1896 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 117thMassachusetts General Court General Court November 5, 1895 1896 01 1 1896 06 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+ 116th 118th Senate 40 Republican (33–7) 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 P. Lawrence House 240 Republican (182–58)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 George von Lengerke Meyer right 308 George P Lawrence Massachusetts Congressman circa 1908.png George P. Lawrence George P. Lawrence, Senate president. Portrait of George von Lengerke Meyer.jpg George von Lengerke Meyer George von Lengerke Meyer, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1896. The 117th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1896 during the governorship of Roger Wolcott. George P. Lawrence served as president of the Senate and George von Lengerke Meyer 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 "An Act to Provide for the Security and Preservation of the So-called Bulfinch Portion of the State House." http://mastatelibrary.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-brigham-addition-and-saving.html Kaitlin Connolly The 'Brigham Addition' and Saving the Bulfinch State House January 21, 2019 State Library of Massachusetts blog Senators image name https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge1896mass 1896 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court Internet Archive 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, 1896 https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/796005/1896-Senate-01-Appendix%20.pdf State Library of Massachusetts district center|60px Horace H. Atherton October 23, 1847 center|60px Albert F. Barker October 24, 1859 center|60px Lewis H. Bartlett April 2, 1854 center|60px Percival Blodgett July 18, 1841 center|60px Edward S. Bradford December 1, 1842 center|60px George J. Burns July 14, 1855 center|60px William A. Chase May 31, 1845 center|60px William H. Cook January 7, 1843 center|60px Joseph J. Corbett December 24, 1863 center|60px Frederick W. Dallinger October 2, 1871 center|60px Francis W. Darling December 16, 1852 center|60px James H. Derbyshire June 11, 1855 center|60px Noble W. Everett February 20, 1827 center|60px George A. Galloupe October 28, 1850 center|60px Clarke Partridge Harding June 20, 1853 center|60px Isaac P. Hutchinson February 26, 1860 center|60px Richard William Irwin February 18, 1857 center|60px Erastus Jones September 11, 1825 center|60px George P. Lawrence May 19, 1859 center|60px Martin Lomasney December 3, 1859 center|60px Joseph B. Maccabe November 19, 1857 center|60px Dana Malone October 8, 1857 center|60px William Henry McMorrow March 23, 1871 center|60px Joel D. Miller October 10, 1837 center|60px William A. Morse July 27, 1863 center|60px Joseph O. Neill January 31, 1838 center|60px James P. Niles September 30, 1849 center|60px Fisher H. Pearson November 29, 1866 center|60px George W. Perkins July 1, 1842 center|60px John Jacob Prevaux March 16, 1857 center|60px John Quinn Jr. December 16, 1859 center|60px George A. Reed September 10, 1842 center|60px Alfred Seelye Roe June 8, 1844 center|60px George P. Sanger September 6, 1852 center|60px Rufus Albertson Soule 1839 center|60px Louis C. Southard April 1, 1854 center|60px Charles F. Sprague June 10, 1857 center|60px Richard Sullivan February 24, 1856 center|60px Arthur Holbrook Wellman October 30, 1855 center|60px John Loring Woodfall September 15, 1847 Representatives image name date of birth district center|60px Walter Adams May 15, 1848 center|60px Albert E. Addis May 4, 1864 center|60px Daniel W. Allen June 17, 1827 center|60px S. Augustus Allen February 14, 1855 center|60px Frederick Atherton May 8, 1865 center|60px Henry C. Attwill March 11, 1872 center|60px Waldo E. Austin August 31, 1839 center|60px Charles O. Bailey