1877 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 98thMassachusetts General Court General Court November 7, 1876 97th 99th 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 John B. D. Cogswell 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 1877 01 3 1877 05 17 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 John Bear Doane Cogswell.png John B. D. Cogswell John Cogswell, Senate president. JDLong.jpg John Davis Long John Long, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1877. The 98th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1877 during the governorship of Alexander H. Rice. John B. D. Cogswell 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+ Senators Image Name https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge1877mass 1877 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40655 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, 1877 https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/795846/1877-Senate-01-Appendix%20.pdf State Library of Massachusetts District Party center|60px Charles Adams Jr. 1810 center|60px Stephen Merrill AllenLivingston John 1853 Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions https://archive.org/details/portraitsofemine03livi/page/n93/mode/2up 11 September 2026 1819 center|60px George Sumner Barton 1825 center|60px Selwyn Zadock Bowman May 11, 1840 center|60px Amos Franklin Breed October 15, 1830 Elisha Brimhall March 25, 1825 Haydn Brown February 16, 1819 center|60px Abraham Burbank Coffin 1831 center|60px John Bear Doane Cogswell June 6, 1829 center|60px Samuel Dexter Crane 1816 George Parkman Denny 1826 center|60px Henry Clandins Ewing 1844 center|60px Joseph Emery Fiske 1839 center|60px Thomas Francis Fitzgerald 1848 center|60px Michael Joseph Flatley 1823 Harrison Garfield June 27, 1810 center|60px Lewis Newton Gilbert 1836 center|60px Samuel Slocum Ginnodo 1816 center|60px James John Howard Gregory 1827 center|frameless|84x84px Theodore "Tilly" Haynes February 13, 1828 center|60px Henry Bozyol Hill 1823 center|60px Charles Jarvis Holmes 1834 Charles Howes October 26, 1826 Francis Jewett September 19, 1820 center|60px Ensign Hosmer Kellogg July 6, 1812 center|60px Ebenezer Bissell Lynde 1823 Aaron C. Mayhew 1812 center|60px John Farwell Moors December 10, 1819 Joshua Morse February 24, 1822 center|60px Caleb Rand 1817 center|60px Charles Theodore Russell November 20, 1815 center|60px Amos Joseph Saunders 1826 center|60px Luther Henry Sherman 1838 John Sherburne Sleeper September 25, 1794 center|60px Frederick Mason Stone 1825 center|60px Jackson Benjamin Swett 1815 center|60px Byron Truell 1834 Francis M. Weld 1815 center|60px John Dwelle Whicher 1825 center|60px Jonathan White 1819 Representatives image Name Date of birth District Party center|60px Alfred Mark Adams 1835 center|60px Granville Stevens Allen 1825 center|60px Stillman Boyd Allen September 8, 1830 center|60px Job Kelly Anthony 1834 center|60px Samuel Atherton January 26, 1815 center|60px Edwin Ayer 1827 center|60px John James Babson 1809 center|60px Thomas McCrate Babson 1847 center|60px Orlando Sargent Baley 1818 center|60px Alonzo Bancroft 1820 center|60px Henry Francis Barker 1838 center|60px Charles Ellis Barnes 1840 center|60px James Edward Taylor Bartlett 1825 center|60px Perley Bartlett 1807 center|60px Henry Allen Barton 1821 center|60px Benjamin Samuel Batchelor 1829 center|60px Daniel Johnson Bates 1830 center|60px Crocker Hinckley Bearse 1810 center|60px Charles David Bickford 1821 center|60px Abraham Orlando Bigelow 1812 center|60px Francis William Bird 1809 center|60px Warren Augustus Bird 1837 center|60px Stephen Henry Bodurtha 1812 center|60px Francis Charles Bowen 1834 center|60px John Quincy Adams Brackett June 8, 1842 center|60px George Bradford 1819 center|60px Warren Sylvester Bragg 1837 center|60px Pharcellus Dean Bridges December 21, 1846 center|60px John Henry Brown 1844 center|60px William Henry Harrison Bryant 1826 center|60px Joseph Buckminster 1821 center|60px Horace John Canfield 1834 center|60px Francis Carll 1825 center|60px Nahum Chapin 1820 center|60px Charles Henry Chase 1835 center|60px Lafayette Clapp 