1879 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 100thMassachusetts General Court General Court November 5, 1878 1879 01 1 1879 04 30 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+ 99th 101st 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 Levi C. Wade right 308 John Bear Doane Cogswell.png John B. D. Cogswell John Cogswell, Senate president. Levi Clifford Wade.png Levi C. Wade Levi Wade, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1879. The 100th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1879 during the governorship of Thomas Talbot. John B. D. Cogswell served as president of the Senate and Levi C. Wade 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 $500 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 Notable legislation included the "Act to Give Women the Right to Vote for Members of School Committees."http://mastatelibrary.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-womens-suffrage-movement-in.html Kaitlin Connolly Women's Suffrage Movement in Massachusetts September 24, 2012 State Library of Massachusetts blog Senators 15em width: 600px; Samuel N. Aldrich https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge1879mass 1879 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40657 E. Dana Bancroft Joseph S. Beal Robert R. Bishop Stephen M. Blaney Alvah A. Burrage George W. Cate John B. D. Cogswell Ezra Davol Dallas J. Dean Justin Dewey Frederick D. Ely Jacob Emerson Jonas H. French Charles L. Gardner Alpheus Harding Nathan M. Hawkes Benjamin F. Hayes Eben Hutchinson Francis Jewett H. M. Knowlton William Knowlton John B. Martin Charles H. Merriara Asa P. Morse Eugene L. Norton Weaver Osborn Stephen Osgood John L. Otis Albert Palmer Henry C. Rice Joseph S. Ropes Daniel Russell James W. Stockwell William Taylor Nathaniel Wales James White Jonathan White Henry Winn A. C. Woodworth Representatives 15em width: 600px; George William LowtherBlack Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present 2452/48905 State Library of Massachusetts 2010 George T. Samspon.Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1879 https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/items/424085cd-70f3-4f4c-a4f8-31ee23628a91 2024-07-24 www.archives.lib.state.ma.us en-US Richard Beeching. William J. Burke. William A Foss. John B. Norton. Jeremiah J. Crowley. Joseph W. Davis. John H. Dee. John H. Sherburne. James L. Quigley. Cornelius Desmond. Neil Henry. Richard Roach. Dennis O'Connor. James L. Locke. Edward F. Thayer. George W. Lowther. Thomas Russell. A. J. C. Sowdon. Charles J. Prescott. Hamilton F. Hill. Patrick F. Murphy. James A. McGeough. T. F. FitzGerald. Charles J. Noyes. George H. Bond. Alonzo Warren. John F. McMahon. Joseph H. O'Neil. Timothy B. Spillane. J. Q. A. Brackett. John Sweetser. Henry D. Hyde. Lewis Coleman. John Joyce. Francis E. Hines. Payson E. Tucker. James B. Graham. Henry W. Fuller. Arthur W. Tufts. W. H. Carberry. Matthew Bolles. H. A. Johnson. Joseph Wiswell. Edward B. Callender. Joseph Bennett. Elbridge C. O'Donnell. Charles H. Ferson. Rufus Trussell. Amos Rowe. Stephen Rich. Charles H. Wonson. John F. James. J. Albert Brake. John I. Baker. Charles S. Osgood. George D. Glover. Horace Brown. Nathaniel A. Horton. William P. Proctor. Charles. H. Litchman. Amasa C. Robinson. C. A. Wentworth. Daniel R. Pinkham. William Lyon. Thomas H. Day. Henry Wardwell. Dudley Bradstreet. Newton P. Frye. William S. Coggin. Ben F. Atkinson. Samson Levy. Albert Kimball. Orrin Warren. Albert S. Adams. William