1878 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 99thMassachusetts General Court General Court November 6, 1877 1878 01 2 1878 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+ 98th 100th 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 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, 1878. The 99th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1878 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+ Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 15+ https://archive.org/details/massachusettsreg1878bost/page/14/mode/2up Massachusetts Register, 1878 1874 Archive.org Senators Image Namehttps://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge1878mass 1878 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40656 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, 1878 https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/795854/1878-Senate-01-Appendix%20.pdf State Library of Massachusetts District Party center|60px James Cochran Abbott 1825 center|60px Charles Adams 1810 center|60px Henry Francis Barker 1838 center|60px George Sumner Barton 1825 center|60px Joseph Sampson Beal 1814 center|60px Robert Roberts Bishop March 13, 1834 center|60px Amos Franklin Breed October 15, 1830 center|60px Frederic Perry Brown 1840 center|60px Alvah Augustus Burrage 1823 center|60px Horace John Canfield 1834 center|60px George Washington Cate 1834 center|60px Abraham Burbank Coffin 1831 center|60px John Bear Doane Cogswell June 6, 1829 center|60px Ezra Davol 1838 center|60px Marcellus Day 1833 center|60px Frederick David Ely September 24, 1838 center|60px Henry Clandins Ewing 1844 center|60px Michael Joseph Flatley 1823 center|60px Charles Lefevre Gardner 1839 center|60px Lewis Newton Gilbert 1836 center|60px Thomas Gogin 1824 center|60px James John Howard Gregory 1827 center|60px Benjamin Franklin Hayes center|60px Henry Bozyol Hill 1823 center|60px William Allen Hodges 1834 center|60px Charles Jarvis Holmes 1834 center|60px Hosea Morrill Knowlton 1847 center|60px William Knowlton 1809 center|60px Ebenezer Bissell Lynde 1823 center|60px Charles Henry Merriam 1822 center|60px Albert Palmer January 17, 1831 center|60px Allan Rogers September 6, 1832 center|60px Joseph Samuel Ropes February 6, 1818 center|60px Charles Theodore Russell November 20, 1815 center|60px Amos Joseph Saunders 1826 center|60px Luther Henry Sherman 1838 center|60px Jackson Benjamin Swett 1815 center|60px Byron Truell 1834 center|60px James White 1828 center|60px Jonathan White 1819 center|60px Henry Winn 1837 Representatives image Name Date of birth District Party center|60px Charles Phelps Aldrich 1832 center|60px Charles Hastings Allen 1828 center|60px James Howe Ames 1842 center|60px Israel Warren Andrews 1820 center|60px Job Kelly Anthony 1834 center|60px George Minott Baker 1826 center|60px John Israel Baker 1812 center|60px Alonzo Bancroft 1820 center|60px Charles Ellis Barnes 1840 center|60px Sidney Barnes 1831 center|60px George Varnum Barrett 1839 center|60px Elisha Parks Bartholomew 1847 center|60px James Edward Taylor Bartlett 1825 center|60px Theodore Dwight Beach 1821 center|60px Melvin Beal 1832 center|60px George C. Belcher August 26, 1844 center|60px Myron Wallace Bent 1849 center|60px Joseph Billings 1842 center|60px Francis William Bird 1809 center|60px William Blanchard 1821 center|60px William Bradford Bliss 1834 center|60px Matthew Bolles 1807 center|60px Henry Clay Bonney 1841 center|60px John Quincy Adams Brackett June 8, 1842 center|60px George Otis Brigham 1822 center|60px William Allen Brooks 1835 center|60px Luther Julius Brown 1827 center|60px Martin Wait Burnett 1815 center|60px Charles Webster Bush 1834 center|60px Charles Ruthven Byram 1844 center|60px William Henry Carberry February 22, 1851 center|60px Francis Carll 1825 center|60px Lewis Carroll 1845 center|60px Charles Allen Case 1846 center|60px Alvin B. Chamberlain December 16, 1842 center|60px Nahum Chapin 1820 center|60px Charles Henry Chase 1835 center|60px Leonard Clark 1821 center|60px