1888 Massachusetts legislature
The 109th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1888 during the governorship of Oliver Ames. Halsey J. Boardman served as president of the Senate and Charles J. Noyes served as speaker of the House.[4]
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| Legislative body | General Court | ||||
| Election | November 8, 1887 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 40 | ||||
| President | Halsey J. Boardman | ||||
| Party control | Republican[1] | ||||
| House | |||||
| Members | 240 | ||||
| Speaker | Charles J. Noyes | ||||
| Party control | Republican[2] | ||||
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Halsey J. Boardman, Senate president.
Charles Noyes, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1888.
Notable legislation included incorporation of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Woman Suffrage Association.[5]
Senators
| Image | Name [6] | Date of birth [7] | District | Party |
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Halsey J. Boardman | May 19, 1834 | ||
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Charles Nathaniel Clark | 1853 | ||
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William Alfred Clark | 1852 | ||
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John Aloysius Collins | 1860 | ||
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Benjamin Franklin Cook | 1833 | ||
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John Crawford Crosby | June 15, 1859 | ||
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Patrick Dennis Dwyer | 1857 | ||
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Jonathan Varnum Fletcher | 1812 | ||
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Charles Albert Gleason | 1846 | ||
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Jubal Converse Gleason | 1837 | ||
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Edward Glines | August 31, 1849 | ||
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Harris Cowdrey Hartwell | 1847 | ||
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Edward Jacob Hathorne | 1854 | ||
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Robert Howard | February 8, 1845 | ||
| Frank W. Howe | June 3, 1859 | |||
| Franklyn Howland | 1843 | |||
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Edward John Jenkins | 1854 | ||
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Isaac Newton Keith | November 14, 1838 | ||
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Ziba Cary Keith | July 13, 1842 | ||
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David Frank Kimball | 1845 | ||
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Chester Ward Kingsley | 1824 | ||
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George Perley Ladd | 1838 | ||
| Edwin T. Marble | August 18, 1827 | |||
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William Taylor McAlpine | 1840 | ||
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Austin Messinger | 1817 | ||
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Moses Poore Palmer | 1830 | ||
| Levi Perkins | March 13, 1831 | |||
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James Davis Pike | 1829 | ||
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Samuel Roads, Jr. | October 22, 1853 | ||
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John Francis Shea | 1858 | ||
| Edward J. Slattery | June 15, 1856 | |||
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John Killbourne Clough Sleeper | 1828 | ||
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Robert Alexander Southworth | 1852 | ||
| Charles C. Spellman | December 3, 1843 | |||
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Henry Harrison Sprague | August 1, 1841 | ||
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James Trimble Stevens | 1835 | ||
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John Henry Sullivan | 1848 | ||
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Charles Andrew Towne | 1843 | ||
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Enos Houghton Tucker | 1817 | ||
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David Walker | 1841 | ||
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Silas Mandeville Wheelock | 1818 |
Representatives
| image | Name [6] | Date of birth [7] | District | Party |
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| Charles E. Adams | April 6, 1841 | |||
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John Jesse Allen | 1844 | ||
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Montressor Tyler Allen | 1844 | ||
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William Oscar Armstrong [8] | 1847 | ||
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Horace H. Atherton | 1847 | ||
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Harrison Henry Atwood | August 26, 1863 | ||
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Rollin Herbert Babbitt | 1840 | ||
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John Backup | 1830 | ||
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William Emerson Barrett | December 29, 1858 | ||
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Joseph Freeland Bartlett | 1843 | ||
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Charles Henry Bennett | March 11, 1843 | ||
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Francis Taylor Berry | 1849 | ||
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Charles Chauncey Bixby | 1824 | ||
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Edwin Henry Blake | 1838 | ||
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Andreas Blume | 1837 | ||
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Francis Boardman | 1826 | ||
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John Bennett Bottum | |||
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Albert Augustus Brackett | 1850 | ||
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Peter Joseph Brady | October 29, 1861 | ||
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Arthur Butler Breed | June 30, 1857 | ||
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Edward Winslow Brewer | 1858 | ||
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Arthur Amber Brigham | October 6, 1856 | ||
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Asa Olin Brooks | 1852 | ||
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John Freeman Brown | 1848 | ||
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William Howe Burnham | 1840 | ||
