1897 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 118thMassachusetts General Court General Court November 3, 1896 1897 01 6 1897 06 12 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+ 117th 119th Senate 40 Republican (35–5) 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 P. Lawrence House 240 Republican (202–38)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 P Lawrence Massachusetts Congressman circa 1908.png George P. Lawrence George Lawrence, Senate president. JohnLBates.jpg John L. Bates John Bates, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1897. The 118th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1897 during the governorship of Roger Wolcott. George P. Lawrence 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+ The 1897 legislature is the high-water mark for the Massachusetts Republican Party, which held 35 seats in the Senate and 202 in the House. Republicans have not surpassed either number since, though they would match their high of 35 Senate seats again in 1920. Senators image name https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge1897mass 1897 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, 1897 https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/796008/1897-Senate-01-Appendix.pdf State Library of Massachusetts district center|60px James Alderson Bailey Jr. March 25, 1867 center|60px Harding R. Barber December 20, 1839 center|60px Albert F. Barker October 24, 1859 center|60px Lewis H. Bartlett April 2, 1854 center|60px William R. Black August 23, 1830 center|60px Edward S. Bradford December 1, 1842 center|60px William Hartwell Brigham February 1, 1863 center|60px William H. Cook January 7, 1843 center|60px Ellery B. Crane November 12, 1836 center|60px Frederick W. Dallinger October 2, 1871 center|60px William W. Davis August 8, 1862 center|60px James H. Derbyshire June 11, 1855 center|60px Noble W. Everett February 20, 1827 center|60px Joseph Byron Farley October 10, 1847 center|60px James H. Flint June 25, 1852 center|60px Charles E. Folsom February 24, 1855 center|60px James A. Gallivan October 22, 1866 center|60px John Dennis Hammond Gauss January 4, 1861 center|60px Clarke Partridge Harding June 20, 1853 center|60px Albert L. Harwood September 10, 1847 center|60px James E. Hayes August 10, 1865 center|60px Joshua B. Holden March 5, 1850 center|60px Richard William Irwin February 18, 1857 center|60px Dwight H. Ives January 28, 1837 center|60px Erastus Jones September 11, 1825 center|60px George P. Lawrence May 19, 1859 center|60px Martin Lomasney December 3, 1859 center|60px William Moran September 6, 1855 center|60px William A. Morse July 27, 1863 center|60px Henry Parsons February 2, 1842 center|60px John Jacob Prevaux March 16, 1857 center|60px George E. Putnam February 9, 1851 center|60px John Quinn Jr. December 16, 1859 center|60px Ernest W. Roberts November 22, 1858 center|60px Alfred Seelye Roe June 8, 1844 center|60px George Edwin Smith April 5, 1849 center|60px Rufus Albertson Soule 1839 center|60px William W. Towle August 21, 1860 center|60px John Loring Woodfall September 15, 1847 center|60px Charles F. Woodward November 19, 1852 Representatives image name date of birth district center|60px Albert E. Addis May 4, 1864 center|60px Benjamin C. Ames December 20, 1859 center|60px Richard F. Andrews, Jr April 13, 1863 center|60px Julius C. Anthony September 24, 1856 center|60px Edward R. Ashley May 15, 1824 center|60px Henry C. Attwill March 11, 1872 center|60px Gustavus Atwood November 18, 1843 center|60px Thomas C. Bachelder November 6, 1860 center|60px Charles O. Bailey January 24, 1863 center|60px Horace P. Bailey March 3, 1840 center|60px John E. Baldwin June 26, 1869 center|60px