1888 Massachusetts legislature

109th
Massachusetts General Court
109th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 8, 1887
Senate
Members	40
President	Halsey J. Boardman
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	Charles J. Noyes
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 4, 1888 – May 29, 1888

Halsey J. Boardman, Senate president.

Charles Noyes, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1888.

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]

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
	Halsey J. Boardman	May 19, 1834
	Charles Nathaniel Clark	1853
	William Alfred Clark	1852
	John Aloysius Collins	1860
	Benjamin Franklin Cook	1833
	John Crawford Crosby	June 15, 1859
	Patrick Dennis Dwyer	1857
	Jonathan Varnum Fletcher	1812
	Charles Albert Gleason	1846
	Jubal Converse Gleason	1837
	Edward Glines	August 31, 1849
	Harris Cowdrey Hartwell	1847
	Edward Jacob Hathorne	1854
	Robert Howard	February 8, 1845
	Frank W. Howe	June 3, 1859
	Franklyn Howland	1843
	Edward John Jenkins	1854
	Isaac Newton Keith	November 14, 1838
	Ziba Cary Keith	July 13, 1842
	David Frank Kimball	1845
	Chester Ward Kingsley	1824
	George Perley Ladd	1838
	Edwin T. Marble	August 18, 1827
	William Taylor McAlpine	1840
	Austin Messinger	1817
	Moses Poore Palmer	1830
	Levi Perkins	March 13, 1831
	James Davis Pike	1829
	Samuel Roads, Jr.	October 22, 1853
	John Francis Shea	1858
	Edward J. Slattery	June 15, 1856
	John Killbourne Clough Sleeper	1828
	Robert Alexander Southworth	1852
	Charles C. Spellman	December 3, 1843
	Henry Harrison Sprague	August 1, 1841
	James Trimble Stevens	1835
	John Henry Sullivan	1848
	Charles Andrew Towne	1843
	Enos Houghton Tucker	1817
	David Walker	1841
	Silas Mandeville Wheelock	1818

Representatives[]

