1873 Massachusetts legislature
The 94th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1873 during the governorship of Republican William B. Washburn. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford served as speaker of the House.[5]
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| Legislative body | General Court | ||||
| Election | November 5, 1872 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 40 | ||||
| President | George B. Loring | ||||
| Party control | Republican (39 R, 1 D)[1][2] | ||||
| House | |||||
| Members | 240 | ||||
| Speaker | John E. Sanford | ||||
| Party control | Republican (211 R, 24 D, 5 other)[1][3] | ||||
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George Loring, Senate president.
John Sanford, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1873.
Senators
| Image | Name [6] | Date of birth [7] | District | Party |
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Prentiss Chaffee Baird | 1832 | ||
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Joseph Kelley Baker | 1827 | ||
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Henry Lewis Bancroft | 1821 | ||
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Julius Kirkland Banister | 1833 | ||
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James Brown | 1828 | ||
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Erastus Payson Carpenter | November 23, 1822 | ||
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Jeremiah Clark | 1819 | ||
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Isaac Henry Coe | 1818 | ||
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Jedediah Dwelley | 1834 | ||
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Charles Howe French | 1814 | ||
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Robert Oliver Fuller | 1829 | ||
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Newell Giles | 1818 | ||
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Martin Griffin | 1825 | ||
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Samuel Moulton Griggs | 1822 | ||
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Nathan Williams Harmon | 1813 | ||
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Francis Wayland Jacobs | 1837 | ||
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Nathaniel Lafayette Johnson | 1822 | ||
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Robert Johnson | 1823 | ||
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Edward Lawrence | 1810 | ||
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William Henry Learnard | 1828 | ||
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Edward Learned | 1820 | ||
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George Walter Lobdell | 1823 | ||
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George B. Loring | November 8, 1817 | ||
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Moody Merrill | 1836 | ||
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Newton Morse | 1832 | ||
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Francis Augustus Nye | 1823 | ||
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Timothy Fairbanks Packard | 1812 | ||
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Lloyd Parsons | 1816 | ||
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Joseph Samson Potter | 1822 | ||
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Charles Pickett Stickney | 1824 | ||
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George Franklin Thompson | 1827 | ||
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John Douglas Todd | 1814 | ||
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George Arnold Torrey | 1838 | ||
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Levi Wallace | 1831 | ||
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Henry Stevenson Washburn | 1813 | ||
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William Whiting II | May 24, 1841 | ||
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George Danforth Whittle | 1838 | ||
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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 [6] | Date of birth [7] | District | Party |
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John Henry Abbott | 1825 | ||
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Wales Aldrich | 1811 | ||
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Francis Roberts Allen | 1817 | ||
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Walter Brown Allen | 1828 | ||
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Arlon Sabin Atherton | 1842 | Franklin county No. 1 | |
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Horace Clinton Bacon | 1824 | ||
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Aaron Bagg | 1810 | ||
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Andrew Jackson Bailey | 1840 | ||
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Nahum Bailey | 1823 | ||
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William Baker | 1821 | ||
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George Washington Bardwell | 1836 | Franklin county No. 4 | |
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James Madison Barker | 1839 | ||
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George Bartholmesz | 1821 | ||
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John Mason Batchelder | 1832 | ||
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Elijah Eastman Belding | 1813 | Franklin county No. 3 | |
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Ezekiel Dodge Bement | 1819 | Franklin county No. 5 | |
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Austin Williams Benton | 1818 | ||
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Edward Adams Berdge | 1829 | ||
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Hiram Berry | 1820 | ||
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Edward Lyman Bigelow | 1839 | ||
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John Bigelow | 1841 | ||
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Sanford Waters Billings | 1834 | ||
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William Rufus Black | August 23, 1830 | ||
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George Baylis Blake | 1823 | ||
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Peleg Blankinship | 1809 | ||
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William Edward Blunt | 1840 | ||
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Dennis Bonner | 1821 | ||
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Franklin Bonney | 1822 | ||
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Horace Leander Bowker | 1832 | ||
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James William Bradley | 1828 | ||
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Bowman Bigelow Breed | 1832 | ||
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Richard Francis Briggs | 1836 | ||
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Richard Britton | 1838 | ||
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Giles Edwin Brownell | 1819 | ||
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Moses Loring Buck | 1811 | ||
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William Henry Buck | 1818 | ||
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Addison Burnett | 1810 | ||
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Henry Burt | 1811 | ||
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Jacob Brown Calley | 1823 | ||
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Adam Capen | 1821 | ||
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Charles Victor Carpenter | 1830 | ||
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Sumner Carruth | December 22, 1834 | ||
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Henry Bedell Chamberlin | 1839 | ||
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Edward Whitman Chapin | 1840 | ||
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Elijah Horne Chisholm | 1824 | ||
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Albe Cady Clark | 1826 | ||
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Francis Warren Clark | 1829 | ||
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George Washington Clark | 1836 | ||
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Alfred Alonzo Clatur | 1835 | ||
