1888 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 109thMassachusetts General Court General Court November 8, 1887 1888 01 4 1888 05 29 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+ 108th 110th Senate 40 Republican 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 Halsey J. Boardman House 240 RepublicanComposition 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 Charles J. Noyes right 308 Halsey J. Boardman.png Halsey J. Boardman Halsey J. Boardman, Senate president. Charles J. Noyes.png Charles J. Noyes Charles Noyes, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1888. The 109th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1888 during the governorship of Oliver Ames. Halsey J. Boardman served as president of the Senate and Charles J. Noyes 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 incorporation of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Woman Suffrage Association.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/manualforuseofge1888mass 1888 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 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, 1888 https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/795900/1888-Senate-01-Appendix%20.pdf State Library of Massachusetts District Party center|60px Halsey J. Boardman May 19, 1834 center|60px Charles Nathaniel Clark 1853 center|60px William Alfred Clark 1852 center|60px John Aloysius Collins 1860 center|60px Benjamin Franklin Cook January 1, 1833 center|60px John Crawford Crosby June 15, 1859 center|60px Patrick Dennis Dwyer 1857 center|60px Jonathan Varnum Fletcher 1812 center|60px Charles Albert Gleason 1846 center|60px Jubal Converse Gleason 1837 center|60px Edward Glines August 31, 1849 center|60px Harris Cowdrey Hartwell 1847 center|60px Edward Jacob Hathorne 1854 center|60px Robert Howard February 8, 1845 Frank W. Howe June 3, 1859 Franklyn Howland 1843 center|60px Edward John Jenkins 1854 center|60px Isaac Newton Keith November 14, 1838 center|60px Ziba Cary Keith July 13, 1842 center|60px David Frank Kimball 1845 center|60px Chester Ward Kingsley 1824 center|60px George Perley Ladd 1838 Edwin T. Marble August 18, 1827 center|60px William Taylor McAlpine 1840 center|60px Austin Messinger 1817 center|60px Moses Poore Palmer 1830 Levi Perkins March 13, 1831 center|60px James Davis Pike 1829 center|60px Samuel Roads, Jr. October 22, 1853 center|60px John Francis Shea 1858 Edward J. Slattery June 15, 1856 center|60px John Killbourne Clough Sleeper 1828 center|60px Robert Alexander Southworth 1852 Charles C. Spellman December 3, 1843 center|60px Henry Harrison Sprague August 1, 1841 center|60px James Trimble Stevens 1835 center|60px John Henry Sullivan 1848 center|60px Charles Andrew Towne 1843 center|60px Enos Houghton Tucker 1817 center|60px David Walker 1841 center|60px Silas Mandeville Wheelock 1818 Representatives image Name Date of birth DistrictAndrew George F. 1888 https://archive.org/details/officialgazette1888andr/page/n15/mode/1up?q=albert+fisher Official Gazette Party Charles E. Adams April 6, 1841 24th Middlesex Republican center|60px John Jesse Allen 1844 8th Worcester Republican center|60px Montressor Tyler Allen 1844 14th Middlesex Republican center|60px William Oscar ArmstrongBlack Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present 2452/48905 State Library of Massachusetts 2010 Massachusetts State Library of Court Massachusetts General 1847 9th Suffolk Republican center|60px Horace H. Atherton 1847 20th Essex Republican center|60px Harrison Henry Atwood August 26, 1863 8th Suffolk Republican center|60px Rollin Herbert Babbitt 1840 3rd Bristol Republican center|60px John Backup 1830 21st Suffolk Ind. Republican center|60px William Emerson Barrett December 29, 1858 11th Middlesex Republican center|60px Joseph Freeland Bartlett 