1857 Massachusetts legislature

American state legislature February 2025 January 2025 78thMassachusetts General Court General Court 1857 01 7 1857 05 30+ extra session 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+ 77th 79th Senate 40 President Charles Wentworth Upham House 357 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 Charles A. Phelps The 78th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1857 during the governorship of Henry Gardner. Charles Wentworth Upham served as president of the Senate and Charles A. Phelps 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+ There were 395 men in the combined house and senate, with the following occupations: "farmers and horticulturists, 77; merchants, 65; lawyers, 33; shoe manufacturers, 31; manufacturers, 29; clergymen, 13; physicians and housewrights, 12 each, 24; teachers, 10; master mariners, 9; lumber dealers and clerks, 6 each, 12; editors and shipwrights, 5 each, 10; blacksmiths, druggists and publishers, 4 each, 12; bakers, carriage makers, paper makers, sail makers, and grain dealers, 3 each, 16; cabinet makers, chair makers, clothiers, civil engineers, conveyancers, gentlemen, ship joiners, printers, tin plate workers, machinists, 2 each; 20; auctioneer, axe maker, auger and bitt maker, butcher, broker, balance maker, book-binder, book-keeper, book-seller, calico printer, dentist, engineer, forwarding agent, gilder, iron founder, hotel keeper, leather and hides, land surveyor, law student, reporter, provision dealer, manufacturer of cotton, silk and safes, real estate dealer, pianoforte maker, friction match, shuttle maker, bonnet maker, tanner, ship builder, tailor, mechanic, ship chandler, painter, 1 each, 35."The General Court February 18, 1857 Boston Atlas Senators 15em width: 600px; O. W. Albee Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Civil Government, 1857 https://archive.org/details/massachusettsreg1857bost/page/n21/mode/1up Massachusetts Register, 1857 1852 Archive.org Oliver Ames Jr. John W. Atwood John Batehelder Gad O. Bliss Arthur P. Bonney William S. Brakenridge Robert I. Burbank Asaph Churchill Benjamin C. Clark John Cowdin Constantiue C. Esty Matthew D. Field Hugh W. Greene Benj. W. Harris Gideon Haynes J. F. Hitchcock George F. Hoar Caleb D. Hunking John M. Merrick George W. Messinger Jacob Mitchell William Mixter Eben S. Poor Henry B. Rogers Henry L. Sabin Ezekiel R. Sawin John H. Shaw Eben F. Stone Charles F. Swift Velorous Taft William Taylor John N. Turner Charles W. Upham James M. Usher Oliver Warner Aza. B. Wheeler Joseph White Ohio Whitney Jr. Jeremiah S. Young Representatives June 2020 Thaddeus Allen Rules and Orders of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1857 Boston 2452/787681 See also 35th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References 2 External links 2452/738677 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1857 Massachusetts General Court 2452/92939 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1857 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1857 in Massachusetts