1872 Massachusetts legislature
The 93rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1872 during the governorship of Republican William B. Washburn.[5] Horace H. Coolidge served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford served as speaker of the House.[6][7]
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| Overview | |||||
| Legislative body | General Court | ||||
| Election | November 7, 1871 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 40 | ||||
| President | Horace H. Coolidge | ||||
| Party control | Republican (35 R, 0 D, 5 other)[1][2] | ||||
| House | |||||
| Members | 240 | ||||
| Speaker | John E. Sanford | ||||
| Party control | Republican (176 R, 0 D, 64 other)[1][3] | ||||
| Sessions | |||||
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Horace Coolidge, Senate president.
John Sanford, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1872.
Senators
| Image | Name [8] | Date of birth [9] | District | Party |
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Frederick Lothrop Ames | June 8, 1835 | ||
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Joseph Kelley Baker | 1827 | ||
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Andrew Jackson Bartholomew | 1834 | ||
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Alonzo Warren Boardman | 1828 | ||
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Charles Bradley | 1816 | ||
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Elisha Huntington Brewster | |||
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Erastus Payson Carpenter | November 23, 1822 | ||
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Isaac Henry Coe | 1818 | ||
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Horace Hopkins Coolidge | February 11, 1832 | ||
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Rufus Smith Frost | July 18, 1826 | ||
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Robert Oliver Fuller | 1829 | ||
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Newell Giles | 1818 | ||
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Samuel Moulton Griggs | 1822 | ||
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Orrin Hewes | 1833 | ||
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James Humphrey | 1819 | ||
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Francis Wayland Jacobs | 1837 | ||
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Robert Johnson | 1823 | ||
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William Henry Learnard | 1828 | ||
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George Walter Lobdell | 1823 | ||
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William Bennet Long | 1827 | ||
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Reuben Noble | 1820 | ||
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Lloyd Parsons | 1816 | ||
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Josiah Newton Pike | 1824 | ||
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Joseph Samson Potter | 1822 | ||
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George Francis Richardson | December 6, 1829 | ||
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Daniel Ephraim Safford | 1826 | ||
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George Sheldon | November 30, 1818 | ||
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William Lafayette Smith | 1824 | ||
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Charles Pickett Stickney | 1824 | ||
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John Kemble Tarbox | May 6, 1838 | ||
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Adin Thayer | 1828 | ||
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Shepard Thayer | 1827 | ||
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George Arnold Torrey | 1838 | ||
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Thomas Lafayette Wakefield | 1817 | ||
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Levi Wallace | 1831 | ||
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Baxter Dodridge Whitney | 1817 | ||
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James Scollay Whitney | May 19, 1811 | ||
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Rufus Dodd Woods | 1818 | ||
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David Titcomb Woodwell | 1820 | ||
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Carroll D. Wright | July 25, 1840 |
Representatives
| image | Name [8] | Date of birth [9] | District | Party |
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Milton Abbey | 1819 | ||
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John Henry Abbott | 1825 | ||
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Henry Sewall Adams | 1832 | ||
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William Augustus Adams | 1830 | ||
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William Hastings Aldrich | 1825 | ||
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Ephraim Allen | 1806 | ||
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Lafayette Anderson | 1824 | ||
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William Henry Anderson | 1836 | ||
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William Frederick Arnold | 1815 | ||
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William Markwick Ashby | 1821 | ||
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Oliver Ayers | 1821 | ||
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William Babbitt | 1817 | ||
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James Prentiss Bacheller | 1840 | ||
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Horace Clinton Bacon | 1824 | ||
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Andrew Jackson Bailey | 1840 | ||
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John Stanton Baldwin | 1834 | ||
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Edward Dana Bancroft | 1821 | ||
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Julius Kirkland Banister | 1833 | ||
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James Madison Barker | 1839 | ||
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Lewis Barnard | 1815 | ||
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George Bartholmesz | 1821 | ||
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George Hubert Bates | 1839 | ||
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Austin Williams Benton | 1818 | ||
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Alden Besse | 1821 | ||
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Edward Lyman Bigelow | 1839 | ||
