1899 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 120thMassachusetts General Court General Court November 8, 1898 1899 01 4 1899 06 3 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+ 119th 121st Senate 40 Republican (33–7) 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 George Edwin Smith House 240 Republican (168–64–8)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 John L. Bates right 308 George Edwin Smith.png George Edwin Smith George Smith, Senate president. JohnLBates.jpg John L. Bates John Bates, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1899. The 120th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1899 during the governorship of Roger Wolcott. George Edwin Smith served as president of the Senate and John L. Bates 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/manualforuseofge1899mass 1899 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court Internet Archive 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, 1899 https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/796014/1899-Senate-01-Appendix.pdf State Library of Massachusetts district center|60px Henry C. Attwill March 11, 1872 center|60px Charles O. Bailey January 24, 1863 center|60px John E. Baldwin June 26, 1869 center|60px Walter L. Bouve October 28, 1849 center|60px Loyed E. Chamberlain January 30, 1857 center|60px Frederick W. Dallinger October 2, 1871 center|60px William J. Donovan October 31, 1862 center|60px Wilson H. Fairbank April 3, 1836 center|60px John J. Feneno March 24, 1866 center|60px Samuel Wesley George April 26, 1862 center|60px Samuel S. Gleason May 1, 1842 center|60px Francis A. Harrington November 17, 1846 center|60px Albert L. Harwood September 10, 1847 center|60px William H. Hodgkins June 9, 1840 center|60px Charles Hiller Innes August 6, 1870 center|60px Fred Joy July 8, 1859 center|60px John A. Keliher November 6, 1866 center|60px Thomas W. Kenefick September 17, 1855 center|60px Warren S. Leach February 23, 1847 center|60px William H. Lott September 17, 1852 center|60px Walter O. Luscombe August 19, 1852 center|60px Arthur A. Maxwell January 24, 1858 center|60px John E. McClellan September 5, 1847 center|60px William Moran September 6, 1855 center|60px Herbert C. Parsons January 15, 1862 center|60px Frank A. Patch July 23, 1844 center|60px Thomas Post August 16, 1834 center|60px George E. Putnam February 9, 1851 center|60px William Reynolds June 15, 1843 center|60px Howard K. Sanderson July 10, 1865 center|60px Charles F. Sargent August 31, 1858 center|60px George Edwin Smith April 5, 1849 center|60px Rufus Albertson Soule 1839 center|60px Peter Francis Tague June 4, 1871 George N. Tyner June 23, 1848 center|60px Charles G. Washburn January 28, 1857 center|60px William A. Whittlesey February 21, 1849 center|60px Fred Homer Williams January 7, 1857 center|60px Charles T. Witt July 18, 1848 center|60px Benjamin Herbert Woodsum October 4, 1857 Representatives image name date of birth district center|60px Austin Flint Adams July 15, 1840 center|60px Charles H. Adams April 22, 1859 Wilfred Ainsworth March 31, 1867 center|60px Butler Ames August 22, 1871 David B. Andrews August 12, 1838 center|60px Richard F. Andrews, Jr April 13, 1863 center|60px Albert S. Apsey November 27, 1870 center|60px George Balcom January 23, 1832 Edwin Bartlett October 25, 1833 center|60px John L. Bates September 18, 1859 center|60px David W. Battles January 20, 1854 center|60px Frank P. Bennett May 2, 1853 center|60px John Bleiler May 9, 1837 center|60px Charles H. Blood December 10, 1858 center|60px Ward N. Boylston December 17, 1871 center|60px Hugh W. Bresnahan November 25, 1869 