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109th
Massachusetts General Court
←108th 110th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 8, 1887
Senate
Members40
PresidentHalsey J. Boardman
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerCharles J. Noyes
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 4, 1888 (1888-01-04) – May 29, 1888 (1888-05-29) [3]
Halsey J. Boardman
Halsey J. Boardman, Senate president.
Charles J. Noyes
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

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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

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image Name[6] Date of birth[7] District[8] Party[8]
Charles E. Adams April 6, 1841 24th Middlesex Republican
John Jesse Allen 1844 8th Worcester Republican
Montressor Tyler Allen 1844 14th Middlesex Republican
William Oscar Armstrong[9] 1847 9th Suffolk Republican
Horace H. Atherton 1847 20th Essex Republican
Harrison Henry Atwood August 26, 1863 8th Suffolk Republican
Rollin Herbert Babbitt 1840 3rd Bristol Republican
John Backup 1830 21st Suffolk Ind. Republican
William Emerson Barrett December 29, 1858 11th Middlesex Republican
Joseph Freeland Bartlett 1843 3rd Franklin Republican
Charles Henry Bennett March 11, 1843 8th Hampden Democratic
Francis Taylor Berry 1849 13th Essex Republican
Charles Chauncey Bixby 1824 12th Plymouth Republican
Edwin Henry Blake 1838 19th Middlesex Republican
Andreas Blume 1837 11th Suffolk Republican
Francis Boardman 1826 16th Essex Democratic
John Bennett Bottum July 7, 1852 1st Hampshire Republican
Albert Augustus Brackett 1850 4th Norfolk Republican
Peter Joseph Brady October 29, 1861 23rd Middlesex Democratic
Arthur Butler Breed June 30, 1857 19th Essex Republican
Edward Winslow Brewer 1858 23rd Suffolk Republican
Arthur Amber Brigham October 6, 1856 29th Middlesex Independent
Asa Olin Brooks 1852 7th Hampden
John Freeman Brown 1848 24th Suffolk Republican
William Howe Burnham 1840 10th Essex Republican
William A. Butler February 4, 1859 7th Essex Republican
Charles Amos Call 1839 8th Hampden Republican
Patrick Joseph Calnan 1847 5th Suffolk Democratic
Joseph Henry Cannell 1836 10th Middlesex Republican
William Henry Carey 1848 4th Berkshire Democratic
William Alexander Carman 1854 8th Bristol Democratic
Michael Carney 1820 4th Essex Democratic
George N. Carpenter January 26, 1840 2nd Norfolk Republican
Peter Thomas Carroll 1857 18th Worcester Ind. Democrat
Arthur Babcock Champlin 1858 26th Suffolk Republican
Joseph Pike Cheney 1843 16th Worcester Republican
Moses Davis Church 1842 4th Middlesex Republican
David Harris Clark 1836 26th Middlesex Republican
Henry Clark 1841 9th Hampden Republican
Schuyler Clark 1841 2nd Hampshire Republican
Rowse Reynolds Clarke[10] February 12, 1822 10th Worcester Republican
George Close 1845 2nd Middlesex Republican
John Freeman Colby 1834 18th Suffolk Republican
Harvey Newton Collison 1860 6th Suffolk Democratic
Charles Wright Conant 1833 2nd Worcester Republican
James Conroy 1850 8th Bristol Democratic
David Conwell 1818 3rd Barnstable Republican
George Hunting Coolidge 1841 5th Worcester Republican
John William Coveney April 10, 1845 3rd Middlesex Democratic
James Martin Cronin 1857 20th Worcester Democratic
Joshua Crowell 1841 1st Barnstable Republican
Samuel Cutler 1825 5th Middlesex Republican
Albert Levi Dame 1841 3rd Essex Democratic
Luther Dame March 3, 1826 8th Essex Republican