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William Rufus Black | August 23, 1830 | ||
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George Baylis Blake | 1823 | ||
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John Williston Blaney | 1815 | ||
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William Edward Blunt | 1840 | ||
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James William Bradley | 1828 | ||
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Bowman Bigelow Breed | 1832 | ||
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Frederic Perry Brown | 1840 | ||
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Willard Augustus Brown | 1828 | ||
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Giles Edwin Brownell | 1819 | ||
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Henry Oliver Burr | 1829 | ||
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Seneca Burr | 1831 | ||
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Samuel Augustus Carlton | 1827 | ||
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Michael Carney | 1827 | ||
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Thomas Marshall Carter | July 17, 1832 | ||
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Erastus Chase | 1826 | ||
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John Cummings Choate | 1832 | ||
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John Henry Church | 1836 | ||
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Sumner Uriah Church | 1810 | ||
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George Washington Clark | 1836 | ||
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Nelson Cochran | 1824 | ||
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Charles Russell Codman | 1829 | ||
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John Bear Doane Cogswell | June 6, 1829 | ||
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Moses Rich Colman | 1806 | ||
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Chapin Converse | 1811 | ||
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Benjamin Hough Corliss | 1818 | ||
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Joseph Howland Cornell | March 23, 1818 | ||
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Joseph Henry Cotton | 1833 | ||
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Robert Couch | 1817 | ||
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Roswell P. Crafts | September 17, 1822 | ||
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Seth Brockway Crafts | 1844 | ||
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Freeborn Woodbury Cressy | 1839 | ||
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William Augustus Cressy | 1820 | ||
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Michael J. Croak | 1843 | ||
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Charles Curtis | 1836 | ||
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William Cushing | 1823 | ||
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Christopher Columbus Denny | 1813 | ||
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Elbridge Curtis Donnell | 1839 | ||
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Simeon Parker Dresser | 1845 | ||
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James Henry Durgin | 1833 | ||
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David Eastman | 1806 | ||
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George Henry Eddy | 1829 | ||
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Alfred Brewster Ely | 1817 | ||
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Augustus Bradford Endicott | September 10, 1818 | ||
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George Otis Fairbanks | 1815 | ||
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Henry Hardwick Faxon | 1823 | ||
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Hawkes Fearing | 1826 | ||
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Francis Fisher | 1811 | ||
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Jonathan Philbrick Folsom | October 9, 1820 | ||
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Job Gardner | |||
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Robert Folger Gardner | 1815 | ||
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John Gates | 1807 | ||
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Benjamin Whitney Gleason | 1806 | ||
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George Going | 1824 | ||
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Brownell Granger | 1835 | ||
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Edward Waldo Griggs | 1834 | ||
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Isaac Dennis Hall | 1807 | ||
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John Wilkes Hammond | 1837 | ||
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Charles Veranus Hanson | 1844 | ||
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Franklin Powers Harlow | December 8, 1827 | ||
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Southworth Harlow | 1824 | ||
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John Morton Harris | 1819 | ||
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Thomas Burdett Harris | 1825 | ||
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George Hatch | 1832 | ||
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Benjamin Franklin Hayes | July 3, 1835 | ||
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Horace Heard | 1804 | ||
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Horatio Brooks Hersey | 1823 | ||
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Lot Higgins | 1809 | ||
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Amos Hill | 1830 | ||
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Henry Bozyol Hill | 1823 | ||
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George Webster Hobbs | 1839 | ||
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Thomas Fry Holder | 1839 | ||
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Asa Alexander Holton | 1818 | ||
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Samuel Bugbee Hopkins | 1823 | ||
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Leverett Hopkinson | 1822 | ||
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Ezra Coffin Howard | September 1, 1831 | ||
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Jonas Elijah Howe | 1814 | ||
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Joseph Sidney Howe | 1832 | ||
