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91stMassachusetts General Court General Court November 2, 1869 1870 01 5 1870 06 23 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+ 90th 92nd Senate 40 Republican(29 R, 10 D, 1 other)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 Horace H. Coolidge House 240 Republican(160 R, 58 D, 22 other)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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Horace H. Coolidge
Horace Coolidge, Senate president.
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Harvey Jewell
Harvey Jewell, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1870.
The 91st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1870 during the governorship of Republican William Claflin. Horace H. Coolidge served as president 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+
Senators
Image Name https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge1870mass 1870 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40648 Court Massachusetts General 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, 1870 https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/795812/1870-Senate-01-Register.pdf State Library of Massachusetts District Party Nathaniel Ellis Atwood September 13, 1807 center|60px Jacob Bates 1819 center|60px Joseph Augustus Benjamin 1817 center|60px George Marshall Buttrick 1822 center|60px Andrew Jackson Clark 1835 center|60px Benjamin Franklin Clark 1808 center|60px Waldo Colburn November 13, 1824 center|60px Patrick Andrew Collins March 12, 1844 center|60px Horace Hopkins Coolidge February 11, 1832 center|60px Stephen Moody Crosby 1827 center|60px Edmund Dowse 1813 center|60px John Fletcher 1827 center|60px James Augustus Fox August 11, 1827 center|60px Alonzo Madison Giles 1821 center|60px Henry Clay Greeley 1830 center|60px John Brown Hathaway 1809 center|60px John Alexander Hawes 1823 center|60px Francis Allen Hobart 1833 center|60px Nathaniel Jay Holden 1827 center|60px Joseph Sidney Howe 1832 center|60px Willard Woodman Jenness 1827 center|60px George William Johnson 1827 center|60px William Wallace Kellogg 1824 center|60px George Augustus King 1834 center|60px Charles James Kittredge 1818 center|60px Charles Rensselaer Ladd April 9, 1822 center|60px James Henry Leland 1833 center|60px George Harris Monroe 1826 center|60px Ellis Wesley Morton 1840 center|60px James Pierce 1837 center|60px Joseph Greeley Pollard 1833 center|60px Jeremiah Hobbs Pote 1820 center|60px Stephen Holbrook Rhodes November 7, 1825 center|60px George Merrick Rice November 20, 1808 center|60px James Granville Sproat 1835 center|60px Orlando Barnard Tenney 1816 center|60px Francis Thompson 1826 center|60px William W. Warren February 27, 1834 center|60px Charles Augustus Wheelock 1812 center|60px Frederick H. Willcomb 1831
Representatives
15em width: 600px; John A. P. Allen
William H. Ames
Benjamin F. Angell
John Armitage
William F. Arnold
Jonathan Arnold, Jr
Samuel Atherton
John Ayars, Jr
George H. Babbitt, Jr
Jesse Bacon
Amasa W. Bailey
Joseph K. Baker, Jr
Dana Bancroft
Henry J. Barker
William Barker, Jr
John Barlow
Daniel N. Barrett
Patrick Barry
William Bartlett
Carlos Batchelder
Eliakim A. Bates
Thomas Bean
Alanson W. Beard
Wesley K. Bell
Daniel W. Bemis
Edward L. Bigelow
John W. Blaney
Robert Bower
Selwin Z. Bowman
Benjamin H. Brown
Samuel W. Brown
Ezra P. Brownell
George L. Buffin
Elias Bullard
John R. Bullard
John D. Burtch
Hodgdon F. Buzzell
Michael Carney
James E. Carpenter
Solomon Carter
Albert Chamberlin
Alexander H. Champlin
William M. Child
Elijah H. Chisholm
Horace Choate
Samuel A. Churchill
Edward Clarke
William Cogswell
George J. L. Colby
Justin M. Cooley
George P. Cox
Alanson Crittenden
S. Frank Crockett
William H. Cundy
Marshall N. Cutter
Samuel R. Damon
George K. Daniell
Robert S. Daniels
William F. Darby
Curtis Davis
