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90thMassachusetts General Court General Court November 3, 1868 1869 01 6 1869 06 24 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+ 89th 91st Senate 40 Republican(38 Republicans, 2 Democrats)Leading the Way: a History of the Massachusetts General Court, 1629-1980 Cornelius Dalton John Wirkkala Anne Thomas 0961391502 Massachusetts Secretary of State 1984 Boston Political Complexion of the General Court 1867-1980 441+ Composition of the Massachusetts State Senate 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/20200606063917/https://www.mass.gov/doc/composition-of-the-massachusetts-state-senate-0/download President George O. Brastow House 240 Republican(224 Republicans, 16 Democrats)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 Harvey Jewell
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George O. Brastow
George Brastow, Senate president.
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Harvey Jewell
Harvey Jewell, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1869.
The 90th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1869 during the governorship of Republican William Claflin. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1869 2452/795808 George O. Brastow and Robert Carter Pitman served as presidents of the Senate and Harvey Jewell 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+ Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/massachusettsreg1869bost/page/16/mode/2up Massachusetts Register, 1869 Archive.org
Notable events include the creation of a Joint Special Committee on Woman Suffrage.http://mastatelibrary.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-womens-suffrage-movement-in.html Kaitlin Connolly Women's Suffrage Movement in Massachusetts September 24, 2012 State Library of Massachusetts blog
Senators
Image Name https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge1869mass 1869 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40647 Date of birth Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1869 https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/795809/1869-Senate-01-Register.pdf State Library of Massachusetts District Party Nathaniel Ellis Atwood September 13, 1807 center|60px George Oliver Brastow 1811 center|60px George Marshall Buttrick 1822 center|60px Horace Hopkins Coolidge February 11, 1832 center|60px Samuel Dexter Crane 1816 center|60px Benjamin Dean August 22, 1824 center|60px Francis Henshaw Dewey 1821 center|60px Edmund Dowse 1813 center|60px Alonzo Madison Giles February 25, 1821 Whiting Griswold November 12, 1814 center|60px John Brown Hathaway 1809 center|60px Francis Allen Hobart 1833 center|60px Nathaniel Jay Holden 1827 center|60px Estes Howe 1814 center|60px George Augustus King 1834 center|60px Richmond Kingman 1821 center|60px Charles James Kittredge 1818 center|60px Lucius James Knowles 1819 center|60px Charles Rensselaer Ladd April 9, 1822 center|60px John Hyde Lockey 1822 center|60px Charles Marsh 1818 center|60px Joshua Newell Marshall 1830 center|60px Charles Rankin McLean 1824 center|60px George Harris Monroe 1826 center|60px Ellis Wesley Morton 1840 center|60px Daniel Needham 1822 center|60px Julius Auboyneau Palmer 1803 center|60px Robert Carter Pitman March 16, 1825 center|60px Richard Plumer 1813 center|60px Joseph Greeley Pollard 1833 center|60px Joseph Gorton Ray 1831 center|60px George Merrick Rice November 20, 1808 center|60px Oliver Hazard Perry Smith 1824 center|60px George H. Sweetser 1823 center|60px George Sylvester Taylor March 2, 1822 center|60px Edward Augustus Thomas 1829 center|60px Joseph Scott Todd 1828 center|60px Harrison Tweed 1806 center|60px Gershom Bradford Weston August 27, 1799 center|60px Charles Augustus Wheelock 1812 center|60px Jonathan White 1819
Representatives
15em width: 600px; William T. Adams
Alexander H. Allen
John Allen
William W. Amadon
Frank M. Ames
Isaac A. Anthony
E. Foster Bailey
John I. Baker
Life Baldwin
Henry Barker
John Barlow
William E. Barnes
George H. Barrett
William Bartlett
Ezra Batcheller
Jacob Bates
Loring Bates
Marcus Bates
Alfred Belden
Francis W. Bird
Henry B. Blake
Richard D. Blinn
Samuel G. Bowdlear
Charles Bradley
Samuel P. Breed
Ezra C. Brett
Benjamin A. Bridges
Jethro C. Brock