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William A. Butler | February 4, 1859 | ||
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Charles Amos Call | 1839 | ||
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Patrick Joseph Calnan | 1847 | ||
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Joseph Henry Cannell | 1836 | ||
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William Henry Carey | 1848 | ||
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William Alexander Carman | 1854 | ||
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Michael Carney | 1820 | ||
| George N. Carpenter | January 26, 1840 | |||
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Peter Thomas Carroll | 1857 | ||
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Arthur Babcock Champlin | 1858 | ||
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Joseph Pike Cheney | 1843 | ||
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Moses Davis Church | 1842 | ||
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David Harris Clark | 1836 | ||
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Henry Clark | 1841 | ||
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Schuyler Clark | 1841 | ||
| Rowse Reynolds Clarke [9] | February 12, 1822 | |||
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George Close | 1845 | ||
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John Freeman Colby | 1834 | ||
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Harvey Newton Collison | 1860 | ||
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Charles Wright Conant | 1833 | ||
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James Conroy | 1850 | ||
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David Conwell | 1818 | ||
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George Hunting Coolidge | 1841 | ||
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John William Coveney | April 10, 1845 | ||
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James Martin Cronin | 1857 | ||
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Joshua Crowell | 1841 | ||
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Samuel Cutler | 1825 | ||
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Albert Levi Dame | 1841 | ||
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Luther Dame | March 3, 1826 | ||
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Edmund Augustus Davis | 1839 | ||
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John Watton Delano | 1852 | ||
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George Dennis | 1825 | ||
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Jeremiah Desmond | May 2, 1853 | ||
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Wilson Dewey | 1815 | ||
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Solomon King Dexter | 1839 | ||
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John Doherty | 1844 | ||
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Bernard Dolan | 1838 | ||
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Edward James Donovan | 1864 | ||
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James Donovan | May 28, 1859 | ||
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Theodore Parker Dresser | 1854 | ||
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John Driscoll | 1853 | ||
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James Joseph Dunlea | 1857 | ||
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Harry Millett Eames | July 9, 1855 | ||
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Albert Redolphus Eldredge | September 10, 1850 | ||
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Frank Aldrich Fales | October 13, 1848 | ||
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Thomas George Farren | 1858 | ||
| William F. Ferry | July 4, 1854 | |||
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Elkanah Finney | October 31, 1849 | ||
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Albert Laban Fisher | 1846 | ||
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Edward Perry Fisk | 1852 | ||
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David Floyd | October 26, 1854 | ||
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Edward James Flynn | 1859 | ||
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Thomas Joseph Flynn | 1849 | ||
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Jacob Fottler | 1839 | ||
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Henry Friend | 1841 | ||
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Henry Frost | 1832 | ||
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Edward Gagan | 1849 | ||
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Michael Garity | 1848 | ||
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George Washington Gibson | 1851 | ||
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William Augustus Gile | 1843 | ||
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Joseph Henry Gleason | 1848 | ||
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Willard Franklin Gleason | December 24, 1846 | ||
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William Gordon | 1825 | ||
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Charles Goss | 1841 | ||
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Samuel Levis Gracey | 1835 | ||
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Davis Packard Gray | 1827 | ||
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Morrill Asa Greenwood | 1839 | ||
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Freeman Clark Griswold | December 15, 1858 | ||
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Charles Francis Grosvenor | 1850 | ||
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Daniel Gunn | 1850 | ||
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David Joseph Hagerty | 1857 | ||
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Charles Haggerty | December 6, 1854 | ||
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Frederick Stanley Hall | 1861 | ||
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Benjamin Hall Hartwell | 1845 | ||
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Henry Clark Haskell | 1837 | ||
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William Harrison Hastings | 1840 | ||
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Franklin Winslow Hatch | 1836 | ||
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James Ambrose Hathaway | 1837 | ||