Frank W. Barnard January 3, 1853 center|60px Franklin O. Barnes November 11, 1841 center|60px George H. Bartlett September 6, 1857 center|60px Jonathan B. L. Bartlett October 11, 1849 center|60px John L. Bates September 18, 1859 center|60px Charles O. Beede December 29, 1840 center|60px Henry A. Belcher August 6, 1845 center|60px Scott F. Bickford November 14, 1864 center|60px Osgood C. Blaney January 20, 1860 center|60px John Bleiler May 9, 1837 center|60px Henry H. Bosworth March 16, 1868 center|60px Harvey L. Boutwell April 5, 1860 center|60px Walter L. Bouve October 28, 1849 center|60px Henry J. Boyd May 9, 1831 Cary C. Bradford February 8, 1855 center|60px Manassah Edward Bradley August 15, 1863 center|60px Charles Donnell Brown June 5, 1862 center|60px Charles E. Brown November 18, 1850 center|60px George A. Brown November 24, 1854 center|60px Joseph G. Brown January 19, 1825 center|60px Aaron R. Bunting August 26, 1833 center|60px Clement F. Burr January 22, 1849 center|60px Ernest W. Calkins December 25, 1855 center|60px Edward B. Callender February 23, 1851 center|60px Andrew Campbell May 3, 1826 center|60px Leonard B. Chandler August 29, 1851 center|60px William D. Chapple August 6, 1868 center|60px George F. Chase December 11, 1851 center|60px James B. Clancy May 26, 1868 center|60px Albert B. Clark June 5, 1854 center|60px Albert Clarke October 13, 1840 center|60px Samuel Cole December 15, 1856 center|60px James W. Coleman March 17, 1855 center|60px Walter S. V. Cooke August 12, 1851 center|60px George W. Coombs November 4, 1837 center|60px Edward A. Cowee July 23, 1857 center|60px Fred E. Crawford July 7, 1857 center|60px Charles C. Crocker August 21, 1831 center|60px Thomas W. Crocker December 27, 1832 center|60px Alfred R. Crosby August 30, 1838 center|60px Richard Cullinane February 2, 1859 center|60px Nelson P. Cummings April 27, 1847 center|60px Daniel J. Curley April 2, 1841 center|60px William Curtis August 8, 1857 center|60px Daniel W. Davis October 3, 1846 center|60px William Ripley Davis March 8, 1862 center|60px Cornelius R. Day December 29, 1847 center|60px Charles Leroy Dean May 29, 1844 center|60px Thomas M. Denham February 2, 1840 center|60px Robert F. Denvir September 8, 1840 center|60px John B. Dewing January 28, 1835 center|60px David T. Dickinson August 13, 1867 center|60px Richard Dobbins June 2, 1845 center|60px Thomas Donahue August 20, 1853 center|60px Jeremiah F. Donovan May 10, 1856 center|60px Thomas J. Dooling January 28, 1868 center|60px James M. Douglass February 24, 1839 center|60px Daniel M. Driscoll January 2, 1861 center|60px Hugo A. Dubuque November 3, 1854 center|60px A. Glendon Dyar August 4, 1860 center|60px Freeman O. Emerson January 12, 1859 center|60px A. Edwin Enberg September 9, 1866 center|60px Eugene B. Estes December 7, 1850 center|60px Frank W. Estey December 16, 1866 center|60px George S. Evans September 12, 1841 center|60px E. Walter Everett April 11, 1864 center|60px Wilson H. Fairbank April 3, 1836 center|60px John J. Falvey May 26, 1864 center|60px Francis F. Farrar January 10, 1833 center|60px John J. Feneno March 24, 1866 center|60px George E. Fisher January 22, 1823 center|60px E. Knowlton Fogg October 24, 1837 center|60px Albert T. Folsom November 9, 1831 center|60px Otis Foss October 4, 1838 center|60px Frank W. Francis September 16, 1857 center|60px George G. Frederick January 14, 1867 center|60px George F. Fuller March 8, 1842 center|60px Charles W. Gale October 3, 1846 center|60px Jefferson C. Gallison August 8, 1841 center|60px John J. Gardner February 23, 1853 center|60px Samuel Wesley George April 26, 1862 center|60px Emery B. Gibbs October 23, 1862 center|60px Moses D. Gilman May 23, 1846 center|60px Otis