1855 Massachusetts legislature

American state legislature February 2025 January 2025 76thMassachusetts General Court General Court 1855 01 3 1855 05 21 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+ 75th 77th Senate 40 Know-Nothing President Henry Wetherby Benchley House 380 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 Know-Nothing Speaker Daniel C. Eddy right 308 Henry Wetherby Benchley.png Henry Wetherby Benchley Henry Benchley, Senate president. 1855 Daniel Clarke Eddy Massachusetts House of Representatives US.png Daniel C. Eddy Daniel Eddy, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1855. The 76th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1855 during the governorship of Henry Gardner. Henry Wetherby Benchley served as president of the Senate and Daniel C. Eddy 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+ "Know-Nothings won all 40 state Senate seats and all but three of the 379 state House seats in 1854, in addition to the governorship.... Once in power, the Know-Nothings passed legislation to deport poor or mentally ill Irish residents; to 'inspect' Catholic schools and convents; and to order daily readings from the Protestant Bible in public schools."A Toast to the General Court Robert David Sullivan 2005 10 4 CommonWealth Magazine https://commonwealthmagazine.org/politics/a-toast-to-the-general-court/ On May 9, 1855, Joseph Hiss became the first Massachusetts state representative to be expelled from the House.Lucas Peter Legislative expulsion? It started with a wayward Hiss Lowell Sun February 11, 2014 Notable legislation This legislature passed the nation's first statute racially integrating public education.https://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/2-battleground/pursuit-equality-1.html In Pursuit of Equality – Separate Is Not Equal americanhistory.si.edu Senators 15em width: 600px; O. W. Albee Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Civil Government, 1855 https://archive.org/details/massachusettsreg1855bost/page/n19/mode/1up Massachusetts Register, 1855 Archive.org Erastus Andrews Elihu C. Baker Lemuel M. Barker John Batchelder Sylvester Baxter Henry W. Benchley James D. Black John A. Buttrick James E. Carpenter Albert A. Cook Joseph E. Dawley Edward Denny Francis DeWitt Streeter Evans Jabez Fisher William Fletcher Robert B. Hall Charles K. Hawks A. E. Hildreth David K. Hitchcock Stephen Huse Richard Libby Ivory H. Lucas Sebeus C. Maine Billings Palmer Bradford K. Peirce Gilbert Pillsbury Z. L. Raymond Andrew A. Richmond Simon W. Robinson Lewis L. Sellew Charles H. Stedman Moses Tenny, Jr. Alvan G. Underwood Ambrose Vincent James W. Ward Daniel Warren Benj. F. White Albert J. Wright Representatives June 2020 See also 34th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References Further reading The Legislature January 9, 1855 Boston Daily Advertiser Know-Nothingism and the Republican Majority in Massachusetts: The Political Realignment of the 1850s Dale Baum Journal of American History 64 1978 4 959–986 10.2307/1890732 1890732 External links 2452/725162 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1855 Massachusetts General Court 2452/92937 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1855 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1855 in Massachusetts