1874 Massachusetts legislature

The 95th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1874 during the governorships of William B. Washburn and Thomas Talbot. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford served as speaker of the House.[4][5]

95th
Massachusetts General Court
←94th 96th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 4, 1873
Senate
Members40
PresidentGeorge B. Loring
Party controlRepublican[1]
House of Representatives
Members240
SpeakerJohn E. Sanford
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 7, 1874 (1874-01-07) – June 30, 1874 (1874-06-30)[3]
George B. Loring
George Loring, Senate president.
John Eliot Sanford
John Eliot Sanford, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1874.

Senators
Image Name [6] Date of birth [7] District Party
 David Aiken 1804 Franklin
Horace Clinton Bacon 1824 3rd Essex
Andrew Jackson Bailey 1840 1st Middlesex
Prentiss Chaffee Baird 1832 Berkshire and Hampshire
Henry Lewis Bancroft 1821 3rd Worcester
Julius K. Banister 4th Suffolk
Nathaniel P. Banks January 30, 1816 2nd Middlesex
Brooks Trull Batcheller 1813 6th Middlesex
Erastus P. Carpenter November 23, 1822 3rd Norfolk
Jedediah Dwelley 1834 Norfolk and Plymouth
Francis Edson 1823 Hampshire
Charles Fitz 1806 5th Essex
Charles Howe French 1814 2nd Norfolk
Henry Fuller 1825 2nd Hampden
Jeremiah Gatchell 1834 2nd Worcester
John A. Hawes 1823 2nd Bristol
Francis B. Hayes 1819 2nd Suffolk
Thomas Prentiss Hurlbut 1820 5th Middlesex
Thomas Ingalls 1824 1st Essex
Francis Wayland Jacobs 1837 3rd Suffolk
Nathaniel Lafayette Johnson 1822 4th Worcester
Jonathan A. Lane 1822 5th Suffolk
Edward Howard Lathrop 1838 1st Hampden
Edward Learned 1820 Berkshire
George B. Loring November 8, 1817 2nd Essex
William Croade Lovering February 25, 1835 1st Bristol
Walter Neal Mason 1824 4th Middlesex
Moody Merrill 1836 1st Norfolk
Amasa Norcross January 26, 1824 5th Worcester
Francis Augustus Nye 1823 Island
Ezra Parmenter March 20, 1823 3rd Middlesex
Edward Payson Reed 1836 2nd Plymouth
William Francis Salmon 1831 7th Middlesex
Charles Pickett Stickney 1824 3rd Bristol
Thomas Newcomb Stone 1818 Cape
Hugh James Toland 1844 6th Suffolk
George F. Verry July 14, 1826 1st Worcester
Zenas Caldwell Wardwell 1831 4th Essex
Henry Stevenson Washburn 1813 1st Suffolk
Tisdale Sanford White 1809 1st Plymouth