M. Gove May 3, 1851 center|60px Oliver S. Grant April 30, 1866 center|60px James Wilson Grimes November 21, 1865 center|60px Almon E. Hall December 6, 1846 center|60px Amos E. Hall July 6, 1838 center|60px Luther Hall November 5, 1842 center|60px Frederick Hammond February 27, 1847 center|60px Frederic Hanson May 2, 1835 center|60px Edward H. Harding April 17, 1854 center|60px Joseph M. Harrington July 26, 1828 center|60px Frederic W. Hathaway March 6, 1836 center|60px William Henry Irving Hayes June 21, 1848 center|60px Albert F. Hayward January 24, 1840 center|60px Charles E. Hoag September 18, 1849 center|60px Charles E. Hosmer May 25, 1837 center|60px Walter F. Howard September 20, 1855 center|60px Rufus Howe September 28, 1837 center|60px Edward H. Hoyt July 11, 1849 center|60px Franklin E. Huntress April 19, 1866 center|60px Charles Hiller Innes August 6, 1870 center|60px John W. Johnson June 14, 1856 center|60px George R. Jones February 8, 1862 center|60px Melville D. Jones September 25, 1842 center|60px William A. Josselyn February 8, 1856 center|60px James Keenan March 4, 1850 center|60px Thomas F. Keenan March 11, 1854 center|60px John A. Keliher November 6, 1866 center|60px John L. Kelly March 29, 1869 center|60px George H. Kelton September 20, 1861 center|60px Thomas W. Kenefick September 17, 1855 center|60px Patrick J. Kennedy March 20, 1862 center|60px David T. King January 19, 1864 center|60px William A. Lang May 26, 1836 center|60px James Lawrence March 23, 1853 center|60px James H. Leary November 28, 1868 center|60px Ottho William Lewis July 17, 1853 center|60px Charles F. Light August 1, 1860 center|60px Warren J. Livermore January 5, 1835 center|60px Alexander Lockhart December 22, 1854 center|60px Francis Cabot Lowell January 7, 1855 center|60px Albert W. Lyon March 1, 1869 center|60px John E. Magenis May 5, 1873 center|60px Jeremiah E. Mahoney November 8, 1864 center|60px Forrest C. Manchester September 11, 1859 center|60px William H. Marden May 30, 1843 center|60px Lyman Mason April 4, 1838 center|60px Arthur A. Maxwell January 24, 1858 center|60px Will W. Mayhew January 15, 1857 center|60px Benjamin W. Mayo April 17, 1836 center|60px Jeremiah Justin McCarthy March 29, 1852 center|60px George M. McClain March 9, 1842 center|60px John E. McClellan September 5, 1847 center|60px James S. McKenna January 11, 1864 center|60px Levi G. McKnight April 30, 1843 center|60px John A. McManus March 9, 1860 center|60px George F. Mead May 22, 1854 center|60px George W. Mellen May 11, 1837 center|60px William H. Mellen November 9, 1842 center|60px John M. Merriam September 20, 1862 center|60px Charles E. Mills December 28, 1847 center|60px Charles P. Mills August 22, 1853 center|60px Eugene Michael Moriarty April 15, 1849 center|60px William L. Morse May 1, 1849 center|60px James J. Myers November 20, 1842 center|60px Joseph O. Neill January 31, 1838 center|60px Edward B. Nevin November 10, 1858 center|60px Thaddeus H. Newcomb March 15, 1826 center|60px George H. Norton May 28, 1863 B. Alden Nourse July 19, 1836 center|60px Frank J. O'Toole October 13, 1867 center|60px William Odlin April 5, 1865 center|60px John B. Packard February 22, 1837 center|60px Herbert C. Parsons January 15, 1862 center|60px Joseph E. Pattee April 24, 1843 center|60px Francis C. Perry June 27, 1853 center|60px Frank H. Pervere March 24, 1831 center|60px Lemuel W. Peters July 29, 1860 center|60px Franklin F. Phillips December 21, 1852 center|60px Edward L. Pickard December 25, 1834 center|60px Edward L. Pierce March 29, 1829 center|60px Oliver K. Pierce January 27, 1835 center|60px John H. Ponce November 1, 1857 center|60px Burrill Porter February 22, 1832 center|60px William H. Porter May 8, 1856 