Edmund Augustus Davis 1839 10th Bristol Republican
John Watton Delano 1852 7th Plymouth Democratic
George Dennis 1825 10th Essex Republican
Jeremiah Desmond May 2, 1853 16th Suffolk Democratic
Wilson Dewey 1815 3rd Hampshire Republican
Solomon King Dexter 1839 24th Middlesex Republican
John Doherty 1844 7th Suffolk Democratic
Bernard Dolan 1838 7th Norfolk Democratic
Edward James Donovan 1864 8th Suffolk Democratic
James Donovan May 28, 1859 16th Suffolk Democratic
Theodore Parker Dresser 1854 8th Middlesex Republican
John Driscoll 1853 20th Essex Democratic
James Joseph Dunlea 1857 22nd Suffolk Democratic
Harry Millett Eames July 9, 1855 5th Essex Republican
Albert Redolphus Eldredge September 10, 1850 1st Barnstable Republican
Frank Aldrich Fales October 13, 1848 1st Norfolk Republican
Thomas George Farren 1858 7th Suffolk Democratic
William F. Ferry July 4, 1854 6th Hampden Republican
Elkanah Finney October 31, 1849 1st Plymouth Democratic
Albert Laban Fisher 1846
Edward Perry Fisk 1852 10th Suffolk Republican
David Floyd October 26, 1854 27th Suffolk Republican
Edward James Flynn 1859 6th Suffolk Democratic
Thomas Joseph Flynn 1849 21st Middlesex Democratic
Jacob Fottler 1839 10th Suffolk Republican
Henry Friend 1841 11th Essex Republican
Henry Frost 1832 18th Suffolk Republican
Edward Gagan 1849 5th Suffolk Democratic
Michael Garity 1848 15th Suffolk Democratic
George Washington Gibson 1851 5th Hampden Democratic
William Augustus Gile 1843 23rd Worcester Republican
Joseph Henry Gleason 1848 4th Suffolk Republican
Willard Franklin Gleason December 24, 1846 6th Norfolk Republican
William Gordon 1825 6th Bristol Republican
Charles Goss 1841 1st Essex Republican
Samuel Levis Gracey 1835 14th Essex Republican
Davis Packard Gray 1827
Morrill Asa Greenwood 1839 14th Worcester Republican
Freeman Clark Griswold December 15, 1858 1st Franklin Democratic
Charles Francis Grosvenor 1850 10th Hampden Republican
Daniel Gunn 1850 23rd Suffolk Republican
David Joseph Hagerty 1857 14th Suffolk Democratic
Charles Haggerty December 6, 1854 7th Worcester Democratic
Frederick Stanley Hall 1861 3rd Bristol Republican
Benjamin Hall Hartwell 1845 32nd Middlesex Republican
Henry Clark Haskell 1837 4th Franklin Ind. Democrat
William Harrison Hastings 1840 28th Middlesex Democratic
Franklin Winslow Hatch 1836 2nd Plymouth Republican
James Ambrose Hathaway 1837 25th Suffolk Republican
Elihu Burritt Hayes 1848 18th Essex Republican
John Edward Hayes 1845 3rd Suffolk Democratic
Henry Dunton Haynes 1837 5th Worcester Republican
Robert Henry 1833 9th Bristol Republican
Luther Hill 1825 6th Worcester Republican
William John Hinchcliffe 1855 5th Essex Republican
Calvin Hitchcock 1817 5th Hampshire Republican
William Southerland Hixon 1848 26th Suffolk Republican
John Adams Holbrook 1837 5th Norfolk Democratic
Frank Edward Holman 1853 13th Worcester Republican
George Mitchell Hooper September 1, 1838 9th Plymouth Republican
George Harford Hunt 1843 5th Plymouth Republican
Alden Potter Jaques March 4, 1835 2nd Essex Republican
Jeremiah Joseph Keane 1855 4th Hampden Democratic
George Henry Kearn 1839 1st Berkshire Democratic
Horace Manley Kendall 1848 15th Worcester Republican
Patrick Joseph Kennedy January 14, 1858 2nd Suffolk Democratic
Henry Albert Kimball May 3, 1842 1st Hampshire Democratic
John White Kimball February 27, 1828 15th Worcester Republican
Charles Henry Knox 1847 1st Hampden Democratic
