1907 Massachusetts legislature

128th
Massachusetts General Court
←127th 129th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 6, 1906
Senate
Members40
PresidentWilliam D. Chapple
Party controlRepublican (28–12)[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerJohn N. Cole
Party controlRepublican (173–63–4)[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 2, 1907 (1907-01-02) – June 28, 1907 (1907-06-28) [3]
William D. Chapple
William Chapple, Senate president.
John N. Cole
John Cole, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1907.

The 128th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1907 during the governorship of Curtis Guild Jr. William D. Chapple served as president of the Senate and John N. Cole served as speaker of the House.[4]

Senators

image name [5] date of birth [6] district
Edward J. Bromberg July 20, 1864
William J. Bullock January 31, 1864
Allan G. Buttrick March 16, 1876
Thomas F. Cassidy June 1, 1875
Frank M. Chace April 16, 1856
William D. Chapple August 6, 1868
William W. Clarke March 10, 1870
Guy W. Cox January 19, 1871
Thomas F. Curley March 22, 1871
Charles Leroy Dean May 29, 1844
Edward W. Dixon November 9, 1846
Joseph Donovan 1870
William Otis Faxon October 24, 1853
William H. Feiker March 11, 1870
George J. Gallond October 23, 1852
George H. Garfield July 18, 1858
James Wilson Grimes November 21, 1865
Alfred Sigourney Hall August 27, 1861
William P. Hayes March 27, 1866
Charles F. Jenney September 16, 1860
John Lovell Johnson June 26, 1876
Eben S. S. Keith October 24, 1872
Thomas Leavitt August 28, 1872
Frank J. Linehan January 31, 1870
Frederick J. Macleod June 30, 1870
Daniel D. Mahoney March 27, 1862
John J. McManmon April 5, 1871
James J. Mellen March 30, 1875
John Joseph Mitchell May 9, 1873
Harry Payson Morse July 27, 1854
Charles N. Prouty October 6, 1842
Herbert S. Riley December 20, 1859
William R. Salter July 6, 1861
Winfield S. Schuster December 29, 1855
James F. Shaw July 18, 1873
Elmer A. Stevens January 15, 1862
Arthur M. Taft January 28, 1854
James H. Vahey December 29, 1871
Frank G. Wheatley July 6, 1851
Thomas W. Williams September 15, 1865