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Elihu Burritt Hayes | |||
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John Edward Hayes | 1845 | ||
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Henry Dunton Haynes | 1837 | ||
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Robert Henry | 1833 | ||
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Luther Hill | 1825 | ||
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William John Hinchcliffe | 1855 | ||
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Calvin Hitchcock | 1817 | ||
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William Southerland Hixon | 1848 | ||
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John Adams Holbrook | 1837 | ||
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Frank Edward Holman | 1853 | ||
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George Mitchell Hooper | September 1, 1838 | ||
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George Harford Hunt | 1843 | ||
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Alden Potter Jaques | March 4, 1835 | ||
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Jeremiah Joseph Keane | 1855 | ||
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George Henry Kearn | 1839 | ||
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Horace Manley Kendall | 1848 | ||
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Patrick Joseph Kennedy | January 14, 1858 | ||
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Henry Albert Kimball | May 3, 1842 | ||
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John White Kimball | February 27, 1828 | ||
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Charles Henry Knox | 1847 | ||
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James Lally | 1862 | ||
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William Tuck Leach | 1838 | ||
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Edward Joseph Leary | May 27, 1860 | ||
| John Q. A. Lothrop | October 14, 1824 | |||
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Clarence Parker Lovell | 1848 | ||
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Payson Williston Lyman | 1842 | ||
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Henry Stephen Lyons | November 21, 1865 | ||
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Albert Sylvester Manning | 1846 | ||
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David Manning | August 29, 1846 | ||
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James Pope Martin | 1827 | ||
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Samuel Walker McCall | February 28, 1851 | ||
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Patrick McCarthy | 1849 | ||
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Thomas McCooey | 1851 | ||
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Robert Henry McDonald | 1854 | ||
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John H. McDonough | March 29, 1857 | ||
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Thomas Owen McEnaney | October 23, 1857 | ||
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Michael Joseph McEttrick | June 22, 1848 | ||
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James Henry Mellen | 1845 | ||
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John Flint Merrill | January 16, 1849 | ||
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Albert E. Miller | 1834 | ||
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Lyman Munson Miller | 1836 | ||
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Daniel Lake Milliken | 1837 | ||
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John Cruikshank Milne | 1824 | ||
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William Henry Monahan | 1857 | ||
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George Francis Morey | 1826 | ||
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John Milton Morin | February 14, 1828 | ||
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Harrison Emmons Morton | 1842 | ||
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Sidney Tucker Nelson | 1845 | ||
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Thomas Lorenzo Noonan | 1835 | ||
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Caleb Jerome Norwood | 1838 | ||
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Charles Johnson Noyes | August 7, 1841 | ||
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Dennis Joseph O'Brien | 1845 | ||
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John William O'Mealey | 1861 | ||
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John William O'Neil | 1859 | ||
| Thomas F. O'Neill | November 5, 1859 | |||
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Henry Parkman | May 23, 1850 | ||
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Isaac Smith Pear | 1830 | ||
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Henry Mulford Peirson | 1825 | ||
| Nathaniel R. Perkins | September 10, 1847 | |||
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George Robbins Perry | 1836 | ||
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Charles Quincy Pierce | 1841 | ||
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Alfred Stamm Pinkerton | March 19, 1856 | ||
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John Wallace Plaisted | 1828 | ||
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William Hall Poore | 1864 | ||
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Harvey Hunter Pratt | 1860 | ||
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William Henry Preble | 1856 | ||
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William Provin | February 14, 1842 | ||
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Francis Winnie Qua | 1845 | ||
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Josiah Quincy | October 15, 1859 | ||
| Andrew Quinn | 1853 | |||
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Dennis Joseph Quinn | 1861 | ||
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Philip Henry Quinn | 1859 | ||
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Francis Henry Raymond | February 19, 1836 | ||
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Samuel Miner Raymond | June 30, 1842 | ||
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John Read | May 19, 1840 | ||
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James Henry Richards | 1839 | ||
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Henry Riddell | 1848 | ||