1843 3rd Franklin Republican center|60px Charles Henry Bennett March 11, 1843 8th Hampden Democratic center|60px Francis Taylor Berry 1849 13th Essex Republican center|60px Charles Chauncey Bixby 1824 12th Plymouth Republican center|60px Edwin Henry Blake 1838 19th Middlesex Republican center|60px Andreas Blume 1837 11th Suffolk Republican center|60px Francis Boardman 1826 16th Essex Democratic center|60px John Bennett Bottum July 7, 1852 1st Hampshire Republican center|60px Albert Augustus Brackett 1850 4th Norfolk Republican center|60px Peter Joseph Brady October 29, 1861 23rd Middlesex Democratic center|60px Arthur Butler Breed June 30, 1857 19th Essex Republican center|60px Edward Winslow Brewer 1858 23rd Suffolk Republican center|60px Arthur Amber Brigham October 6, 1856 29th Middlesex Independent center|60px Asa Olin Brooks 1852 7th Hampden center|60px John Freeman Brown 1848 24th Suffolk Republican center|60px William Howe Burnham 1840 10th Essex Republican center|60px William A. Butler February 4, 1859 7th Essex Republican center|60px Charles Amos Call 1839 8th Hampden Republican center|60px Patrick Joseph Calnan 1847 5th Suffolk Democratic center|60px Joseph Henry Cannell 1836 10th Middlesex Republican center|60px William Henry Carey 1848 4th Berkshire Democratic center|60px William Alexander Carman 1854 8th Bristol Democratic center|60px Michael Carney 1820 4th Essex Democratic George N. Carpenter January 26, 1840 2nd Norfolk Republican center|60px Peter Thomas Carroll 1857 18th Worcester Ind. Democrat center|60px Arthur Babcock Champlin 1858 26th Suffolk Republican center|60px Joseph Pike Cheney 1843 16th Worcester Republican center|60px Moses Davis Church 1842 4th Middlesex Republican center|60px David Harris Clark 1836 26th Middlesex Republican center|60px Henry Clark 1841 9th Hampden Republican center|60px Schuyler Clark 1841 2nd Hampshire Republican Rowse Reynolds Clarkehttps://www.mass.gov/lists/massachusetts-state-legislators-papers-collections-at-the-state-library Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library State Library of Massachusetts Mass.gov September 3, 2020 February 12, 1822 10th Worcester Republican center|60px George Close 1845 2nd Middlesex Republican center|60px John Freeman Colby 1834 18th Suffolk Republican center|60px Harvey Newton Collison 1860 6th Suffolk Democratic center|60px Charles Wright Conant 1833 2nd Worcester Republican center|60px James Conroy 1850 8th Bristol Democratic center|60px David Conwell 1818 3rd Barnstable Republican center|60px George Hunting Coolidge 1841 5th Worcester Republican center|60px John William Coveney April 10, 1845 3rd Middlesex Democratic center|60px James Martin Cronin 1857 20th Worcester Democratic center|60px Joshua Crowell 1841 1st Barnstable Republican center|60px Samuel Cutler 1825 5th Middlesex Republican center|60px Albert Levi Dame 1841 3rd Essex Democratic center|60px Luther Dame March 3, 1826 8th Essex Republican center|60px Edmund Augustus Davis 1839 10th Bristol Republican center|60px John Watton Delano 1852 7th Plymouth Democratic center|60px George Dennis 1825 10th Essex Republican center|60px Jeremiah Desmond May 2, 1853 16th Suffolk Democratic center|60px Wilson Dewey 1815 3rd Hampshire Republican center|60px Solomon King Dexter 1839 24th Middlesex Republican center|60px John Doherty 1844 7th Suffolk Democratic center|60px Bernard Dolan 1838 7th Norfolk Democratic center|60px Edward James Donovan 1864 8th Suffolk Democratic center|60px James Donovan May 28, 1859 16th Suffolk Democratic center|60px Theodore Parker Dresser 1854 8th Middlesex Republican center|60px John Driscoll 1853 20th Essex Democratic center|60px James Joseph Dunlea 1857 22nd Suffolk Democratic center|60px Harry Millett Eames July 9, 1855 5th Essex Republican center|60px Albert Redolphus Eldredge September 10, 