1859 Massachusetts legislature

American state legislature February 2025 January 2025 80thMassachusetts General Court General Court November 2, 1858 1859 01 5 1859 04 6 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+ 79th 81st Senate 40 Republican President Charles A. Phelps House 240 Republican Speaker Charles Hale The 80th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1859 during the governorship of Nathaniel Prentice Banks. Charles A. Phelps served as president of the Senate and Charles Hale 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+ "In 1858 the Republicans took a firm grip on both branches of the Legislature electing 34 Senate members as against two Democrats and four other. The House went Republican by the widest margin ever with 314 Republicans and but three Democrats." Evolution of Massachusetts Party Government (1630's-1980's) John F. Parker https://archive.org/details/legislativelifei00park/page/n14/mode/2up Legislative Life, Its Realities, Facts, Wit & Humor 1985 New Legislators' Orientation, State House, Boston Senators 15em width: 600px; John W. Atwood Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/massachusettsreg1859bost/page/n19/mode/1up Massachusetts Register, 1859 Archive.org John W. Bacon Aaron Bagg Abraham M. Bigelow Samuel W. Bowerman Nehemiah Boynton John Branning George M. Brooks Benjamin F. Butler Horace Conn Joseph W. Cornell Homer M. Daggett George L. Davis Robert T. Davis William T. Davis Benjamin Evans William Fabens Charles Field Milton M. Fisher Charles A. French Oliver Frost Davis Goddard Carver Hotchkiss Horatio G. Knight Ichabod N. Luce John G. Metcalf E. L. Norton George Odiorne Joseph B. F. Osgood Dexter F. Parker Edward G. Parker William B. Peek Charles A. Phelps Thomas P. Rich Ezekiel K. Sawin Perez Simmons Warren Tilton William Upham George Walker J. M. S. Williams Representatives June 2020 See also 36th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References Further reading 1859 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40637 https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge1859mass No slave-hunting in the Old Bay State: an appeal to the people and legislature of Massachusetts Wendell Phillips https://www.loc.gov/item/11011780/ U.S. Library of Congress (speech delivered February 17, 1859) External links 2452/738678 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1859 Massachusetts General Court State Library of Massachusetts 2452/92941 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1859 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1859 in Massachusetts