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John C. Risteen | 1841 | ||
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Ethan Chapin Robinson | 1839 | ||
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Jonathan Henry Robinson | February 9, 1831 | ||
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Joseph Wheelden Rogers | 1823 | ||
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Samuel Nomlas Rogers | 1840 | ||
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William Blanding Rogerson | 1846 | ||
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Arthur Gilbert Rounsevell | 1851 | ||
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Charles Parks Rugg | 1827 | ||
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Alvin Dudley Russell | 1849 | ||
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Irving Levi Russell | 1852 | ||
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Alpheus Sanford | July 5, 1856 | ||
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Chester Franklin Sanger | 1858 | ||
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Charles Warren Seavey | 1839 | ||
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Edward Payson Shaw | September 1, 1841 | ||
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Charles Fay Shepard | 1827 | ||
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Samuel Dwight Simonds | 1846 | ||
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George Wing Slocum | 1818 | ||
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Winfield Scott Slocum | 1848 | ||
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Sidney Pond Smith | 1850 | ||
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William Davies Sohier | 1858 | ||
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Benjamin Franklin Southwick | July 5, 1835 | ||
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Charles Edward Spring | 1841 | ||
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Daniel Philmore Stimpson | 1818 | ||
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Cyrus Story | 1822 | ||
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Elijah Baron Stowe | 1844 | ||
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Michael Francis Sullivan | September 22, 1858 | ||
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Thomas Francis Sullivan | 1862 | ||
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Charles Henry Symonds | 1857 | ||
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Robert Lovett Taft | 1841 | ||
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Albert Hobbs Temple | 1832 | ||
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Rufus Albert Thayer | 1839 | ||
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Albert Cranston Thompson | 1843 | ||
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Albert Gardner Thompson | 1853 | ||
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Isaac Brownell Tompkins | August 17, 1826 | ||
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Joseph Leland Towne | 1861 | ||
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George Washington Trull | 1849 | ||
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Henry Abiel Turner | 1827 | ||
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Ansel Peabody Tyler | 1839 | ||
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Samuel Otis Upham | 1824 | ||
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Edwin D. Vanderhoop | 1848 | ||
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Horace G. Wadlin | October 2, 1851 | ||
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Abijah Tyler Wales | 1833 | ||
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Arthur Clarence Walworth | 1844 | ||
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Erskine Warden | 1839 | ||
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Jacob Otis Wardwell | March 14, 1857 | ||
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Moses Everett Ware | 1831 | ||
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Franklin Levi Waters | 1820 | ||
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William Fisher Wharton | 1847 | ||
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James Edgar Whitcher | 1847 | ||
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William Leonard White | 1843 | ||
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William Allan Wilde | 1837 | ||
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Albert Llewellyn Wiley | 1835 | ||
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John Williamson Wilkinson | 1832 | ||
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Rufus Henry Willis | 1838 | ||
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Reuben Winchester | 1825 | ||
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John Winthrop | 1841 | ||
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Charles Thomas Witt | July 18, 1848 | ||
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Frank Forrest Woods | |||
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Charles Francis Woodward | November 19, 1852 | ||
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Arthur Wright | 1837 | ||
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Ferdinand Adolphus Wyman | 1850 |
References
- "Composition of the Massachusetts State Senate", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
- "Composition of the State of Massachusetts House of Representatives", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
- "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
- "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
- Kaitlin Connolly (September 24, 2012), "Women's Suffrage Movement in Massachusetts", State Library of Massachusetts blog
- Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1888.
- "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1888" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
- Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905
- State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020
Further reading
- Geo. F. Andrews, ed. (1888). Official Gazette, Commonwealth of Massachusetts: 1888 State Government.
- "Massachusetts: Legislative Session". Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1888. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1889.
External links
- Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1888, hdl:2452/619077 – via State Library of Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1888, hdl:2452/83194
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