Benjamin Clough 1819 center|60px Philander Cobb 1818 center|60px Hiram Boardman Coffin 1836 center|60px Samuel Coffin October 9, 1827 center|60px George Franklin Colburn 1830 center|60px Elisha S. Converse July 28, 1820 center|60px William Henry Cook January 7, 1843 center|60px Hiram Nathaniel Cooke 1834 center|60px John Cornell 1830 center|60px Israel Clark Cornish 1850 center|60px George Albert Cowdrey 1848 center|60px John W. Cummings August 25, 1855 center|60px Thomas Cunningham 1815 center|60px John Warren Curtice 1839 center|60px Jason Langdon Curtis 1824 center|60px Orson Ballou Curtis 1825 center|60px Levi Lincoln Cushing 1825 center|60px Anthony Charles Daly 1853 center|60px Charles Augustine Davis 1847 center|60px Robert Lewis Davis 1822 center|60px Cornelius Desmond 1838 center|60px Abiathar Doane 1820 center|60px Freeman Doane 1819 center|60px Daniel Doherty 1838 center|60px Jarvis Nelson Dunham 1828 center|60px Edward Rutledge Eager 1830 center|60px William Irving Ellis 1829 center|60px Levi Emery 1817 center|60px James Webster Emory 1826 center|60px Noble W. Everett February 20, 1827 center|60px John Barnard Fairbank 1839 center|60px Lucius Field August 15, 1840 center|60px Ralph Adams Field 1837 center|60px Isaiah Fish 1811 center|60px Charles Fisher 1829 center|60px John Thomas Flood 1845 center|60px Gardner French 1811 center|60px John Henry Galligan 1851 center|60px Nelson Gardner 1815 center|60px Francis Gargan 1847 center|60px Edwin Gilbert 1820 center|60px Freeman L. Gilman 1830 center|60px Jacob Taylor Glines 1817 center|60px Frank Palmer Goulding 1837 center|60px Thomas Robinson Greene 1806 center|60px Edwin Blaisdell Hale 1839 center|60px Noah Leonard Hardy 1828 center|60px John Williams Hart 1826 center|60px Edward Howard Haskell 1845 center|60px Thomas Jones Hastings January 24, 1835 center|60px Rawson Hathaway 1828 center|60px Thomas Bly Hathaway December 5, 1825 center|60px Nathan Mortimer Hawkes 1843 center|60px Alanson Knox Hawks 1828 center|60px George Frederic Hayden 1836 center|60px James Hildreth 1839 center|60px Clement Hugh Hill 1836 center|60px Hamilton Andrews Hill 1827 center|60px John Henry Hooper 1833 center|60px Asa Frederic Howe 1845 center|60px Simon Herbert Howe 1835 center|60px William Howe 1814 center|60px Thomas Prince Howes 1817 center|60px John Humphrey 1826 center|60px Eben Hutchinson 1841 center|60px Henry Dwight Hyde 1838 center|60px Charles Halstead Ingalls 1840 center|60px John Jackson 1822 center|60px Charles Volbert Jaeger 1846 center|60px Edward John Jenkins 1854 center|60px Andrew Jackson Jennings 1849 center|60px Henry Augustus Johnson 1818 center|60px Augustine Jones 1835 center|60px Joseph James Kelley 1842 center|60px Jarvis Plato Kelly 1833 center|60px Patrick Keyes 1830 center|60px Ensign Kimball 1818 center|60px William Sterling King 1818 center|60px Marcus Perrin Knowlton February 3, 1839 center|60px Frank Daniel Leary 1854 center|60px Edwin Forrest Leighton 1839 center|60px James Foster Leonard 1837 center|60px John Arnold Lewis 1833 center|60px George Caleb Lincoln 1821 center|60px James Lovering Locke 1832 center|60px Andrew Lovell 1813 center|60px Benjamin Starks Lovell 1845 center|60px John Dana Lovell 1818 center|60px George W. LowtherBlack Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present 2452/48905 State Library of Massachusetts 2010 Massachusetts State Library of Court Massachusetts General 1822 center|60px Pardon Macomber February 9, 1833 center|60px William Penn Macomber 1832 center|60px John Mahon 1832 center|60px James Thomas Mahony 1843 center|60px William Manning 1823 center|60px Frederic A. Marden 1843 center|60px John Marlor 1845 center|60px Edwin Wilson Marsh 1821 center|60px George Sampson Marshall 1833 center|60px Samuel Stukey McGibbons 1826 center|60px Patrick Michael McGlynn 1853 center|60px Ebenezer Martin McPherson 1836 center|60px James Henry Mellen 1845 center|60px Artemas Merriam center|60px Amos Washington Merritt 1833 center|60px Phillips Moore 1835 center|60px Albert Moors 1828 