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68thMassachusetts General Court General Court 1847 01 6 1847 04 16 https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge00mass2/page/348/mode/1up 2009 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court Length of Legislative Sessions 348+ 67th 69th Senate 40 President William B. Calhoun House 255 Composition of the State of Massachusetts House of Representatives Mass.gov June 6, 2020 Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library https://www.mass.gov/service-details/resources-on-massachusetts-political-figures-in-the-state-library https://web.archive.org/web/20200606064043/https://www.mass.gov/doc/composition-of-the-massachusetts-state-house-of-representatives-0/download Speaker Ebenezer Bradbury
The 68th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1847 during the governorship of George N. Briggs. William B. Calhoun served as president of the Senate and Ebenezer Bradbury served as speaker of the House. https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge00mass2/page/340/mode/2up 2009 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court Organization of the Legislature Since 1780 340+
Notable legislation included the anti-abortion "Act To Suppress Injurious Publications".1847 Chap. 0083. An Act To Suppress Injurious Publications Massachusetts Acts and Resolves 2452/94177 Antiquated state laws stir modern-day worry https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/01/03/antiquated-mass-laws-stir-modern-day-worry/zKkq0WXosc51wbIWg0z9nJ/story.html Boston Globe January 3, 2013 Andrew Carden Kristen Lee Notable resolutions included opposition to the Mexican–American War.Richard Hofstadter From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865 1958 Vintage Books 978-0-394-70541-5 Massachusetts Legislature, Resolutions on the War with Mexico, 1847
Senators
15em width: 600px; Joseph Avery State Government, 1847 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081766754?urlappend=%3Bseq=51 Massachusetts State Record and Year Book of General Information, 1847 2027/nyp.33433081766754?urlappend=%3Bseq=51 HathiTrust
Thomas P. Beal
George T. Bigelow
Nathaniel B. Borden
Thomas A. Bowen
Nahum F. Bryant
Joseph T. Buckingham
William B. Calhoun
Thomas G. Cary
James Clark
Dennis Condry
George Denny
Thomas Emerson
William T. Eustis
Z. Field
Barnabas Freeman
Jason Goulding
John C. Gray
James Gregory
Samuel Guild
David Heard
George Hodges
Samuel A. Hurlburt
John A. Knowles
Forbes Kyle
John W. Lowe
James Maguire
Jonathan C. Perkins
Chauncy B. Rising
Stephen Salisbury
Ezekiel Sawin
Zeno Scudder
Calvin Shepard
Silas Shepard
Hobart Spencer
Levi Taylor
Leavitt Thaxter
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Representatives
June 2020
William T. Andrews Rules and Orders to be Observed in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the Year 1847 Boston 2452/751364
See also
30th United States Congress
List of Massachusetts General Courts
References
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Further reading
Nativity and Occupation of Members of the Massachusetts Legislature F. H. Howland Publications of the American Statistical Association 4 1894 25/26 15–19 10.2307/2276368 2276368 (describes 1847-1891)
External links
2452/685896 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1847 Massachusetts General Court
2452/92929 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1847
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