1897 Massachusetts legislature

George Lawrence, Senate president.

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.^[4]

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.^[1][2]

Senators[]

image	name [5]	date of birth [6]	district
	James Alderson Bailey Jr.	March 25, 1867
	Harding R. Barber	December 20, 1839
	Albert F. Barker	October 24, 1859
	Lewis H. Bartlett	April 2, 1854
	William R. Black	August 23, 1830
	Edward S. Bradford	December 1, 1842
	William Hartwell Brigham	February 1, 1863
	William H. Cook	January 7, 1843
	Ellery B. Crane	November 12, 1836
	Frederick W. Dallinger	October 2, 1871
	William W. Davis	August 8, 1862
	James H. Derbyshire	June 11, 1855
	Noble W. Everett	February 20, 1827
	Joseph Byron Farley	October 10, 1847
	James H. Flint	June 25, 1852
	Charles E. Folsom	February 24, 1855
	James A. Gallivan	October 22, 1866
	John Dennis Hammond Gauss	January 4, 1861
	Clarke Partridge Harding	June 20, 1853
	Albert L. Harwood	September 10, 1847
	James E. Hayes	August 10, 1865
	Joshua B. Holden	March 5, 1850
	Richard William Irwin	February 18, 1857
	Dwight H. Ives	January 28, 1837
	Erastus Jones	September 11, 1825
	George P. Lawrence	May 19, 1859
	Martin Lomasney	December 3, 1859
	William Moran	September 6, 1855
	William A. Morse	July 27, 1863
	Henry Parsons	February 2, 1842
	John Jacob Prevaux	March 16, 1857
	George E. Putnam	February 9, 1851
	John Quinn, Jr.	December 16, 1859
	Ernest W. Roberts	November 22, 1858
	Alfred Seelye Roe	June 8, 1844
	George Edwin Smith	April 5, 1849
	Rufus Albertson Soule	1839
	William W. Towle	August 21, 1860
	John Loring Woodfall	September 15, 1847
	Charles F. Woodward	November 19, 1852

Representatives[]

