1883 Massachusetts legislature

The 104th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1883 during the governorship of Benjamin Butler. George Glover Crocker served as president of the Senate and George A. Marden served as speaker of the House.[4]

104th
Massachusetts General Court
←103rd 105th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 7, 1882
Senate
Members40
PresidentGeorge Glover Crocker
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerGeorge A. Marden
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 5, 1883 (1883-01-05) – July 27, 1883 (1883-07-27) [3]
George Glover Crocker
George Crocker, Senate president.
George A. Marden
George Marden, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1883.

Senators
Senator District Hometown Party Since
Chas. H. Allen [5] 7th Middlesex
James S. Allen 2nd Plymouth
John R. Baldwin 1st Essex Lynn Democratic 1882
Alvan Barrus Hampshire
Charles P. Barton 3rd Worcester
Theodore C. Bates 4th Worcester
Edwin Bowley 5th Essex
George A. Bruce 1st Middlesex Somerville Republican 1882
George G. Crocker 4th Suffolk Boston Republican 1880
John W. Cummings 2nd Bristol Fall River
Benjamin F. Cutter 8th Suffolk
Lincoln Drake 1st Bristol
Knowles Freeman 1st Suffolk
Owen Galvin 3rd Suffolk Boston Democratic 1882
Charles F. Gerry 5th Middlesex Sudbury 1881
Onslow Gilmore 6th Middlesex
William H. Haile 1st Hampden Springfield Republican 1882
Dexter B. Hitchcock 2nd Hampden
George W. Johnson 2nd Worcester
Joseph P. Johnson Cape
Rufus Livermore Franklin
Warren E. Locke 2nd Norfolk
Edward P. Loring 5th Worcester
Benjamin S. Lovell 1st Norfolk
Peleg McFarlin 1st Plymouth
James A. McGeough 5th Suffolk
Walter N. Mason 4th Middlesex
James O. Parker 6th Essex
Charles B. Pratt 1st Worcester
Charles S. Randall 3rd Bristol New Bedford Republican 1882
David Randall 2nd Middlesex
Frederick S. Risteen 6th Suffolk
Charles A. Sayward 4th Essex
John M. Seeley South Berkshire
John H. Sherburne 2nd Suffolk
William Sparhawk 2nd Essex
Isaac A.S. Steele 3rd Essex
Foster E. Swift North Berkshire
Arthur W. Tufts 7th Suffolk
Henry J. Wells 3rd Middlesex

