1909 Massachusetts legislature

130th
Massachusetts General Court
←129th 131st→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 3, 1908
Senate
Members40
PresidentAllen T. Treadway
Party controlRepublican (34–6)[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerJoseph Walker
Party controlRepublican (180–60)[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 6, 1909 (1909-01-06) – June 19, 1909 (1909-06-19) [3]
Allen T. Treadway
Allen Treadway, Senate president.
Joseph Walker
Joseph Walker, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1909.

The 130th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1909 during the governorship of Eben Sumner Draper. Allen T. Treadway served as president of the Senate and Joseph Walker served as speaker of the House.[4]

Senators

image name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
Gideon B. Abbott
George F. Birch 4th Worcester
Clifford B. Bray
George Bunting August 31, 1868
Lewis Burnham
John J. Butler
Edward A. Cowee
J. Howell Crosby
William M. Dean November 16, 1874
Francke W. Dickinson
Edward W. Dixon
James H. Doyle
Wilmot R. Evans Jr.
Dennis E. Farley June 12, 1852
Charles D. B. Fisk
Levi H. Greenwood December 22, 1872
James W. Grimes
John L. Harvey December 5, 1857
Joseph H. Hibbard
Eugene Hultman July 13, 1875
Roland M. Keith March 16, 1847
Eben S. S. Keith
Daniel D. Mahoney
Harry P. Morse
Henry C. Mulligan
Melvin S. Nash August 3, 1857
Arthur D. Norcross November 7, 1848
Patrick H. O'Connor 1882
W. Prentiss Parker December 11, 1857
Elmer C. Potter
Bradley M. Rockwood
Samuel Ross February 2, 1865
William R. Salter
James F. Shaw July 18, 1873
Thorndike Spalding
Elmer A. Stevens January 15, 1862
Richard S. Teeling
Allen T. Treadway September 16, 1867
Joseph Turner
William Turtle