center|60px Elbridge Gerry Morton 1841 center|60px Frederick Pierce Moseley 1826 center|60px Patrick Francis Murphy 1860 center|60px John Franklin Newton 1829 center|60px Richard Elliott Nickerson 1830 center|60px Joseph Gilbert Noble 1837 center|60px Eugene L. Norton March 26, 1825 center|60px Charles Johnson Noyes 1841 center|60px Chauncey Orman Noyes 1840 center|60px James H. Nugent 1831 center|60px Joseph Henry O'Neil March 23, 1853 center|60px William Clift Oakman 1809 center|60px Charles Stuart Osgood 1839 center|60px John Lord Otis 1827 center|60px Henry Brett Packard 1823 center|60px Henry Paddack April 2, 1838 center|60px Calvin Paige May 20, 1848 center|60px Lucius R. Paige 1802 center|60px Joseph Sumner Parmenter 1827 center|60px David Allen Partridge 1833 center|60px William Gaylord Peck 1841 center|60px James Phillip Peirce 1835 center|60px Josiah Perry 1832 center|60px Benjamin Ashton Phillips 1838 center|60px James Davis Pike 1829 center|60px Albert Enoch Pillsbury August 19, 1849 center|60px Timothy Dimmick Potter 1840 center|60px Henry Webster Powers 1837 center|60px Charles Jones Prescott 1838 center|60px George Price 1806 center|60px Henry Wheatland Putnam 1843 center|60px William Pynchon 1820 center|60px Oliver James Rand 1820 center|60px David Randall 1818 center|60px Charles Everett Ranlett 1816 center|60px William Arthur Read 1849 center|60px William Reed October 3, 1820 center|60px William Reed Jr. December 2, 1842 center|60px George Willard Rice 1836 center|60px James Henry Richards 1839 center|60px Jesper Richardson 1821 center|60px John Wesley Ricker 1824 center|60px Michael Rinn 1847 center|60px William Robinson 1835 center|60px Solomon Nash Russell 1822 center|60px Baalis Sanford 1833 center|60px Edmund Pillsbury Sargent 1823 center|60px Lucius Manlius Sargent 1836 center|60px John Bernard Shea 1851 center|60px Henry Shortle 1834 center|60px Matthew Smith 1814 center|60px William Augustus Somerset Smyth 1824 center|60px Rufus Albertson Soule 1839 center|60px Pliny Fisk Spaulding 1821 center|60px Timothy Gridley Spaulding 1851 center|60px Leander Sprague 1824 center|60px Stephen Abbott Stackpole 1819 center|60px Henry Salmon Stiles 1818 center|60px Eben Francis Stone August 3, 1822 center|60px William James Stuart 1828 center|60px Ezekiel Reed Studley 1831 center|60px Van Rensselaer Swift 1813 center|60px Zadok Arnold Taft 1817 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 Payson Elliott Tucker 1834 center|60px Thomas J. Tucker center|60px John Turner 1827 center|60px Horace Underwood 1828 center|60px Levi Clifford Wade 1843 center|60px Alexander Wadsworth 1806 center|60px Abijah Tyler Wales 1833 center|60px James Lawrence Walsh 1843 center|60px Solon Walton 1830 center|60px Alonzo Warren 1827 center|60px John Davis Washburn 1833 center|60px Abel Webster 1818 center|60px Edwin R. Webster 1831 center|60px Samuel Hidden Wentworth center|60px Daniel Nathaniel White 1830 center|60px Newton White 1813 center|60px Joseph Whitehead 1823 center|60px Sydney Franklin Whitehouse 1822 center|60px Charles Stimson Whitmore 1815 center|60px William Howe Wiggin 1823 center|60px Henry Munson Wilcox 1843 center|60px Henry Hills Wilder 1824 center|60px Sydney Wilder 1813 center|60px George Andrew Wilson 1825 center|60px John Winn July 3, 1828 center|60px Joseph Wiswell 1816 center|60px Charles Henry Wonson 1843 center|60px Solon Wood 1834 center|60px John Henry Wright 1843 center|60px Oliver Brown Wyman 1826 See also 1878 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 1878 Massachusetts https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pst.000020100131?urlappend=%3Bseq=540 HathiTrust D. Appleton and Company New York 1882 28 v 2027/pst.000020100131?urlappend=%3Bseq=540 (includes description of legislature) External links 2452/619067 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1878 Massachusetts General Court 2452/89614 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1878 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1878 in Massachusetts