Representatives
  • Frank W. Adams [5]
  • John A. Aiken
  • Samuel N. Aldrich
  • Heman L. Allen
  • David L. Ambrose
  • Arlon S. Atherton
  • Francis S. Babbitt
  • Charles H. Baker
  • John I. Baker
  • George H. Ball
  • William A. Bancroft
  • Forrest E. Barker
  • George A. Barker
  • Charles T. Barnard
  • John S. Barton
  • George E. Batchelder
  • Butler Bates
  • Emory L. Bates
  • Theodore D. Beach
  • Charles D. Belden
  • Warren A. Bird
  • Nelson H. Bixby
  • Halsey J. Boardman
  • Horace L. Bowker
  • Bradford B. Briggs
  • Andrew C. Brigham
  • Andrew J. Browne
  • Benajah Bugbee
  • Charles C. Burr
  • Horace W Bush
  • Daniel Butler
  • Edward P. Butler
  • Thomas C. Butler
  • Jesse B. Butterfield
  • Hobart M. Cable
  • Benjamin F. Campbell
  • Rufus G. F. Candage
  • Alonzo A. Carr
  • Louis T. Cashing
  • George D. Chamberlain
  • Julius C. Chappelle[6]
  • John H. Cheever
  • William F. Chester
  • Aaron F. Clark
  • Charles N. Clark
  • Elijah C. Clark
  • George L. Clark
  • Wilder P. Clark
  • Daniel B. Cluff
  • Francis D. Cobb
  • Adams H. Cogswell
  • William Cogswell
  • Christopher P. Conlin
  • John P. Coombs
  • William A. Copeland
  • Michael W. Costello
  • John Courtney
  • George Cowdrey
  • George E. Craig
  • Cornelins F. Cronin
  • Solomon F. Cushman
  • James F. Davenport
  • Samuel M. Davis
  • James R. Denham
  • John Doherty
  • Daniel F. Dolan
  • Michael J. Dolan
  • Charles W. Donahoe
  • William L. Douglas
  • Rufus A. Dunham
  • James F. Dwinell
  • Warren Eames
  • Edmund T. Eastman
  • William N. Eaton
  • James R. Entwistle
  • George A. O. Ernst
  • Jeremiah G. Fennessey
  • Oliver G. Fernald
  • Henry G. B. Fisher
  • David Fisk
  • Patrick E. Foley
  • Joshua T. Foster
  • William W. Foster
  • Clarendon A. Freeman
  • Josiah Freeman
  • William H. Frizzell
  • Charles Fuller
  • Warren D. Fuller
  • Frank H. Gaffney
  • John W. Gifford
  • Dennis Gilmartin
  • Jacob Gimlich
  • Edward Glines
  • Allen W. Goodman
  • William Gordon, Jr
  • Jesse M. Gove
  • Thomas J. Hall
  • George A. Harden
  • Fred M. Harrub
  • Harris C. Hartwell
  • John E. Hayes
  • Allen Higginbottom
  • Edwin A. Hildreth
  • Edwin N, Hill
  • Caleb Holbrook
  • John Hopkins
  • Erastus Howes
  • Lewis W. Howes
  • Charles W. Howland
  • Sabin Hubbard
  • Samuel C Hunt
  • George L Huntoon
  • Charles C. Hutchinson
  • John Jackson
  • Joseph Jacobs, Jr
  • Luman T. Jefts
  • Herbert C. Joyner
  • Joseph J. Kelley
  • George Kellog
  • William Kilduff
  • D. Frank Kimball
  • William R. Kimball
  • Chester W. Kingsley
  • George E. Kniffin
  • Charles H. Knox
  • George A. Lackey
  • Abraham J. Lamb
  • Omon H. Lawrence
  • George E. Learnard
  • John W. Leighton
  • Job M. Leonard
  • Edwin Leonard, 2d
  • Charles S. Lincoln
  • Solomon Linnell, 2d
  • George W. Littlefield
  • Charles S. Lord
  • Charles A. Mackintosh
  • John G. Maguire
  • Patrick H. Manning
  • Charles B. Martin
  • Henry B. Martin
  • Thomas Martin
  • James H. Mason
  • Martin S. McCormick
  • Patrick F. McDonald
  • Patrick F. McGaragle
  • John A. McLaughlin
  • Arthur F. Means
  • William R. Melden
  • James H. Mellen
  • Charles H. Miller
  • John D. Miller
  • Eugene M. Moriarty
  • Alva S. Morrison
  • Bushrod Morse
  • Leonard T. Morse
  • Jeremiah H. Mullane
  • John R. Murphy
  • Jesse L. Nason
  • Charles S. Newell
  • Henry S. Nourse
  • Francis O'Brien
  • David F. O'Connell
  • John Olmsted
  • John L. Parker
  • Walter O. Parker
  • William G. A. Pattee
  • W. Scott Peabody
  • Herbert L. Peck
  • Francis E. Pedrick
  • Isaac F. B. Perry
  • Edwin L. Pilsbury
  • Burton W. Potter
  • Richman H. Potter
  • Lyman K. Putney
  • Charles L. Randall
  • John Reade
  • Charles M. Reed
  • Enos H. Reynolds
  • Samuel I. Rice
  • Charles W. Richardson
  • David Richardson
  • Orlando G. Robinson
  • Charles H. Rowland
  • Wingate P. Sargent
  • Leonard A. Saville
  • William H. Sayward
  • William A. Searell
  • Michael Sexton
  • Edward H. Shaw
  • Pliny M. Shaylor
  • Thomas C. Simpson
  • Edward E. Small
  • Charles Smith
  • George E. Smith
  • Joel Smith
  • Edmund F. Snow
  • Henry H. Sprague
  • Samuel Staples
  • Charles D. Starbird
  • John B. Stebbins
  • Marquis D. F. Steere
  • Alonzo J. Stetson
  • George F. Stetson
  • Sprague S. Stetson
  • Levi Stockbridge
  • T. Dwight Stow
  • Dwight W. Streeter
  • Dennis A. Sullivan
  • Albert H. Sweetser
  • James W. Switzer
  • James Tarone
  • John Tilley
  • Charles A. Towne
  • Albert Tyler
  • Daniel H. Varnum
  • Aaron G. Walker
  • Henry L. Warfield
  • John F. Warner
  • Franklin I. Webster
  • Amerrcus Welch
  • Daniel W. Wells
  • Thomas Weston, Jr
  • Charles Wheeler
  • Henry J. White
  • John Whitehill
  • Arthur F. Whitin
  • Albert T. Whiting
  • William Whitmarsh
  • William H. Whitney
  • Thomas P. Wiggins
  • Ansel F. Wildes
  • John W. Wilkinson
  • Fred. H. Williams
  • John S. Williams
  • Edmund B. Willson
  • Roger Wolcott
  • John H. 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. Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1883.
  6. Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905

Further reading
  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1883, hdl:2452/619072
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1883, hdl:2452/89619


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