center|60px William Bridgeo October 14, 1849 center|60px Clarence A. Briggs August 21, 1871 center|60px William M. Brigham January 23, 1864 center|60px Charles C. Brooks May 3, 1851 center|60px Henry L. Brown January 10, 1840 center|60px Willard Madison Brown April 24, 1861 center|60px Nelson Aluren Bugbee August 8, 1853 center|60px William J. Bullock January 31, 1864 center|60px Albert H. Burgess May 19, 1843 center|60px Lester L. Burrington March 24, 1838 S. Hopkins Bushnell October 6, 1834 center|60px Andrew Campbell May 3, 1826 center|60px James F. Carey August 19, 1867 center|60px George Henry Carleton August 6, 1840 center|60px N. Henry Chadwick March 17, 1838 center|60px Leonard B. Chandler August 29, 1851 center|60px William D. Chapple August 6, 1868 center|60px Henry L. Chase February 5, 1853 center|60px Charles S. Clerke January 10, 1850 center|60px Arthur H. Cluer April 12, 1853 center|60px Samuel Cole December 15, 1856 center|60px Thomas A. Conroy September 9, 1869 center|60px Robert Eugene Conwell June 12, 1854 center|60px Clifford A. Cook September 3, 1860 center|60px Daniel S. Coolidge September 21, 1845 Charles V. Corey July 8, 1838 center|60px Aaron S. Crosby October 6, 1842 center|60px Alfred R. Crosby August 30, 1838 center|60px J. Howell Crosby December 30, 1867 center|60px Charles S. Crouch 1833 center|60px Richard Cullinane February 2, 1859 center|60px Guy W. Currier December 22, 1867 center|60px J. Frank Dalton April 19, 1842 center|60px William Daly April 3, 1864 center|60px William Aiken Davenport October 23, 1869 center|60px Daniel W. Davis October 3, 1846 center|60px William Ripley Davis March 8, 1862 center|60px Benjamin C. Dean March 8, 1843 center|60px Charles Austin Dean March 26, 1856 center|60px George Z. Dean February 22, 1844 center|60px Frank S. Dewey, Jr. March 22, 1857 center|60px Thomas J. Dillon April 20, 1869 center|60px Thomas Donahue August 20, 1853 center|60px Edward J. Donovan March 15, 1864 center|60px Eugene E. Donovan November 21, 1858 center|60px James H. Donovan August 31, 1855 center|60px Michael J. Donovan November 1, 1864 center|60px Thomas J. Dooling January 28, 1868 center|60px John J. Douglass February 9, 1873 center|60px Frederic P. Drake March 16, 1851 center|60px Daniel J. Driscoll, 2d November 20, 1868 George J. Dudley February 17, 1849 center|60px John B. Dumond December 25, 1862 center|60px George N. Dyer December 17, 1850 center|60px Curtis Eddy May 18, 1838 center|60px J. Lewis Ellsworth November 8, 1848 center|60px Eugene B. Estes December 7, 1850 center|60px Frederick W. Farwell November 29, 1854 center|60px John Favor March 1, 1859 center|60px William H. Feiker March 11, 1870 center|60px George E. Fisher January 22, 1823 center|60px Frank E. Fitts May 26, 1848 center|60px W. T. A. Fitzgerald December 19, 1871 John J. Flanagan December 4, 1869 center|60px Albert T. Folsom November 9, 1831 center|60px Frank A. Foster February 15, 1859 center|60px Frank W. Francis September 16, 1857 center|60px Archie N. Frost July 26, 1872 center|60px Michael E. Gaddis February 21, 1869 center|60px John J. Gartland November 27, 1871 center|60px Fred C. Gilpatric August 22, 1865 center|60px Albert M. Goulding May 17, 1844 center|60px Oliver S. Grant April 30, 1866 center|60px Thomas H. Green March 17, 1847 center|60px James Wilson Grimes November 21, 1865 center|60px John G. Hagberg August 24, 1873 center|60px Portus B. Hancock February 19, 1836 center|60px Franklin P. Harlow Charles H. Harriman November 16, 1852 center|60px Elisha T. Harvell December 18, 1841 Robert B. Harvie October 28, 1841 center|60px George F. Harwood July 7, 1844 Herbert J. Harwood September 6, 