1915 Massachusetts legislature

The 136th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1915 during the governorship of David I. Walsh. Calvin Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Channing H. Cox served as speaker of the House.[4]

136th
Massachusetts General Court
←135th 137th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 3, 1914
Senate
Members40
PresidentCalvin Coolidge
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerChanning H. Cox
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 6, 1915 (1915-01-06) – June 4, 1915 (1915-06-04) [3]
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, Senate president.
Channing H. Cox
Channing Cox, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1915.

Senators
image name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 Edward C. R. Bagley
Frank Bartlett
Sanford Bates July 17, 1884 9th Suffolk
 William A. L. Bazeley 1872
Charles Sumner Beal August 14, 1856
James W. Bean May 11, 1866
James F. Cavanagh
Ezra W. Clark October 12, 1842
Calvin Coolidge July 4, 1872
Herbert E. Cummings
Andrew P. Doyle August 15, 1869
Charles W. Eldridge October 16, 1877
George H. Ellis October 3, 1848
Frank S. Farnsworth
Wilton B. Fay
Redmond S. Fitzgerald
Julius Garst
Charles L. Gifford March 15, 1871
Gurdon W. Gordon
James I. Green April 9, 1885
John W. Haigis July 31, 1881
Martin Hays October 14, 1876
Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr. October 1, 1878
George H. Jackson March 9, 1865
Charles A. Kimball
Louis F. R. Langelier
Joseph Leonard
George Edward Marchand December 22, 1877
Joseph W. Martin Jr. November 3, 1884
Orion T. Mason
Philip J. McGonagle October 21, 1871
Walter E. McLane
C. Augustus Norwood
E. Howard Perley
John F. Sheehan
William J. Sullivan April 14, 1865
James R. Tetler August 26, 1877
James P. Timilty March 28, 1865
Nathan A. Tufts April 15, 1879
Henry Gordon Wells October 12, 1879