image	name [5]	date of birth [6]	district
	Albert E. Addis	May 4, 1864
	Benjamin C. Ames	December 20, 1859
	Richard F. Andrews, Jr	April 13, 1863
	Julius C. Anthony	September 24, 1856
	Edward R. Ashley	May 15, 1824
	Henry C. Attwill	March 11, 1872
	Gustavus Atwood	November 18, 1843
	Thomas C. Bachelder	November 6, 1860
	Charles O. Bailey	January 24, 1863
	Horace P. Bailey	March 3, 1840
	John E. Baldwin	June 26, 1869
	Frank W. Barnard	January 3, 1853
	Franklin O. Barnes	November 11, 1841
	George H. Bartlett	September 6, 1857
	Jonathan B. L. Bartlett	October 11, 1849
	John L. Bates	September 18, 1859
	Charles O. Beede	December 29, 1840
	Henry A. Belcher	August 6, 1845
	Scott F. Bickford	November 14, 1864
	Osgood C. Blaney	January 20, 1860
	John Bleiler	May 9, 1837
	Henry H. Bosworth	March 16, 1868
	Harvey L. Boutwell	April 5, 1860
	Walter L. Bouve	October 28, 1849
	Henry J. Boyd	May 9, 1831
	Cary C. Bradford	February 8, 1855
	Manassah Edward Bradley	August 15, 1863
	Charles Donnell Brown	June 5, 1862
	Charles E. Brown	November 18, 1850
	George A. Brown	November 24, 1854
	Joseph G. Brown	January 19, 1825
	Aaron R. Bunting	August 26, 1833
	Clement F. Burr	January 22, 1849
	Ernest W. Calkins	December 25, 1855
	Edward B. Callender	February 23, 1851
	Andrew Campbell	May 3, 1826
	Leonard B. Chandler	August 29, 1851
	William D. Chapple	August 6, 1868
	George F. Chase	December 11, 1851
	James B. Clancy	May 26, 1868
	Albert B. Clark	June 5, 1854
	Albert Clarke	October 13, 1840
	Samuel Cole	December 15, 1856
	James W. Coleman	March 17, 1855
	Walter S. V. Cooke	August 12, 1851
	George W. Coombs	November 4, 1837
	Edward A. Cowee	July 23, 1857
	Fred E. Crawford	July 7, 1857
	Charles C. Crocker	August 21, 1831
	Thomas W. Crocker	December 27, 1832
	Alfred R. Crosby	August 30, 1838
	Richard Cullinane	February 2, 1859
	Nelson P. Cummings	April 27, 1847
	Daniel J. Curley	April 2, 1841
	William Curtis	August 8, 1857
	Daniel W. Davis	October 3, 1846
	William Ripley Davis	March 8, 1862
	Cornelius R. Day	December 29, 1847
	Charles Leroy Dean	May 29, 1844
	Thomas M. Denham	February 2, 1840
	Robert F. Denvir	September 8, 1840
	John B. Dewing	January 28, 1835
	David T. Dickinson	August 13, 1867
	Richard Dobbins	June 2, 1845
	Thomas Donahue	August 20, 1853
	Jeremiah F. Donovan	May 10, 1856
	Thomas J. Dooling	January 28, 1868
	James M. Douglass	February 24, 1839
	Daniel M. Driscoll	January 2, 1861
	Hugo A. Dubuque	November 3, 1854
	A. Glendon Dyar	August 4, 1860
	Freeman O. Emerson	January 12, 1859
	A. Edwin Enberg	September 9, 1866
	Eugene B. Estes	December 7, 1850
	Frank W. Estey	December 16, 1866
	George S. Evans	September 12, 1841
	E. Walter Everett	April 11, 1864
	Wilson H. Fairbank	April 3, 1836
	John J. Falvey	May 26, 1864
	Francis F. Farrar	January 10, 1833
	John J. Feneno	March 24, 1866
	George E. Fisher	January 22, 1823
	E. Knowlton Fogg	October 24, 1837
	Albert T. Folsom	November 9, 1831
	Otis Foss	October 4, 1838
	Frank W. Francis	September 16, 1857
	George G. Frederick	January 14, 1867
	George F. Fuller	March 8, 1842
	Charles W. Gale	October 3, 1846
	Jefferson C. Gallison	August 8, 1841
	John J. Gardner	February 23, 1853
	Samuel Wesley George	April 26, 1862
	Emery B. Gibbs	October 23, 1862
	Moses D. Gilman	May 23, 1846
	Otis M. Gove	May 3, 1851
	Oliver S. Grant	April 30, 1866
	James Wilson Grimes	November 21, 1865
	Almon E. Hall	December 6, 1846
	Amos E. Hall	July 6, 1838
	Luther Hall	November 5, 1842
	Frederick Hammond	February 27, 1847
	Frederic Hanson	May 2, 1835
	Edward H. Harding	April 17, 1854
	Joseph M. Harrington	July 26, 1828
	Frederic W. Hathaway	March 6, 1836
	William Henry Irving Hayes	June 21, 1848
	Albert F. Hayward	January 24, 1840
	Charles E. Hoag	September 18, 1849
	Charles E. Hosmer	May 25, 1837
	Walter F. Howard	September 20, 1855
	Rufus Howe	September 28, 1837
	Edward H. Hoyt	July 11, 1849
	Franklin E. Huntress	April 19, 1866
	Charles Hiller Innes	August 6, 1870
	John W. Johnson	June 14, 1856
	George R. Jones	February 8, 1862
	Melville D. Jones	September 25, 1842
	William A. Josselyn	February 8, 1856
	James Keenan	March 4, 1850
	Thomas F. Keenan	March 11, 1854
	John A. Keliher	November 6, 1866
	John L. Kelly	March 29, 1869
	George H. Kelton	September 20, 1861
	Thomas W. Kenefick	September 17, 1855
	Patrick J. Kennedy	March 20, 1862
	David T. King	January 19, 1864
	William A. Lang	May 26, 1836
	James Lawrence	March 23, 1853