1854 center|60px Leander Miller Haskins June 20, 1842 center|60px Martin E. Hawes October 25, 1834 center|60px William Henry Irving Hayes June 21, 1848 center|60px Charles E. Haywood October 11, 1868 Guilford P. Heath September 3, 1842 center|60px Francis D. Henderson March 6, 1847 center|60px Franklin K. Hooper February 2, 1849 center|60px William Hopewell June 24, 1867 Henry T. Horton December 11, 1845 center|60px Robert Howard May 7, 1855 Charles W. Howland March 25, 1860 center|60px Willard Howland December 3, 1852 center|60px James Hunt January 27, 1833 center|60px Franklin E. Huntress April 19, 1866 center|60px Charles R. Johnson December 28, 1852 center|60px Michael Bernard Jones August 20, 1864 William E. Judd September 3, 1855 center|60px Daniel Joseph Kane April 14, 1872 center|60px John E. Kavenaugh October 19, 1864 center|60px Charles P. Keith March 14, 1843 center|60px William Kells, Jr. October 23, 1861 Nicholas B. Keyou April 25, 1828 center|60px Charles Francis King January 29, 1871 center|60px Randolph V. King January 20, 1853 center|60px William S. Kyle July 12, 1851 center|60px John Philip Lanergan December 31, 1874 center|60px John T. Langford February 8, 1842 center|60px Addison P. Learoyd February 11, 1838 center|60px Francis Leland October 3, 1839 center|60px George F. Leslie September 12, 1850 center|60px John F. Libby February 3, 1863 James A. Litchfield March 14, 1844 center|60px William C. Litchfield March 31, 1840 center|60px Alexander Lockhart December 22, 1854 center|60px Martin Lomasney December 3, 1859 Edward M. Lombard August 31, 1843 center|60px Joseph Patrick Love August 26, 1852 John H. Lowe January 8, 1848 center|60px Robert Luce December 2, 1862 center|60px Thomas Mackey August 6, 1865 center|60px David A. Mahoney December 21, 1867 center|60px Frederick C. Mahony January 18, 1875 center|60px Matthew M. Mansfield September 25, 1866 center|60px Eugene Dennis Marchesseault September 29, 1865 center|60px William H. Marden May 30, 1843 center|60px Jeremiah F. McCarthy July 7, 1857 center|60px Jeremiah Justin McCarthy March 29, 1852 center|60px Daniel V. McIsaac November 6, 1871 center|60px William I. McLoughlin January 16, 1872 center|60px Edward C. Mead December 25, 1858 center|60px James H. Mellen November 7, 1845 Calvin S. Miller December 22, 1833 Charles H. Miller January 14, 1848 center|60px William J. Miller June 8, 1867 center|60px Charles P. Mills August 22, 1853 center|60px Cornelius Minihan August 15, 1862 center|60px John M. Minton March 23, 1872 center|60px James A. Montgomery May 17, 1864 James S. Moore May 31, 1842 center|60px Andrew H. Morrison June 27, 1871 center|60px Merrick A. Morse May 1, 1847 center|60px John P. Munroe June 28, 1850 center|60px Mortimer D. A. Murphy May 9, 1867 center|60px James J. Myers November 20, 1842 David Neal April 18, 1828 center|60px H. Huestis Newton December 2, 1860 Phinehas S. Newton August 2, 1833 center|60px Darius M. Nickerson, Jr. July 11, 1863 center|60px William Odlin April 5, 1865 center|60px William Colvard Parker April 12, 1858 center|60px Alexander Sinclair Paton November 20, 1854 center|60px Charles H. Persons January 5, 1859 William T. Pike August 23, 1854 center|60px Thomas F. Porter October 30, 1847 center|60px John A. Powers September 15, 1853 center|60px John F. Prindle September 15, 1851 Herbert C. Puffer February 3, 1842 James H. Queeney April 23, 1865 center|60px William Joseph Quigley center|60px Charles H. Ramsdell September 26, 1840 center|60px Albert Hoyt Ray May 24, 1865 center|60px Silas Dean Reed June 25, 1872 center|60px Lewis D. Robinson June 21, 1842 Albert B. Root June 13, 1858 center|60px Leonard