1905 Massachusetts legislature

126th
Massachusetts General Court
←125th 127th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 8, 1904
Senate
Members40
PresidentWilliam F. Dana
Party controlRepublican (34–6)[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerLouis A. Frothingham
Party controlRepublican (169–69–2)[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 4, 1905 (1905-01-04) – May 26, 1905 (1905-05-26) [3]
William F. Dana
William Dana, Senate president.
Louis A. Frothingham
Louis Frothingham, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1905.

The 126th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1905 during the governorship of William Lewis Douglas. William F. Dana served as president of the Senate and Louis A. Frothingham served as speaker of the House.[4]

Senators

image name [5] date of birth [6] district
John E. Beck May 10, 1869
William J. Bullock January 31, 1864
William A. Burns January 9, 1875
Edward B. Callender February 23, 1851
Edwin J. Castle April 15, 1853
Frank M. Chace April 16, 1856
Alvin B. Chamberlain December 16, 1842
William D. Chapple August 6, 1868
Edwards Cheney May 3, 1861
Chester W. Clark August 9, 1851
Thomas J. Collins October 28, 1868
Morton E. Converse November 17, 1837
William F. Craig September 15, 1866
Prentiss Cummings September 10, 1840
William F. Dana [7] June 26, 1863
Charles Leroy Dean May 29, 1844
George H. Garfield July 18, 1858
John J. Gartland November 27, 1871
Frank Gerrett February 4, 1857
Heman A. Harding February 6, 1871
Frank M. Heath September 8, 1852
Sidney Adelvin Hill August 26, 1849
Samuel E. Hull August 12, 1843
Harrie C. Hunter March 16, 1869
Loren P. Keyes January 6, 1838
Moody Kimball July 2, 1862
William S. Kyle July 12, 1851
Daniel W. Lane December 11, 1871
David Dennis Leahy April 15, 1876
James J. Mellen March 30, 1875
Harold P. Moseley November 13, 1871
John P. Munroe June 28, 1850
Edward B. Nevin November 10, 1858
Fordis C. Parker January 3, 1868
Andrew James Peters April 3, 1872
Silas Dean Reed June 25, 1872
William J. Rounds June 24, 1855
William Taylor May 5, 1862
James H. Walker August 24, 1872
John M. Woods August 18, 1839

