1838 Massachusetts legislature

American state legislature February 2025 January 2025 59thMassachusetts General Court General Court 1838 01 3 1838 04 25 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+ 58th 60th Senate 40 President Myron Lawrence House 480 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 The 59th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1838 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+ The governor spoke to the members on January 9, 1838.Address Of His Excellency Edward Everett, To The Two Branches Of The Legislature, On The Organization Of The Government, For The Political Year Commencing January 3, 1838 2452/749957 "In February 1838, Angelina Grimké became the first woman in U.S. history to address the members of an American legislative body when she spoke to the members of the Massachusetts Legislature. Her subject was the demand for the immediate end of the slave trade in Washington, D.C."https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1838-angelina-grimke-address-massachusetts-legislature/ (1838) Angelina Grimke, 'Address to the Massachusetts Legislature' Blackpast.org June 8, 2020 In 1838, temperance activists pushed the Massachusetts legislature to pass a law restricting the sale of alcohol in quantities less than fifteen gallons.Boston Almanac for the Year 1840 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101056187550 Thomas Groom S.N. Dickinson 2027/njp.32101056187550 Senators 15em width: 600px; Daniel Adams III Civil Government of Massachusetts https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.319510022331886?urlappend=%3Bseq=52 Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for 1838 2027/umn.319510022331886?urlappend=%3Bseq=52 HathiTrust James C. Alvord George Ashmun Reuben Boies Jr. Nathan Brooks Stephen B. Brown Barker Burnell James G. Carter Linus Child William Clark Jr. Samuel Dorr Lilly Eaton John Eddy Stephen Fairbanks Levi Farwell Lester Filley Thomas French Samuel G. Goodrich Nathan Gurney William Hancock Samuel Hubbard Charles Hudson Charles Kimball Daniel P. King Thomas Kinnicutt Samuel Lane Myron Lawrence Artemas Lee Charles Marston Lemuel May Joseph Meigs Thomas Motley Warwick Palfray Jr. Stuart J. Park Josiah Quincy Jr. Joseph L. Richardson John A. Shaw Jeremiah Spofford Samuel B. Walcutt Charles H. Warren Representatives June 2020 15em width: 600px; Ivers J. Austin See also 25th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References 2 External links 2452/738684 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1838 Massachusetts General Court 2452/103883 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1838 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1838 in Massachusetts