1876 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 97thMassachusetts General Court General Court November 2, 1875 96th 98th 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 George B. Loring 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 John Davis Long 1876 01 5 1876 04 28 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+ right 308 George B. Loring - Brady-Handy.jpg George B. Loring George Loring, Senate president. JDLong.jpg John Davis Long John Davis Long, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1876. The 97th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1876 during the governorship of Alexander H. Rice. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John Davis Long 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+ Members earned a salary of $650 per year. Legislative Compensation (a 350 Year-Old Issue) John F. Parker https://archive.org/details/legislativelifei00park/page/n23/mode/2up Legislative Life, Its Realities, Facts, Wit & Humor 1985 New Legislators' Orientation, State House, Boston Senators Image Name https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge1876mass 1876 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40654 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, 1876 https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/795842/1876-Senate-01-Appendix%20.pdf State Library of Massachusetts District Party Moses O. Ayres July 21, 1826 4th Worcester Emery L. Bates March 16, 1823 3rd Worcester J. White Belcher November 14, 1823 3rd Norfolk center|60px Selwyn Zadock Bowman May 11, 1840 2nd Middlesex Elisha Brimhall March 25, 1825 5th Worcester Haydn Brown February 16, 1819 4th Essex center|60px Samuel Dexter Crane 1816 5th Suffolk center|60px John Cummings 1812 6th Middlesex center|60px Timothy John Dacey 1849 2nd Suffolk center|60px Edward Livingston Davis 1834 2nd Suffolk George L. Davis June 17, 1816 3rd Essex center|60px Joseph Emery Fiske 1839 2nd Norfolk center|60px Eustace Carey Fitz 1833 1st Suffolk center|60px Thomas Francis Fitzgerald 1848 6th Suffolk center|60px Michael Joseph Flatley 1823 3rd Suffolk center|60px William Miner Gaylord 1821 Hampshire center|60px Samuel Slocum Ginnodo 1816 1st Bristol center|60px Joseph Alfred Harwood March 26, 1827 5th Middlesex Tilly Haynes February 13, 1828 1st Hampden Jonathan Higgins November 21, 1816 Cape center|60px Ezra Coffin Howard September 1, 1831 Islands Charles Howes October 26, 1826 5th Essex center|60px Ebenezer Atherton Hunt January 26, 1826 Norfolk & Plymouth center|60px William E. Livingston June 25, 1832 7th Middlesex center|60px George B. Loring November 8, 1817 2nd Essex center|60px Horace Hawkes Mayhew 1826 Franklin center|60px Peter M. Neal September 21, 1811 1st Essex center|60px Albert Palmer January 17, 1831 1st Norfolk Francis J. Parker March 3, 1825 4th Middlesex center|60px Caleb Rand 1817 1st Middlesex Everett Robinson January 22, 1816 1st Plymouth center|60px George D. Robinson January 20, 1834 2nd Hampden Henry W. Robinson October 9, 1819 2nd Plymouth John Sargent June 21, 1799 3rd Middlesex Norman W. Shores 1834 Berkshire & Hampshire center|60px Francis Dana Stedman 1801 4th Suffolk Philip J. Tripp October 28, 1822 3rd Bristol center|60px Byron Weston April 9, 1832 Berkshire center|60px Benjamin Franklin Wing October 22, 1822 2nd Bristol Representatives image Name Date of birth District Party center|60px James Abbe 1822 center|60px Ebenezer Adams 1830 center|60px Stillman Boyd Allen September 8, 1830 center|60px William Augustus Alley 1841 center|60px Edwin Amsden 1828 center|60px Jacob Franklin Appell 1840 center|60px Michael A. Atkinson 1813 center|60px Edwin Ayer 1827 center|60px John James Babson 1809 center|60px Daniel Danforth Bailey 1834 center|60px Monroe Elias Ballou 1836 center|60px Giles Gould Barker 1838 center|60px Patrick Barry 1834 center|60px Daniel Walton Bartlett 1829 center|60px James Edward Taylor Bartlett 1825 center|60px Benjamin Samuel Batchelor 1829 center|60px Eliakim Adams Bates 1817 center|60px Warren Augustus Bird 1837 center|60px Warren Palmer Bird 1843 center|60px Francis Charles Bowen 1834 center|60px Osgood Bradley 1836 center|60px Amos Franklin Breed