1875 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 96thMassachusetts General Court General Court November 3, 1874 1875 01 6 1875 05 19 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+ 95th 97th 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 George B. Loring 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 John E. Sanford right 308 George B. Loring - Brady-Handy.jpg George B. Loring George Loring, Senate president. 1875 John Eliot Sanford Massachusetts House of Representatives.png John E. Sanford John Sanford, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1875. The 96th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1875 during the governorship of William Gaston. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford 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+ Notable legislation included an "Act To Provide For The Supervision Of The Construction And Maintenance Of Reservoirs And Dams." https://mastatelibrary.blogspot.com/2011/05/five-feet-high-and-rising.html April Pierce Five Feet High and Rising May 17, 2011 State Library of Massachusetts blog Senators Image Name https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge1875mass 1875 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40653 Court Massachusetts General 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, 1875 https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/795837/1875-Senate-01-Appendix%20.pdf State Library of Massachusetts District Party Moses O. Ayres July 21, 1826 4th Worcester J. White Belcher November 14, 1823 3rd Norfolk center|60px Richard Britton 1838 center|60px Andrew Jackson Clark 1835 center|60px Timothy John Dacey 1849 George L. Davis June 17, 1816 center|60px Francis Edson 1823 center|60px Charles Fitz 1806 center|60px Eustace Carey Fitz 1833 1st Suffolk center|60px Michael Joseph Flatley 1823 center|60px Henry Fuller 1825 center|60px Jeremiah Gatchell 1834 center|60px Joseph Alfred Harwood March 26, 1827 center|60px John Alexander Hawes 1823 center|60px Ezra Coffin Howard September 1, 1831 center|60px Ebenezer Atherton Hunt January 26, 1826 center|60px Henry Stanley Hyde August 18, 1837 center|60px Thomas Ingalls 1824 Jonathan Jones May 25, 1812 center|60px Jonathan A. Lane 1822 center|60px William E. Livingston June 25, 1832 center|60px George B. Loring November 8, 1817 center|60px William Croade Lovering February 25, 1835 center|60px Lysander John Orcutt 1826 center|60px Albert Palmer January 17, 1831 center|60px Ezra Parmenter March 20, 1823 William H. Phillips November 16, 1830 Henry W. Robinson October 9, 1819 Christopher E. Rymes September 27, 1827 center|60px Henry Smith July 16, 1827 Charles H. B. Snow August 7, 1822 center|60px Francis Dana Stedman 1801 center|60px Thomas Newcomb Stone 1818 center|60px Hugh James Toland 1844 Washington Tufts center|60px George F. Verry July 14, 1826 center|60px Zenas Caldwell Wardwell 1831 center|60px Tisdale Sanford White 1809 center|60px Robert Rich Wiley 1828 center|60px Ezra Dyer Winslow 1839 Representatives image Name Date of birth District Party center|60px James Abbe 1822 center|60px Ebenezer Adams 1830 center|60px Samuel Allen 1825 center|60px Stephen Merrill Allen 1819 center|60px Andrew Athy 1832 center|60px Michael A. Atkinson 1813 center|60px John James Babson 1809 center|60px Amasa Winchester Bailey 1820 center|60px Daniel Danforth Bailey 1834 center|60px Cyrus Franklin Baker 1831 center|60px John Israel Baker 1812 center|60px Joseph Heaton Baker 1820 center|60px Giles Gould Barker 1838 center|60px Theodore Dwight Beach 1821 center|60px George Beal 1824 center|60px John Henry Bell 1829 center|60px William Harrison Bent 1840 center|60px James Bergin 1825 center|60px John Best 1836 center|60px John Charles Bickford 1836 center|60px John Henry Blake 1831 center|60px Stephen Francis Blaney 1844 center|60px William Edward Blunt 1840 center|60px Frederick Lincoln Bosworth 1836 center|60px Sylvester Warren Bowen 1833 center|60px Horace Leander Bowker 1832 center|60px Selwyn Zadock Bowman May 11, 1840 center|60px Reuben Boynton 1815 center|60px Osgood Bradley 1836 center|60px William Eustis Bridgman 1836 center|60px