William G. Brooks
John Brown
Obadiah S. Brown
Werden R. Brown
Ferdinand L. Burley
Alvah A. Burrage
Alfred A. Burrill
Frederick Butler
Oliver S. Butler
Michael Carney
Solomon Carter
Dennis Cawley, Jr
Albert Chamberlin
Henry Chase
Linus M. Child
William M. Child
Horace Choate
Le Baron B. Church
Joseph N. Clark
Samuel Clark
Asa Clement
Samuel Cloon
Aury G. Coes
Patrick A. Collins
Benjamin F. Cook
George P. Cox
Freeborn W. Cressey
Alanson Crittenden
Stephen M. Crosby
James M. Cunliff
Robert S. Daniels
Elnathan Davis
William W. Davis
Ebenezer Dawes
John Dean
Avery J. Denison
Benjamin Dupar
J. Franklin Dyer
William I. Edwards
Thomas Ellis
Addison G. Fay
Jacob Fisher
Charles A. Fiske
William Fletcher
James B. Francis
Benjamin Franklin
Rodney French
Josiah O. Friend, Jr
Chauncey G. Fuller
George L. Gibbs
Edwin Gilbert
Kimball C. Gleason
Abijah W. Goddard
Stephen D. Goddard
John B. Goodrich
Thomas H. Goodspeed
Dennis J. Gorman
Levi S. Gould
Samuel H. Gould
Wesley A. Gove
William T. Grammar
C. S. Greenwood
Charles H. Guild
Moses H. Hale
Lyman S. Hapgood
R. P. A. Harris
Abraham G. Hart
Edward H. Hartshorn
Andrew L. Haskell
William H. Haskell
Tilly Haynes
James A. Hervey
James Hewes
Elmer Hewett
Charles A. Hewins
William Hichborn
Levi W. Hobart
Thorndike D. Hodges
Ambrous Hodgkins
Alvah Holway
James Horswell
Samuel Horton
Charles H. Hovey
George F. Howland
James Humphrey
Theodore C. Hurd
Harvey Jewell
Henri L. Johnson
Robert Johnson
Herbert C. Joyner
Lewis S. Judd
Shubael B. Kelley
William W. Kellogg
Thomas G. Kent
Moses Kimball
Dexter S. King
Enoch King
Daniel W. Knight
Joseph S. Knight
Franklin C. Knox
David Lane
Albert Langdon
Roger H. Leavitt
Manning Leonard
Nahum Leonard, Jr
William Livermore
Caleb Lombard
Josiah Lord, Jr
Marcus M. Luther
Charles P. Lyon
Hugh A. Madden
Charles N. Marsh
Murdock Matheson
Charles J. Mclntire
William Melcher
William R. Melden
Charles H. Merriam
John M. Merrick
Moody Merrill
William H. Merritt
Lansing Millis
Eben Mitchell
Elliott Montague
Lyman E. Moore
Asa P. Morse
F. H. Morse
James R. Morse
Newton Morse
Edwin Mudge
Nathaniel C. Nash
Henry J. Nazro
Thomas L. Nelson
Daniel H. Newton
Jeremiah L. Newton
George K. Nichols
William W. Nichols
Francis A. Nye
John P. Ober
Weaver Osborn
Rufus S. Owen
Samuel S. Paine
William H. Parker
John C. Peak
Joseph D. Peirce
Francis A. Perry
M. C. Phipps
A. A. Plimpton
Avery Plumer
Thomas F. Plunkett
Thomas K. Plunkett
Augustus Pratt
Joseph A. Priest
Asabel D. Puffer
Caleb Rand
Eduar H. Reed
Ezra Rice
Otis Rich
James Ritchie
James H. Roberts
Isaiah F. Robinson
Ensign B. Rogers
Joseph N. Rolfe
John Runey
Augustine K. Russell
William A. Russell
George J. Sanger
Joseph L. Sargent
Samuel D. Sawin
Clark Sears
John N. Sherman
Lemuel B. Simmons
Rufus S. Slade
Abner L. Smith
Edward Smith
Horace Smith
Iram Smith
John J. Smith http://mastatelibrary.blogspot.com/2013/03/massachusetts-legislators-john-james.html Kaitlin Connolly Massachusetts Legislators: John James Smith March 4, 2013 State Library of Massachusetts blog Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present 2452/48905 State Library of Massachusetts 2010
Martin L. Smith
Willis Smith
Charles W. Soule
Welcome W. Sprague
L. Miles Standish
Haynes K. Starkweather
Eliphalet Stone
Edward Stowell
Joseph A. Stranger
Ruel F. Thayer
Shepherd Thayer
Justus Tower
S. K. Towle
William P. Tyler
Joseph Vaill
Welcome H. Wales
S. H. Walker
Royal S. Warren
Thomas S. Waters
Jerome Wells
Henry White
D. Dwight Whitmore
Emerson Wight
Charles Wilcox
Salem Wilder
Alfred M. Williams
Warren Williams
Samuel S. Willson
James Wilson
William D. Witherell
Orlow Wolcott
George M. Woodward
David T. Woodwell
Luther A. Wright
P. Ambrose Young
See also
41st United States Congress
List of Massachusetts General Courts
References
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Further reading
American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1869 Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/appletonsannualc09newyuoft/page/410/mode/1up D. Appleton and Company New York 1870 (includes description of legislature)
External links
2452/619058 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1869 Massachusetts General Court
2452/92951 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1869
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