January 24, 1863 center|60px George W. Bailey March 20, 1848 center|60px Horace P. Bailey March 3, 1840 center|60px Theophilus B. Baker May 16, 1830 center|60px Solon Bancroft June 22, 1839 center|60px Harding R. Barber December 20, 1839 center|60px Franklin O. Barnes November 11, 1841 center|60px Daniel J. Barry August 27, 1859 center|60px Myron S. Barton December 24, 1837 center|60px John L. Bates September 18, 1859 center|60px Horace S. Bean September 17, 1867 William Beggs August 7, 1844 center|60px Charles E. Bennett May 8, 1861 center|60px George B. Bird February 15, 1867 center|60px Avander N. Blood September 4, 1839 center|60px Charles P. Bond July 24, 1855 center|60px Samuel S. Bourne December 9, 1850 center|60px Harvey L. Boutwell April 5, 1860 center|60px Walter L. Bouve October 28, 1849 center|60px Henry J. Boyd May 9, 1831 center|60px Manassah Edward Bradley August 15, 1863 center|60px J. Dwight Brady December 15, 1859 center|60px Charles Donnell Brown June 5, 1862 center|60px Daniel Brown December 26, 1842 center|60px George A. Brown November 24, 1854 center|60px Joseph G. Brown January 19, 1825 center|60px Aaron R. Bunting August 26, 1833 center|60px T. Preston Burt July 20, 1844 center|60px A. Webster Butler August 22, 1858 center|60px Ernest W. Calkins December 25, 1855 center|60px Patrick J. Carroll May 11, 1865 center|60px Daniel C. Casey August 10, 1867 center|60px Frank Chandler February 20, 1852 center|60px George F. Chase December 11, 1851 center|60px Albert Clarke October 13, 1840 center|60px Arthur L. Coburn June 18, 1860 center|60px James A. Cochran June 27, 1847 center|60px George F. Coleman April 10, 1863 center|60px James W. Coleman March 17, 1855 center|60px Walter S. V. Cooke August 12, 1851 center|60px Edward A. Cowee July 23, 1857 center|60px Ellery B. Crane November 12, 1836 center|60px James F. Creed December 4, 1869 center|60px Charles C. Crocker August 21, 1831 center|60px Harvey Crocker September 11, 1847 center|60px Edward S. Crockett July 22, 1869 center|60px Nelson P. Cummings April 27, 1847 center|60px Daniel J. Curley April 2, 1841 center|60px Nathan R. Davis August 18, 1828 center|60px William W. Davis August 8, 1862 center|60px Cornelius R. Day December 29, 1847 center|60px Thomas M. Denham February 2, 1840 center|60px Robert F. Denvir September 8, 1840 center|60px David T. Dickinson August 13, 1867 center|60px Thomas Donahue August 20, 1853 center|60px Jeremiah F. Donovan May 10, 1856 center|60px Timothy J. Donovan April 7, 1867 center|60px James M. Douglass February 24, 1839 center|60px Harry R. Dow February 12, 1862 center|60px Charles H. Dowse September 12, 1853 center|60px Daniel M. Driscoll January 2, 1861 center|60px James Driscoll August 14, 1856 center|60px William P. Driscoll May 1, 1857 center|60px Levi A. Drury August 9, 1847 center|60px George N. Dyer December 17, 1850 center|60px Benjamin F. Estes August 28, 1836 center|60px George S. Evans September 12, 1841 center|60px Wilson H. Fairbank April 3, 1836 center|60px Daniel B. Fenn May 31, 1836 center|60px Wellington Fillmore October 18, 1850 center|60px James H. Flint June 25, 1852 center|60px Silas W. Flint September 4, 1843 center|60px Joseph J. Flynn May 1, 1862 center|60px E. Knowlton Fogg October 24, 1837 center|60px John Malcolm Forbes 1847 center|60px William E. Ford July 20, 1823 center|60px Otis Foss October 4, 1838 center|60px Frank W. Francis September 16, 1857 center|60px George F. Fuller March 8, 1842 center|60px Jefferson C. Gallison August 8, 1841 center|60px James A. Gallivan October 22, 1866 center|60px John J. Gardner February 23, 1853 center|60px John Dennis Hammond Gauss January 4, 1861 center|60px Samuel Wesley George April 26, 1862 center|60px Charles A. Grant October 15, 1848 center|60px Joshua S. Gray August 16, 1840 center|60px William Halliday June 13, 1853 center|60px Lloyd