Representatives
image name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 Essex S. Abbott
Henry Achin Jr. June 30, 1883
Austin Flint Adams 3rd Worcester
 J. Weston Allen April 19, 1872
Charles H. Annis January 12, 1869
William M. Armstrong August 17, 1850
Harrison Henry Atwood August 26, 1863
James T. Bagshaw
Samuel H. Bailey
Edmund Baker
Philip Hosmer Ball
Arthur W. Barker
Joseph L. Barry
William J. Barry 1861
Addison P. Beardsley
Joseph Belcher
Joseph J. Benson
Jacob Bitzer January 16, 1865
Thomas William Blanchard
Alvin E. Bliss
Henry E. Bothfeld March 4, 1859
Arthur Bower
Eden K. Bowser
Thomas H. Brennan
James J. Brennan May 2, 1882
Fred Johnson Brown
Daniel J. Buckley
George Bunting August 31, 1868
Frederic W. Burke
Arthur E. Burr
Frederick Butler
Fred E. Cady
Matthew J. Carbary
Julius F. Carman August 7, 1861
Maurice Caro
Peter Carr May 2, 1883
Andrew A. Casassa
Daniel W. Casey
Allison G. Catheron June 26, 1878
George Dudley Chamberlain
Albert Minot Chandler
Edward Earl Chapman
John W. Churchill November 17, 1853
A. Schuyler Clapp
Frederic F. Clauss
James Coffey May 17, 1849
Arthur Willard Colburn December 1, 1877
Benjamin G. Collins
Samuel I. Collins March 4, 1851
D. Herbert Cook June 2, 1851
Thomas J. Cooley
Michael H. Cotter
John J. Courtney
Walter D. Cowls
George H. Creighton
William N. Cronin
Burton H. Crosby
Fred Wilder Cross September 15, 1868
John T. Crowley November 15, 1872
Patrick J. Curley
George E. Curran
Edward J. Dailey
Samuel Davis June 4, 1866
Ernest F. Davis
Theodore H. Day
William Abner Dodge
John F. Doherty June 9, 1881
Peter J. Donaghue
William J. Donahoe
Joseph Joyce Donahue
John A. Donoghue
John L. Donovan June 3, 1876
Thomas E. Dowd
Aaron Coolidge Dowse
George P. Drury
Dennis Francis Duggan
Frank B. Edgell
Carl C. Emery November 4, 1888
Charles A. Ericson
John G. Faxon
Frederick B. Felton
Horace F. Field
Joseph La Flamme
Maurice R. Flynn July 28, 1889
William J. Foley March 2, 1887
Harry C. Foster August 27, 1871
Harvey E. Frost October 2, 1875
Charles Benjamin Frothingham November 11, 1858
Alvan T. Fuller February 27, 1878
Howard F. Furness
Charles F. Garrity
Harry C. Gates
Joseph S. Gates October 3, 1856
John Mellen Gibbs
Thomas J. Giblin
John J. Gilbride
Joseph P. Good
Shirley P. Graves
Fred Parker Greenwood
Edgar H. Hall
John Halliwell February 21, 1864
Edward F. Harrington (state representative) August 10, 1878
James L. Harrop
George F. Hart November 9, 1859
John F. Hatch Jr.
Matthew A. Higgins
Albert Holway
John C. Hull (politician) November 1, 1870
Charles N. James September 3, 1853
Victor Francis Jewett
John Joseph Kearney
Thomas R. Kelley
Jeremiah J. Kelly
William W. Kennard
Robert T. Kent
Richard Knowles
Joseph O. Knox
Louis LaDame
Arthur F. Lamb
Francis X. Le Boeuf
George B. Leonard
John N. Levins
Fred Oliver Lewis June 12, 1878
E. Ellsworth Lincoln
George A. Lindberg
Martin Lomasney December 3, 1859
Henry Follansbee Long
Frederick H. Lucke
James MacFarlane Lyle
Frank E. Lyman September 15, 1866
John H. Lynch October 28, 1884
Frederick William MacKenzie
James E. MacPherson
Frederick H. Magison
John P. Mahoney May 26, 1888
Michael F. Malone
Frank A. Manning
Felix A. Marcella
John L. Mather
John Edwin Maybury
John Henry McAllister
John F. McCarthy
Charles H. McGlue
Joseph McGrath (American politician) December 20, 1890
Orlando McKenzie
Jared B. McLane
Henry J. McLaughlin
Edward F. McLaughlin June 6, 1883
William M. McMorrow
Michael J. McNamee
Samuel H. Mildram
John Mitchell September 4, 1877
John L. Monahan
Wesley E. Monk August 1, 1874
Alfred James Moore August 7, 1891
Charles H. Morrill October 6, 1874
Edward G. Morris
George D. Morse
Hugh E. Mullen
Thomas B. Mulvehill
Frank Mulveny
John J. Murphy March 26, 1889
Dennis A. Murphy September 26, 1876
Edward P. Murphy
James J. Murphy February 11, 1885
Patrick E. Murray August 22, 1869
David W. Murray September 9, 1874
Ken Nash
Arthur N. Newhall
John P. Nickerson
Francis Norwood
Edward H. Nutting July 6, 1869
James T. O'Dowd
Joseph A. Oakhem
Ambrose F. Ogden
John N. Osborne January 28, 1853
James Goodridge Page
Peter C. Paradis
John H. Parker August 27, 1859
Chauncey Pepin
Edward Howland Perry
Joseph H. Perry May 4, 1869
Joseph C. Perry May 1, 1856
Immanuel Pfeiffer Jr.
James E. Phelan October 21, 1884
James Tracy Potter January 26, 1870
Winfield F. Prime November 22, 1860
Martin Lewis Quinn January 19, 1862
Albert T. Quiry
George J. Rabouin
Cyril R. Read
Dennis F. Reardon
John J. Reilly
William C. Renne
Robert Robinson January 4, 1889
William M. Robinson July 21, 1875
Silas B. Root
Charles Freeman Rowley
G. Oscar Russell
Walter F. Russell
John D. Ryan July 30, 1868
Edward Julius Sandberg October 21, 1866
Alfred Santosuosso
Joseph A. Saunders
Roland D. Sawyer January 8, 1874
C. Burnside Seagrave
John Francis Sheehan August 25, 1879
John Henry Sherburne 1877
Michael J. Sherry
Allston M. Sinnott
Jerome S. Smith
Fitz-Henry Smith Jr.
Ralph M. Smith
William O. Souther Jr.
Charles Elmer Stanwood
Joseph Fayette Stone February 8, 1858
Merrill E. Streeter
Denis J. Sullivan July 24, 1889
Lewis R. Sullivan
William H. Sullivan February 20, 1869
John F. Sullivan May 17, 1875
Edmond P. Talbot 1884
Warren E. Tarbell
James E. Tolman November 8, 1867
George J. Wall
Joseph E. Warner May 16, 1884
Robert M. Washburn January 4, 1868
George B. Waterman
Samuel W. Weare
Thomas Weston, Jr
Hartley L. White
George A. Whitney
Edgar H. Whitney
Herbert A. Wilson November 27, 1870
Herbert Wing
Walter Edgar Wolfe
Harry C. Woodill
George M. Worrall

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. 2005. p. 338+.
  5. Who's Who in State Politics. Boston: Practical Politics. 1915.
  6. "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1915" (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 (1914), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1915, hdl:2452/43506
  • Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1915. hdl:2452/40693.
  • Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators: 1915. A. M. Bridgman. 1915. hdl:2452/43361.
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