	James H. Leary	November 28, 1868
	Ottho William Lewis	July 17, 1853
	Charles F. Light	August 1, 1860
	Warren J. Livermore	January 5, 1835
	Alexander Lockhart	December 22, 1854
	Francis Cabot Lowell	January 7, 1855
	Albert W. Lyon	March 1, 1869
	John E. Magenis	May 5, 1873
	Jeremiah E. Mahoney	November 8, 1864
	Forrest C. Manchester	September 11, 1859
	William H. Marden	May 30, 1843
	Lyman Mason	April 4, 1838
	Arthur A. Maxwell	January 24, 1858
	Will W. Mayhew	January 15, 1857
	Benjamin W. Mayo	April 17, 1836
	Jeremiah Justin McCarthy	March 29, 1852
	George M. McClain	March 9, 1842
	John E. McClellan	September 5, 1847
	James S. McKenna	January 11, 1864
	Levi G. McKnight	April 30, 1843
	John A. McManus	March 9, 1860
	George F. Mead	May 22, 1854
	George W. Mellen	May 11, 1837
	William H. Mellen	November 9, 1842
	John M. Merriam	September 20, 1862
	Charles E. Mills	December 28, 1847
	Charles P. Mills	August 22, 1853
	Eugene Michael Moriarty	April 15, 1849
	William L. Morse	May 1, 1849
	James J. Myers	November 20, 1842
	Joseph O. Neill	January 31, 1838
	Edward B. Nevin	November 10, 1858
	Thaddeus H. Newcomb	March 15, 1826
	George H. Norton	May 28, 1863
	B. Alden Nourse	July 19, 1836
	Frank J. O'Toole	October 13, 1867
	William Odlin	April 5, 1865
	John B. Packard	February 22, 1837
	Herbert C. Parsons	January 15, 1862
	Joseph E. Pattee	April 24, 1843
	Francis C. Perry	June 27, 1853
	Frank H. Pervere	March 24, 1831
	Lemuel W. Peters	July 29, 1860
	Franklin F. Phillips	December 21, 1852
	Edward L. Pickard	December 25, 1834
	Edward L. Pierce	March 29, 1829
	Oliver K. Pierce	January 27, 1835
	John H. Ponce	November 1, 1857
	Burrill Porter	February 22, 1832
	William H. Porter	May 8, 1856
	Thomas Post	August 16, 1834
	John A. Powers	September 15, 1853
	David G. Pratt	November 7, 1848
	Nicolas M. Quint	July 18, 1838
	Charles I. Quirk	August 15, 1871
	James P. Ramsay	April 30, 1861
	Silas Dean Reed	June 25, 1872
	William Louis Reed[7]	April 5, 1866
	Michael J. Reidy	August 8, 1870
	George M. Rice	October 20, 1843
	Clinton Q. Richmond	December 17, 1859
	Atherton W. Rogers	August 10, 1848
	Samuel Ross	February 2, 1865
	Daniel D. Rourke	July 16, 1869
	Edward T. Rowell	1836
	Michael L. Russell	December 15, 1860
	Howard K. Sanderson	July 10, 1865
	Frank P. Sargent	November 4, 1854
	Tristram T. Savory	September 19, 1834
	William H. Severance	January 12, 1857
	Charles S. Shattuck	June 5, 1840
	David B. Shaw	August 20, 1870
	John F. Sheehan	September 2, 1861
	P. Howard Shirley	August 15, 1857
	William E. Skillings	October 23, 1843
	George B. Smart	February 25, 1835
	Harvey C. Smith	November 20, 1847
	Henry R. Smith	October 7, 1842
	Mark E. Smith	June 22, 1871
	Cyrus Spaulding	April 17, 1835
	Hugh L. Stalker	December 31, 1857
	Fred D. Stanley	October 17, 1863
	Edward A. Stevens	December 9, 1841
	John M. Stevenson	August 31, 1846
	Joseph I. Stewart	April 25, 1847
	Joseph W. Stocker	April 6, 1824
	Willmore B. Stone	June 24, 1853
	Cornelius F. Sullivan	June 15, 1865
	Simon S. Sullivan	August 5, 1868
	Peter Francis Tague	June 4, 1871
	James Thompson	May 18, 1848
	Henry Thrasher	May 29, 1837
	Charles W. Tilton	April 6, 1836
	John J. Toomey	September 18, 1868
	Charles E. Trow	April 18, 1833
	J. Gilman Waite	March 20, 1837
	Charles G. Washburn	January 28, 1857
	Eben C. Waterman	March 1, 1840
	Otis V. Waterman	August 13, 1834
	William W. Waterman	December 4, 1831
	Jackson Webster	March 14, 1849
	George W. Whidden	June 15, 1858
	Horace C. White	January 26, 1836
	Zadoc L. White	December 29, 1854
	James Whitehead	December 20, 1857
	William A. Whittlesey	February 21, 1849
	Francis O. Winslow	March 20, 1844
	Alva S. Wood	May 12, 1828
	John A. Woodbury	August 22, 1836
	Daniel S. Woodman	April 12, 1842
	Joseph W. Woodman	January 25, 1847
	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. Stoughton, Massachusetts: A. M. Bridgman. 1897.
• "Massachusetts: Legislative Session". Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1897. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1898 – via HathiTrust.

External links[]

• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1897, hdl:2452/429114 – via State Library of Massachusetts
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1897, hdl:2452/83203
• Massachusetts General Court Photographs ca. 1896-1900: Guide to the Photograph Collection, Massachusetts Historical Society

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