1856 Massachusetts legislature

American state legislature February 2025 January 2025 77thMassachusetts General Court General Court 76th 78th Senate 40 President Elihu C. Baker House 329 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 1856 01 1 1856 06 6 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+ The 77th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1856 during the governorship of Henry Gardner. Elihu C. Baker 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+ Topics discussed included banks, bridges, fisheries, hospitals, prisons, railroads, schools, and other matters. 2452/795782 Index 1856 Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 0094-6664 Senators 15em width: 600px; Elihu C. Baker Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/massachusettsreg1856bost/page/n19/mode/1up Massachusetts Register, 1856 Archive.org David H. Bartlett John Batchelder Amos Bates Sylvester Baxter Almon Brainard William S. Brakenridge Benjamin H. Brown Hiram C. Brown Ephraim W. Bull John A. Buttrick Augustus C. Carey James E. Carpenter Joseph E. Dawley Francis H. Dewey Jabez Fisher William Hall Alfred Kenrick Nathan King Benning Leavitt Artemas Lee Abiel S. Lewis Benjamin F. Mills Abel B. Munroe George Odiorne Ben Osgood Bradford K. Peirce Samuel S. Perkins Zabina L. Raymond John Rogers John H. Shaw William Sutton Velorous Taft William Taylor George M. Thacher Salem Towne Oliver Warner Daniel Warren George W. Warren Benjamin F. White Representatives June 2020 15em width: 600px; Charles A. Phelps John A. Baxter Nathan Crocker Heman Smith Joshua C. Howes Erasmus Gould Elkanah Nickerson Josiah Freeman Joseph P. Johnson Charles H. Nye Samuel H. Smith Jr. John Y. Jacobs Samuel Thatcher Jr. Francis Armington Benjamin S. Earl Lawson Blood Job M. Godfrey Andrew Pollard Abiel Davis John Vinson Nathan Mayhew Elisha C. Hawkes Daniel Upton Russell C. Brown Thomas G. Carson Charles I. Taylor Charles S. Thatcher Horatio N. Sears Edwin Adams Lorenzo Webb Henry S. Briggs John C. West Lemuel K. Strickland Joseph Wilcox Thomas Wells Heman Ford Richard W. Swan Elkanah Briggs Enoch Boyce Jr. Nathaniel Potter Jr. George F. Gavitt William Barrows Daniel J. Lewis Job B. Ashley John S. Brayton Jonathan E. Morrill Brayton Slade Merchant White William Robinson Nathaniel Gilbert John Hicks Daniel Homer Edward Milliken Henry F. Thomas George B. Crane Nathan P. Towne Alpheus Pratt Jr. Nelson Goff Dudley Evans Moses Foster Gayton P. Osgood John I. Baker Richard P. Walters Israel W. Andrews Eben S. Poor Alonzo P. Philips Samuel Story George I. Tenney Jeremiah R. Cook Edward H. Pearce John Tenney Trueman M. Martyn William Taggart James Estes John Gale Benjamin Harding Thomas W. Floyd James S. Lewis Roland G. Usher William F. Johnson Jesse K. Snow David A. Titcomb Albert E. Low Franklin Knight Thomas W. Webber Joseph F. Ingalls Joseph Lunt Joshua D. Robinson Daniel M. Reed William H. Huse Samuel York Edward B. Arnold John Chamberlain Geo. H. Devereux Henry Luscomb, Jr. John W. Russell John W. Rhoades William H. Bagley William H. Newhall Joseph Z. Gordon Manley Guilford Adams Calhoun Deane Edwin Cooley Edward W. Stebbins Samuel O. Lamb Elijah Stratton Solomon A. Howe Hiram Smith Ralsa Tagart Alfred L. Converse Sylvester Allen Jonathan Jones John H. Smith Joshua Gray Stephen T. Colton Elisha T. Parsons William B. Converse Alonzo N. Dewey Horatio N. Case William Crossman Willis Phelps Henry Pomeroy Nathaniel Chapin Jonathan W. Freeland John Baldwin See also 34th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References 2 External links 2452/685899 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1856 Massachusetts General Court State Library of Massachusetts 2452/92938 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1856 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1856 in Massachusetts