
←123rd 125th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 4, 1902
Senate
Members40
PresidentGeorge R. Jones
Party controlRepublican (31–9)[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerJames J. Myers
Party controlRepublican (154–83–3)[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 7, 1903 (1903-01-07) – June 26, 1903 (1903-06-26) [3]
George R. Jones
George Jones, Senate president.
James J. Myers
James Myers, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1903.

The 124th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1903 during the governorship of John L. Bates. George R. Jones 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
Francis H. Appleton June 17, 1847
Albert S. Apsey November 27, 1870
A. Dudley Bagley February 27, 1869
Albion F. Bemis July 19, 1856
Albert A. Brackett December 5, 1850
Leonard B. Chandler August 29, 1851
Charles S. Clerke January 10, 1850
Samuel Cole December 15, 1856
Thomas J. Dillon April 20, 1869
Perlie A. Dyar March 26, 1857
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
George N. Goff July 24, 1837
Frederick S. Gore April 15, 1862
Otis M. Gove May 3, 1851
Arthur Harrington July 23, 1874
Elisha T. Harvell December 18, 1841
Frank M. Heath September 8, 1852
Carleton F. How April 20, 1863
George R. Jones February 8, 1862
William H. MacInnis November 22, 1861
James H. McKinley May 21, 1860
John P. Munroe June 28, 1850
Herbert Newell April 2, 1855
Benjamin F. Nickerson June 23, 1842
William A. Nye May 26, 1850
Edward L. Osgood August 6, 1844
Thomas F. Porter October 30, 1847
David G. Pratt November 7, 1848
Henry F. Sampson May 12, 1835
Edward Seaver June 3, 1849
Henry R. Skinner May 9, 1860
Rufus Albertson Soule 1839
Michael J. Sullivan October 23, 1870
George Keyes Tufts October 17, 1841
George R. Wallace June 20, 1859