Representatives

image name [5] date of birth [6] district
Cecil L. Adams June 14, 1878
William Leck Adams October 24, 1852
James Sidney Allen July 3, 1831
Henry Stoddard Ames May 21, 1861
William H. Ames March 1, 1861
James Robert Anderson March 27, 1859
Charles A. Andrews July 2, 1872
William A. Bailey September 26, 1849
George O. Baker April 6, 1835
Arthur Wesley Barker September 19, 1847
George L. Barnes June 24, 1879
James Barr September 20, 1854
James Timothy Barrett February 10, 1870
George H. Battis 1863
Fred Alfred Bearse February 15, 1871
March G. Bennett January 31, 1869
Frank P. Bennett Jr. December 30, 1878
George Frederick Birch April 12, 1848
Stephen H. Bodurtha March 10, 1858
Henry E. Bodurtha March 15, 1865
Richard Bossidy December 1, 1864
Edward A. Bower August 1, 1869
Rolfe Bradbury March 12, 1861
Eugene T. Brazzell March 21, 1878
Edward H. Brewer December 12, 1851
William M. Brigham January 23, 1864
Henry W. Brown October 14, 1856
John J. Butler June 7, 1865
Robert D. Cadagon June 6, 1870
George H. Cadigan February 22, 1873
Edward C. Callahan March 14, 1874
John W. Chapin January 28, 1859
James W. Chrystal March 24, 1876
Maurice P. Clare August 26, 1852
Ezra W. Clark October 12, 1842
Edward E. Clark November 4, 1870
John N. Cole November 4, 1863
Walter L. Collins April 7, 1878
Waldo E. Conant February 1, 1855
John J. Conway September 12, 1873
William H. Cook March 7, 1856
Lyman Alexander Crafts October 28, 1854
Edward C. Creed January 5, 1877
Frank H. Crossman January 12, 1846
Thomas F. Curley [8] March 22, 1871
William H. Cushman June 8, 1850
Samuel Newton Cutler January 25, 1855
Charles L. Davenport May 4, 1854
Thomas L. Davis March 15, 1852
Charles S. Davis 1858
Frederick Simpson Deitrick April 9, 1875
Charles S. Denham October 17, 1853
Francis J. Doherty August 26, 1875
William J. Doogue April 28, 1876
Thomas Dowd May 1, 1864
Jeremiah F. Downey February 9, 1878
Alonzo W. Dunbar May 4, 1850
William C. Dunham September 14, 1830
Theodore F. Dwight September 19, 1863
Jonathan P. Edwards April 7, 1854
Winslow H. Edwards August 13, 1870
John F. Egan July 6, 1874
Michael L. Eisner July 30, 1878
Eugene F. Endicott October 14, 1848
Wilmot R. Evans Jr. March 18, 1878
Fred A. Ewell June 12, 1865
William Otis Faxon October 24, 1853
Francis Joseph Fennelly February 18, 1860
Jacob Bernard Ferber May 28, 1876
Charles D. B. Fisk February 17, 1850
John Leonard Fiske August 21, 1872
John J. Flaherty May 5, 1872
Daniel L. Flanagan June 14, 1870
Josiah Willard Flint November 4, 1840
Richard Rich Freeman November 19, 1860
Louis A. Frothingham July 13, 1871
Chester E. Gleason March 13, 1869
Ira N. Goddard March 1, 1830
Albert G. Godfrey August 28, 1855
Jeremiah J. Good May 6, 1865
Eben H. Googins July 28, 1845
Robert J. Gove May 22, 1863
Thomas J. Grady December 16, 1877
William P. Grady November 25, 1878
William J. Graham October 2, 1873
John M. Grosvenor Jr. April 22, 1864
John Burgess Gunn April 13, 1846
Alfred Stevens Hall April 14, 1850
Portus B. Hancock February 19, 1836
William E. Hannan October 26, 1873
William Henry Irving Hayes June 21, 1848
George L. Hemenway November 23, 1850
Joseph H. Hibbard April 5, 1860
William Edward Hickey December 29, 1870
Aubrey Hilliard April 6, 1861
Horton H. Hilton December 11, 1869
John A. Holway March 31, 1865
Fred V. Hooke August 19, 1859
Michael B. Houlihan March 24, 1874
William C. Howe July 15, 1849
Frank H. Howe January 22, 1861
Alonzo F. Hoyle October 16, 1861
Augustus Hubbard June 27, 1849
Thomas Huse 1851
George H. Jackson March 9, 1865
Lester W. Jenney April 24, 1876
Warren Carlton Jewett January 28, 1855
James Albert Jones January 14, 1853
Samuel O. Jones November 17, 1858
David P. Keefe September 29, 1855
Edward James Kenney January 19, 1867
Alec E. Knowlton October 29, 1857
Joseph J. Leonard May 8, 1876
Henry N. Locklin March 7, 1853
Martin Lomasney December 3, 1859
Fred Wyatt Lord September 22, 1860
James Arnold Lowell February 5, 1869
John B. Lowney March 17, 1879
Robert Luce December 2, 1862
Orion T. Mason April 4, 1865
George Washington Maxon August 3, 1862
Henry Morrill Maxwell January 21, 1867
Charles Mayberry April 27, 1876
Hamilton Mayo February 26, 1851
Matthew McCann 1863
James F. McDermott March 1, 1877
Daniel J. McDonald August 14, 1872
John M. McDonald June 2, 1873
James A. McDonald, Jr. May 19, 1871
Edward F. McGrady January 22, 1874
Edwin C. McIntire October 18, 1867
Orlando McKenzie April 23, 1868