Elisha Davis
John H. Davis
Timothy Davis
John A. Day
Franklin Derby
David S. Draper
Jeremiah J. Driscoll
John Drynan
Thomas Earle
Richard Eddy
Francis Edson
Pliny Edson
James H. Ellis
George O. Fairbanks
James O. Fallon
Lewis M. Ferry
Adams Fiske
John E. Fitzgerald
Hugh Flood
Reuben P. Folger
Benjamin Franklin
Rodney French
Daniel Gale
Samuel Galley
Thomas J. Gargan
Thomas Gates
Jubal C. Gleason
Dorrance S. Goddard
Henry A. Goodrich
John B. Goodrich
Henry Goodspeed
Charles J. Goodwin
Dennis J. Gorman
George H. Goward
William T. Grammer
Thomas B. Griffith
Lucas W. Hannum
James L. Harriman
Daniel L. Harris
Thomas B. Harris
Abraham G. Hart
Andrew L. Haskell
Guilford Hathaway
Bainbridge Hayward
James A. Hervey
Orrin Hewes
Luther Hill
Noble H. Hill
Sylvester S. Hill
Larone Hills
Thomas Holway
James Horswell
Samuel Horton
Charles H. Hovey
Jonas E. Howe
Theodore C. Hurd
Thomas P. Hurlbut
Francis James
James W. Jenkins
Thomas L. Jenks
Harvey Jewell
Sylvester Jewett
Abbott Johnson
Joseph P. Johnson
Robert Johnson
Ensign H. Kellogg
Shubael B. Kelly
Warren Kent
David Lane
Joseph C. Lewis
Albert W. Lincoln
George W. Lobdell
Caleb Lombard
Henry A. Lord
Charles H. Loring
Hugh A. Madden
Frederick A. Mann
Henry Mann
Edwin T. Marble
Warren Marchant
William Marchant
Charles N. Marsh
J. Wesley Marshall
George H. Martin
Edward T. Marvel
John W. Mayhew
Edward F. Mayo
Edward McDonald
Moses W. McIntire
John W. McKim
Charles J. Mclntire
Cornelius McMahon
William H. Mears
Charles H. Merriam
Moody Merrill
William Merrill
Benjamin F. Mills
Horatio Moore
John Harvey Moore
John M. Moore
Luther G. Morrison
Bushrod Morse
James R. Morse
Newton Morse
Henry P. Moulton
Henry J. Nazro
Peter M. Neal
Joseph Newmarch
George Nowell
Francis A. Nye
Benjamin F. Packard
Charles H. Page
Samuel S. Paine
George A. Parker
William H. Parker
Dexter Parks
Lloyd Parsons
Luke Perkins
William A. Pew
Samuel H. Pierce
Samuel Pierce
George T. Plunkett
Ira G. Potter
David Powers
Henry A. Pratt
George Putnam
Noah Rankin
John Rhodes
Thomas Rice
John H. Roberts
George Lewis RuffinBlack Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present 2452/48905 State Library of Massachusetts 2010 Massachusetts State Library of Court Massachusetts General
Joseph M. Russell
George Sanford
Samuel D. Sawin
Henry H. Shaw
A. A. Sherman
John Sias
Ansel C. Smith
Hambleton E. Smith
Walter Spooner
L. Miles Standish
Levi Stockbridge
Patrick Sweeney
Theodore H. Sweetser
John K. Tarbox
Edmund B. Taylor
Edward Taylor
Levi Z. Thomas
Dexter A. Tompkins
Charles R. Train
Benjamin A. Tripp
Samuel C. Trull
Edward Tuck
Samuel J. Tuttle
Stephen Wallace
James J. Walworth
Zenas C. Wardwell
Henry A. Warriner
Andrew J. Waterman
Lory S. Watson
Nathan H. Webb
John D. Weld
Michael F. Wells
Alonzo B. Wentworth
John W. Wetherell
Sydney F. Whitehouse
Harrison C. Whitmore
Daniel H. Whitney
Emerson Wight
Charles C. Wilbar
Alfred M. Williams
Lester Williams
Samuel S. Willson
William Winn
Timothy D. Wood
Charles L. Woodbury
William L. Woodcock
David T. Woodwell
William H. Wormstead
Gardner C. Wright
George T. Wyer
See also
41st United States Congress
List of Massachusetts General Courts
References
Further reading
American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1870 Massachusetts https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x004735564?urlappend=%3Bseq=494 HathiTrust D. Appleton and Company New York 1871 2027/uva.x004735564?urlappend=%3Bseq=494 (includes description of legislature)
Overlooked and Obscured Through History: The Legislative Bill Proposed to Amend the Massachusetts Drawing Act of 1870 Paul E. Bolin Studies in Art Education 37 1995 1 55–64 10.2307/1320492 1320492
External links
2452/619059 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1870 Massachusetts General Court
2452/92952 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1870
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