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Charles Russell Codman | 1829 | ||
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John Bear Doane Cogswell | June 6, 1829 | ||
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John Swain Coney | 1823 | ||
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William Henry Cook | March 17, 1842 | ||
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George Copeland | 1837 | ||
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Robert Couch | 1817 | ||
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William Augustus Cressy | 1820 | ||
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Charles Crittenden | 1837 | Franklin county No. 4 | |
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George Glover Crocker | 1843 | ||
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Daniel Aloysius Cronin | 1846 | ||
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Joseph Warren Cross | 1808 | ||
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John Cummings | 1812 | ||
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Benjamin Connor Currier | 1822 | ||
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John Cushing | 1808 | ||
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William Frank Darby | 1838 | ||
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George Edmund Davis | 1827 | ||
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Joshua Wingate Davis | November 13, 1817 | ||
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George Jackson Dean | 1828 | ||
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William Dean | 1830 | ||
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Isaac Walker Derby | 1835 | ||
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Seymour Boughton Dewey | 1814 | ||
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Lewis J. Dudley | November 11, 1815 | ||
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Joseph Dyer | 1830 | ||
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Henderson Josiah Edwards | 1840 | ||
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Frederick David Ely | September 24, 1838 | ||
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Alonzo Hathaway Evans | February 24, 1820 | ||
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George Otis Fairbanks | 1815 | ||
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Caleb Clesson Field | 1810 | ||
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Harrison Otis Field | 1810 | ||
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John Hancock Fisher | 1807 | ||
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Eustace Carey Fitz | 1833 | ||
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John Edward Fitzgerald | 1844 | ||
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Thomas Francis Fitzgerald | 1848 | ||
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Daniel Coolidge Fletcher | 1829 | ||
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John Ware Fletcher | 1824 | ||
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Granville Edward Foss | August 16, 1842 | ||
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Hiram Munroe French | 1827 | ||
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William Frost | 1822 | ||
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Kirke Edwin Gardner | 1833 | ||
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John Gates | 1807 | ||
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Addison Gilbert | 1808 | ||
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Charles Albert Gleason | 1846 | ||
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Asa Holland Goddard | 1807 | ||
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Stephen Dwight Goddard | 1811 | ||
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Andrew Jackson Gove | 1834 | ||
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Brownell Granger | 1835 | ||
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Fitz Edward Griffin | 1840 | ||
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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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Simon Hardy | 1833 | ||
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George Henry Harlow | 1820 | ||
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David Phillips Hatch | 1814 | ||
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Austin Hawley | 1822 | ||
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Lewis Hayden[8] | December 2, 1811 | ||
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Benjamin Franklin Hayes | July 3, 1835 | ||
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Francis Brown Hayes | 1819 | ||
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Samuel Stone Haynes | 1822 | ||
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Benjamin Heath | 1821 | ||
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Samuel William Heath | 1804 | ||
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Lot Higgins | 1809 | ||
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Samuel Eldridge Hildreth | 1829 | ||
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Amos Hill | 1830 | ||
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Henry Bozyol Hill | 1823 | ||
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John Warren Hollis | 1812 | ||
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Charles Jarvis Holmes | 1834 | ||
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Lewis Holmes | 1806 | ||
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Samuel Bugbee Hopkins | 1823 | ||
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Emory Adams Howard | 1837 | ||
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David Porter Howes | 1815 | ||
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George Henry Hoyt | November 25, 1837 | ||
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Barney Hull | 1830 | ||
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Richard Hales Humphrey | 1829 | ||
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Ebenezer Atherton Hunt | January 26, 1826 | ||
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Thomas Prentiss Hurlbut | 1820 | ||
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Richardson Hutchinson | 1818 | ||
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Alexis W. Ide | 1826 | ||
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Thomas Ingalls | 1824 | ||
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Nathan Sumner Jenkins | 1820 | ||
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Jonathan Johnson | 1818 | ||
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Edward Jenkins Jones | 1822 | ||
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Thomas Milton Judd | 1840 | ||
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Jesse Edson Keith | 1824 | ||
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George Perry Kendrick | 1824 | ||
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William Reed Kentfield | 1814 | ||
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Lucius Woodman Knight | 1830 | ||
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Charles Rensselaer Ladd | April 9, 1822 | ||
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Noah Davis Ladd | 1820 | ||
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Almond Ring Lancaster | 1829 | ||
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George Young Learned | 1827 | ||
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Willard Lewis | 1808 | ||
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William Hamilton Loughlin | 1847 | ||
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George A. Marden | August 9, 1839 | ||
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Elijah Marion | 1812 | ||
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Albert Mason | 1836 | ||
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David Mayhew | 1834 | ||
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Edward McCleave | November 1, 1813 | ||
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Samuel Walton McDaniel | 1833 | ||
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John Brooks Moore | 1817 | ||
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Thomas Jones Morgan | 1823 | ||
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Charles William Morrill | 1839 | ||