A. Brooks. D. Smith Kimball. Edmund P. Sargent. Abel Webster. Joseph J. Nichols. Levi Emery. Jesse Moulton. Edwin B. Hale. George W. Park. Lucius R. Paige. A. Carter Webber. James H. Sparrow. Joseph J. Kelley. R. E. Nickerson. James Long. Charles S. Lincoln. Jacob T. Glines. John H. Hooper. Elisha S. Converse. James P. Magee. Joseph D. WIlde. John F. Berry. Azel James. Daniel H. Wadlin. Montressor S. Seeley. Josiah F. Stone. William H. Ingraham. Levi C. Wade. Charles E. Ranlett. David Randall. Augustus E. Scott. John W. Peabody. William M. Hoar. L. R. J. Varnum. Robert E. Crowley. James W. Bennett. Wililam H. Wiggin. John J. Pickman. Richard Barrett. Alonzo S. Fiske. Francis Bigelow. Jonathan Holbrook. J. Whittemore. Joel S. Clarke. Daniel S. Mooney. Edwin Whitney. Sumner P. Lawrence. Francis W. Wright. Frederick Thayer. Homer W. Darling. Isaac N. Croshy. Francis E. Fowler. George O. Brigham. Samuel R. Damon. Albert Barnard. Charles T. Crocker. Luther J. Brown. William H. Brown. Wilder P. Clark. Leander B. Morse. Lyman Clark. Chauncy Loring. Charles R. Bartlett. Theodore C. Bates. Joseph Smith. Samuel C. Paine. George D. Woodbury. Robert Humphrey. George F. Rice. David F. Wood. George F. Colburn. Thomas J. Hastings. William A. S. Smyth. Frank D. Leary. M. J. McCafferty. James H. Mellen. Joseph H. Walker. Calvin L. Hartshorn. John D. Washburn. William M. Gaylord. Henry M. Sheldon. Royal M. Montague. Alvan Barrus. Edward P. Crowell. Fred N. Hosmer. William J. Ricketts. Benjamin F. Burr. Frank H. Morton. William Pynchman. J. E. Shipman. Charles R. Ladd. Eleazer S. Beebe. F. B. Maynard. Thomas L. Keough. Joseph Murray. Merritt Van Deusen. James H. Bryan. E. D. Dickinson. Rufus Livermore. Joseph F. Bartlett. Eben A. Hall. Charles P. Aldrich. Richard H. Hoyt. Leonard B. Rice. B. F. Maher. Horace M. Holmes. W. F. Darby. Francis W. Rockwell. Solomon N. Russell. Leonard McCullock. Elizur Smith. Samuel M. Reynolds. Maloy J. Smith. Tyler Thayer. Edward I. Thomas. William J. Stuart. Horace E. Ware. Edwin W. Marsh. Edwin B. Pratt. Freeman Hollis. George D. Willis. John T. Flood. Henry S. Clark. Hiram Whitling. Elijah B. Daniels. Wililam S. Tilden. John Stanley. William D. Witherell. Ehmer Lincoln. John W. Hart. William Reed. John D. Reed. E. G. Morton. Rufus A. Soule. James M. Lawton. Andrew Bulloch. William Sanders. William P. Macomber. Patrick M. McGlynn. John W. Cummings. Marcus Leonard. Andrew J. Jennings. Daniel Wilbur. J. E. Eastabrooks. Arthur Lincoln. William C. Litchfield. George F. Stetson. William Savery. Charles H. Howland. Judah Hathaway. Matthew H. Cushing. George P. Harden. John W. Everson. Henry Copeland. Alfred C. Monroe. Henry W. Powers. Isaiah Fish. Andrew Lovell. Thomas P. Howes. Rufus Smith. Elisha Crocker. Bangs A. Lewis. Benjamin Clough. Henry Paddack. See also 1879 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 46th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References 2 Further reading Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1879 Massachusetts https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015027249609?urlappend=%3Bseq=614 HathiTrust D. Appleton and Company New York 1886 2027/mdp.39015027249609?urlappend=%3Bseq=614 (includes description of legislature) External links 2452/619068 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1879 Massachusetts General Court 2452/89615 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1879 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1879 in Massachusetts Category:Long stubs with short prose