Representatives

image name [5] date of birth [6] district
Chester H. Abbe April 5, 1860
Henry Morton Aldrich November 20, 1841
James Sidney Allen July 3, 1831
William A. Andrews July 31, 1859
James F. Aylward August 4, 1862
Andrew A. Badaracco August 28, 1860
William Selby Bamford August 11, 1864
James Barr September 20, 1854
William F. Barrington April 15, 1877
J. Franklin Batchelder December 24, 1870
Francis Batcheller June 3, 1858
George H. Battis 1863
Fred Alfred Bearse February 15, 1871
John E. Beck May 10, 1869
Thomas E. Begley February 23, 1871
Frank P. Bennett May 2, 1853
Fred F. Bennett February 24, 1870
John Williston Blaney September 18, 1841
Ernest Linwood Bonney June 23, 1864
Henry A. Booth October 30, 1866
Manassah Edward Bradley August 15, 1863
Lewis S. Breed November 4, 1866
Charles P. Brewer August 1, 1852
Elisha Hume Brewster September 10, 1871
William M. Brigham January 23, 1864
William R. Brooks March 1, 1865
William W. Brooks June 27, 1829
Abram English Brown January 21, 1849
Franklin Brown November 11, 1837
William Harrison Brown February 16, 1852
William J. Bullock January 31, 1864
William A. Burns January 9, 1875
Thomas H. Buttimer March 17, 1868
Edward B. Callender February 23, 1851
James F. Carey August 19, 1867
Edwin J. Castle April 15, 1853
Frank M. Chace April 16, 1856
Charles Albert Claflin December 8, 1843
James Colby Dorr Clark June 10, 1872
Luther W. Clark September 19, 1851
Samuel F. Coffin December 27, 1851
John N. Cole November 4, 1863
Michael James Collins July 8, 1852
Edmund C. Cottle October 1, 1842
John A. Coulthurst June 24, 1871
Guy W. Cox January 19, 1871
William F. Craig September 15, 1866
David W. Creed November 5, 1867
James Crichton October 31, 1846
John J. Cunningham May 7, 1873
James Michael Curley[7] November 20, 1874
Michael F. Curran November 30, 1875
William F. Dana June 26, 1863
Daniel W. Davis October 3, 1846
Thomas L. Davis March 15, 1852
William J. Davison March 20, 1873
Benjamin C. Dean March 8, 1843
Charles Austin Dean March 26, 1856
Frederick Simpson Deitrick April 9, 1875
Daniel J. Dempsey June 8, 1866
Wooster F. Dodge March 28, 1841
Thomas Donahue August 20, 1853
Daniel J. Donnelly October 13, 1868
Jeremiah F. Donovan May 10, 1856
George H. Doty May 9, 1861
Thomas E. Dougherty June 4, 1848
James J. Dowd March 7, 1858
Aaron Coolidge Dowse March 27, 1856
Horace Rogers Drinkwater May 28, 1872
John Duff August 30, 1870
Edward Quincy Dyer October 4, 1841
Fred Albert Emery November 22, 1869
James R. Entwistle June 5, 1845
Noble W. Everett February 20, 1827
William A. Fahey July 26, 1875
Lowell Ethan Fales September 28, 1858
Peter T. Fallon July 16, 1856
Frank W. Fenno October 24, 1861
Ernest C. Field February 6, 1852
Dennis H. Finn April 2, 1870
Michael FitzGerald September 29, 1869
Richard Rich Freeman November 19, 1860
Fred M. French November 5, 1861
Louis A. Frothingham July 13, 1871
Arthur H. Gardner August 4, 1854
John D. Gardner April 19, 1860
George H. Garfield July 18, 1858
Guy W. Garland December 11, 1844
Julius Garst December 12, 1855
John J. Gartland November 27, 1871
Arthur L. Gavin June 11, 1876
Frank E. Gaylord May 1, 1868
Frank Gerrett February 4, 1857
Charles Giddings May 10, 1867
Arthur B. Gillpatrick March 28, 1861
Jeremiah J. Good May 6, 1865
C. Burr Goodrich January 13, 1875
Eben H. Googins July 28, 1845
William H. Gove September 4, 1851
Thomas J. Grady December 16, 1877
Alfred Sigourney Hall August 27, 1861
Guy Andrews Ham July 8, 1878
William E. Hannan October 26, 1873
Heman A. Harding February 6, 1871
Edwin A. Harney February 22, 1862
Michael F. Hart September 22, 1873
Arthur W. Hatch December 26, 1865
James Austin Hawkes July 3, 1848
William Henry Hayes November 26, 1866
William Henry Irving Hayes June 21, 1848
William C. S. Healey September 26, 1873
Thomas F. Hederman March 4, 1873
Sidney Adelvin Hill August 26, 1849
Herbert N. Hinckley December 31, 1864
Robert Homans October 3, 1873
Adin Baker Horton November 7, 1855
Isaiah H. Horton November 14, 1835
Frank H. Howe January 22, 1861
Augustus Hubbard June 27, 1849
George C. Hunt April 7, 1859
George H. Jackson March 9, 1865
Joseph G. Jackson February 13, 1860
William B. Jackson February 4, 1866
Warren Carlton Jewett January 28, 1855
John M. Johnson March 15, 1868
Thomas A. Kelley May 10, 1875
William A. Kelley April 27, 1868
Thomas J. Kennedy May 20, 1857
Daniel J. Kiley July 27, 1874
Moody Kimball July 2, 1862
Frederick W. Klemm March 7, 1847
Frank J. Knight September 29, 1856
George Sumner Ladd March 20, 1857
Dwight Freeman Lane September 4, 1862
James M. Lane December 1, 1872
Thomas P. Larkin February 6, 1862
David Dennis Leahy April 15, 1876
Henry F. Lehan September 16, 1874
