1874 Massachusetts legislature
| 95th Massachusetts General Court | |||||
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| Overview | |||||
| Legislative body | General Court | ||||
| Election | November 4, 1873 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 40 | ||||
| President | George B. Loring | ||||
| Party control | Republican[1] | ||||
| House | |||||
| Members | 240 | ||||
| Speaker | John E. Sanford | ||||
| Party control | Republican[2] | ||||
| Sessions | |||||
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George Loring, Senate president.
John Eliot Sanford, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1874.
The 95th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1874 during the governorships of William B. Washburn and Thomas Talbot. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford served as speaker of the House.[4][5]
Senators[]
| Image | Name [6] | Date of birth [7] | District | Party |
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David Aiken | 1804 | Franklin | |
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Horace Clinton Bacon | 1824 | 3rd Essex | |
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Andrew Jackson Bailey | 1840 | 1st Middlesex | |
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Prentiss Chaffee Baird | 1832 | Berkshire and Hampshire | |
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Henry Lewis Bancroft | 1821 | 3rd Worcester | |
| Julius K. Banister | 4th Suffolk | |||
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Nathaniel P. Banks | January 30, 1816 | 2nd Middlesex | |
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Brooks Trull Batcheller | 1813 | 6th Middlesex | |
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Erastus P. Carpenter | November 23, 1822 | 3rd Norfolk | |
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Jedediah Dwelley | 1834 | Norfolk and Plymouth | |
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Francis Edson | 1823 | Hampshire | |
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Charles Fitz | 1806 | 5th Essex | |
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Charles Howe French | 1814 | 2nd Norfolk | |
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Henry Fuller | 1825 | 2nd Hampden | |
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Jeremiah Gatchell | 1834 | 2nd Worcester | |
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John A. Hawes | 1823 | 2nd Bristol | |
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Francis B. Hayes | 1819 | 2nd Suffolk | |
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Thomas Prentiss Hurlbut | 1820 | 5th Middlesex | |
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Thomas Ingalls | 1824 | 1st Essex | |
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Francis Wayland Jacobs | 1837 | 3rd Suffolk | |
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Nathaniel Lafayette Johnson | 1822 | 4th Worcester | |
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Jonathan A. Lane | 1822 | 5th Suffolk | |
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Edward Howard Lathrop | 1838 | 1st Hampden | |
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Edward Learned | 1820 | Berkshire | |
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George B. Loring | November 8, 1817 | 2nd Essex | |
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William Croade Lovering | February 25, 1835 | 1st Bristol | |
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Walter Neal Mason | 1824 | 4th Middlesex | |
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Moody Merrill | 1836 | 1st Norfolk | |
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Amasa Norcross | January 26, 1824 | 5th Worcester | |
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Francis Augustus Nye | 1823 | Island | |
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Ezra Parmenter | March 20, 1823 | 3rd Middlesex | |
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Edward Payson Reed | 1836 | 2nd Plymouth | |
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William Francis Salmon | 1831 | 7th Middlesex | |
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Charles Pickett Stickney | 1824 | 3rd Bristol | |
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Thomas Newcomb Stone | 1818 | Cape | |
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Hugh James Toland | 1844 | 6th Suffolk | |
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George F. Verry | July 14, 1826 | 1st Worcester | |
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Zenas Caldwell Wardwell | 1831 | 4th Essex | |
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Henry Stevenson Washburn | 1813 | 1st Suffolk | |
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Tisdale Sanford White | 1809 | 1st Plymouth |
Representatives[]
| image | Name [6] | Date of birth [7] | District | Party |
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William A. Abbott | 1834 | ||
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John Quincy Adams II | September 22, 1833 | ||
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William Augustus Adams | 1830 | ||
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Charles Alden | 1819 | ||
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Andrew Athy | 1832 | ||
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Joseph Edmond Bailey | 1839 | ||
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Emory Banister | 1809 | ||
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Patrick Barry | 1834 | ||
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George Bartholmesz | 1821 | ||
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William Garry Bassett | 1843 | ||
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John Henry Bell | 1829 | ||
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John Bigelow | 1841 | ||
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Samuel Partridge Billings | 1819 | ||
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Sanford Waters Billings | 1834 | ||
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Robert Roberts Bishop | March 13, 1834 | ||
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Stephen Francis Blaney | 1844 | ||
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Richard Delano Blinn | 1831 | ||
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John Cutter Blood | 1836 | ||
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William Edward Blunt | 1840 | ||