Robert K. McKirdy October 4, 1870
Edward L. McManus December 22, 1866
Lewis H. Millett December 22, 1873
John Joseph Mitchell May 9, 1873
Joseph E. Mooney June 25, 1874
George Henry Moore May 16, 1844
Harry Payson Morse July 27, 1854
Francis T. Nelson November 11, 1851
Harry S. Nicoll December 1, 1858
Arthur D. Norcross November 7, 1848
Charles Henry Nowell October 15, 1843
Edward H. O'Brien February 1, 1874
Daniel M. O'Connell May 30, 1865
Michael Frederick O'Connell June 14, 1870
J. Frank O'Hare October 14, 1874
Hugh O'Rourke March 1, 1869
David M. Owens January 12, 1877
Edwin H. Oxner 1867
Frank E. Packard May 7, 1857
Charles William Paradise May 31, 1857
Joseph A. Parks May 2, 1877
Chauncey E. Parsons November 22, 1847
William E. Patrick May 2, 1847
Edward C. Paull September 5, 1862
W. Rodman Peabody March 3, 1874
Pierre F. Peloquin May 26, 1851
Winthrop Edmund Perry November 6, 1842
Michael F. Phelan October 22, 1875
Amos A. Phelps January 12, 1867
Stephen W. Phillips January 9, 1873
Charles S. Pierce September 5, 1874
Mellen A. Pingree March 9, 1861
Noah Allen Plympton September 7, 1841
George M. Poland July 16, 1877
Herbert L. Pollard September 24, 1844
Samuel L. Porter November 10, 1869
Elmer C. Potter August 23, 1868
William H. Potter April 12, 1850
Maurice J. Power July 21, 1872
A. Frederick Putnam February 10, 1871
John H. Quinlan February 29, 1864
John Quinn, Jr. December 16, 1859
Charles H. Reinhart March 8, 1867
Herbert S. Riley December 20, 1859
Reginald L. Robbins December 5, 1875
John G. Robinson November 24, 1860
Samuel Ross February 2, 1865
Gilbert Jones Rugg March 27, 1836
William R. Salter July 6, 1861
George R. Sampson October 2, 1852
George A. Schofield April 26, 1863
Charles Schumaker March 2, 1867
George A. Scigliano August 26, 1874
Frank Seiberlich October 29, 1874
Edward J. Sennott April 4, 1867
Henry Walter Seward January 18, 1865
John F. Sheehan September 2, 1861
Daniel J. Sheehan August 11, 1857
Nelson Sherburne November 18, 1864
Joseph Sherman September 7, 1840
Arthur Wesley Sim December 21, 1859
Mark N. Skerrett February 23, 1870
Edward H. Slater November 18, 1856
Walter C. Slocum November 18, 1862
C. Aylmer Smith February 15, 1846
Charles B. Smith March 9, 1857
Elijah Olin Snow April 24, 1851
Joseph Soliday 1869
Nathaniel P. Sowle October 30, 1857
John H. Spinlow April 7, 1841
Samuel O. Staples April 16, 1843
Clarence Winfield Starratt March 19, 1861
George H. Stevens August 18, 1868
Everett J. Stevens May 11, 1847
Elmer A. Stevens January 15, 1862
Luke S. Stowe August 9, 1834
Patrick John Sullivan August 23, 1860
Simon Swig May 15, 1865
Arthur M. Taft January 28, 1854
Edgar V. Tanner August 28, 1835
Frederick H. Tarr October 8, 1868
Frank W. Thayer July 2, 1865
George Henry Thorburn February 21, 1866
Harry L. Timmons November 12, 1875
George A. Titcomb June 19, 1853
Noble B. Turner November 5, 1848
Arthur P. Vinal June 14, 1854
Edward A. Walker May 28, 1869
Joseph Walker 1865
Charles E. Ward October 17, 1849
Robert J. Ware March 15, 1870
Edgar W. Warren October 4, 1853
Edmund Weber March 1, 1871
Walter Archibald Webster December 4, 1875
William E. Weeks 1880
Arthur J. Wellington July 21, 1871
William E. Westall January 5, 1853
John P. Whalen November 11, 1878
Frank G. Wheatley July 6, 1851
Harvey Wheeler November 5, 1847
Frederick W. Whitcomb September 7, 1863
Frank L. White August 10, 1869
John E. White December 13, 1873
Ezra Scott Whitmarsh May 29, 1858
Isaac E. Willetts November 8, 1879
Thomas W. Williams September 15, 1865
Frederick G. Wooden May 26, 1871
William H. Woodhead September 17, 1860
Allen S. Woodward December 23, 1850

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. 1905 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ a b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1905" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  7. ^ "William Franklin Dana". New England Historical and Genealogical Register. 1922.
  8. ^ "Expels Imprisoned Member: Massachusetts Legislature Unseats Curley", New York Times, January 5, 1905

Further reading

  • 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 (1904), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1905, hdl:2452/43496
  • Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators: 1905. A. M. Bridgman. 1905.
  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1905, hdl:2452/429122
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1905, hdl:2452/73493