Wilbur Franklin Brigham 1839 center|60px William Ellery Bright 1831 center|60px Samuel Rhoden Brintnall 1820 center|60px Charles Morrill Brown 1820 center|60px Isaac Tucker Burr 1828 center|60px James Hazen Carleton 1818 center|60px Michael Carney 1827 center|60px William Carroll 1838 center|60px William Chase 1817 center|60px Gardner Asaph Churchill 1839 center|60px Isaiah Churchill 1806 center|60px Charles Russell Codman 1829 center|60px Abraham Burbank Coffin 1831 center|60px Patrick Collins 1830 center|60px Austin Henry Connell 1846 center|60px Owen Coogan 1820 center|60px Augustine Porter Cook 1843 center|60px Frederick Spaulding Coolidge December 7, 1841 center|60px Lowell Coolidge 1819 center|60px Alfred Minott Copeland 1830 center|60px Jeremiah William Coveney 1840 center|60px John Addison Cummings 1838 center|60px Benjamin Connor Currier 1822 center|60px Francis Chester Curtis 1836 center|60px William Derbyshire Curtis 1843 center|60px Levi Lincoln Cushing 1825 center|60px Benjamin Franklin Davis 1837 center|60px Epes Davis 1799 center|60px Jacob Winnie Davis 1824 center|60px Lewis Day 1835 center|60px Henry Dennis 1827 center|60px Neil Doherty 1838 center|60px Cornelius William Duggan 1844 center|60px James William Dwyer 1845 center|60px George Whitefield Dyer 1836 center|60px Edwin Ellis 1823 center|60px James Edward Estabrook center|60px John Brooks Fairbanks 1822 center|60px Luther Fisk 1832 center|60px Thomas Francis Fitzgerald 1848 center|60px Samuel Flower 1815 center|60px John David Flynn 1842 center|60px Alpheus Fobes 1829 center|60px Joseph Fobes 1811 center|60px William Frost 1822 center|60px Henry William Fuller June 30, 1839 center|60px Charles Lefevre Gardner 1839 center|60px Albert Warren Gaskill 1831 center|60px James Willis Gaylord 1844 center|60px William Miner Gaylord 1821 center|60px Emerson Geer 1835 center|60px Edward Eli Gibbs 1836 center|60px Benjamin Gifford 1824 center|60px Levi Lincoln Goodspeed 1822 center|60px Elbridge Henry Goss 1830 center|60px Charles Henry Green January 11, 1842 center|60px Daniel Gardner Green 1817 center|60px Thomas Thurston Griggs 1818 center|60px Dexter Grose 1830 center|60px Charles Hale June 7, 1831 center|60px Gayton Montgomery Hall 1835 center|60px George Hall 1831 center|60px Solomon Eldridge Hallett 1833 center|60px David Evans Harding 1826 center|60px William Ambrose Haskell 1826 center|60px Nicholas Hatheway 1824 center|60px George Haven 1809 center|60px Nathan Mortimer Hawkes 1843 center|60px George Heywood 1826 center|60px Moses Burpee Heywood 1827 center|60px Samuel Richardson Heywood 1821 center|60px James Edward Hill 1838 center|60px Joseph Warren Hill 1837 center|60px Beriah Tilton Hillman 1843 center|60px William Allen Hodges 1834 center|60px Elisha Everett Holbrook 1835 center|60px Amos Bradley Holden 1823 center|60px Henry Tolman Holmes 1829 center|60px Salmon Dutton Hood 1830 center|60px Daniel Parker Hopkinson 1835 center|60px Marius Milner Hovey 1818 center|60px William Brewster Howard 1836 center|60px Frederick George Howes 1832 center|60px Francis M. Hughes 1845 center|60px Simeon Alonzo Jacobs 1835 center|60px Henry Lyman James 1829 center|60px Edward Jonathan Johnson 1832 center|60px Thomas Johnson 1824 center|60px George Washington Jones 1822 center|60px Isaac Newton Keith November 14, 1838 center|60px Philo Keith 1806 center|60px William Keith 1810 center|60px Ziba Cary Keith July 13, 1842 center|60px Edward Kendall 1822 center|60px Moses Kimball October 24, 1809 center|60px William Sterling King 1818 center|60px George Parkman Kingsley 1840 center|60px Joel Knapp 1835 center|60px William Shadrach Knox September 10, 1843 center|60px Daniel Warren Lawrence 1830 center|60px John Burt Le Baron 1817 center|60px Benjamin Flint Leighton 1820 center|60px Daniel James Lewis 1810 center|60px George Tyler Lincoln 1840 center|60px Pliny Thurston Litchfield 1827 center|60px James Lovering Locke 1832 center|60px John Davis Long October 27, 1838 center|60px James Thomas Mahony 1843 center|60px John Bernard Martin 1848 center|60px William Martin 1815 center|60px Joseph Tinsley Massey 1808 center|60px Edward Selden May 1809 center|60px