F. Hammond March 1, 1860 center|60px Frederic Hanson May 2, 1835 center|60px Edward H. Harding April 17, 1854 center|60px Benjamin C. Harvey September 4, 1847 center|60px Albert L. Harwood September 10, 1847 William R. Hayden May 7, 1820 center|60px William Henry Irving Hayes June 21, 1848 center|60px Thomas F. Hoban December 20, 1860 center|60px Joshua B. Holden March 5, 1850 center|60px J. Edward Hollis 1840 center|60px E. Clarence Holt January 13, 1850 center|60px Seba A. Holton August 30, 1847 center|60px Charles E. Hosmer May 25, 1837 center|60px Walter F. Howard September 20, 1855 center|60px Roger S. Howe November 20, 1849 center|60px Henry D. Humphrey June 20, 1861 center|60px Caleb Burroughs Huse September 13, 1833 center|60px John W. Johnson June 14, 1856 center|60px George R. Jones February 8, 1862 center|60px Frank W. Kaan September 11, 1861 center|60px George H. Kearn January 6, 1839 center|60px James Keenan March 4, 1850 center|60px Thomas F. Keenan March 11, 1854 center|60px John A. Keliher November 6, 1866 center|60px George H. Kelton September 20, 1861 center|60px Thomas W. Kenefick September 17, 1855 center|60px Patrick J. Kennedy March 20, 1862 center|60px Charles W. King September 8, 1861 center|60px David T. King January 19, 1864 center|60px Francis M. Kingman May 25, 1837 center|60px Franz H. Krebs, Jr 1868 center|60px James H. Leary November 28, 1868 center|60px Michael J. Leary November 16, 1869 center|60px Charles F. Light August 1, 1860 center|60px Warren J. Livermore January 5, 1835 center|60px Walter E. Lord January 22, 1856 center|60px Francis Cabot Lowell January 7, 1855 center|60px Jeremiah E. Mahoney November 8, 1864 center|60px Forrest C. Manchester September 11, 1859 center|60px William H. Marden May 30, 1843 center|60px Arthur A. Maxwell January 24, 1858 center|60px Will W. Mayhew January 15, 1857 center|60px Benjamin W. Mayo April 17, 1836 center|60px Samuel N. Mayo May 24, 1839 center|60px Jeremiah Justin McCarthy March 29, 1852 center|60px George M. McClain March 9, 1842 center|60px John E. McClellan September 5, 1847 center|60px James S. McKenna January 11, 1864 center|60px James F. Melaven November 19, 1858 center|60px George H. Mellen October 7, 1850 center|60px James H. Mellen November 7, 1845 center|60px George von Lengerke Meyer June 24, 1858 center|60px Charles E. Mills December 28, 1847 center|60px Samuel H. Mitchell November 2, 1854 center|60px Charles D. Monroe January 15, 1856 center|60px Eugene Michael Moriarty April 15, 1849 center|60px James J. Myers November 20, 1842 center|60px Thaddeus H. Newcomb March 15, 1826 center|60px Henry C. Newell March 9, 1843 center|60px Luther Nickerson July 9, 1829 center|60px Edward O. Northway December 12, 1867 center|60px Joseph J. Norton November 19, 1870 center|60px John J. O'Connor April 13, 1871 center|60px John M. O'Hara July 2, 1865 center|60px Frank J. O'Toole October 13, 1867 center|60px John B. Packard February 22, 1837 center|60px Clarence H. Parker October 31, 1849 center|60px Herbert C. Parsons January 15, 1862 center|60px Frank A. Patch July 23, 1844 center|60px John H. Ponce November 1, 1857 center|60px Burrill Porter February 22, 1832 center|60px George W. Porter January 30, 1844 center|60px George E. Putnam February 9, 1851 center|60px Nicolas M. Quint July 18, 1838 center|60px Charles I. Quirk August 15, 1871 center|60px Charles W. Ray August 16, 1847 center|60px William Louis ReedBlack Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present 2452/48905 State Library of Massachusetts 2010 Massachusetts State Library of Court Massachusetts General April 5, 1866 center|60px Michael J. Reidy August 8, 1870 center|60px George M. Rice October 20, 1843 center|60px Clinton Q. Richmond December 17, 1859 center|60px Francis R. Richmond April 20, 1851 center|60px Thomas Riley December 22, 1843 center|60px Ernest