1850 1st Barnstable Republican center|60px Frank Aldrich Fales October 13, 1848 1st Norfolk Republican center|60px Thomas George Farren 1858 7th Suffolk Democratic William F. Ferry July 4, 1854 6th Hampden Republican center|60px Elkanah Finney October 31, 1849 1st Plymouth Democratic center|60px Albert Laban Fisher 1846 center|60px Edward Perry Fisk 1852 10th Suffolk Republican center|60px David Floyd October 26, 1854 27th Suffolk Republican center|60px Edward James Flynn 1859 6th Suffolk Democratic center|60px Thomas Joseph Flynn 1849 21st Middlesex Democratic center|60px Jacob Fottler 1839 10th Suffolk Republican center|60px Henry Friend 1841 11th Essex Republican center|60px Henry Frost 1832 18th Suffolk Republican center|60px Edward Gagan 1849 5th Suffolk Democratic center|60px Michael Garity 1848 15th Suffolk Democratic center|60px George Washington Gibson 1851 5th Hampden Democratic center|60px William Augustus Gile 1843 23rd Worcester Republican center|60px Joseph Henry Gleason 1848 4th Suffolk Republican center|60px Willard Franklin Gleason December 24, 1846 6th Norfolk Republican center|60px William Gordon 1825 6th Bristol Republican center|60px Charles Goss 1841 1st Essex Republican center|60px Samuel Levis Gracey 1835 14th Essex Republican center|60px Davis Packard Gray 1827 center|60px Morrill Asa Greenwood 1839 14th Worcester Republican center|60px Freeman Clark Griswold December 15, 1858 1st Franklin Democratic center|60px Charles Francis Grosvenor 1850 10th Hampden Republican center|60px Daniel Gunn 1850 23rd Suffolk Republican center|60px David Joseph Hagerty 1857 14th Suffolk Democratic center|60px Charles Haggerty December 6, 1854 7th Worcester Democratic center|60px Frederick Stanley Hall 1861 3rd Bristol Republican center|60px Benjamin Hall Hartwell 1845 32nd Middlesex Republican center|60px Henry Clark Haskell 1837 4th Franklin Ind. Democrat center|60px William Harrison Hastings 1840 28th Middlesex Democratic center|60px Franklin Winslow Hatch 1836 2nd Plymouth Republican center|60px James Ambrose Hathaway 1837 25th Suffolk Republican center|60px Elihu Burritt Hayes 1848 18th Essex Republican center|60px John Edward Hayes 1845 3rd Suffolk Democratic center|60px Henry Dunton Haynes 1837 5th Worcester Republican center|60px Robert Henry 1833 9th Bristol Republican center|60px Luther Hill 1825 6th Worcester Republican center|60px William John Hinchcliffe 1855 5th Essex Republican center|60px Calvin Hitchcock 1817 5th Hampshire Republican center|60px William Southerland Hixon 1848 26th Suffolk Republican center|60px John Adams Holbrook 1837 5th Norfolk Democratic center|60px Frank Edward Holman 1853 13th Worcester Republican center|60px George Mitchell Hooper September 1, 1838 9th Plymouth Republican center|60px George Harford Hunt 1843 5th Plymouth Republican center|60px Alden Potter Jaques March 4, 1835 2nd Essex Republican center|60px Jeremiah Joseph Keane 1855 4th Hampden Democratic center|60px George Henry Kearn 1839 1st Berkshire Democratic center|60px Horace Manley Kendall 1848 15th Worcester Republican center|60px Patrick Joseph Kennedy January 14, 1858 2nd Suffolk Democratic center|60px Henry Albert Kimball May 3, 1842 1st Hampshire Democratic center|60px John White Kimball February 27, 1828 15th Worcester Republican center|60px Charles Henry Knox 1847 1st Hampden Democratic center|60px James Lally Jr. 1862 11th Worcester Democratic center|60px William Tuck Leach 1838 24th Suffolk Republican center|60px Edward Joseph Leary May 27, 1860 13th Suffolk Democratic John Q. A. Lothrop October 14, 1824 4th Plymouth Republican center|60px Clarence Parker Lovell 1848 1st Suffolk Republican center|60px Payson Williston Lyman 1842 4th Hampshire Republican center|60px Henry Stephen Lyons November 21, 1865 1st Berkshire Democratic center|60px Albert Sylvester Manning 