1839 Massachusetts legislature

American state legislature February 2025 January 2025 60thMassachusetts General Court General Court 59th 61st Senate 40 President Myron Lawrence House 521 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 Robert Charles Winthrop 1839 01 2 1839 04 10 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+ The 60th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1839 during the governorship of Edward Everett. Myron Lawrence served as president of the Senate and Robert Charles Winthrop 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+ On March 9, "72 women, citizens of Boston, petitioned the Legislature for a repeal" of laws banning interracial marriage.Boston Almanac for the Year 1840 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101056187550 Thomas Groom S.N. Dickinson 2027/njp.32101056187550 At the time, members required a majority of the popular vote to be declared elected. If no winner was chosen, the General Court voted to resolve the election, usually in favor of whichever party held the majority of seats in the General Court.Darling Arthur 1924 Political Changes in Massachusetts, 1824–48 Yale University Press New Haven, Conn. 239 Senators 15em width: 600px; James Allen Civil Government of Massachusetts https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.319510022331894?urlappend=%3Bseq=52 Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for 1839 2027/umn.319510022331894?urlappend=%3Bseq=52 HathiTrust Samuel T. Armstrong George Ashmun George Blake Reuben Boise, Jr. Isaiah Breed Stephen B. Brown James G. Carter Samuel Chandler Linus Child William Clark, Jr. Lilly Eaton Lester Filley Thomas French Samuel G. Goodrich Nathan Gurney William Hancock Ephraim Hastings Charles Kimball Daniel P. King Thomas Kinnicutt Samuel Lane Myron Lawrence Artemas Lee Charles Leighton Josiah Little Charles Marston Joseph Meigs George Morey Stuart J. Park Sampson Perkins Horatio Pratt Josiah Quincy Jr. Joseph L. Richardson Jeremiah Spofford George B. Upton Samuel B. Walcott Jared Whitman Seth Whitmarsh Sidney Willard Representatives June 2020 See also 1839 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 26th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References 2 External links 2452/738685 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1839 Massachusetts General Court 2452/103884 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1839 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1839 in Massachusetts