image	Name ^[6]	Date of birth ^[7]	District	Party
	Charles E. Adams	April 6, 1841
	John Jesse Allen	1844
	Montressor Tyler Allen	1844
	William Oscar Armstrong ^[8]	1847
	Horace Hale Atherton
	Harrison Henry Atwood	August 26, 1863
	Rollin Herbert Babbitt	1840
	John Backup	1830
	William Emerson Barrett	December 29, 1858
	Joseph Freeland Bartlett	1843
	Charles Henry Bennett	March 11, 1843
	Francis Taylor Berry	1849
	Charles Chauncey Bixby	1824
	Edwin Henry Blake	1838
	Andreas Blume	1837
	Francis Boardman	1826
	John Bennett Bottum
	Albert Augustus Brackett	1850
	Peter Joseph Brady	October 29, 1861
	Arthur Butler Breed	June 30, 1857
	Edward Winslow Brewer	1858
	Arthur Amber Brigham	October 6, 1856
	Asa Olin Brooks	1852
	John Freeman Brown	1848
	William Howe Burnham	1840
	William A. Butler	February 4, 1859
	Charles Amos Call	1839
	Patrick Joseph Calnan	1847
	Joseph Henry Cannell	1836
	William Henry Carey	1848
	William Alexander Carman	1854
	Michael Carney	1820
	George N. Carpenter	January 26, 1840
	Peter Thomas Carroll	1857
	Arthur Babcock Champlin	1858
	Joseph Pike Cheney	1843
	Moses Davis Church	1842
	David Harris Clark	1836
	Henry Clark	1841
	Schuyler Clark	1841
	Rowse Reynolds Clarke ^[9]	February 12, 1822
	George Close	1845
	John Freeman Colby	1834
	Harvey Newton Collison	1860
	Charles Wright Conant	1833
	James Conroy	1850
	David Conwell	1818
	George Hunting Coolidge	1841
	John William Coveney	April 10, 1845
	James Martin Cronin	1857
	Joshua Crowell	1841
	Samuel Cutler	1825
	Albert Levi Dame	1841
	Luther Dame	March 3, 1826
	Edmund Augustus Davis	1839
	John Watton Delano	1852
	George Dennis	1825
	Jeremiah Desmond	May 2, 1853
	Wilson Dewey	1815
	Solomon King Dexter	1839
	John Doherty	1844
	Bernard Dolan	1838
	Edward James Donovan	1864
	James Donovan	May 28, 1859
	Theodore Parker Dresser	1854
	John Driscoll	1853
	James Joseph Dunlea	1857
	Harry Millett Eames	July 9, 1855
	Albert Redolphus Eldredge	September 10, 1850
	Frank Aldrich Fales	October 13, 1848
	Thomas George Farren	1858
	William F. Ferry	July 4, 1854
	Elkanah Finney	October 31, 1849
	Albert Laban Fisher	1846
	Edward Perry Fisk	1852
	David Floyd	October 26, 1854
	Edward James Flynn	1859
	Thomas Joseph Flynn	1849
	Jacob Fottler	1839
	Henry Friend	1841
	Henry Frost	1832
	Edward Gagan	1849
	Michael Garity	1848
	George Washington Gibson	1851
	William Augustus Gile	1843
	Joseph Henry Gleason	1848
	Willard Franklin Gleason	December 24, 1846
	William Gordon	1825
	Charles Goss	1841
	Samuel Levis Gracey	1835
	Davis Packard Gray	1827
	Morrill Asa Greenwood	1839
	Freeman Clark Griswold	December 15, 1858
	Charles Francis Grosvenor	1850
	Daniel Gunn	1850
	David Joseph Hagerty	1857
	Charles Haggerty	December 6, 1854
	Frederick Stanley Hall	1861
	Benjamin Hall Hartwell	1845
	Henry Clark Haskell	1837
	William Harrison Hastings	1840
	Franklin Winslow Hatch	1836
	James Ambrose Hathaway	1837
	Elihu Burritt Hayes
	John Edward Hayes	1845
	Henry Dunton Haynes	1837
	Robert Henry	1833
	Luther Hill	1825
	William John Hinchcliffe	1855
	Calvin Hitchcock	1817
	William Southerland Hixon	1848
	John Adams Holbrook	1837
	Frank Edward Holman	1853
	George Mitchell Hooper	September 1, 1838
	George Harford Hunt	1843
	Alden Potter Jaques	March 4, 1835
	Jeremiah Joseph Keane	1855
	George Henry Kearn	1839
	Horace Manley Kendall	1848
	Patrick Joseph Kennedy	January 14, 1858
	Henry Albert Kimball	May 3, 1842
	John White Kimball	February 27, 1828
	Charles Henry Knox	1847
	James Lally	1862
	William Tuck Leach	1838
	Edward Joseph Leary	May 27, 1860
	John Q. A. Lothrop	October 14, 1824
	Clarence Parker Lovell	1848
	Payson Williston Lyman	1842
	Henry Stephen Lyons	November 21, 1865
	Albert Sylvester Manning	1846
	David Manning	August 29, 1846
	James Pope Martin	1827
	Samuel Walker McCall	February 28, 1851
	Patrick McCarthy	1849
	Thomas McCooey	1851
	Robert Henry McDonald	1854