October 15, 1830 center|60px Lysander Nelson Brownell 1817 center|60px Orrin Bryant 1837 center|60px Joseph Buckminster 1821 center|60px Francis Bugbee 1829 center|60px Isaac Tucker Burr 1828 center|60px Charles Cargill Capron 1841 center|60px Michael Carney 1827 center|60px Frederick Thomas Chase 1844 center|60px Gardner Asaph Churchill 1839 center|60px Frederick Waterston Clapp 1843 center|60px Lafayette Clapp 1824 center|60px John P. Clark 1837 center|60px Edward Coburn 1820 center|60px Henry Fayette Coggshall 1823 center|60px Charles Samuel Converse 1821 center|60px Horace Cook April 24, 1829 center|60px John Hawkins Cook 1841 center|60px Thomas Francis Cordis 1843 center|60px Jeremiah William Coveney 1840 center|60px Michael J. Croak 1843 center|60px Elisha Crocker 1814 center|60px Albert Willoughby Curtiss 1820 center|60px Charles Henry Danforth 1837 center|60px George Fisher Daniels 1820 center|60px Dallas Jay Dean 1816 center|60px Herbert Augustus Dean 1841 center|60px Henry Dennis 1827 center|60px Freeman Doane 1819 center|60px Neil Doherty 1838 center|60px Francis Elisha Downer 1832 center|60px Adin Cady Estabrook 1828 center|60px Alonzo Hathaway Evans February 24, 1820 center|60px George Otis Fairbanks 1815 center|60px William Wallace Fish 1832 center|60px Luther Fisk 1832 center|60px Wesley Lewis Fiske 1823 center|60px Theodore Narcisse Foque 1831 center|60px John Freeto 1825 center|60px Charles Fuller 1811 center|60px Henry William Fuller June 30, 1839 center|60px Charles Lefevre Gardner 1839 center|60px Thomas John Gargan 1844 center|60px Thomas Rogers Garity 1838 center|60px John Murray Gibbons 1833 center|60px Benjamin Gifford 1824 center|60px Onslow Gilmore 1832 center|60px Samuel Slater Gleason 1842 center|60px Curtis Banks Goodsell 1821 center|60px George Washington Granger 1821 center|60px Charles Hale June 7, 1831 center|60px Andrew Hall 1833 center|60px Leander Moody Hannum 1837 center|60px Lyman Sawin Hapgood 1822 center|60px Joseph Tolman Hartt 1830 center|60px James Dana Hartwell 1831 center|60px George Haskell 1809 center|60px Frederick Hathaway 1810 center|60px Isaac Newton Hathaway 1819 center|60px Nathan Mortimer Hawkes 1843 center|60px Alanson Knox Hawks 1828 center|60px Samuel Richardson Heywood 1821 center|60px Samuel Dexter Hicks 1824 center|60px Henry Bozyol Hill 1823 center|60px John Beckford Hill 1824 center|60px Joseph Warren Hill 1837 center|60px Otis M. Hitchings 1822 center|60px Ira Wilmarth Hoffman 1830 center|60px Richard Holley January 30, 1829 center|60px Henry Tolman Holmes 1829 center|60px George Francis Howe 1825 center|60px Weston Howland 1813 center|60px Jonas Sewall Hunt 1827 center|60px Caleb Burroughs Huse September 13, 1833 center|60px Ephraim Alfred Ingalls 1826 center|60px Thomas Leighton Jenks 1829 center|60px Jesse Henry Jones 1836 center|60px Ambrose Keith 1814 center|60px Isaac Newton Keith November 14, 1838 center|60px Monroe Keith 1835 center|60px Ziba Cary Keith July 13, 1842 center|60px Ensign Hosmer Kellogg July 6, 1812 center|60px Edward Kendall 1822 center|60px Patrick Kennedy 1838 center|60px Ensign Kimball 1818 center|60px Moses Kimball October 24, 1809 center|60px William Sterling King 1818 center|60px Joseph Addison Kingsbury 1837 center|60px Edwin Leander Kirtland 1832 center|60px Joel Knapp 1835 center|60px John Knowles 1823 center|60px Henry Charles Knowlton 1833 center|60px Hosea Morrill Knowlton 1847 center|60px Daniel Warren Lawrence 1830 center|60px Henry Lee 1817 center|60px Nathaniel Evan Lindsey 1843 center|60px Samuel Longley 1823 center|60px Charles Addison Loud 1829 center|60px James Mackintosh 1838 center|60px Seth Mann 1817 center|60px Andrus March 1812 center|60px Edward Franklin Mayo 1826 center|60px Ebenezer Martin McPherson 1836 center|60px Christopher Columbus Merritt September 29, 1830 center|60px George Whitney Merritt 1831 center|60px Henry Sherman Miner 1820 center|60px Joseph Mitchell 1809 center|60px Thomas Mooney 1840 center|60px John Morissey 1818 center|60px George Washington Morrill 1818 center|60px Elijah Adams Morse 1841 center|60px William Morse 1822 center|60px Frederick Pierce Moseley 1826 center|60px Jeremiah Murphy 1834 center|60px John Joseph