1824 center|60px Leonard Clark 1821 center|60px Wilder Philander Clark October 12, 1832 center|60px John Doggett Cobb 1840 center|60px Aaron Cogswell 1807 center|60px John Draper Cogswell 1820 center|60px John Leonard Cole 1839 center|60px George Nelson Cone 1836 center|60px John Hawkins Cook 1841 center|60px William Henry Cook January 7, 1843 center|60px Israel Clark Cornish 1850 center|60px Samuel Emmons Crocker 1834 center|60px Edward Johnson Crossman 1824 center|60px Thomas Cunningham 1815 center|60px Daniel Jasper Curley April 2, 1841 center|60px George Fisher Daniels 1820 center|60px Charles Warren Davis 1826 center|60px George Asa Dean 1835 center|60px Obed Delano 1814 center|60px Cornelius Desmond 1838 center|60px Justin Dewey 1836 center|60px Abiathar Doane 1820 center|60px Daniel Doherty 1838 center|60px William Capar Donald 1816 center|60px Francis Mattby Draper 1834 center|60px Jarvis Nelson Dunham 1828 center|60px Curtis Eddy May 18, 1838 center|60px Francis Sylvester Egleston 1821 center|60px Theodore Waterbury Ellis 1823 center|60px William Fuller Ellis 1820 center|60px William Irving Ellis 1829 center|60px Levi Emery 1817 center|60px John Barnard Fairbank 1839 center|60px Jackson Benjamin Farnum 1828 center|60px George Augustus Flagg 1845 center|60px James W. Fox 1849 center|60px Andrew Jackson Freeman 1819 center|60px Henry William Fuller June 30, 1839 center|60px Charles Frederick Gerry 1823 center|60px Onslow Gilmore 1832 center|60px William Segar Gleason 1809 center|60px Martin Thomas Glynn 1848 center|60px Frank Palmer Goulding 1837 center|60px James Benton Graham 1835 center|60px Franklin Gray 1824 center|60px Frank Shunk Gross 1836 center|60px Charles Hale June 7, 1831 center|60px Andrew Hall 1833 center|60px Charles Hallett 1825 center|60px Patrick Henry Hallinan 1852 center|60px Leander Moody Hannum 1837 center|60px Henry Martin Hartshorn 1828 center|60px Thomas Jones Hastings January 24, 1835 center|60px Frederick Hathaway 1810 center|60px Nathan Mortimer Hawkes 1843 center|60px George Frederic Hayden 1836 center|60px Milton Lewis Perry Heustis 1825 center|60px Samuel Richardson Heywood 1821 center|60px Clement Hugh Hill 1836 center|60px John Hillis 1847 center|60px Richard Holley January 30, 1829 center|60px William Carey Howard 1841 center|60px Caleb Burroughs Huse September 13, 1833 center|60px Charles Halstead Ingalls 1840 center|60px Edward John Jenkins 1854 center|60px George William Johnson 1827 center|60px Peter Rogers Johnson 1824 center|60px Joseph James Kelley 1842 center|60px Patrick Keyes 1830 center|60px Ensign Kimball 1818 center|60px William Bird Kimball 1833 center|60px William Hales Kinsman 1821 center|60px Hosea Morrill Knowlton 1847 center|60px Asa Stillman Lawrence 1820 center|60px Alfred Laws 1831 center|60px Henry Lee 1817 center|60px Chauncey Wheeler Lessey 1829 center|60px Thomas Lonergan 1827 center|60px John Davis Long October 27, 1838 center|60px Benjamin Starks Lovell 1845 center|60px John Dana Lovell 1818 center|60px Francis Low 1824 center|60px Lewis Gold Lowe 1828 center|60px Hale Sisson Luther 1830 center|60px James Mackintosh 1838 center|60px Pardon Macomber February 9, 1833 center|60px Hugh Ambrose Madden 1839 center|60px James Thomas Mahony 1843 center|60px Seth Mann 1817 center|60px William Marchant 1817 center|60px Isaac Burgess Martin 1825 center|60px Matthew James McCafferty 1829 center|60px George Brackett Melcher 1836 center|60px James Henry Mellen 1845 center|60px Francis Peabody Merriam 1818 center|60px Frederick Warren Merrill 1842 center|60px Simeon Merritt 1823 center|60px Alfred Miller 1815 center|60px William Haswell Montague 1824 center|60px Thomas Mooney 1840 center|60px Aaron Rathburn Morse 1839 center|60px Enoch Robinson Morse 1822 center|60px James Thomas Murphy 1842 center|60px Erastus Maltby Nash 1826 center|60px Dexter Newton 1823 center|60px James Hale Newton 1832 center|60px John Franklin Newton 1829 center|60px Nathaniel Avery Newton 1814 center|60px Charles Johnson Noyes August 7, 1841 center|60px Dennis O'Connor 1838 center|60px Cornelius O'Sullivan 1825 center|60px Weaver Osborn 1815 center|60px Charles Stuart Osgood 1839 