W. Roberts November 22, 1858 center|60px J. Henry Robinson February 9, 1831 center|60px Atherton W. Rogers August 10, 1848 center|60px George A. Roper July 25, 1849 center|60px Samuel Ross February 2, 1865 center|60px Daniel D. Rourke July 16, 1869 center|60px Fred H. Rourke May 23, 1867 center|60px George G. Russell November 4, 1845 center|60px Howard K. Sanderson July 10, 1865 center|60px Charles F. Sargent August 31, 1858 center|60px Tristram T. Savory September 19, 1834 center|60px William P. Searls June 3, 1851 center|60px Chester Wells Severence February 27, 1831 center|60px Charles S. Shattuck June 5, 1840 center|60px David B. Shaw August 20, 1870 center|60px John F. Sheehan September 2, 1861 center|60px William Shepherd September 17, 1837 center|60px P. Howard Shirley August 15, 1857 center|60px David F. Slade November 5, 1855 center|60px John O. Slocum March 13, 1842 center|60px Albert C. Smith March 14, 1845 center|60px Charles W. Smith March 6, 1846 center|60px Henry R. Smith October 7, 1842 center|60px Amasa E. Southworth May 19, 1844 center|60px Cyrus Spaulding April 17, 1835 center|60px Albert T. Sprague June 18, 1843 center|60px Thomas E. St. John March 2, 1831 center|60px Fred D. Stanley October 17, 1863 center|60px Arlin V. Stevens June 15, 1854 center|60px Edward A. Stevens December 9, 1841 center|60px Elmer A. Stevens January 15, 1862 center|60px Ezra A. Stevens March 12, 1827 center|60px Joseph W. Stocker April 6, 1824 center|60px Willmore B. Stone June 24, 1853 center|60px George D. Storrs September 19, 1866 center|60px Arthur D. Story October 11, 1854 center|60px Cornelius F. Sullivan June 15, 1865 center|60px George J. Tarr February 1, 1832 center|60px James Thompson May 18, 1848 center|60px Henry Thrasher May 29, 1837 center|60px John Rogers Thurston September 4, 1831 center|60px Charles W. Tilton April 6, 1836 center|60px William Tolman June 2, 1858 center|60px Frank M. Trafton January 4, 1858 center|60px John E. Tuttle November 3, 1835 center|60px Charles Henry Utley November 27, 1857 center|60px Henry M. Van Deusen September 29, 1850 center|60px Henry R. Van Rensselaer December 12, 1855 center|60px George Albert Wales March 26, 1858 center|60px William W. Waterman December 4, 1831 center|60px Jackson Webster March 14, 1849 center|60px Clarence P. Weston August 23, 1845 center|60px George W. Weymouth August 25, 1850 center|60px Mark O. Wheaton November 22, 1833 center|60px George L. Whitcomb March 18, 1855 center|60px Edward E. Willard September 25, 1862 center|60px Edward H. Wilson September 26, 1848 center|60px George G. Withington July 31, 1831 center|60px John A. Woodbury August 22, 1836 center|60px Joseph W. Woodman January 25, 1847 center|60px Charles L. Young May 23, 1850 center|60px Willie C. Young May 28, 1848 See also 54th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References Further reading Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators: 1896 1896 A. M. Bridgman https://archive.org/details/souvenirofmassac1896brid Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1896 Massachusetts: Legislative Session https://archive.org/details/appletonsannualc01newyuoft/page/456/mode/1up D. Appleton and Company New York 1897 Francis C. Lowell Legislative Shortcomings Atlantic Monthly 79 1897 2027/coo.31924079579540?urlappend=%3Bseq=372 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924079579540?urlappend=%3Bseq=372 HathiTrust External links 2452/429113 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1896 Massachusetts General Court 2452/83202 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1896 http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fap065 Massachusetts General Court Photographs ca. 1896-1900: Guide to the Photograph Collection Massachusetts Historical Society Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1896 in Massachusetts