center|60px Thomas Post August 16, 1834 center|60px John A. Powers September 15, 1853 center|60px David G. Pratt November 7, 1848 center|60px Nicolas M. Quint July 18, 1838 center|60px Charles I. Quirk August 15, 1871 center|60px James P. Ramsay April 30, 1861 center|60px Silas Dean Reed June 25, 1872 center|60px William Louis ReedBlack Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present 2452/48905 State Library of Massachusetts 2010 Massachusetts State Library of Court Massachusetts General April 5, 1866 center|60px Michael J. Reidy August 8, 1870 center|60px George M. Rice October 20, 1843 center|60px Clinton Q. Richmond December 17, 1859 center|60px Atherton W. Rogers August 10, 1848 center|60px Samuel Ross February 2, 1865 center|60px Daniel D. Rourke July 16, 1869 center|60px Edward T. Rowell 1836 center|60px Michael L. Russell December 15, 1860 center|60px Howard K. Sanderson July 10, 1865 center|60px Frank P. Sargent November 4, 1854 center|60px Tristram T. Savory September 19, 1834 center|60px William H. Severance January 12, 1857 center|60px Charles S. Shattuck June 5, 1840 center|60px David B. Shaw August 20, 1870 center|60px John F. Sheehan September 2, 1861 center|60px P. Howard Shirley August 15, 1857 center|60px William E. Skillings October 23, 1843 center|60px George B. Smart February 25, 1835 center|60px Harvey C. Smith November 20, 1847 center|60px Henry R. Smith October 7, 1842 center|60px Mark E. Smith June 22, 1871 center|60px Cyrus Spaulding April 17, 1835 center|60px Hugh L. Stalker December 31, 1857 center|60px Fred D. Stanley October 17, 1863 center|60px Edward A. Stevens December 9, 1841 center|60px John M. Stevenson August 31, 1846 center|60px Joseph I. Stewart April 25, 1847 center|60px Joseph W. Stocker April 6, 1824 center|60px Willmore B. Stone June 24, 1853 center|60px Cornelius F. Sullivan June 15, 1865 center|60px Simon S. Sullivan August 5, 1868 center|60px Peter Francis Tague June 4, 1871 center|60px James Thompson May 18, 1848 center|60px Henry Thrasher May 29, 1837 center|60px Charles W. Tilton April 6, 1836 center|60px John J. Toomey September 18, 1868 center|60px Charles E. Trow April 18, 1833 center|60px J. Gilman Waite March 20, 1837 center|60px Charles G. Washburn January 28, 1857 center|60px Eben C. Waterman March 1, 1840 center|60px Otis V. Waterman August 13, 1834 center|60px William W. Waterman December 4, 1831 center|60px Jackson Webster March 14, 1849 center|60px George W. Whidden June 15, 1858 center|60px Horace C. White January 26, 1836 center|60px Zadoc L. White December 29, 1854 center|60px James Whitehead December 20, 1857 center|60px William A. Whittlesey February 21, 1849 center|60px Francis O. Winslow March 20, 1844 center|60px Alva S. Wood May 12, 1828 center|60px John A. Woodbury August 22, 1836 center|60px Daniel S. Woodman April 12, 1842 center|60px Joseph W. Woodman January 25, 1847 center|60px Willie C. Young May 28, 1848 See also 55th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References Further reading Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators: 1897 1897 A. M. Bridgman Stoughton, Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/souvenirofmassac1897brid Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1897 Massachusetts: Legislative Session https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015053690676?urlappend=%3Bseq=545 HathiTrust D. Appleton and Company New York 1898 2027/mdp.39015053690676?urlappend=%3Bseq=545 External links 2452/429114 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1897 Massachusetts General Court 2452/83203 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1897 https://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:1897 in Massachusetts