James Lally Jr. 1862 11th Worcester Democratic
William Tuck Leach 1838 24th Suffolk Republican
Edward Joseph Leary May 27, 1860 13th Suffolk Democratic
John Q. A. Lothrop October 14, 1824 4th Plymouth Republican
Clarence Parker Lovell 1848 1st Suffolk Republican
Payson Williston Lyman 1842 4th Hampshire Republican
Henry Stephen Lyons November 21, 1865 1st Berkshire Democratic
Albert Sylvester Manning 1846 6th Essex Republican
David Manning August 29, 1846 22nd Worcester Republican
James Pope Martin 1827 18th Essex Republican
Samuel Walker McCall February 28, 1851 15th Middlesex Republican
Patrick McCarthy 1849 10th Plymouth Democratic
Thomas McCooey 1851 11th Worcester Democratic
Robert Henry McDonald 1854 6th Berkshire Democratic
John H. McDonough March 29, 1857 20th Suffolk
Thomas Owen McEnaney October 23, 1857 2nd Suffolk Democratic
Michael Joseph McEttrick June 22, 1848 20th Suffolk Democratic
James Henry Mellen 1845 19th Worcester Democratic
John Flint Merrill January 16, 1849 5th Norfolk Republican
Albert E. Miller 1834 9th Norfolk Republican
Lyman Munson Miller 1836 27th Suffolk Republican
Daniel Lake Milliken 1837 9th Middlesex Republican
John Cruikshank Milne 1824 9th Bristol Republican
William Henry Monahan 1857 19th Suffolk Democratic
George Francis Morey 1826 24th Middlesex Republican
John Milton Morin February 14, 1828 2nd Berkshire Democratic
Harrison Emmons Morton 1842 13th Worcester Republican
Sidney Tucker Nelson 1845 8th Plymouth Republican
Thomas Lorenzo Noonan 1835 19th Suffolk Democratic
Caleb Jerome Norwood 1838 9th Essex Democratic
Charles Johnson Noyes August 7, 1841 14th Suffolk
Dennis Joseph O'Brien 1845 27th Middlesex Democratic
John William O'Mealey 1861 17th Suffolk Democratic
John William O'Neil 1859 3rd Suffolk Democratic
Thomas F. O'Neill November 5, 1859 29th Middlesex Democratic
Henry Parkman May 23, 1850 9th Suffolk Republican
Isaac Smith Pear 1830 4th Middlesex Republican
Henry Mulford Peirson 1825 4th Berkshire Republican
Nathaniel R. Perkins September 10, 1847 2nd Worcester Republican
George Robbins Perry 1836 1st Bristol Republican
Charles Quincy Pierce 1841 16th Middlesex Republican
Alfred Stamm Pinkerton March 19, 1856 17th Worcester Republican
John Wallace Plaisted 1828 21st Worcester Republican
William Hall Poore 1864 3rd Essex Republican
Harvey Hunter Pratt 1860 6th Plymouth Democratic
William Henry Preble 1856 4th Suffolk Republican
William Provin February 14, 1842 2nd Hampden Democratic
Francis Winnie Qua 1845 22nd Middlesex Republican
Josiah Quincy October 15, 1859 5th Norfolk Ind. Democrat
Andrew Quinn 1853 12th Suffolk Ind. Democrat
Dennis Joseph Quinn 1861 12th Suffolk Democratic
Philip Henry Quinn 1859
Francis Henry Raymond February 19, 1836 6th Middlesex Republican
Samuel Miner Raymond June 30, 1842 3rd Berkshire Democratic
John Read May 19, 1840 1st Middlesex Republican
James Henry Richards 1839 16th Essex Republican
Henry Riddell 1848 Nantucket Independent
John C. Risteen 1841 1st Essex Independent
Ethan Chapin Robinson 1839 6th Hampden Democratic
Jonathan Henry Robinson February 9, 1831 12th Worcester Republican
Joseph Wheelden Rogers 1823 2nd Barnstable Republican/Prohibitionist
Samuel Nomlas Rogers 1840 9th Worcester Republican
William Blanding Rogerson 1846 2nd Bristol Republican
Arthur Gilbert Rounsevell 1851 4th Bristol Republican
Charles Parks Rugg 1827 6th Bristol Republican
Alvin Dudley Russell 1849 30th Middlesex Republican
