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1862 Massachusetts legislature
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Legislative session in Massachusetts, USA
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83rdMassachusetts General Court General Court November 5, 1861 1862 01 1 1862 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+ 82nd 84th Senate 40 President John Henry Clifford House 240 Speaker Alexander Hamilton Bullock
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John Henry Clifford
John Henry Clifford, Senate president.
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Alexander Hamilton Bullock
Alexander Hamilton Bullock, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1862.
The 83rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1862 during the governorship of John Albion Andrew. John Henry Clifford served as president of the Senate and Alexander Hamilton Bullock 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 https://archive.org/details/massachusettsreg1862bost/page/n11/mode/2up Massachusetts Register, 1862 1852 Archive.org
Senators
20em
John J. Babson, 5th Essexhttps://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge1862mass 1862 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40640
John W. Bacon, 3rd Middlesex
Lewis Bodman
Ezra P. Brownell
Orlo Burt
John H. Clifford
Joshua E. Crane
Alvah Crocker
Joseph Day
Benjamin Dean
Charles Dillingham (1821-1902)1861 Massachusetts State Senator Charles Dillingham (1821-1902) https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/entities/image/e4cbdc97-6c67-4994-bad1-19757e721068 State Library of Massachusetts Legislators' Photographs
John C. Dodge
Rufus B. Dodge Sr. of Charlton a teacher and surveyor, father of Rufus B. DodgeNutt Charles 1919 History of Worcester and Its People 3 Lewis Historical Publishing Company New York 112 Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=1XRKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA112
Walter Fessenden
Ebenezer Gay
Edwin B. George
G. H. Gilbert
Whiting Griswold
E. O. Haven (Erastus Otis Haven), a teacher and professor who became the second president of the University of MichiganProudfoot Devon March 2017 E. O. Haven papers, 1838 – 1882 https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-bhl-851442 University of Michigan Library
William R. Hill
William F. Johnson
R. H. Libby
Charles Greely Loring, 3rd Suffolkhttps://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pittsfield-sun-the-election/134698951/ The Election The Pittsfield Sun Pittsfield, Massachusetts 2 November 7, 1861 November 5, 2023 Newspapers.com
James H. Mitchell
William D. Northend (William Dummer Northend) (February 26, 1823-October 29, 1902), a lawyer politician, and authorEliot Samuel Atkins Samuel Atkins Eliot (politician) 1914 Biographical History of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State 5 Massachusetts Biographical Society Boston 319–324 https://books.google.com/books?id=lCwEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP321 Google Books
Thomas F. Plunkett
Chester I. Reed
Daniel S. Richardson
Henry Smith
Charles G. Stevens
Stephen N. Stockwell
William D. Swan (William Draper Swan) (November 17, 1809-November 2, 1864), school principal, bookseller, and author of school booksWilson James Grant James Grant Wilson Fiske John John Fiske (philosopher) 1889 Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography 6 D. Appleton & Company New York 4
James M. Thompson
Christopher Tompkins
John C. Tucker
Alexander H. Twombly (Alexander Hamilton Twombly) (1804-1870),Alexander Hamilton Twombly (1804-1870) American Aristocracy https://americanaristocracy.com/people/alexander-hamilton-twombly 2026-05-14 Hamilton McKown Twombly was his son
Horace P. Wakefield (Horace Poole Wakefield), (1809-1883) a doctor, school superintendent, and abolitionist in ReadingGarrison William Lloyd William Lloyd Garrison Merrill Walter M. Ruchames Louis 1981 The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, 1868–1879 6 The Belknap Press Cambridge, Massachusetts 0-674-52666-X 75133210 41 https://books.google.com/books?id=jYO8lsmiXKkC&dq=horace+poole+wakefield&pg=PA41 Google Books
Jonathan Wales
Milton B. Whitney
Hartley Williams
Representatives
20em
J. W. P. Abbot
Nathan Adams
O. W. Albee
Horace Armsby
Wm. H. Atwell
Charles R. Atwood
Seth J. Axtell
Jacob Baker
Samuel N. Baker
Henry Baldwin
Everett C. Banfield
Ezekiel Bates
Josiah Beard
Charles Beck
Zachariah L. Bicknell
Dexter Blood
Simeon Borden
Sylvester S. Bowen
George O. Brastow
Joseph Breck
Aza A. Breed
Abel E. Bridge
Francis Brooks
Amos Brown
Edward Brown
James Brown
Joseph Brown
Nathan G. Brown
Uriah T. Brownell
James Bullard
R. I. Burbank
Albert Butler
Calvin Butrick
Cyrus Butterfield
David Cain
Henry Cartwright
AVilliam H. Cary
Peleg W. Chandler
Tracy P. Cheever
Christopher A. Church
Charles F. Claflin
James W. Clark
Harrison D. Clement
John D. Coggswell
Harvey B. Coleman
Thorley Collester
Horace Cook
Samuel Cook
Gilman Corning
Noah Cummings
Albert Currier
George Curtis
John R. Cushman
Eben Cutler
Keyes Danforth
Joseph D. Daniels
Charles G. Davis
Seymour B. Dewey
Reuben DeWitt
John H. Dike
Cornelius Doherty
John J. Doland
George W. Donaldson
William D. Earle
Ebenezer Eaton
George Eaton
George P. Elliot
Caleb L. Ellis
Hiram Emery
Farwell F Fay
Alfred R. Field
Charles H. Field
Jonathan E Field
John T. Fitch
John Fletcher, Jr.