Murphy 1842 center|60px Sherman Nelson 1834 center|60px John Burbank Nichols 1814 center|60pxReuben Noble 1820 center|60px Daniel Noonan 1834 center|60px John B. Norton 1823 center|60px Benjamin Alden Nourse 1836 center|60px Isaac Newton Nutter June 23, 1836 center|60px Weaver Osborn 1815 center|60px Charles Stuart Osgood 1839 center|60px Harvey McCullock Owen 1833 center|60px Frederick Parker 1810 center|60px George Gedney Parker 1826 center|60px David Allen Partridge 1833 center|60px Joseph Frost Paul 1824 center|60px George Robbins Perry 1836 center|60px Charles Hiram Pew 1842 center|60px Stephen Cobb Phinney 1829 center|60px Edward L. Pierce March 29, 1829 center|60px Albert Enoch Pillsbury August 19, 1849 center|60px Charles Greenwood Pope 1840 center|60px David Alden Preston 1846 center|60px David Prouty 1813 center|60px Henry Wheatland Putnam 1843 center|60px Charles Henry Read 1830 center|60px Henry Clifford Read 1810 center|60px Washington Read 1813 center|60px George Randall Reed 1832 center|60px George Williams Reed 1826 center|60px Rice Munn Reynolds 1838 center|60px Charles Baker Rice 1829 center|60px Charles Warren Richards 1824 center|60px Jonathan Cady Richmond 1821 center|60px Wallace Fullum Robinson 1832 center|60px Charles Alvan Rogers 1836 center|60px Joseph Hubbard Root 1823 center|60px Joseph Samuel Ropes February 6, 1818 center|60px Solomon Nash Russell 1822 center|60px Nathaniel Johnson Rust 1833 center|60px Addison Sandford 1821 center|60px Amos Joseph Saunders 1826 center|60px Samuel Dexter Sawin 1835 center|60px Ebenezer Sawyer 1809 center|60px Enoch Sawyer 1841 center|60px John Francis Searle 1839 center|60px Calvin Wilbur Shattuck 1811 center|60px Elijah Carter Shattuck 1820 center|60px Elon Sherman 1820 center|60px Albion King Slade 1822 center|60px Solomon Sias Sleeper 1815 center|60px Isaiah Atkins Small 1825 center|60px Andrew Smith 1838 center|60px Newton Smith 1837 center|60px Robert Dickson Smith 1838 center|60px Webster Smith 1825 center|60px Samuel Snow 1828 center|60px John Russell Southwick 1819 center|60px Benjamin Franklin Stacey 1834 center|60px James Trimble Stevens 1835 center|60px Frederick Mason Stone 1825 center|60px Michael Sullivan 1837 center|60px James Francis Supple 1844 center|60px Charles Alfonso Fletcher Swan 1830 center|60px Jackson Benjamin Swett 1815 center|60px Noah Swett 1826 center|60px Samuel Talbot 1822 center|60px Charles Andrews Taylor 1826 center|60px Oliver Taylor 1826 center|60px Davis Thayer 1816 center|60px Byron Truell 1834 center|60px Henry Grant Tuttle 1812 center|60px William Ingersoll Van Deusen 1819 center|60px Levi Clifford Wade 1843 center|60px Alexander Wadsworth 1806 center|60px Edwin Walden November 25, 1818 center|60px William Sprague Wallace 1838 center|60px Alanson Wendell Ward 1827 center|60px Alonzo Warren 1827 center|60px John Davis Washburn 1833 center|60px Eleazer Everett Waterman 1810 center|60px William Watts 1835 center|60px David Locke Webster 1813 center|60px Austin Clark Wellington 1840 center|60px John Wetherbee 1828 center|60px John Wolcott Wetherell 1820 center|60px John Dwelle Whicher 1825 center|60px Benjamin White 1826 center|60px James White 1828 center|60px Joseph Wilder White 1825 center|60px Edward Whitney 1815 center|60px Moses Williams 1846 center|60px George Colburn Wilson 1809 center|60px John Gilbert Wilson 1825 center|60px Daniel Wing 1841 center|60px Thomas Winship 1826 center|60px Isaac Winslow 1827 center|60px Eliphaz Hibbard Wood 1810 center|60px William Woods 1840 center|60px James Clifton Woodward 1825 See also 1876 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 44th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References 2 Further reading Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1876 Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/newappletonsannu01newyuoft/page/508/mode/1up D. Appleton and Company New York 1883 (includes description of legislature) External links 2452/619065 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1876 Massachusetts General Court 2452/89612 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1876 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1876 in Massachusetts