Samuel May 1810 center|60px James Athansius McDonald 1842 center|60px John Johnson McNutt 1822 center|60px William Branwell Merrill 1827 center|60px Clement Meserve 1822 center|60px Southard Harrison Miller 1811 center|60px Henry Sherman Miner 1820 center|60px Joseph Mitchell 1809 center|60px Franklin Gerrish Morris 1841 center|60px John Torrey Morse 1840 center|60px Frederick Pierce Moseley 1826 center|60px Willard Stanley Newhall 1831 center|60px George Lincoln Newton 1841 center|60px Edward Wolcott Noble 1811 center|60px Reuben Noble 1820 center|60px Daniel Noonan 1834 center|60px Isaac Newton Nutter June 23, 1836 center|60px Charles Stuart Osgood 1839 center|60px Harrison Davis Packard 1840 center|60px Joseph Frost Paul 1824 center|60px Charles Mason Peirce 1823 center|60px William Edward Perkins 1838 center|60px Charles Hiram Pew 1842 center|60px Willard Peele Phillips 1825 center|60px Stephen Cobb Phinney 1829 center|60px Edward L. Pierce March 29, 1829 center|60px James Pierce 1837 center|60px Thomas Fitzpatrick Plunkett 1804 center|60px Alanson Brown Pomeroy 1842 center|60px Richard Pope 1843 center|60px Isaac Pratt 1814 center|60px Willard Putnam 1838 center|60px Edward Benedict Rankin 1846 center|60px George Williams Reed 1826 center|60px Albert Edward Rice 1845 center|60px William Whitney Rice March 7, 1826 center|60px Thomas Rich 1820 center|60px Jonathan Cady Richmond 1821 center|60px John Lombard Robinson 1835 center|60px Joshua Crowell Robinson 1834 center|60px Wallace Fullum Robinson 1832 center|60px Charles Alvan Rogers 1836 center|60px Joseph Samuel Ropes February 6, 1818 center|60px Cyrus King Russell 1815 center|60px Nathaniel Johnson Rust 1833 center|60px John Stevens Ryder 1822 center|60px John Sanborn 1799 center|60px Edward Sanderson 1829 center|60px Charles Brigham Sanford 1817 center|60px John Eliot Sanford November 22, 1830 center|60px Cyrus Savage September 2, 1832 center|60px John Savery 1815 center|60px Ebenezer Sawyer 1809 center|60px Nathaniel Seaver 1807 center|60px John Mark Seeley 1814 center|60px Charles Luther Shaw 1823 center|60px Frederick Plummer Shaw 1811 center|60px Isaiah Atkins Small 1825 center|60px George Dillingham Smalley 1824 center|60px Abraham Howland Smith 1833 center|60px Albert Smith 1823 center|60px Edward F. Smith 1835 center|60px John Low Smith 1837 center|60px Edwin Adolphus Spaulding 1832 center|60px Richard Hall Stearns December 25, 1824 center|60px Isaac Stebbins 1817 center|60px Lafayette Stevens 1824 center|60px John Conant Stimpson 1813 center|60px Isaac Stone 1822 center|60px Charles Alfonso Fletcher Swan 1830 center|60px Daniel Joseph Sweeney 1834 center|60px Samuel Talbot 1822 center|60px Leonard Alden Thayer 1834 center|60px William Allen Thompson 1810 center|60px Daniel Holt Thurston 1813 center|60px Dexter Alley Tompkins 1827 center|60px George Howard Torrey 1819 center|60px Enoch Henry Towne 1835 center|60px Byron Truell 1834 center|60px Albert Jesse Trull 1845 center|60px Charles Russell Tucker 1844 center|60px Artemas Stanley Tyler 1824 center|60px Edmond Maxam Vincent 1828 center|60px Cranmore Nesmith Wallace 1844 center|60px George Milton Warren 1832 center|60px Austin Clark Wellington 1840 center|60px Joseph Wilder White 1825 center|60px Felix Grundy Whitney 1818 center|60px Wilbur Fisk Whitney 1839 center|60px Henry Munson Wilcox 1843 center|60px Ebenezer Crosby Willard 1821 center|60px Moses Williams 1846 center|60px William Winn 1809 center|60px Nathan Montgomery Wood 1825 center|60px John H. Woodbury 1840 center|60px William Woods 1840 center|60px Walter Wyman 1806 See also 44th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References Further reading Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1875 Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/appletonsannualc15newyuoft/page/475/mode/1up D. Appleton and Company New York 1876 (includes description of legislature) External links 2452/619064 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1875 Massachusetts General Court 2452/92957 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1875 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1875 in Massachusetts