John F. Flynn
Edmund D. Foster
George Foster
Abram S. French
Josiak B. French
Zadock W. Gates
Samuel H. Gibbens
Robert Gibbs
Nathaniel Gilbert
Alonzo M. Giles
James A. Gillis
Delano A. Goddard
Austin Gove
Daniel G. Grafton
Zachariah Graves
Zebedee Green
Erastus F Gunn
Caleb Gushing
Andrew J. Hadley
Lucas W. Hannum
James L. Hanson
Hamlin R. Harding
Samuel R. Hathaway
Manson B. Haws
Jared M. Heard
Lorenzo D. Hervey
George Heywood
Samuel Higgins
Paul Hill
Luther Holland
Jesse Holmes
Benjamin Homer
William P. Hood
Anson Hooker
Nathaniel Howard
Sereno Howe
Isaiah Jenkins
Harvey Jewell
James S. Jewett
Amos Howe Johnson
George N. Johnson
Joseph P. Johnson
Thomas H. Kelt
John R. Kimball
D. Webster King
Ezra Kingman
Lucius J. Knowles
Artemas Lee
George C. Lee
Daniel G. Littlefield
Ansel Lothrop
H. Augustus Lothrop
Henry O. Lothrop
Oliver Loud
Asa E. Lovell
Henry Luscomb, Jr.
Sewall G. Mack
Henry B. Maglathlin
Charles Manning
Edgar Marchant
J. F. B. Marshall
Francis W. Mason
William B. May
Charles J. McCarthy
Joseph McGregory
John Meacom
William T. Metcalf
Augustus Moody
Joseph Morrill
Chas W. Morris
Elias A. Morse
Andrew J. Morton
William Mulligan
John L. Murphy
Jonathan H. Nelson
Stephen G. Newton
W. H. Nichols
Amasa Norcross
William A. Northup
Lewis R. Norton
Benjamin Oliver
Francis J. Parker
Thomas Parsons
Henry Peirce
Ezra Penniman
Noble M. Perkins
Simeon Perkins
Andrew J. Pickens
Daniel J. Pickering
Henry L. Pierce
Charles B. Pool
Moses Pool
David Porter
Henry Pratt
Benjamin C. Putnam
Daniel Putnam
James W. Putnam
Oliver Ramsdell
Josiah M. Read
Mathias Rice
James Riley
Samuel Roads
William A. Robbins
Austin J. Roberts
William L. Rodman
John S. E Rogers
Hezekiah Root
Patten Sargent
John K. Sears
Joshua M. Sears
Charles C. Sewall
Henry Shaw
Edward F. Sherman
Emery Sherman
Elisha Smith
Sylvanus Smith
William H. Smith
William L. Smith
Otis W. Soule
Zibeon Southard
Samuel Souther
Ebenezer Stanwood
Theodore Stebbins
Phineas Stedman
Danforth S. Steel
George F. Stetson
Benjamin Stevens
Hiram A. Stevens
Moses T. Stevens
Joseph P. Stickney
Samuel W. Stickney
Eliphalet Stone
F. M. Stone
Isaac N. Stone
Moses Stone
Phineas J. Stone
Edward M. Taylor
Seth Thayer
Ephraim H. Thompson
John C. Thompson
Hudson Tolman
Everett Torrey
Charles M. Tyler
John S. Tyler
Seth H. Vinall
Eugene Vosburgh
Caleb Wait
Charles T. Walcott
Cornelius Walker
Samuel L. Ward
Stephen G. Wheatland
Royal Whitaker
Charles P. White
Nelson D. White
Samuel O. Whitmore
Henry Wilder
Cyrus Williams
John D. Wilson
Albert Winn
Amos I. Withey
Hapgood Wright
See also
37th United States Congress
List of Massachusetts General Courts
References
Further reading
American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1862 Massachusetts https://archive.org/stream/1862appletonsan02newyuoft#page/n569/mode/2up D. Appleton and Company New York 1863 (includes description of legislature)
External links
2452/684924 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1862 Massachusetts General Court
2452/92944 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1862
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