1914 Massachusetts legislature

135th
Massachusetts General Court
←134th 136th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 4, 1913
Senate
Members40
PresidentCalvin Coolidge
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerGrafton D. Cushing
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 7, 1914 (1914-01-07) – July 7, 1914 (1914-07-07) [3]
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, Senate president.
Grafton D. Cushing
Grafton D. Cushing, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1914.

The 135th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1914 during the governorship of David I. Walsh. Calvin Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Grafton D. Cushing served as speaker of the House.[4]

Committees

  • Joint committees: Agriculture; Banks and Banking; Cities; Constitutional Amendments; Counties; Education; Election Laws; Federal Relations; Fisheries and Game; Harbors and Public Lands; Insurance; Labor; Legal Affairs; Mercantile Affairs; Metropolitan Affairs; Military Affairs; Municipal Finance; Public Health; Public Institutions; Public Lighting; Public Service; Railroads; Roads and Bridges; Social Welfare; State House and Libraries; Street Railways; Taxation; Towns; Water Supply.[5]
  • Senate committees: Bills in the Third Reading; Engrossed Bills; Judiciary; Rules; Ways and Means.[5]
  • House committees: Bills in the Third Reading; Elections; Engrossed Bills; Judiciary; Pay-Roll; Rules; Ways and Means.[5]

Senators

image name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
Edward C. R. Bagley 1st Suffolk
William A. L. Bazeley 1872
William A. Bellamy
Alexis Boyer Jr. January 17, 1875
John P. Brennan March 1, 1876
James Henry Brennan December 21, 1888
Charles E. Burbank
Arthur Preston Chase January 25, 1866
Ezra W. Clark October 12, 1842
Calvin Coolidge July 4, 1872
Charles M. Cox
Charles A. Dean March 26, 1856
Andrew P. Doyle August 15, 1869
Henry J. Draper
Charles W. Eldridge October 16, 1877
Edward Fisher
Redmond S. Fitzgerald
Charles L. Gifford March 15, 1871
Gurdon W. Gordon
William P. Hickey November 17, 1871
Frederic H. Hilton
Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr. October 1, 1878
Francis J. Horgan
Charles Cabot Johnson December 9, 1876
Louis F. R. Langelier
Joseph Leonard
John H. Mack
Charles F. McCarthy August 15, 1876
Philip J. McGonagle October 21, 1871
Walter E. McLane
Malcolm Nichols May 8, 1876
C. Augustus Norwood
Hugh O'Rourke
John F. Sheehan
Edward N. Sibley
James R. Tetler August 26, 1877
James P. Timilty March 28, 1865
Charles E. Ward
Henry Gordon Wells October 12, 1879
Lombard Williams