Representatives

image name [5] date of birth [6] district
Gideon B. Abbott May 4, 1874
James Sidney Allen July 3, 1831
Manuel Andrew February 10, 1876
Alvin F. Bailey May 25, 1840
Lorenzo D. Baker, Jr. September 5, 1863
Arthur Wesley Barker September 19, 1847
Frank A. Bayrd September 1, 1873
Joseph Eber Beals March 18, 1834
John Cunningham Bennett April 2, 1872
March G. Bennett January 31, 1869
Frederick Leonard Beunke June 15, 1856
George Frederick Birch April 12, 1848
Elias B. Bishop August 2, 1869
Charles Bishop Blair April 10, 1852
Charles V. Blanchard February 2, 1866
George H. Blodgett July 29, 1862
G. Arthur Bodwell July 4, 1859
Charles E. Boivin December 12, 1872
Fred Eldridge Bolton December 6, 1869
Alexis Boyer Jr. January 17, 1875
William M. Brigham January 23, 1864
Deloss M. Bristol December 25, 1851
Charles Howard Brown January 19, 1879
James H. Bryan May 12, 1842
Timothy J. Buckley April 24, 1870
George Bunting August 31, 1868
Andrew J. Burnett 1860
Alfred S. Burns February 6, 1860
Clenric H. Cahoon February 4, 1875
Timothy Francis Callahan September 5, 1881
James B. Carbrey January 16, 1854
James Chambers December 8, 1864
William E. Chester April 4, 1865
Ezra W. Clark October 12, 1842
Henry S. Clark January 5, 1858
Samuel F. Coffin December 27, 1851
John N. Cole November 4, 1863
Ellenwood B. Coleman May 31, 1862
Frank Collette 1871
James J. Conboy December 1, 1873
Martin F. Conley April 27, 1870
Atherton D. Converse January 7, 1877
John Joseph Conway September 2, 1874
John Francis Cook June 24, 1843
William H. Cook March 7, 1856
William F. Cook February 4, 1847
Calvin Coolidge July 4, 1872
Frank O. Coombs December 17, 1857
Michael J. Coyle September 27, 1864
Daniel Joseph Curley December 23, 1875
Grafton D. Cushing August 4, 1864
Francis O. Dahlquist June 4, 1848
Ernest Dalton January 7, 1869
Charles L. Davenport May 4, 1854
Thomas L. Davis March 15, 1852
Henry Ellsworth Dean September 29, 1862
Charles Austin Dean March 26, 1856
William M. Dean November 16, 1874
Robert T. Delano July 13, 1857
Charles Edwin Dennett November 13, 1837
Daniel Edward Denny July 14, 1845
Thomas J. Dillon April 20, 1869
William E. Dorman June 23, 1875
Andrew P. Doyle August 15, 1869
Edward B. Draper November 27, 1876
Florence J. Driscoll October 15, 1871
John J. Driscoll March 27, 1876
Thomas F. Driscoll November 5, 1860
Hugh P. Drysdale December 11, 1875
Patrick J. Duane August 18, 1862
Ebenezer Alden Dyer July 17, 1857
Michael J. Eagan June 17, 1874
Charles Fremont Elmer August 25, 1856
Samuel D. Elmore December 29, 1868
Oscar H. Ewing August 15, 1876
Dennis Eugene Farley June 12, 1852
Thomas J. Fay April 24, 1879
Francis Joseph Fennelly February 18, 1860
Jacob Bernard Ferber May 28, 1876
Fredrick L. Fisher January 29, 1862
Charles D. B. Fisk February 17, 1850
Michael Henry Fitzgerald October 1, 1871
Louis E. Flye January 18, 1881
Clarence J. Fogg July 10, 1853
Herbert M. Forristall August 14, 1859
Edward J. Fuller January 30, 1854
William F. Garcelon October 24, 1868
Leonard T. Gaskill January 3, 1843
Joseph A. Gauthier August 16, 1878
George A. Giles August 4, 1875
Edward Gilmore January 4, 1867
Frank W. Goodwin October 25, 1876
Thomas J. Grady December 16, 1877
William J. Graham October 2, 1873
Albert F. Grant November 16, 1872
George D. Green July 11, 1846
Lyman W. Griswold October 16, 1869
James A. Gunn September 3, 1848
William F. Haggerty June 26, 1872
Martin Thomas Hall December 23, 1877
Harry H. Ham March 16, 1883
Portus B. Hancock February 19, 1836
Horace D. Hardy February 28, 1877
William Henry Irving Hayes June 21, 1848
Andrew F. Healy July 20, 1878
John J. Higgins May 17, 1865
Thomas F. Higgins October 2, 1880
William P. Higgins May 16, 1881
William Hoag November 18, 1870
Ernest Emery Hobson September 29, 1878
Frank G. Hodskins December 26, 1876
William M. Hogan June 2, 1876
Samuel M. Holman 1862
Charles T. Holt August 1, 1845
Barker B. Howard April 21, 1867
Alonzo F. Hoyle October 16, 1861
Eugene Hultman July 13, 1875
George S. J. Hyde November 1, 1849
Charles Cabot Johnson December 9, 1876
Fred O. Johnson February 10, 1855
James Albert Jones January 14, 1853
Frederick G. Katzmann September 12, 1875