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Emerson Harris Howland | 1846 | ||
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George Henry Hoyt | November 25, 1837 | ||
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Barney Hull | 1830 | ||
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George W. Humphrey | 1826 | ||
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Nathaniel Mayhew Jernegan | 1820 | ||
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Peter Rogers Johnson | 1824 | ||
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Henry Jones | 1821 | ||
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Horace Israel Joslin | 1836 | ||
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Timothy Keefe | 1839 | ||
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William Keith | 1810 | ||
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Albert Francis Kelley | 1840 | ||
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Jonas Kendall | 1804 | ||
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George Perry Kendrick | 1824 | ||
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Asa Keyes | 1805 | ||
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John White Kimball | February 27, 1828 | ||
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Moses Kimball | October 24, 1809 | ||
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Charles M. Kingsley | 1811 | ||
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Daniel Webster Knight | 1835 | ||
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William Knowlton | 1809 | ||
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John Augustus Lamson | 1831 | ||
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Almond Ring Lancaster | 1829 | ||
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Alvin Lawton | 1833 | ||
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Frederick Walker Lincoln | 1817 | ||
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Noah Lincoln | 1810 | ||
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Edward Payson Loring | 1837 | ||
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William Hamilton Loughlin | 1847 | ||
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Henry Bacon Lovering | April 8, 1841 | ||
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Alvin Marshall | 1815 | ||
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John McDuffie | 1828 | ||
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Anson McLoud | |||
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Christopher Columbus Merritt | September 29, 1830 | ||
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Ira Loriston Moore | 1824 | ||
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Benjamin Lyman Morrison | 1828 | ||
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Rice Shaw Munn | 1814 | ||
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John Joseph Murphy | 1842 | ||
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Patrick Murphy | 1837 | ||
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William Henry Murray | 1826 | ||
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John Newell | 1816 | ||
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Jeremiah Lemuel Newton | |||
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Curtis Coe Nichols | 1814 | ||
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Lewis Rufus Norton | 1821 | ||
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William Nutt | August 5, 1836 | ||
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Patrick O'Connor | 1842 | ||
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William Henry Osborne | 1840 | ||
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Liberty Dodge Packard | 1831 | ||
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Albert Palmer | January 17, 1831 | ||
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George Alanson Parker | 1821 | ||
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James Parker | 1815 | ||
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Ezra Parmenter | March 20, 1823 | ||
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Daniel Augustus Patch | 1832 | ||
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George Howe Peabody | 1838 | ||
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Edward Pearl | 1825 | ||
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George O. Peck | 1817 | ||
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Francis Ellis Pedrick | 1829 | ||
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Jesse Small Pendergrast | 1835 | ||
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Noah Cushman Perkins | 1810 | ||
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William Perkins | 1824 | ||
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Ellis Perry | 1809 | ||
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Ralph Perry | 1811 | ||
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Josiah Peterson | 1820 | ||
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John Wesley Phelps | 1844 | ||
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Willard Peele Phillips | 1825 | ||
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Charles Varnum Poor | 1817 | ||
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George Horace Poor | 1841 | ||
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Thomas Whittier Porter | 1820 | ||
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Burton Willis Potter | 1843 | ||
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Laban Pratt | 1829 | ||
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Artemus Conant Putnam | 1805 | ||
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Samuel Bell Quigley | 1821 | ||
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Samuel Miller Quincy | June 13, 1832 | ||
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Edward Benedict Rankin | 1846 | ||
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Joseph Henry Read | 1835 | ||
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John Wales Robinson | 1826 | ||
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John Randolph Rogerson | 1812 | ||
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Joseph Hubbard Root | 1823 | ||
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Isaac Newton Ross | 1824 | ||
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George Sanborn | 1816 | ||
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John Eliot Sanford | November 22, 1830 | ||