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Enos Watson Boise | 1840 | ||
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Dennis Bonner | 1821 | ||
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Frederick Lincoln Bosworth | 1836 | ||
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Samuel Hyde Boutwell | 1838 | ||
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Reuben Boynton | 1815 | ||
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Shubael Wilmarth Brayton | 1822 | ||
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Richard Britton | 1838 | ||
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William Blanchard Brown | 1821 | ||
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James Needham Buffum | 1807 | ||
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Stillman Butterworth | 1817 | ||
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Aaron Ozias Buxton | 1832 | ||
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James Hazen Carleton | 1818 | ||
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Alonzo Augustus Carr | 1836 | ||
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Cyrus William Chapman | 1813 | ||
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Damon Ebenezer Cheney | 1828 | ||
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Elijah Horne Chisholm | 1824 | ||
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Albe Cady Clark | 1826 | ||
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Francis Elliot Clark | 1830 | ||
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Alfred Alonzo Clatur | 1835 | ||
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Charles R. Codman | 1829 | ||
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Lansing James Cole | 1803 | ||
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Patrick Collins | 1830 | ||
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Austin Henry Connell | 1846 | ||
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Henry Joseph Couch | 1831 | ||
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Jeremiah William Coveney | 1840 | ||
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George Glover Crocker | 1843 | ||
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John Addison Cummings | 1838 | ||
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John Cummings | 1812 | ||
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Benjamin Connor Currier | 1822 | ||
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Francis Chester Curtis | 1836 | ||
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John Cushing | 1808 | ||
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Levi Lincoln Cushing | 1825 | ||
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Thomas Seabury Cushman | 1809 | ||
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Timothy John Dacey | 1849 | ||
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Curtis Davis | 1814 | ||
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Henry Charles Davis | 1843 | ||
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John Davol | 1822 | ||
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Isaac Walker Derby | 1835 | ||
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Edward Dickinson | 1803 | ||
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Jarvis Nelson Dunham | 1828 | ||
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Edward Eaton | 1818 | ||
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Joseph Merrill Eaton | 1834 | ||
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Lucian Farnham Eldridge | 1839 | ||
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Augustus Bradford Endicott | September 10, 1818 | ||
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James Edward Estabrook | |||
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George Otis Fairbanks | 1815 | ||
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John Brooks Fairbanks | 1822 | ||
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Caleb Clesson Field | 1810 | ||
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John Hancock Fisher | 1807 | ||
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Joseph Emery Fiske | 1839 | ||
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Eustace Carey Fitz | 1833 | ||
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John Edward Fitzgerald | 1844 | ||
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Thomas Francis Fitzgerald | 1848 | ||
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John Ware Fletcher | 1824 | ||
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William Frost | 1822 | ||
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Asabel Gates | 1827 | ||
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George Samuel Gates | 1817 | ||
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Thomas Gates | 1822 | ||
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Ziba Gay | 1823 | ||
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William Benedict Gibson | 1819 | ||
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Addison Gilbert | 1808 | ||
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John James Giles | 1810 | ||
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Samuel Slocum Ginnodo | 1816 | ||
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Samuel Staples Gleason | 1841 | ||
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Levi Lincoln Goodspeed | 1822 | ||
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Elbridge Henry Goss | 1830 | ||
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Andrew Jackson Gove | 1834 | ||
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Brownell Granger | 1835 | ||
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Francis Edward Gray | 1844 | ||
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Charles Hale | June 7, 1831 | ||
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Gayton Montgomery Hall | 1835 | ||
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Nahum Bathrick Hall | 1823 | ||
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Solomon Eldridge Hallett | 1833 | ||
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Abraham Wilkinson Harris | 1829 | ||
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Joshua Prentiss Haskell | 1835 | ||
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Horace Haskins | 1829 | ||
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John Ferguson Haskins | 1831 | ||
