1837 Massachusetts legislature

American state legislature February 2025 January 2025 58thMassachusetts General Court General Court 1837 57th 59th Senate 40 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 Horace Mann House 635 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 Julius Rockwell right 308 Southworth and Hawes - Horace Mann (Zeno Fotografie) (cropped).jpg Horace Mann Horace Mann, Senate president. JuliusRockwell.jpg Julius Rockwell Julius Rockwell, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1837. The 58th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1837 during the governorship of Edward Everett. Horace Mann served as president of the Senate and Julius Rockwell 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+ Historical context The 58th Massachusetts General Court convened during a pivotal year in the history of American public education. Governor Edward Everett, serving his third term, worked alongside the legislature to establish the [[Massachusetts State Board of Education]] — one of the first such bodies in the United States.Edward Everett https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/edward-everett 2026-06-18 Encyclopedia.com The legislation creating the Board was championed by Senate president Horace Mann, who was subsequently appointed as its first secretary — a role in which he served for twelve years and fundamentally transformed public schooling in the United States.Horace Mann – Schoolhouse Pioneers https://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/horace.html 2026-06-18 PBS Senate president: Horace Mann Horace Mann (1796–1859), who presided over the Senate during this session, is widely regarded as the "father of American public education."Horace Mann https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/horace-mann/ 2026-06-18 First Amendment Encyclopedia, Middle Tennessee State University He had previously served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1827–1833) before winning election to the Senate in 1835 and being named its president the following year. During his legislative years he also championed the construction of railroads and canals, and secured the establishment of a state asylum for the insane in Worcester.Horace Mann – Schools, Education & Facts https://www.biography.com/scholars-educators/horace-mann 2026-06-18 Biography.com Mann resigned from the Senate presidency upon accepting the secretariat of the new Board of Education, marking a decisive shift in his career from legislator to educator.Horace Mann https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/state-house-tours/did-you-know/Horace-Mann.htm 2026-06-18 Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Governor: Edward Everett Edward Everett (1794–1865), under whose governorship the 58th General Court sat, was a Whig politician, scholar, and orator who ultimately served four consecutive terms as governor until 1840.Gov. Edward Everett https://www.nga.org/governor/edward-everett/ 2026-06-18 National Governors Association A Harvard-educated classicist, Everett was renowned as one of the greatest orators of the era — today most remembered for the two-hour speech he delivered at Gettysburg on the same platform as President Abraham Lincoln's far shorter address in 1863. Senators 15em width: 600px; Daniel Adams III Civil Government of Massachusetts Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for 1837 2452/121983 Charles Allen Reuben Bacon Francis Bowman Harvey Chapin Linus Child Henry H. Childs Abel Cushing Samuel Dorr Stephen Fairbanks Joseph Fitch Thomas French Ethan A. Greenwood Nathan Gurney William Hancock James H. Handy Ephraim Hastings Charles Hudson David Joy Charles Kimball Abel Kingman Myron Lawrence William Livingston Horace Mann Charles Marston Stephen Oliver Warwick Palfray Jr. Leonard M. Parker Stephen Pope Josiah Quincy Jr. Charles Russell Orren Sage Jonathan Shove Phineas Sprague John Tenney John B. Turner William Ward Seth Whitmarsh Benjamin P. Williams Henry Williams Representatives June 2020 See also 25th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References 2 External links 2452/738683 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1837 Massachusetts General Court State Library of Massachusetts 2452/103882 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1837 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1837 in Massachusetts