	John H. McDonough	March 29, 1857
	Thomas Owen McEnaney	October 23, 1857
	Michael Joseph McEttrick	June 22, 1848
	James Henry Mellen	1845
	John Flint Merrill	January 16, 1849
	Albert E. Miller	1834
	Lyman Munson Miller	1836
	Daniel Lake Milliken	1837
	John Cruikshank Milne	1824
	William Henry Monahan	1857
	George Francis Morey	1826
	John Milton Morin	February 14, 1828
	Harrison Emmons Morton	1842
	Sidney Tucker Nelson	1845
	Thomas Lorenzo Noonan	1835
	Caleb Jerome Norwood	1838
	Charles Johnson Noyes	August 7, 1841
	Dennis Joseph O'Brien	1845
	John William O'Mealey	1861
	John William O'Neil	1859
	Thomas F. O'Neill	November 5, 1859
	Henry Parkman	May 23, 1850
	Isaac Smith Pear	1830
	Henry Mulford Peirson	1825
	Nathaniel R. Perkins	September 10, 1847
	George Robbins Perry	1836
	Charles Quincy Pierce	1841
	Alfred Stamm Pinkerton	March 19, 1856
	John Wallace Plaisted	1828
	William Hall Poore	1864
	Harvey Hunter Pratt	1860
	William Henry Preble	1856
	William Provin	February 14, 1842
	Francis Winnie Qua	1845
	Josiah Quincy	October 15, 1859
	Andrew Quinn	1853
	Dennis Joseph Quinn	1861
	Philip Henry Quinn	1859
	Francis Henry Raymond	February 19, 1836
	Samuel Miner Raymond	June 30, 1842
	John Read	May 19, 1840
	James Henry Richards	1839
	Henry Riddell	1848
	John C. Risteen	1841
	Ethan Chapin Robinson	1839
	Jonathan Henry Robinson	February 9, 1831
	Joseph Wheelden Rogers	1823
	Samuel Nomlas Rogers	1840
	William Blanding Rogerson	1846
	Arthur Gilbert Rounsevell	1851
	Charles Parks Rugg	1827
	Alvin Dudley Russell	1849
	Irving Levi Russell	1852
	Alpheus Sanford	July 5, 1856
	Chester Franklin Sanger	1858
	Charles Warren Seavey	1839
	Edward Payson Shaw	September 1, 1841
	Charles Fay Shepard	1827
	Samuel Dwight Simonds	1846
	George Wing Slocum	1818
	Winfield Scott Slocum	1848
	Sidney Pond Smith	1850
	William Davies Sohier	1858
	Benjamin Franklin Southwick	July 5, 1835
	Charles Edward Spring	1841
	Daniel Philmore Stimpson	1818
	Cyrus Story	1822
	Elijah Baron Stowe	1844
	Michael Francis Sullivan	September 22, 1858
	Thomas Francis Sullivan	1862
	Charles Henry Symonds	1857
	Robert Lovett Taft	1841
	Albert Hobbs Temple	1832
	Rufus Albert Thayer	1839
	Albert Cranston Thompson	1843
	Albert Gardner Thompson	1853
	Isaac Brownell Tompkins	August 17, 1826
	Joseph Leland Towne	1861
	George Washington Trull	1849
	Henry Abiel Turner	1827
	Ansel Peabody Tyler	1839
	Samuel Otis Upham	1824
	Edwin D. Vanderhoop	1848
	Horace G. Wadlin	October 2, 1851
	Abijah Tyler Wales	1833
	Arthur Clarence Walworth	1844
	Erskine Warden	1839
	Jacob Otis Wardwell	March 14, 1857
	Moses Everett Ware	1831
	Franklin Levi Waters	1820
	William Fisher Wharton	1847
	James Edgar Whitcher	1847
	William Leonard White	1843
	William Allan Wilde	1837
	Albert Llewellyn Wiley	1835
	John Williamson Wilkinson	1832
	Rufus Henry Willis	1838
	Reuben Winchester	1825
	John Winthrop	1841
	Charles Thomas Witt	July 18, 1848
	Frank Forrest Woods
	Charles Francis Woodward	November 19, 1852
	Arthur Wright	1837
	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
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1888.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "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

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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[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+.

[5] Kaitlin Connolly (September 24, 2012), "Women's Suffrage Movement in Massachusetts", State Library of Massachusetts blog

[Manual-6] Jump up to: ^a ^b Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1888.

[Register2-7] Jump up to: ^a ^b "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

[black2010-8] Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905

[Papers-9] State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020

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