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Benjamin Franklin Hayes | |||
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Samuel Morse Haynes | 1833 | ||
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Benjamin Heath | 1821 | ||
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Allen Higginbottom | 1826 | ||
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James Edward Hill | 1838 | ||
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John Beckford Hill | 1824 | ||
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Joseph Warren Hill | 1837 | ||
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George Hodges | 1822 | ||
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Norton Eugene Hollis | 1840 | ||
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Theodore Myers House | 1840 | ||
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Benjamin Howard | 1819 | ||
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Andrew Howes | 1826 | ||
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David Porter Howes | 1815 | ||
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Francis M. Hughes | 1845 | ||
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Edward Gilbert Hull | 1834 | ||
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J. B. Hull | |||
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James Douglass Hurlburt | 1832 | ||
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Richardson Hutchinson | 1818 | ||
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Nathan Sumner Jenkins | 1820 | ||
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Edward Jonathan Johnson | 1832 | ||
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Jonathan Johnson | 1818 | ||
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Laburton Johnson | 1827 | ||
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Edward Jenkins Jones | 1822 | ||
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Erastus Jones | September 11, 1825 | ||
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George Washington Jones | 1822 | ||
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Thomas Milton Judd | 1840 | ||
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Jesse Edson Keith | 1824 | ||
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Elbridge Gerry Kelley | |||
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Charles Henry Killam | 1832 | ||
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Moses Kimball | October 24, 1809 | ||
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Ebenezer Kimball | 1818 | ||
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George Parkman Kingsley | 1840 | ||
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Lucius Woodman Knight | 1830 | ||
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William Shadrach Knox | September 10, 1843 | ||
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Samuel Orson Lamb | 1821 | ||
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Henry Douglas Lay | 1824 | ||
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Daniel James Lewis | 1810 | ||
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Willard Lewis | 1808 | ||
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Frederick Walker Lincoln | 1817 | ||
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Joseph Chase Little | |||
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Lewis Lombard | 1819 | ||
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Edward Payson Loring | 1837 | ||
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Samuel Loring | |||
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Charles Addison Loud | 1829 | ||
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Henry Bacon Lovering | April 8, 1841 | ||
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Aaron Low | August 11, 1833 | ||
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Horatio Atwood Lucas | 1827 | ||
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Julius Miner Lyon | 1828 | ||
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John Thomson Manny | |||
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Albert Mason | 1836 | ||
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Lyman Mason | 1815 | ||
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David Mayhew | 1834 | ||
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Horace Hawkes Mayhew | 1826 | ||
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Edward McCleave | |||
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Daniel McCowan | 1838 | ||
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John Johnson McNutt | 1822 | ||
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James Lincoln Merritt | 1816 | ||
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Albert Montague | 1822 | ||
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John Brooks Moore | 1817 | ||
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John Farwell Moors | |||
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Joseph Brown Morss | 1808 | ||
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Andrew Marathon Morton | 1839 | ||
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William Henry Murray | 1826 | ||
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Avery Williams Nelson | 1821 | ||
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Willard Stanley Newhall | 1831 | ||
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Reuben Noble | 1820 | ||
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Edward Ornan Noyes | 1840 | ||
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Porter Nutting | 1814 | ||
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Richard E. Olney | 1835 | ||
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Almond Mitchell Orcutt | 1824 | ||
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Lysander John Orcutt | 1826 | ||
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Charles Stuart Osgood | 1839 | ||
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Albert Palmer | January 17, 1831 | ||
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James Orlando Parker | November 22, 1827 | ||
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William Crowell Parker | 1850 | ||
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William Edward Perkins | 1838 | ||
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Henry Willis Phelps | 1830 | ||