David P. Keefe September 29, 1855
Sidney B. Keene January 10, 1861
Roland Manning Keith March 16, 1847
William A. Kelleher May 27, 1875
Frank D. Kemp June 9, 1862
Michael J. Kenney July 12, 1863
Clesson Kenney May 31, 1839
Philip A. Kiely February 16, 1874
S. John Lamoureux April 30, 1877
William F. Learned January 12, 1850
Adam Leining December 4, 1836
Edwin F. Leonard July 15, 1862
John B. Lewis, Jr. August 30, 1841
Andrew R. Linscott March 6, 1844
Martin Lomasney December 3, 1859
George W. Long July 28, 1872
Hiram W. Loring October 11, 1842
John Fitch Lothrop December 17, 1847
Robert Luce December 2, 1862
Darwin E. Lyman July 26, 1846
William J. Lyons September 25, 1877
Charles H. Macomber August 6, 1872
Charles Addison Malley January 22, 1876
Harry E. Mapes July 8, 1867
John H. Marcy January 23, 1867
Charles Mayberry April 27, 1876
Ulysses Everett Mayhew August 16, 1848
Matthew McCann 1863
Daniel J. McCarthy March 6, 1876
Daniel J. McDonald August 14, 1872
John M. McDonald June 2, 1873
Michael J. McEttrick June 22, 1848
Philip J. McGonagle October 21, 1871
John F. McGrath January 10, 1881
John H. McKenney October 12, 1839
Lewis B. McKie August 14, 1875
Robert K. McKirdy October 4, 1870
Edwin T. McKnight October 11, 1869
John F. Meehan November 24, 1875
Julius Meyers December 6, 1854
Samuel H. Mildram December 4, 1867
Jacob H. Mock May 14, 1863
Daniel H. Morgan January 14, 1879
Leslie K. Morse January 18, 1860
Emil J. Muehlig November 26, 1873
Joseph J. Murley October 8, 1876
William F. Murray, Jr. September 7, 1881
Melvin S. Nash August 3, 1857
Arthur L. Nason October 24, 1872
George H. Newhall October 24, 1850
William L. V. Newton February 28, 1881
Malcolm Nichols May 8, 1876
David Curtis Nickerson January 21, 1854
Edward H. O'Brien February 1, 1874
M. Fred O'Connell June 14, 1870
Patrick H. O'Connor 1882
Hugh O'Rourke March 1, 1869
James Oliver June 28, 1836
Charles William Paradise May 31, 1857
Ralph Tappan Parker September 28, 1876
Joseph A. Parks May 2, 1877
Albion F. Parmenter May 19, 1862
Thomas Pattison January 20, 1854
Edwin C. Perham March 4, 1858
John H. Pickford September 9, 1849
Ernest H. Pierce May 12, 1863
Robert E. Pollock October 23, 1851
Samuel L. Porter November 10, 1869
Elmer C. Potter August 23, 1868
William J. Potter April 20, 1859
James F. Powers October 1, 1872
John F. Prindle September 15, 1851
Melvin B. Putnam April 8, 1845
John Quinn, Jr. December 16, 1859
Henry F. Rice January 29, 1844
William M. Robinson July 21, 1875
William L. Robinson December 15, 1855
Bradley M. Rockwood May 24, 1862
Samuel Ross February 2, 1865
Hezekiah S. Russell December 7, 1835
Edward Julius Sandberg October 21, 1866
Henry O. Sawyer June 10, 1844
John H. Schoonmaker February 14, 1869
Charles H. Shaylor December 24, 1861
Joseph J. Shepherd February 5, 1855
William H. Smith November 11, 1875
Joseph Soliday 1869
Nathaniel P. Sowle October 30, 1857
Waldo Spaulding March 29, 1845
Harry N. Stearns October 5, 1874
John Adam Stoddart May 10, 1869
Lucian B. Stone September 9, 1829
Arthur H. Streeter July 4, 1870
John F. Sullivan May 17, 1875
Daniel L. Sullivan October 16, 1878
Henry F. Taber April 15, 1860
Richard S. Teeling December 26, 1878
Clifford B. Terry December 16, 1876
John Hugh Toland October 8, 1870
William H. Trudel July 19, 1866
Fred F. Trull February 11, 1856
Joseph Turner March 23, 1852
William Turtle June 20, 1855
Charles F. Varnum June 28, 1846
Albert Vittum December 29, 1857
Joseph Walker 1865
William L. Waugh October 11, 1864
Walter Archibald Webster December 4, 1875
William E. Weeks 1880
A. S. Parker Weeks April 29, 1857
Joseph O. Wellington June 22, 1850
William E. Westall January 5, 1853
Norman H. White December 25, 1871
Charles J. Wier February 24, 1868
Harry N. Winch October 8, 1868
Wilbur A. Wood February 4, 1865
Russell B. Worster June 30, 1872
Alvin L. Wright October 28, 1857

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. 1907 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ a b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1907" (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: 1907, hdl:2452/429124
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1907, hdl:2452/73495