Representatives

image name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
Joseph Abbott May 22, 1874
Arthur S. Adams February 14, 1869 16th Essex
Scott Adams March 27, 1874
Manuel Andrew February 10, 1876
William M. Armstrong August 17, 1850
Wallace E. W. N. Arnold June 29, 1863
Charles W. Atkins June 22, 1854
William B. Avery July 11, 1856
Erson B. Barlow October 20, 1883
Frank E. Barnard February 17, 1871
Frank L. Barnes August 20, 1864
Charles Homer Barrett June 23, 1868
John J. Barry January 4, 1877
Benjamin Fred Bates May 3, 1862
Edwin A. Bayley July 30, 1862
William A. L. Bazeley 1872
James W. Bean May 11, 1866
Elias B. Bishop August 2, 1869
Albert C. Blaisdell March 30, 1855
Charles V. Blanchard February 2, 1866
George F. Bolger
Josiah S. Bonney February 4, 1865
J. A. Wilfrid Bouvier December 27, 1868
Israel Brayton
Arthur B. Breed June 30, 1857
Bartholomew A. Brickley May 7, 1883
Charles H. Brown January 19, 1879
Alfred J. Burckel August 7, 1860
William R. Burke July 14, 1870
Andrew J. Burnett 1860
Alfred S. Burns February 6, 1860
Herbert W. Burr June 15, 1866
George F. Butterick August 16, 1855
Timothy F. Callahan September 5, 1881
Robert B. Campbell September 28, 1880
Zebulon L. Canedy February 5, 1864
James B. Carbrey January 16, 1854
Ignatius J. Carleton August 7, 1866
Cornelius J. Carmody January 11, 1867
Arthur Preston Chase January 25, 1866
Frederick C. Clark
Ellenwood B. Coleman May 31, 1862
Francis L. Colpoys
Harrison J. Conant
Martin F. Conley April 27, 1870
Howard P. Converse
Thomas F. Coogan
Benjamin A. Cook
Frank O. Coombs December 17, 1857
James H. L. Coon
John S. Cormack June 7, 1875
Franklin B. Crocker
Daniel Joseph Curley December 23, 1875
Frank Curtiss
Elmer L. Curtiss June 11, 1861
Grafton D. Cushing August 4, 1864
Alfred L. Cutting January 27, 1868
Francis L. Daly
Earl E. Davidson
Thomas Davies February 11, 1875
Ralph Davol
Henry Ellsworth Dean September 29, 1862
Charles E. Dennett
Daniel E. Denny July 14, 1845
Clifford H. Dickson
George E. Doane
Joseph E. Donovan April 21, 1882
William E. Dorman June 23, 1875
Charles E. Dow
Andrew P. Doyle August 15, 1869
Florence J. Driscoll October 15, 1871
Patrick J. Duane August 18, 1862
Horace E. Durgin December 4, 1863
Theodore F. Dwight
John F. Dwyer
S. Alden Eastman October 14, 1847
Charles E. Ebsen
Henry Allen Ellis November 5, 1879
Samuel D. Elmore December 29, 1868
Freeman O. Emerson
George C. Fairbanks
Thomas J. Fay April 24, 1879
Michael H. Fitzgerald
Clarence J. Fogg July 10, 1853
Charles R. Foote July 9, 1865
Nathan B. Foster
William F. Garcelon October 24, 1868
Charles M. Gardner
Joseph S. Gates October 3, 1856
William H. Gifford January 20, 1851
Edward W. Gleason
Jeremiah J. Good
Thomas J. Grady December 16, 1877
William J. Graham October 2, 1873
Luther C. Greenleaf
Hamlet S. Greenwood 1871
Julius Guild March 30, 1850
John W. Haigis July 31, 1881
Homer A. Hall November 24, 1871
James A. Halliday
Harry H. Ham
Oscar C. Hammarstrom October 18, 1877
Portus B. Hancock February 19, 1836
Bernard F. Hanrahan July 27, 1875
Frank O. Hardy
Edward F. Harrington (state representative) August 10, 1878
Melvin Haskell
Edward R. Hathaway
James A. Hatton
John J. Hayes October 14, 1875
William A. Hester
Lewis J. Hewitt February 13, 1870
William P. Hickey November 17, 1871
Frederic H. Hilton
Ernest E. Hobson September 29, 1878
Frank G. Hodskins December 26, 1876
William M. Hogan June 2, 1876
Henry E. Holbrook March 21, 1870
Joseph W. Holden October 10, 1867
Samuel M. Holman 1862
John P. Holmgren
Charles T. Holt August 1, 1845
Harry R. Holt
Edgar G. Holt
Frank A. Hosmer November 14, 1853
William T. Jeffrey January 23, 1876
Timothy J. Keefe
Sidney B. Keene January 10, 1861
James H. Kelly November 14, 1870
Frank D. Kemp June 9, 1862
Daniel W. Kendrick
Michael J. Kenney July 12, 1863
James W. Killam July 12, 1874
Orvis F. Kinney May 23, 1880
Edwin M. Kittredge September 27, 1872
James H. Knight October 11, 1876
Frederick S. Lane May 8, 1849
Louis F. R. Langelier
William F. Learned January 12, 1850
Louis Leland
Joseph Leonard
J. Henry Leonard September 18, 1879
Charles Lewin
Minot J. Lincoln
Martin Lomasney December 3, 1859
George E. Lovett February 27, 1849
John A. Lyman March 13, 1863
Jens J. Madsen October 9, 1869
Charles A. Malley January 22, 1876
David Mancovitz August 15, 1877
Charles H. Mansfield March 20, 1842
Matthew McCann 1863
Daniel J. McCarthy
Charles F. McCarthy August 15, 1876
Frederick T. McClatchey October 1, 1873
Thomas P. McDavitt
Philip J. McGonagle October 21, 1871
Andrew McTernen
Timothy J. Meade November 7, 1874
John F. Meehan November 24, 1875
Charles C. Mellen
James H. Mellen November 7, 1845
Julius Meyers December 6, 1854
Samuel H. Mildram
David T. Montague
William S. Moore February 23, 1843
Fred Moore April 4, 1874
Leslie K. Morse January 18, 1860
William G. Moseley (Massachusetts politician) October 31, 1858
Arthur L. Nason October 24, 1872
Malcolm Nichols May 8, 1876
William Niedner
Albin F. Nordbeck
James M. Noyes
William H. O'Brien September 9, 1864
J. Frank O'Brien January 6, 1879
James Oliver June 28, 1836
John E. Paige
Joseph A. Parks May 2, 1877
Louis E. Pattison December 30, 1843
Thomas Pattison January 20, 1854
Waldo H. Peirce
Harry A. Penniman
Laurence S. Perry
John H. Pickford September 9, 1849
Myron E. Pierce 1874
Robert E. Pollock October 23, 1851
Frank H. Pope March 7, 1854
James F. Powers October 1, 1872
Alfred J. Preece
Arthur Franklin Priest
Frank Elliot Prouty
Francis X. Quigley November 20, 1882
Martin Lewis Quinn January 19, 1862
Michael J. Reidy
Lyman M. Rice
Thomas P. Riley July 11, 1875
William M. Robinson July 21, 1875
John E. Rousmaniere
Ralph Sargent December 5, 1848
Harry E. Sargent
Amos T. Saunders
Michael J. Scully
Samuel A. Segee
Arthur L. Smith
Harry N. Stearns October 5, 1874
Elisha D. Stone
George Swann July 18, 1859
Claude H. Tarbox
James R. Tetler August 26, 1877
William R. Thomas September 24, 1871
John H. Thompson August 26, 1873
John F. Thompson May 25, 1866
James E. Tolman November 8, 1867
Robb dePeyster Tytus February 2, 1876
Charles L. Underhill July 20, 1867
Alton A. Upton
Charles F. Varnum June 28, 1846
Joseph Walker (Massachusetts speaker) 1865
Fred F. Walker
Joseph A. Wallis December 12, 1837
Thomas S. Walsh 1859
Fred P. Warner
Clarence A. Warren
Robert M. Washburn January 4, 1868
William L. Waugh
William E. Weeks 1880
Norman H. White December 25, 1871
Augustus L. Whitney June 19, 1845
Walter G. Whittemore
George A. Wilder
William B. Willcutt December 14, 1874
Isaac E. Willetts November 8, 1879
Thomas P. Wills
Roger Wolcott July 25, 1877
Russell A. Wood
Ernest W. Woodside

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. 1909.
  6. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1909" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

Further reading

  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1909, hdl:2452/429126
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1909, hdl:2452/73497