1880 Massachusetts legislature

101st
Massachusetts General Court
101st; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 4, 1879
Senate
Members	40
President	Robert R. Bishop
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	Charles J. Noyes
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 7, 1880 – April 24, 1880

Robert Bishop, Senate president.

Charles Noyes, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1880.

The 101st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1880 during the governorship of John Davis Long. Robert R. Bishop served as president of the Senate and Charles J. Noyes served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators[]

Image	Name ^[5]	Date of birth ^[6]	District	Party
	William Abbott	1834
	Samuel N. Aldrich	February 3, 1839
	Oliver Ames	February 4, 1831
	Stephen Francis Blaney	1844
	Charles J. Brooks	July 6, 1844
	Elisha S. Converse	July 28, 1820
	Charles T. Crocker	March 2, 1833
	George Glover Crocker	December 15, 1843
	Warren Currier	July 20, 1830
	James William Dwyer	1845
	Anson D. Fessenden	February 18, 1839
	Ebenezer T. Fogg	October 30, 1826
	Jonas Harrod French	November 4, 1829
	Henry William Fuller	June 30, 1839
	Emerson Gaylord	September 2, 1817
	Harmon Hall	July 18, 1818
	Alpheus Harding	January 12, 1818
	Eben Hutchinson	1841
	Marcus Perrin Knowlton	February 3, 1839
	Charles S. Lilley	December 13, 1851
	Asa Porter Morse	1818
	Stephen Osgood	November 16, 1826
	John Lord Otis	1827
	James Paine Ray	1820
	Henry C. Rice	August 22, 1827
	George B. Richmond	November 9, 1821
	Joseph Hubbard Root	1823
	Daniel Russell	July 16, 1824
	Elizur Smith	January 5, 1812
	Samuel Snow	1828
	James W. Stockwell	December 6, 1837
	Andrew C. Stone	May 16, 1839
	William Taylor	1831
	Nathaniel Wales	November 25, 1819
	Alonzo Warren	1827
	Thomas Webb	October 24, 1819
	Starkes Whiton	April 11, 1829
	Calvin M. Winch	November 26, 1832

Representatives[]