Representatives

image name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
Essex S. Abbott
Henry Achin Jr. June 30, 1883
Timothy J. Ahern 1885
Frank P. Allen August 1, 1869
John A. Anderson
Henry L. Andrews
Oscar E. Arkwell
William M. Armstrong August 17, 1850
Charles N. Atwood
James J. Bacigalupo
James T. Bagshaw
Samuel H. Bailey
James F. Barry December 4, 1857
Joseph L. Barry
Irving F. Batchelder
Sanford Bates July 17, 1884
John E. Beck May 10, 1869
Everett E. Belding February 15, 1879
Edward P. Bennett
Enos H. Bigelow
Edward C. Bodfish
William Booth June 21, 1862
Henry E. Bothfeld March 4, 1859
Arthur Bower
Eden K. Bowser
Patrick H. Boyle December 20, 1850
Alvah J. Bradstreet
John W. Brennan
George E. Briggs May 3, 1873
Vincent Brogna
Daniel J. Buckley
Morton Henry Burdick
Frederic W. Burke
Frederick H. Burke
Frederick Butler
Matthew J. Carbary
Julius F. Carman August 7, 1861
William E. Carney January 16, 1878
Maurice Caro
Peter Carr May 2, 1883
Edward Carr December 18, 1868
Andrew A. Casassa
Thomas J. Casey
Allison G. Catheron June 26, 1878
George Dudley Chamberlain
Cleaveland A. Chandler
Daniel J. Chapman January 18, 1878
Edward Earl Chapman
John W. Churchill November 17, 1853
Eben S. Cobb
James Coffey May 17, 1849
Samuel I. Collins March 4, 1851
Timothy C. Collins
Walter L. Collins
John P. Conroy
D. Herbert Cook June 2, 1851
Thomas J. Cooley
Michael H. Cotter
John J. Courtney
Walter D. Cowls
Channing H. Cox October 28, 1879
William N. Cronin
Fred Wilder Cross September 15, 1868
John E. Cuddy, Jr.
John J. Cummings
Herbert E. Cummings
Patrick J. Curley
George E. Curran
Rudolph W. Currier
John A. Curtin April 3, 1870
Grafton D. Cushing August 4, 1864
Edward N. Dahlborg
Edward J. Dailey
Charles Robert Damon June 21, 1864
Albert M. Darling
Alfred Davenport
Samuel Davis June 4, 1866
Theodore H. Day
Frederick S. Delafield
John F. Doherty June 9, 1881
William H. Dolben January 23, 1878
John A. Donoghue
John L. Donovan June 3, 1876
George E. Dow
Thomas E. Dowd
William F. Doyle
George P. Drury
Frank B. Edgell
George H. Ellis October 3, 1848
John Ennis
Frank S. Farnsworth
George W. Faulkner January 24, 1874
Frederick B. Felton
Alfred N. Fessenden
Joseph La Flamme
John T. Flanagan May 25, 1869
John J. Fleming
Maurice R. Flynn July 28, 1889
Elmer G. Fosgate
James Eugene Fowle November 22, 1880
Harvey E. Frost October 2, 1875
John J. Gilbride
William L. F. Gilman
Thomas A. Glennon
John L. G. Glynn
Arthur G. Greaney
Fred Parker Greenwood
James F. Griffin January 19, 1884
Harold P. Gurney
William N. Hackett
Benjamin F. Haines November 25, 1876
Edward M. Hall
John Halliwell February 21, 1864
Bernard F. Hanrahan July 27, 1875
Leo M. Harlow
Stephen H. Harrington
Edward F. Harrington (state representative) August 10, 1878
James L. Harrop
George Fred Hart November 9, 1859
John F. Hatch Jr.
Martin Hays October 14, 1876
Thomas A. Henry
William Edward Hickey
Matthew A. Higgins
Albert Holway
John B. Hull Jr. July 17, 1871
Frederick W. Hurlburt
James M. Hurley
Victor Francis Jewett
Jeremiah J. Kelley
William W. Kennard
James T. Kenney June 20, 1870
Michael B. Kenney
John R. Kiggins
Charles A. Kimball
Richard Knowles
Joseph O. Knox
Charles S. Lawler
Francis X. Le Boeuf
Fred Oliver Lewis June 12, 1878
E. Ellsworth Lincoln
Amos R. Little
Stuart L. Little
Martin Lomasney December 3, 1859
Henry Follansbee Long
William J. Look June 20, 1867
Frederick H. Lucke
John J. Lydon
James MacFarlane Lyle
John H. Lynch October 28, 1884
Frederick H. Magison
John C. Mahoney
Henry J. Mahoney
Daniel C. Manning
Frank A. Manning
George E. Mansfield
Joseph W. Martin Jr. November 3, 1884
Orion T. Mason
Alfred E. McCleary
Leo F. McCullough
Joseph S. McDonough
Moses H. McGaughey December 27, 1880
Charles H. McGlue
Michael F. McGrath
James H. McInerney December 13, 1871
Henry J. McLaughlin
Edward F. McLaughlin June 6, 1883
P. Joseph McManus
William M. McMorrow
Timothy J. Meade November 7, 1874
John Mitchell September 4, 1877
Charles H. Morrill October 6, 1874
George Frederick Morse Jr. 1885
Frank Mulveny
Edward P. Murphy
James J. Murphy February 11, 1885
Dennis A. Murphy September 26, 1876
Patrick E. Murray August 22, 1869
William J. Naphen
Ken Nash
Arthur N. Newhall
Thomas A. Niland June 11, 1873
James T. O'Dowd
Ambrose F. Ogden
John N. Osborne January 28, 1853
Harry B. Parker
Chauncey Pepin
Edward Howland Perry
Immanuel Pfeiffer Jr.
James E. Phelan October 21, 1884
Eben F. Phillips
William H. Poole
Winfield F. Prime November 22, 1860
Charles W. Proctor
Herbert L. Ray
John J. Reilly
Frank B. Rich
Robert Robinson January 4, 1889
William M. Robinson July 21, 1875
Walter F. Russell
John D. Ryan July 30, 1868
Clifford B. Sanborn
Edward Julius Sandberg October 21, 1866
Roland D. Sawyer January 8, 1874
Henry H. Sears
John Francis Sheehan August 25, 1879
John H. Sherburne 1877
Ralph M. Smith
Jerome S. Smith
Fitz-Henry Smith Jr.
William O. Souther Jr.
Charles Elmer Stanwood
Joseph Fayette Stone February 8, 1858
Merrill E. Streeter
John F. Sullivan May 17, 1875
Lewis R. Sullivan
Michael T. Sullivan
David F. Sullivan
Peter Francis Tague June 4, 1871
John G. Tilden
James E. Tolman November 8, 1867
Nathan A. Tufts April 15, 1879
James J. Twohig September 26, 1886
George J. Wall
Henry W. Warner November 12, 1858
Joseph E. Warner May 16, 1884
Robert M. Washburn January 4, 1868
Charles H. Waterman
George Pearl Webster January 9, 1877
Charles H. Webster
Thomas W. White January 10, 1876
Herbert A. Wilson November 27, 1870
Thomas E. P. Wilson
Herbert Wing
Abel S. Wolfe
George M. Worrall
Henry D. Wright

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 d e Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1914.
  6. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1914" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

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 (1913), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1914, hdl:2452/43505
  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1914, hdl:2452/393332
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1914, hdl:2452/73502