Irving Levi Russell 1852 7th Middlesex Republican
Alpheus Sanford July 5, 1856 17th Suffolk Republican
Chester Franklin Sanger 1858 1st Middlesex Republican
Charles Warren Seavey 1839 8th Norfolk Republican
Edward Payson Shaw September 1, 1841 7th Essex Republican
Charles Fay Shepard 1827 2nd Hampden Republican
Samuel Dwight Simonds 1846 4th Worcester Republican
George Wing Slocum 1818 7th Bristol Republican
Winfield Scott Slocum 1848 17th Middlesex Republican
Sidney Pond Smith 1850 1st
William Davies Sohier 1858 12th Essex Ind. Republican
Benjamin Franklin Southwick July 5, 1835 21st Essex Republican
Charles Edward Spring 1841 28th Middlesex Republican
Daniel Philmore Stimpson 1818 17th Essex Republican
Cyrus Story 1822 10th Essex Republican
Elijah Baron Stowe 1844 8th Norfolk Republican
Michael Francis Sullivan September 22, 1858 6th Essex Democratic
Thomas Francis Sullivan 1862 13th Suffolk Democratic
Charles Henry Symonds 1857 15th Essex Republican
Robert Lovett Taft 1841 7th Berkshire Republican
Albert Hobbs Temple 1832 5th Franklin Republican
Rufus Albert Thayer 1839 7th Norfolk Republican
Albert Cranston Thompson 1843 11th Plymouth Republican
Albert Gardner Thompson 1853 25th Middlesex Republican
Isaac Brownell Tompkins August 17, 1826 5th Bristol Republican
Joseph Leland Towne 1861 19th Essex Democratic
George Washington Trull 1849 20th Middlesex Republican
Henry Abiel Turner 1827 3rd Plymouth Republican
Ansel Peabody Tyler 1839 22nd Essex Republican
Samuel Otis Upham 1824 18th Middlesex Republican
Edwin D. Vanderhoop 1848 Dukes Republican
Horace G. Wadlin October 2, 1851 14th Middlesex Republican
Abijah Tyler Wales 1833 1st Bristol Republican
Arthur Clarence Walworth 1844 17th Middlesex Republican
Erskine Warden 1839 18th Middlesex Republican
Jacob Otis Wardwell March 14, 1857 2nd Essex Republican
Moses Everett Ware 1831 21st Suffolk Republican
Franklin Levi Waters 1829 2nd Franklin Republican
William Fisher Wharton 1847 11th Suffolk Republican
James Edgar Whitcher 1847 12th Middlesex Republican
William Leonard White 1843 3rd Bristol Republican
William Allan Wilde 1837 9th Middlesex Republican
Albert Llewellyn Wiley 1835 3rd Worcester Republican
John Williamson Wilkinson 1832 2nd Middlesex Republican
Rufus Henry Willis 1838 5th Bristol Republican
Reuben Winchester 1825 3rd Hampden Democratic
John Winthrop 1841 5th Berkshire Democratic
Charles Thomas Witt July 18, 1848 1st Suffolk Republican
Frank Forrest Woods 15th Suffolk Republican
Charles Francis Woodward November 19, 1852 13th Middlesex Republican
Arthur Wright 1837 31st Middlesex Republican
Ferdinand Adolphus Wyman 1850 3rd Norfolk

See also

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References

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  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
  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
  6. ^ a b Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1888.
  7. ^ 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
  8. ^ a b Andrew, George F. (1888). Official Gazette.
  9. ^ Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905
  10. ^ State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020

Further reading

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  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1888, hdl:2452/619077
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1888, hdl:2452/83194
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