center|60px Henry Bryant Osgood 1818 center|60px Edwin Patch 1820 center|60px Alonzo Penney September 23, 1835 center|60px Ephraim Augustus Perkins 1839 center|60px Baxter Edwards Perry April 26, 1826 center|60px John Charles Perry 1839 center|60px William Cowper Peters 1827 center|60px Darius Pierce 1836 center|60px Henry Pierce 1826 center|60px Albert Enoch Pillsbury August 19, 1849 center|60px Samuel Cloon Pitman 1811 center|60px Charles Greenwood Pope 1840 center|60px Charles Jones Prescott 1838 center|60px Dennis George Quirk 1836 center|60px Oliver James Rand 1820 center|60px David Randall 1818 center|60px Charles Everett Ranlett 1816 center|60px James Paine Ray 1820 center|60px William Arthur Read 1849 center|60px George Randall Reed 1832 center|60px Rice Munn Reynolds 1838 center|60px Charles Baker Rice 1829 center|60px Charles Warren Richards 1824 center|60px James Henry Richards 1839 center|60px Samuel Roads 1825 center|60px William Robinson 1835 center|60px John Austin Rogers 1828 center|60px Cyrus King Russell 1815 center|60px John Crockett Sanborn 1832 center|60px George Webster Sanderson 1830 center|60px Luther Haines Sargent 1842 center|60px Horace Mills Sessions 1828 center|60px Josephus Shaw 1832 center|60px Harrison Allen Sheldon 1830 center|60px Henry Shortle 1834 center|60px John Killbourne Clough Sleeper 1828 center|60px Solomon Sias Sleeper 1815 center|60px Dana Zenas Smith 1819 center|60px Iram Smith 1807 center|60px Peter Dove Smith 1842 center|60px Newell Snow 1816 center|60px Samuel Snow 1828 center|60px Mark Henry Spaulding 1827 center|60px Charles Stickney 1829 center|60px Eben Francis Stone August 3, 1822 center|60px Ezekiel Reed Studley 1831 center|60px Charles B. Swain center|60px Noah Swett 1826 center|60px Lewis Northey Tappan June 15, 1831 center|60px Oliver Taylor 1826 center|60px Edward Flint Thayer 1835 center|60px Francis Nicholas Thayer 1846 center|60px Edward Isaiah Thomas 1833 center|60px Leonard Thompson 1817 center|60px Charles Frederick Thurston 1844 center|60px John Wilson Tilton 1844 center|60px Dexter Alley Tompkins 1827 center|60px William Ripley Tompkins 1826 center|60px Merritt Torrey 1825 center|60px William G. Train 1825 center|60px John Turner 1827 center|60px Augustus Sherman Tuttle 1824 center|60px Levi Clifford Wade 1843 center|60px Edwin Walden November 25, 1818 center|60px Joseph Walker 1825 center|60px James Lawrence Walsh 1843 center|60px Alonzo Warren 1827 center|60px Emory Washburn February 14, 1800 center|60px John Davis Washburn 1833 center|60px William Watts 1835 center|60px Lewis Taylor Webster 1832 center|60px Michael Francis Wells 1832 center|60px Samuel Hidden Wentworth center|60px John Wilson Wheeler 1832 center|60px John Birtwistle Whitaker 1816 center|60px James White 1828 center|60px Sydney Franklin Whitehouse 1822 center|60px Charles Stimson Whitmore 1815 center|60px William Gunn Whitmore 1849 center|60px Edward Whitney 1815 center|60px William Ward Wilde 1821 center|60px Henry Hills Wilder 1824 center|60px George Andrew Wilson 1825 center|60px George Colburn Wilson 1809 center|60px Daniel Wing 1841 center|60px Henry Winn 1837 center|60px Thomas Winship 1826 center|60px Isaac Winslow 1827 center|60px Joseph Wiswell 1816 center|60px Henry Pickett Woodbury 1835 center|60px John Henry Wright 1843 See also 1877 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 45th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References 2 Further reading Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1877 Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/appletonsannualc18newyuoft/page/481/mode/1up D. Appleton and Company New York 1889 (includes description of legislature) Legislating Fear and the Public Health in Gilded Age Massachusetts Philip M. Teigen Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 62 2007 2 141–170 10.1093/jhmas/jrl016 24632331 16980330 free (related to hydrophobia) External links 2452/619066 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1877 Massachusetts General Court 2452/89613 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1877 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1877 in Massachusetts