James Patrick Lennon August 28, 1863
Frank J. Linehan January 31, 1870
Robert Luce December 2, 1862
Frederic O. MacCartney November 2, 1864
Michael J. Mahoney December 25, 1861
John M. Maloney December 2, 1870
James A. McDonald, Jr. May 19, 1871
James H. McInerney December 13, 1871
Edward L. McMahon October 24, 1869
Henry Austin McMaster June 24, 1844
James J. Mellen March 30, 1875
Edwin J. Mills May 1, 1861
Bernard Francis Mitchell March 30, 1867
John Joseph Mitchell May 9, 1873
Harold P. Moseley November 13, 1871
James J. Myers November 20, 1842
John S. Nason May 6, 1860
Francis S. Newhall December 4, 1860
H. Huestis Newton December 2, 1860
Gilbert M. Nichols December 20, 1856
Walter E. Nichols July 16, 1870
John Nightingale September 6, 1838
Charles Henry Nowell October 15, 1843
Daniel J. O'Brien October 5, 1873
J. Frank O'Hare October 14, 1874
John E. O'Neill January 15, 1862
Hugh O'Rourke March 1, 1869
Andrew L. O'Toole March 25, 1878
Richard Olney II January 5, 1871
James Breckenridge Paige December 28, 1861
Fordis C. Parker January 3, 1868
Thomas Pattison January 20, 1854
Pierre F. Peloquin May 26, 1851
Charles N. Perley February 26, 1851
Winthrop Edmund Perry November 6, 1842
William B. Phinney November 29, 1857
Mellen A. Pingree March 9, 1861
Joseph F. Pitman May 28, 1848
William Henry Poole October 22, 1857
Elmer C. Potter August 23, 1868
Maurice J. Power July 21, 1872
John H. Quinlan February 29, 1864
John Quinn, Jr. December 16, 1859
Thomas E. Raftery July 10, 1869
John Laughlin Rankin December 6, 1850
Wallace C. Ransden November 1, 1853
Benjamin Calvin Reed December 24, 1849
Charles H. Reinhart March 8, 1867
Royal S. Ripley April 29, 1840
Frank Robinson December 5, 1858
John G. Robinson November 24, 1860
Robert Rogerson October 11, 1869
Samuel Ross February 2, 1865
Thomas Bradford Rounds April 2, 1853
William J. Rounds June 24, 1855
William H. Ruston March 6, 1849
Simon B. Ryan October 8, 1874
George A. Schofield April 26, 1863
Frank Seiberlich October 29, 1874
Henry Walter Seward January 18, 1865
Alvin Arthur Shaw November 17, 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
Oliver E. Slocum February 9, 1837
Caleb L. Smith June 23, 1849
Gurdon Southworth March 27, 1846
John H. Spinlow April 7, 1841
Frank J. Stanley August 10, 1868
Henry Ellsworth Stanton January 23, 1846
Everett J. Stevens May 11, 1847
Edward Carleton Stone June 29, 1878
Isaac M. Story April 28, 1855
Peter F. Sullivan June 29, 1871
Thomas Sutton April 2, 1850
Arthur M. Taft January 28, 1854
George W. Tapley September 1, 1835
Francois Xavier Tetrault November 5, 1845
George Elery Thayer May 12, 1862
Herbert W. Thayer May 7, 1858
George Henry Thorburn February 21, 1866
Charles Harrison Tucker May 19, 1867
Elliot Seth Tucker May 31, 1872
George A. Turner June 4, 1857
Samuel Willard Tyler February 11, 1866
Charles L. Underhill July 20, 1867
Arthur P. Vinal June 14, 1854
Thomas Melville Vinson April 27, 1868
Edward A. Walker May 28, 1869
William H. Walker November 30, 1857
Charles E. Ward October 17, 1849
Peter F. Ward January 16, 1877
Louis H. Warner January 8, 1875
Edgar W. Warren October 4, 1853
Henry Endicott Weatherbee August 24, 1862
Fred Olvin Welsh April 4, 1852
Henry O. Whiting November 16, 1849
Charles F. Wildes October 17, 1848
Lombard Williams November 7, 1874
Thomas W. Williams September 15, 1865
Gordon Willis January 13, 1851
Charles H. Winslow May 22, 1866

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. 1903 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ a b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1903" (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

Further reading

  • "Number of Votes received by Each Candidate for a State Office at the Annual State Election, Nov. 4, 1902: Senators", Number of assessed polls, registered voters and persons who voted in each voting precinct in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at the state, city and town elections (1902), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1903, hdl:2452/43494
  • "Number of Votes received by Each Candidate for a State Office at the Annual State Election, Nov. 4, 1902: Representatives in the General Court", Number of assessed polls, registered voters and persons who voted in each voting precinct in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at the state, city and town elections (1902), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1903, hdl:2452/43494
  • Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators: 1903. A. M. Bridgman. 1903.
  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1903, hdl:2452/429120
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1903, hdl:2452/70978