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Asa Porter Morse | 1818 | ||
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Charles Dimock Morse | 1827 | ||
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Andrew Marathon Morton | 1839 | ||
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Lewis Rufus Norton | 1821 | ||
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John Adams Nowell | 1817 | ||
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Edward Ornan Noyes | 1840 | ||
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Weaver Osborn | 1815 | ||
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Hiram Packard | 1816 | ||
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Liberty Dodge Packard | 1831 | ||
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Albert Palmer | January 17, 1831 | ||
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John Barnard Parker | 1812 | ||
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William Crowell Parker | 1850 | ||
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Daniel Augustus Patch | 1832 | ||
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John Winslow Peirce | 1835 | ||
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John Perkins | 1825 | ||
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Charles Perley | 1823 | ||
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Henry Willis Phelps | 1830 | ||
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Calvin Tilden Phillips | 1836 | ||
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Willard Peele Phillips | 1825 | ||
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William Caldwell Plunkett | October 23, 1799 | ||
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Francis Edward Porter | 1824 | ||
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Rodolphus Porter | 1834 | ||
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George Purrington | 1829 | ||
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Joseph Henry Read | 1835 | ||
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John Warren Regan | 1833 | ||
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William Roberts | 1835 | ||
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Philip Henry Robinson | 1823 | ||
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George Thomas Ryder | 1827 | ||
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Stephen Decatur Salmon | 1845 | ||
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John Samson | 1821 | ||
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George Sanborn | 1816 | ||
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Edward Sanford | 1825 | ||
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John Eliot Sanford | November 22, 1830 | ||
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George Jedediah Sanger | 1826 | ||
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Joseph Leonard Sargent | 1829 | ||
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Amos Joseph Saunders | 1826 | ||
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Isaac Fessenden Sawtelle | August 1, 1816 | ||
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Augustus Jonathan Sawyer | 1816 | ||
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Roger Henry Scannell | 1837 | ||
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John Cleveland Scott | 1816 | ||
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Nathaniel Sears | 1825 | ||
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Nathan Beebe Seaver | 1822 | ||
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Robert Seaver | 1812 | ||
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Henry Perkins Shattuck | 1844 | ||
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James Bayard Shaw | 1837 | ||
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John Shaw | 1822 | ||
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Amos Wight Shumway | 1819 | ||
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Henry Clinton Skinner | 1824 | ||
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James Smith | 1831 | ||
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Joshua Bowen Smith[8] | 1813 | ||
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Zoeth Snow | 1825 | ||
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Augustus Lord Soule | April 19, 1827 | ||
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Reuben Goodspeed Sparks | 1822 | ||
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Henry Splaine | 1837 | ||
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Franklin Harvey Sprague | 1825 | ||
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Oliver Martin Stacey | 1816 | ||
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Francis Dana Stedman | 1801 | ||
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James Aaron Stetson | 1806 | ||
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William Stewart | 1820 | Franklin county No. 3 | |
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Thomas Newcomb Stone | 1818 | ||
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William B. Stone | January 24, 1811 | ||
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John Henry Studley | 1828 | ||
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Andrew Hodges Sweet | October 2, 1845 | ||
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Charles Talbot | 1811 | ||
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James Gamage Tarr | July 6, 1830 | ||
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William Taylor | 1831 | ||
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Eliphalet Loring Thayer | 1824 | ||
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Joseph Augustus Titus | 1838 | ||
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Hugh James Toland | 1844 | ||
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Marcus Truesdell | 1813 | ||
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Quincy Adams Vinal | 1826 | ||
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William Nathaniel Walker | 1823 | ||
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Rodney Wallace | December 21, 1823 | ||
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Andrew Jackson Waters | 1837 | ||
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Edward Fox Watson | 1807 | ||
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Timothy W. Wellington | 1811 | ||
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James Lyman White | 1821 | ||
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Tisdale Sanford White | 1809 | ||
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William Henry Whitfield | November 11, 1804 | ||
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George Henry Whitman | 1808 | ||
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Austin Whitney | 1817 | ||
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Robert Rich Wiley | 1828 | ||
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Henry Warren Wilson | 1834 | ||
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Benjamin Franklin Wing | October 22, 1822 | ||
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Ezra Dyer Winslow | 1839 | ||
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Samuel Winslow | 1827 | ||
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Oliver Wolcott | 1827 | ||
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Moses Davis Woodbury | 1821 | ||
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Elijah Nichols Woods | 1818 |
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+.
- "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
- Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1873. hdl:2452/40651.
- "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1873" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
- Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905
Further reading
- "Massachusetts". American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1873. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1874. (includes description of legislature)
External links
- Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1873, hdl:2452/619062 – via State Library of Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1873, hdl:2452/92955
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