1846 6th Essex Republican center|60px David Manning August 29, 1846 22nd Worcester Republican center|60px James Pope Martin 1827 18th Essex Republican center|60px Samuel Walker McCall February 28, 1851 15th Middlesex Republican center|60px Patrick McCarthy 1849 10th Plymouth Democratic center|60px Thomas McCooey 1851 11th Worcester Democratic center|60px Robert Henry McDonald 1854 6th Berkshire Democratic center|60px John H. McDonough March 29, 1857 20th Suffolk center|60px Thomas Owen McEnaney October 23, 1857 2nd Suffolk Democratic center|60px Michael Joseph McEttrick June 22, 1848 20th Suffolk Democratic center|60px James Henry Mellen 1845 19th Worcester Democratic center|60px John Flint Merrill January 16, 1849 5th Norfolk Republican center|60px Albert E. Miller 1834 9th Norfolk Republican center|60px Lyman Munson Miller 1836 27th Suffolk Republican center|60px Daniel Lake Milliken 1837 9th Middlesex Republican center|60px John Cruikshank Milne 1824 9th Bristol Republican center|60px William Henry Monahan 1857 19th Suffolk Democratic center|60px George Francis Morey 1826 24th Middlesex Republican center|60px John Milton Morin February 14, 1828 2nd Berkshire Democratic center|60px Harrison Emmons Morton 1842 13th Worcester Republican center|60px Sidney Tucker Nelson 1845 8th Plymouth Republican center|60px Thomas Lorenzo Noonan 1835 19th Suffolk Democratic center|60px Caleb Jerome Norwood 1838 9th Essex Democratic center|60px Charles Johnson Noyes August 7, 1841 14th Suffolk center|60px Dennis Joseph O'Brien 1845 27th Middlesex Democratic center|60px John William O'Mealey 1861 17th Suffolk Democratic center|60px John William O'Neil 1859 3rd Suffolk Democratic Thomas F. O'Neill November 5, 1859 29th Middlesex Democratic center|60px Henry Parkman May 23, 1850 9th Suffolk Republican center|60px Isaac Smith Pear 1830 4th Middlesex Republican center|60px Henry Mulford Peirson 1825 4th Berkshire Republican Nathaniel R. Perkins September 10, 1847 2nd Worcester Republican center|60px George Robbins Perry 1836 1st Bristol Republican center|60px Charles Quincy Pierce 1841 16th Middlesex Republican center|60px Alfred Stamm Pinkerton March 19, 1856 17th Worcester Republican center|60px John Wallace Plaisted 1828 21st Worcester Republican center|60px William Hall Poore 1864 3rd Essex Republican center|60px Harvey Hunter Pratt 1860 6th Plymouth Democratic center|60px William Henry Preble 1856 4th Suffolk Republican center|60px William Provin February 14, 1842 2nd Hampden Democratic center|60px Francis Winnie Qua 1845 22nd Middlesex Republican center|60px Josiah Quincy October 15, 1859 5th Norfolk Ind. Democrat Andrew Quinn 1853 12th Suffolk Ind. Democrat center|60px Dennis Joseph Quinn 1861 12th Suffolk Democratic center|60px Philip Henry Quinn 1859 center|60px Francis Henry Raymond February 19, 1836 6th Middlesex Republican center|60px Samuel Miner Raymond June 30, 1842 3rd Berkshire Democratic center|60px John Read May 19, 1840 1st Middlesex Republican center|60px James Henry Richards 1839 16th Essex Republican center|60px Henry Riddell 1848 Nantucket Independent center|60px John C. Risteen 1841 1st Essex Independent center|60px Ethan Chapin Robinson 1839 6th Hampden Democratic center|60px Jonathan Henry Robinson February 9, 1831 12th Worcester Republican center|60px Joseph Wheelden Rogers 1823 2nd Barnstable Republican/Prohibitionist center|60px Samuel Nomlas Rogers 1840 9th Worcester Republican center|60px William Blanding Rogerson 1846 2nd Bristol Republican center|60px Arthur Gilbert Rounsevell 1851 4th Bristol Republican center|60px Charles Parks Rugg 1827 6th Bristol Republican center|60px Alvin Dudley Russell 1849 30th Middlesex Republican center|60px Irving Levi Russell 1852 7th Middlesex Republican center|60px Alpheus Sanford July 5, 1856 17th Suffolk Republican center|60px