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Benjamin Franklin Sargent | 1813 | ||
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Irving Bertoldo Sayles | 1839 | ||
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Charles Augustus Sayward | 1837 | ||
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George Franklin Scribner | 1830 | ||
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Nathaniel Sears | 1825 | ||
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Robert Seaver | 1812 | ||
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George Atwood Shaw | 1816 | ||
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George Sheldon | 1817 | ||
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James Stratton Shepard | 1815 | ||
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Simon Harrison Sibley | 1816 | ||
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Reuben Sikes | 1824 | ||
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Albert Gallatin Sinclair | 1845 | ||
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David Nelson Skillings | 1818 | ||
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Charles Eber Slater | 1830 | ||
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George Fayette Slocomb | 1823 | ||
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Cyrus Burnet Smith | 1839 | ||
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John James Smith [10][11] | 1825 | ||
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Zoeth Snow | 1825 | ||
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Reuben Goodspeed Sparks | 1822 | ||
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Chauncey Loren Spear | 1819 | ||
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Henry Splaine | 1837 | ||
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Charles Stanwood | 1816 | ||
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Francis Dana Stedman | 1801 | ||
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William Stone | 1827 | ||
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Warner Claflin Sturtevant | 1809 | ||
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Charles H. Taylor | 1846 | ||
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William Taylor | 1831 | ||
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Eliphalet Loring Thayer | 1824 | ||
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Noah Blanchard Thayer | 1830 | ||
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William Henry Thomas | 1829 | ||
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Charles Perkins Thompson | July 7, 1827 | ||
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John Thomas Zebediah Thompson | 1811 | ||
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Charles Q. Tirrell | December 10, 1844 | ||
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Hugh James Toland | 1844 | ||
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Joseph Rice Torrey | 1828 | ||
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Edward Justus Tower | 1833 | ||
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George Edwin Towne | 1829 | ||
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Thomas Bush Tripp | 1838 | ||
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David Warren Tucker | 1820 | ||
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Obed Chester Turner | 1840 | ||
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William Upham | 1825 | ||
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Charles Folsom Walcott | December 22, 1836 | ||
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Ansel Hill Ward | 1837 | ||
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George Washington Ware | 1837 | ||
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Henry Stevenson Washburn | 1813 | ||
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Thomas Barstow Waterman | 1830 | ||
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Nathan Horace Webb | 1835 | ||
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Tisdale Sanford White | 1809 | ||
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William Henry Whitfield | November 11, 1804 | ||
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Frederick Theodore Whiting | 1825 | ||
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William Joseph Wightman | 1810 | ||
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Ludovicus French Wild | 1825 | ||
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Benjamin Franklin Wing | October 22, 1822 | ||
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Ezra Dyer Winslow | 1839 | ||
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Harding Woods | 1822 | ||
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Lyman Woodward | 1831 | ||
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Albert Judd Wright | |||
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Ira Berkeley Wright | 1830 | ||
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Walter Wyman | 1806 |
References
- Cornelius Dalton; John Wirkkala; Anne Thomas (1984). "Political Complexion of the General Court 1867-1980". Leading the Way: a History of the Massachusetts General Court, 1629-1980. Boston: Massachusetts Secretary of State. p. 441+. ISBN 0961391502.
- "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
- "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
- "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
- Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1872, 1872 – via Google Books
- "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
- "Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts". Massachusetts Register, 1872. Boston: Sampson, Davenport, & Company. 1872. p. 19+ – via Archive.org.
- Court, Massachusetts General (1872). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40650.
- "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1872" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
- Kaitlin Connolly (March 4, 2013), "Massachusetts Legislators: John James Smith", State Library of Massachusetts blog
- Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905
Further reading
- "Massachusetts". American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1872. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1873. (includes description of legislature)
External links
- Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1872, hdl:2452/619061
- Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1872, hdl:2452/92954
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