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Smith Robinson Phillips | 1837 | ||
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Willard Peele Phillips | 1825 | ||
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Richard Pope | 1843 | ||
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Francis Edward Porter | 1824 | ||
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Charles Lyman Pratt | 1839 | ||
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Henry Loring Pratt | 1833 | ||
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Edward Benedict Rankin | 1846 | ||
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Lawrence Reade | 1835 | ||
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Daniel Franklin Reed | 1834 | ||
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John Wilder Rice | 1818 | ||
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Jeremiah A. Rich | 1823 | ||
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John Andrew Grant Richardson | 1840 | ||
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George D. Robinson | January 20, 1834 | ||
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Charles Robinson | 1829 | ||
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Joshua Crowell Robinson | 1834 | ||
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Philip Henry Robinson | 1823 | ||
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Joseph Warren Rogers | 1828 | ||
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William Rea Roundy | 1823 | ||
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Nathaniel Johnson Rust | 1833 | ||
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John Eliot Sanford | November 22, 1830 | ||
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George Jedediah Sanger | 1826 | ||
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Cyrus Savage | September 2, 1832 | ||
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John Savery | 1815 | ||
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Levi Heywood Sawin | 1816 | ||
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Isaac Fessenden Sawtelle | |||
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Nathaniel Seaver | 1807 | ||
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Edwin Henry Seymour | 1834 | ||
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Henry Perkins Shattuck | 1844 | ||
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Charles Luther Shaw | 1823 | ||
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George Atwood Shaw | 1816 | ||
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John Shaw | 1822 | ||
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Henry Shortle | 1834 | ||
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Warren Sibley | 1819 | ||
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William Lawton Slade | 1817 | ||
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John Killbourne Clough Sleeper | 1828 | ||
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George Dillingham Smalley | 1824 | ||
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Joshua Bowen Smith[8] | 1813 | ||
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Abraham Howland Smith | 1833 | ||
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Albert Smith | 1823 | ||
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Moses Smith | 1815 | ||
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Rufus Smith | 1816 | ||
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Sumner Southworth | 1804 | ||
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Franklin Harvey Sprague | 1825 | ||
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Richard Hall Stearns | December 25, 1824 | ||
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Ezra Stearns | 1812 | ||
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Isaac Stebbins | 1817 | ||
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John Henry Studley | 1828 | ||
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Daniel Joseph Sweeney | 1834 | ||
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George Washington Taft | 1823 | ||
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James Gamage Tarr | |||
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Daniel Holt Thurston | 1813 | ||
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Artemas Stanley Tyler | 1824 | ||
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Warren Tyler | 1819 | ||
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Leonard Washburn | 1813 | ||
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Timothy W. Wellington | 1811 | ||
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Michael Francis Wells | 1832 | ||
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Cyrus Martin Wheaton | 1794 | ||
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Simon Huntington White | 1832 | ||
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William Whiting | 1816 | ||
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Robert Rich Wiley | 1828 | ||
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James Burr Williams | 1839 | ||
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Moses Williams | 1846 | ||
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Henry Warren Wilson | 1834 | ||
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Samuel Winslow | 1827 | ||
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Henry Vose Woods | 1821 | ||
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George Cleveland Wright | 1823 | ||
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Henry Willis Wright | 1834 |
See also[]
- 43rd United States Congress
- List of Massachusetts General Courts
Images[]
Seating diagram for senators in the State House, 1874
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. 2005. p. 338+.
- ^ "Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts". Massachusetts Register, 1874 – via Archive.org.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1874.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1874" (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
Further reading[]
- "Massachusetts". American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1874. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1875. p. 518+.
External links[]
- Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1874, hdl:2452/619063 – via State Library of Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1874, hdl:2452/92956
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