W. Ross October 5, 1856 center|60px Samuel Ross February 2, 1865 Albert Rounseville May 10, 1871 center|60px Arthur P. Russell June 16, 1871 center|60px William R. Salter July 6, 1861 Edward P. Sands February 14, 1871 center|60px Charles R. Saunders November 22, 1862 Louis M. Scates January 17, 1863 center|60px William Schofield February 14, 1857 center|60px James F. Seavey December 6, 1842 center|60px George Shepley Selfridge September 25, 1868 Joseph C. Severance September 7, 1841 Nathan W. Shaw October 11, 1823 center|60px Ebenezer Wallen Sheppard May 7, 1860 Arthur A. Simmons January 28, 1852 center|60px Robert S. Sisson June 4, 1846 center|60px William E. Skillings October 23, 1843 center|60px Henry R. Skinner May 9, 1860 Allen F. Smith September 27, 1862 center|60px Charles F. A. Smith July 18, 1866 Charles G. Smith 1844 center|60px John Thomas Sparks July 9, 1865 center|60px Wallace Spooner November 28, 1856 center|60px Eugene H. Sprague May 23, 1864 center|60px Hugh L. Stalker December 31, 1857 center|60px Benjamin F. Stanley November 6, 1823 center|60px Joseph I. Stewart April 25, 1847 center|60px Silas A. Stone February 3, 1843 center|60px Willmore B. Stone June 24, 1853 center|60px Michael J. Sullivan October 23, 1870 Timothy F. Sullivan August 21, 1867 center|60px Charles T. Tatman December 16, 1871 center|60px John I. Toland September 6, 1874 center|60px William Tolman June 2, 1858 center|60px John J. Toomey September 18, 1868 center|60px Charles E. Trow April 18, 1833 center|60px Henry Edward Turner May 4, 1842 center|60px William Turtle June 20, 1855 center|60px Horatio Fogg Twombly center|60px Edmund J. Twomey July 16, 1860 center|60px Charles H. Upson June 4, 1848 center|60px George E. Varney July 8, 1864 center|60px Silas Ives Wallace center|60px Walter S. Watson September 11, 1851 center|60px Abelard E. Wells June 17, 1854 center|60px Edward E. Wentworth June 27, 1845 center|60px Walter S. Weston November 12, 1852 center|60px Harry Bertram Whall September 5, 1868 center|60px William D. Wheeler May 7, 1868 center|60px John B. Whelan February 19, 1864 center|60px John Jay Whipple December 31, 1847 center|60px Horace C. White January 26, 1836 center|60px Edward E. Willard September 25, 1862 center|60px George F. Williams April 28, 1856 center|60px Alva S. Wood May 12, 1828 See also 56th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References Further reading Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators: 1899 1899 Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1899 Massachusetts: Legislative Session https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924106393550?urlappend=%3Bseq=507 HathiTrust D. Appleton and Company New York 1900 2027/coo.31924106393550?urlappend=%3Bseq=507 HathiTrust Tribune Association New York Tribune Almanac 1900 Woman Suffrage 2027/nyp.33433081727418?urlappend=%3Bseq=1168 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081727418?urlappend=%3Bseq=1168 (includes 1899 Massachusetts info) http://mastatelibrary.blogspot.com/2018/07/for-every-seal-story-town-and-city-town.html Alexandra Bernson For Every Seal a Story: Town and City Town Seals in the Commonwealth July 23, 2018 State Library of Massachusetts blog External links 2452/429116 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1899 Massachusetts General Court 2452/83205 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1899 http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fap065 Massachusetts General Court Photographs ca. 1896-1900: Guide to the Photograph Collection Massachusetts Historical Society Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1899 in Massachusetts