image	Name ^[5]	Date of birth ^[6]	District	Party
	John Ware Adams	1836
	Charles Hastings Allen	1828
	John Forrester Andrew	1850
	Newell Sylvanus Atwood	1834
	George Norval Bacon	1835
	George Warren Bail	1832
	Stephen Powers Bailey	1818
	John Israel Baker	1812
	Samuel Dwight Bardwell	1819
	Samuel Augustus Bartholomew	1824
	Philander Bates	1842
	Ebenezer Beckford	1833
	Lucius Beebe	1810
	James William Bennett	1833
	George Albert Berry	1837
	John Frank Berry	1840
	Abraham Orlando Bigelow	1812
	Francis Bigelow	1840
	John Winthrop Bigelow	1832
	Lewis Bigelow	1808
	William Blanchard	1821
	George Henry Bond	1840
	Samuel Wells Bowerman	1830
	Benjamin Franklin Boyden	1846
	John Quincy Adams Brackett	June 8, 1842
	Martin Luther Bradford	1821
	Henry Harding Brigham	1814
	George Bruce Brown	1830
	William Austin Brown	1820
	William Blanchard Brown	1821
	William Wilson Brown	1848
	James McKellar Bugbee	1837
	Sidney Augustus Bull	1847
	John Coburn Burley	1837
	George Lathe Burt	1829
	Joseph Burt	1821
	John Haskell Butler	1841
	Dexter Butterfield	March 15, 1842
	Hobart M. Cable
	Peter Cannon	1825
	Nathan Dexter Canterbury	1837
	William Henry Carberry	February 22, 1851
	James Albert Carruth	1839
	Lewis L. Carter	1822
	Joseph Henry Churchill	1820
	Frank Allen Clapp	1849
	John Milton Cochran	1849
	Amos Coffin
	Lewis Coleman	1817
	Elias Pike Collins	1829
	Louis Atwood Cook	1847
	John Cornell	1830
	Isaac Newton Crosby	1824
	Jeremiah John Crowley	1850
	Eli Culley	1840
	Edwin James Cushing	1842
	Henry Putney Danforth	1845
	Keyes Danforth	1822
	James Franklin Davenport	1832
	Person Davis	1819
	Joshua Dean	1830
	John Henry Dee	May 13, 1842
	John Delaney	1815
	John Francis Dever	1858
	Clinton Henry Dodge	1835
	James Joseph Doherty	1848
	Daniel Francis Dolan	1847
	Elbridge Curtis Donnell	1839
	James Thompson Drew	1813
	George Wells Eddy	1837
	George Dyer Eldridge	1848
	James Madison Evans	1837
	Walter Hamlet Faunce	1832
	Charles Henry Ferson	1819
	George Batchelder Fiske	1834
	Stephen Flanders	1835
	George Louis Flint	1852
	William Abraham Foss	1838
	Jesse Harding Freeman	1826
	Edwin Gage	1830
	William Howard Gale	1831
	John Henry Galligan	1851
	Francis Gardner	1828
	Charles Frederick Gerry	1823
	James Ellis Gifford	1832
	Rufus Babcock Gifford	1827
	George Dodge Glover	1823
	Robert Goulding	1825
	Bryan Harding	1842
	Calvin Lyon Hartshorn	1832
	Thomas Jones Hastings	January 24, 1835
	Thomas Bly Hathaway	December 5, 1825
	Edward Daniel Hayden	1833
	Thomas Wentworth Higginson	December 22, 1823
	Hamilton Andrews Hill	1827
	Henry Hobbs	1827
	Joseph Field Holbrook	1841
	Horace Marshall Holmes	1830
	Edwin Jackson Horton	1837
	Nathaniel Augustus Horton	1830
	Russell Spaulding Horton	1825
	Charles Henry Howland	1826
	Andrew Jackson Huntress	1826
	Daniel Bowman Ingalls	1829
	William Hutchins Ingraham	1817
	Martin Van Buren Jefferson	1833
	James Leonard Jenney	1833
	George William Johnson	1827
	Joseph Prosper Johnson	1813
	Edward Dorr Griffin Jones	1824
	Thomas Brooks Jones	1839
	Benjamin Adams Jourdan	July 20, 1832
	John Joyce	1837
	Albert Keith	1823
	Simon Kelley	1846
	Lorrin Porter Keyes	1838
	James Langford	1847
	Daniel Warren Lawrence	1830
	James Madison Lawton	1813
	Marcus Leonard	1846
	Arthur Lincoln	1842
	Clark Lincoln	1821
	George Brigham Livermore	1836
	Henry Cabot Lodge	1850
	Dwight B. Look	1820
	Daniel Bolles Lord	1821
	Marcus Morton Loud	1839
	Pardon Macomber	February 9, 1833
	James Pollock Magee
	Patrick Francis Mahoney	1847
	James Thomas Mahony	1843
	Thomas Main	1807
	George Sampson Marshall	1833
	Hugh Maxwell	1836
	James William McDonald	May 15, 1857
	Patrick Francis McGaragle	1845
	James Aloysius McGeough	1853
	Patrick Michael McGlynn	1853
	John McSorley	1832
	Andrew Nelson Medbery	1827
	Christopher Columbus Merritt	September 29, 1830
	Edwin Dickinson Metcalf	March 14, 1848
	Eben Colbraith Milliken	1843
	Alfred Cushing Monroe	1841
	Eugene Michael Moriarty	April 15, 1849
	Daniel Tilton Morrison	1820
	Robert McNeil Morse	1837
	John Dennis Mulchinock	1855
	Jeremiah Henry Mullane	August 15, 1852
	Norman Carmi Munson	1820
	Joseph Allston Newhall	1847
	Leander Warren Newton	1838
	Joseph John Nichols	1850
	Erastus Nickerson	1821
	Charles Johnson Noyes	August 7, 1841
	Increase Eldredge Noyes	1834
	James H. Nugent	1831
	John O'Donnell	1853
	Joseph Henry O'Neil	March 23, 1853
	Henry Paddack	April 2, 1838
	George Winter Park	1834
	Charles Oscar Parmenter	1833
	John Wesley Peabody	1837
	Edward Pease	1838
	Walter Barber Peck	1838
	William Gaylord Peck	1841
	Henry Moses Phillips	1845
	John James Pickman	January 9, 1850
	Francis Plunkett	1840
	Edward Payson Poor	1829
	Edwin Bartlett Pratt	1832
	Lyman Knight Putney	1833
	James Lawrence Quigley	1848
	John Dennis Reed	1827
	George Willard Rice	1836
	Joseph Marcus Rice	1827
	Stephen Rich	1834
	Richard Roach	1833
	Charles Robinson	1829
	Horace Tyler Rockwell	1838
	Thomas Pitkin Root	1824
	Isaac Rosnosky	November 6, 1846
	George Thomas Sampson	1819
	William Sanders	1843
	William Henry Sargent	1836
	Augustus Elwin Scott	1838
	Charles Edwin Seagrave	1825
	Dwight Loomis Shaw	1822
	James Shead	1818
	Seth Carroll Shepard	1815
	John Henry Sherburne	1845
	Jonathan Edward Shipman	1832
	Henry Almy Slocum	1825
	William Smeath	1834
	Charles Whipple Smith	1846
	Hinsdale Smith	1819
	Zenas Elmer Smith	1821
	Arthur John Clark Sowdon	1835
	James Harvey Sparrow	1825
	Robert Lyman Spear	1839
	George Morrison Starbird	1833
	Eben Francis Stone	August 3, 1822
	Augustus Whittemore Stover	1834
	Charles Francis Swift	1825
	Joseph Russell Taber	1821
	Robert Tarr	1832
	Levi Taylor	1824
	Michael John Teahan	1840
	John Randolph Thayer	1845
	Samuel Proctor Thayer	1853
	Silas Foster Thayer	1822
	Edward Isaiah Thomas	1833
	William Tinker	1823
	William Ripley Tompkins	1826
	William Eaton Topliff	1826
	William Henry Tozer	1835
	Edward Trask	1843
	Arthur Webster Tufts	1828
	Joseph Augustine Tufts	1835
	Samuel Burns Valpey	1829
	Merritt Van Deusen	1820
	Leavitt R.J. Varnum	1847
	Chester Kingsley Waite	1825
	Jonathan Wales	1849
	Joseph Henry Walker	1829
	William James Wallace	1833
	Horace Everett Ware	1845
	John Flavel Warner
	Lewis Henry Warner	1845
	Nathan Warren	1838
	William Cullen Warren	1822
	Alonzo Carter Webber	1827
	Edwin R. Webster	1831
	John Gerrish Webster	1811
	Henry Jackson Wells	1823
	Charles Augustus Wentworth	1830
	Howard Alphonso Wheeler	1848
	Joseph Dudley Wilde	1829
	Hiram Williams	1824
	Henry Franklin Wing	1825

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+.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1880. hdl:2452/40658.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1880" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

External links[]

Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1880, hdl:2452/619069 – via State Library of Massachusetts
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1880, hdl:2452/89616

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[CompSenate-1] "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

[CompHouse-2] "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

[3] "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.

[4] "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.

[Manual-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1880. hdl:2452/40658.

[Register2-6] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1880" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

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