Representatives
image Name [6] Date of birth [7] District Party
 William A. Abbott 1834
John Quincy Adams II September 22, 1833
William Augustus Adams 1830
Charles Alden 1819
Andrew Athy 1832
Joseph Edmond Bailey 1839
Emory Banister 1809
Patrick Barry 1834
George Bartholmesz 1821
William Garry Bassett 1843
John Henry Bell 1829
John Bigelow 1841
Samuel Partridge Billings 1819
Sanford Waters Billings 1834
Robert Roberts Bishop March 13, 1834
Stephen Francis Blaney 1844
Richard Delano Blinn 1831
John Cutter Blood 1836
William Edward Blunt 1840
Enos Watson Boise 1840
Dennis Bonner 1821
Frederick Lincoln Bosworth 1836
Samuel Hyde Boutwell 1838
Reuben Boynton 1815
Shubael Wilmarth Brayton 1822
Richard Britton 1838
William Blanchard Brown 1821
James Needham Buffum 1807
Stillman Butterworth 1817
Aaron Ozias Buxton 1832
James Hazen Carleton 1818
Alonzo Augustus Carr 1836
Cyrus William Chapman 1813
Damon Ebenezer Cheney 1828
Elijah Horne Chisholm 1824
Albe Cady Clark 1826
Francis Elliot Clark 1830
Alfred Alonzo Clatur 1835
Charles R. Codman 1829
Lansing James Cole 1803
Patrick Collins 1830
Austin Henry Connell 1846
Henry Joseph Couch 1831
Jeremiah William Coveney 1840
George Glover Crocker 1843
John Addison Cummings 1838
John Cummings 1812
Benjamin Connor Currier 1822
Francis Chester Curtis 1836
John Cushing 1808
Levi Lincoln Cushing 1825
Thomas Seabury Cushman 1809
Timothy John Dacey 1849
Curtis Davis 1814
Henry Charles Davis 1843
John Davol 1822
Isaac Walker Derby 1835
Edward Dickinson 1803
Jarvis Nelson Dunham 1828
Edward Eaton 1818
Joseph Merrill Eaton 1834
Lucian Farnham Eldridge 1839
Augustus Bradford Endicott September 10, 1818
James Edward Estabrook
George Otis Fairbanks 1815
John Brooks Fairbanks 1822
Caleb Clesson Field 1810
John Hancock Fisher 1807
Joseph Emery Fiske 1839
Eustace Carey Fitz 1833
John Edward Fitzgerald 1844
Thomas Francis Fitzgerald 1848
John Ware Fletcher 1824
William Frost 1822
Asabel Gates 1827
George Samuel Gates 1817
Thomas Gates 1822
Ziba Gay 1823
William Benedict Gibson 1819
Addison Gilbert 1808
John James Giles 1810
Samuel Slocum Ginnodo 1816
Samuel Staples Gleason 1841
Levi Lincoln Goodspeed 1822
Elbridge Henry Goss 1830
Andrew Jackson Gove 1834
Brownell Granger 1835
Francis Edward Gray 1844
Charles Hale June 7, 1831
Gayton Montgomery Hall 1835
Nahum Bathrick Hall 1823
Solomon Eldridge Hallett 1833
Abraham Wilkinson Harris 1829
Joshua Prentiss Haskell 1835
Horace Haskins 1829
John Ferguson Haskins 1831
Benjamin Franklin Hayes
Samuel Morse Haynes 1833
Benjamin Heath 1821
Allen Higginbottom 1826
James Edward Hill 1838
John Beckford Hill 1824
Joseph Warren Hill 1837
George Hodges 1822
Norton Eugene Hollis 1840
Theodore Myers House 1840
Benjamin Howard 1819
Andrew Howes 1826
David Porter Howes 1815
Francis M. Hughes 1845
Edward Gilbert Hull 1834
J. B. Hull
James Douglass Hurlburt 1832
Richardson Hutchinson 1818
Nathan Sumner Jenkins 1820
Edward Jonathan Johnson 1832
Jonathan Johnson 1818
Laburton Johnson 1827
Edward Jenkins Jones 1822
Erastus Jones September 11, 1825
George Washington Jones 1822
Thomas Milton Judd 1840
Jesse Edson Keith 1824
Elbridge Gerry Kelley
Charles Henry Killam 1832
Moses Kimball October 24, 1809
Ebenezer Kimball 1818
George Parkman Kingsley 1840
Lucius Woodman Knight 1830
William Shadrach Knox September 10, 1843
Samuel Orson Lamb 1821
Henry Douglas Lay 1824
Daniel James Lewis 1810
Willard Lewis 1808
Frederick Walker Lincoln 1817
Joseph Chase Little
Lewis Lombard 1819
Edward Payson Loring 1837
Samuel Loring
Charles Addison Loud 1829
Henry Bacon Lovering April 8, 1841
Aaron Low August 11, 1833
Horatio Atwood Lucas 1827
Julius Miner Lyon 1828
John Thomson Manny
Albert Mason 1836
Lyman Mason 1815
David Mayhew 1834
Horace Hawkes Mayhew 1826
Edward McCleave
Daniel McCowan 1838
John Johnson McNutt 1822
James Lincoln Merritt 1816
Albert Montague 1822
John Brooks Moore 1817
John Farwell Moors
Joseph Brown Morss 1808
Andrew Marathon Morton 1839
William Henry Murray 1826
Avery Williams Nelson 1821
Willard Stanley Newhall 1831
Reuben Noble 1820
Edward Ornan Noyes 1840
Porter Nutting 1814
Richard E. Olney 1835
Almond Mitchell Orcutt 1824
Lysander John Orcutt 1826
Charles Stuart Osgood 1839
Albert Palmer January 17, 1831
James Orlando Parker November 22, 1827
William Crowell Parker 1850
William Edward Perkins 1838
Henry Willis Phelps 1830
Smith Robinson Phillips 1837
Willard Peele Phillips 1825
Richard Pope 1843
Francis Edward Porter 1824
Charles Lyman Pratt 1839
Henry Loring Pratt 1833
Edward Benedict Rankin 1846
Lawrence Reade 1835
Daniel Franklin Reed 1834
John Wilder Rice 1818
Jeremiah A. Rich 1823
John Andrew Grant Richardson 1840
George D. Robinson January 20, 1834
Charles Robinson 1829
Joshua Crowell Robinson 1834
Philip Henry Robinson 1823
Joseph Warren Rogers 1828
William Rea Roundy 1823
Nathaniel Johnson Rust 1833
John Eliot Sanford November 22, 1830
George Jedediah Sanger 1826
Cyrus Savage September 2, 1832
John Savery 1815
Levi Heywood Sawin 1816
Isaac Fessenden Sawtelle
Nathaniel Seaver 1807
Edwin Henry Seymour 1834
Henry Perkins Shattuck 1844
Charles Luther Shaw 1823
George Atwood Shaw 1816
John Shaw 1822
Henry Shortle 1834
Warren Sibley 1819
William Lawton Slade 1817
John Killbourne Clough Sleeper 1828
George Dillingham Smalley 1824
Joshua Bowen Smith[8] 1813
Abraham Howland Smith 1833
Albert Smith 1823
Moses Smith 1815
Rufus Smith 1816
Sumner Southworth 1804
Franklin Harvey Sprague 1825
Richard Hall Stearns December 25, 1824
Ezra Stearns 1812
Isaac Stebbins 1817
John Henry Studley 1828
Daniel Joseph Sweeney 1834
George Washington Taft 1823
James Gamage Tarr
Daniel Holt Thurston 1813
Artemas Stanley Tyler 1824
Warren Tyler 1819
Leonard Washburn 1813
Timothy W. Wellington 1811
Michael Francis Wells 1832
Cyrus Martin Wheaton 1794
Simon Huntington White 1832
William Whiting 1816
Robert Rich Wiley 1828
James Burr Williams 1839
Moses Williams 1846
Henry Warren Wilson 1834
Samuel Winslow 1827
Henry Vose Woods 1821
George Cleveland Wright 1823
Henry Willis Wright 1834

See also

Images
  • Seating diagram for senators in the State House, 1874
    Seating diagram for senators in the State House, 1874

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. "Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts". Massachusetts Register, 1874. 1874 – via Archive.org.
  6. Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1874.
  7. "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1874" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  8. 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 General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1874, hdl:2452/619063
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1874, hdl:2452/92956
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