Chester Franklin Sanger 1858 1st Middlesex Republican center|60px Charles Warren Seavey 1839 8th Norfolk Republican center|60px Edward Payson Shaw September 1, 1841 7th Essex Republican center|60px Charles Fay Shepard 1827 2nd Hampden Republican center|60px Samuel Dwight Simonds 1846 4th Worcester Republican center|60px George Wing Slocum 1818 7th Bristol Republican center|60px Winfield Scott Slocum 1848 17th Middlesex Republican center|60px Sidney Pond Smith 1850 1st center|60px William Davies Sohier 1858 12th Essex Ind. Republican center|60px Benjamin Franklin Southwick July 5, 1835 21st Essex Republican center|60px Charles Edward Spring 1841 28th Middlesex Republican center|60px Daniel Philmore Stimpson 1818 17th Essex Republican center|60px Cyrus Story 1822 10th Essex Republican center|60px Elijah Baron Stowe 1844 8th Norfolk Republican center|60px Michael Francis Sullivan September 22, 1858 6th Essex Democratic center|60px Thomas Francis Sullivan 1862 13th Suffolk Democratic center|60px Charles Henry Symonds 1857 15th Essex Republican center|60px Robert Lovett Taft 1841 7th Berkshire Republican center|60px Albert Hobbs Temple 1832 5th Franklin Republican center|60px Rufus Albert Thayer 1839 7th Norfolk Republican center|60px Albert Cranston Thompson 1843 11th Plymouth Republican center|60px Albert Gardner Thompson 1853 25th Middlesex Republican center|60px Isaac Brownell Tompkins August 17, 1826 5th Bristol Republican center|60px Joseph Leland Towne 1861 19th Essex Democratic center|60px George Washington Trull 1849 20th Middlesex Republican center|60px Henry Abiel Turner 1827 3rd Plymouth Republican center|60px Ansel Peabody Tyler 1839 22nd Essex Republican center|60px Samuel Otis Upham 1824 18th Middlesex Republican center|60px Edwin D. Vanderhoop 1848 Dukes Republican center|60px Horace G. Wadlin October 2, 1851 14th Middlesex Republican center|60px Abijah Tyler Wales 1833 1st Bristol Republican center|60px Arthur Clarence Walworth 1844 17th Middlesex Republican center|60px Erskine Warden 1839 18th Middlesex Republican center|60px Jacob Otis Wardwell March 14, 1857 2nd Essex Republican center|60px Moses Everett Ware 1831 21st Suffolk Republican center|60px Franklin Levi Waters 1829 2nd Franklin Republican center|60px William Fisher Wharton 1847 11th Suffolk Republican center|60px James Edgar Whitcher 1847 12th Middlesex Republican center|60px William Leonard White 1843 3rd Bristol Republican center|60px William Allan Wilde 1837 9th Middlesex Republican center|60px Albert Llewellyn Wiley 1835 3rd Worcester Republican center|60px John Williamson Wilkinson 1832 2nd Middlesex Republican center|60px Rufus Henry Willis 1838 5th Bristol Republican center|60px Reuben Winchester 1825 3rd Hampden Democratic center|60px John Winthrop 1841 5th Berkshire Democratic center|60px Charles Thomas Witt July 18, 1848 1st Suffolk Republican center|60px Frank Forrest Woods 15th Suffolk Republican center|60px Charles Francis Woodward November 19, 1852 13th Middlesex Republican center|60px Arthur Wright 1837 31st Middlesex Republican center|60px Ferdinand Adolphus Wyman 1850 3rd Norfolk See also Massachusetts Ballot Act 50th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References Further reading https://archive.org/details/officialgazette1888andr 1888 Official Gazette, Commonwealth of Massachusetts: 1888 State Government Geo. F. Andrews Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1888 Massachusetts: Legislative Session https://archive.org/stream/newappletonsannu13newyuoft#page/516/mode/2up D. Appleton and Company New York 1889 External links 2452/619077 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1888 Massachusetts General Court 2452/83194 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1888 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1888 in Massachusetts