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121st
Massachusetts General Court
←120th 122nd→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 7, 1899
Senate
Members40
PresidentGeorge Edwin Smith
Party controlRepublican (31–9)[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerJames J. Myers
Party controlRepublican (166–68–2)[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 3, 1900 (1900-01-03) – July 17, 1900 (1900-07-17) [3]
George Edwin Smith
George Smith, Senate president.
James J. Myers
James Myers, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1900.

The 121st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1900 during the governorship of Winthrop M. Crane. George Edwin Smith served as president of the Senate and James J. Myers served as speaker of the House.[4]

Senators

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image name [5] date of birth [6] district
Henry C. Attwill March 11, 1872
John E. Baldwin June 26, 1869
William A. Butler February 4, 1859
Loyed E. Chamberlain January 30, 1857
George L. Clemence February 17, 1852
Guy W. Currier December 22, 1867
Frank A. Fales October 13, 1848
Augustus Peabody Gardner November 5, 1865
Samuel S. Gleason May 1, 1842
Charles H. Hanson July 7, 1844
Francis A. Harrington November 17, 1846
Charles W. Hazelton October 31, 1848
Franklin E. Huntress April 19, 1866
Charles Hiller Innes August 6, 1870
Fred Joy July 8, 1859
John A. Keliher November 6, 1866
Thomas W. Kenefick September 17, 1855
Amos A. Lawrence November 3, 1847
Warren S. Leach February 23, 1847
William H. Lott September 17, 1852
Walter O. Luscombe August 19, 1852
Jeremiah E. Mahoney November 8, 1864
William B. Mahoney December 5, 1857
Arthur A. Maxwell January 24, 1858
John E. McClellan September 5, 1847
William Moran September 6, 1855
John E. Parry July 3, 1854
Frank A. Patch July 23, 1844
Thomas Post August 16, 1834
Albert Hoyt Ray May 24, 1865
William Reynolds June 15, 1843
Leonard W. Ross October 5, 1856
Howard K. Sanderson July 10, 1865
George Edwin Smith April 5, 1849
Rufus Albertson Soule 1839
Peter Francis Tague June 4, 1871
William Tolman June 2, 1858
Charles G. Washburn January 28, 1857
Charles T. Witt July 18, 1848
Benjamin Herbert Woodsum October 4, 1857

Representatives

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Charles H. Adams April 22, 1859
Elliot J. Aldrich November 4, 1836
Charles H. Allen June 17, 1841
Butler Ames August 22, 1871
Albert S. Apsey November 27, 1870
A. Dudley Bagley February 27, 1869
George Balcom January 23, 1832
John N. Ball November 19, 1835
William L. Barber April 9, 1859
Frank Bartlett September 5, 1854
Frederick H. Bates September 15, 1857
Charles C. Beebe August 11, 1851
George C. Belcher August 26, 1844
Harry L. Belden January 7, 1864
Frank P. Bennett May 2, 1853
Austin Bigelow September 8, 1840
John Bleiler May 9, 1837
James F. Bliss April 7, 1847
Charles H. Blood December 10, 1858
Samuel H. Borofsky April 25, 1865
Clarence A. Briggs August 21, 1871
William M. Brigham January 23, 1864
Charles C. Brooks May 3, 1851
Edward L. Brown April 3, 1861
Henry L. Brown January 10, 1840
Willard Madison Brown April 24, 1861
Nelson Aluren Bugbee August 8, 1853
Henry Cushing Bulfinch February 16, 1859
William J. Bullock January 31, 1864
Melancthon W. Burlen September 24, 1852
Willard A. Burnham October 1, 1841
James Burns May 20, 1838
Lester L. Burrington March 24, 1838
Joseph E. Buswell August 7, 1842
A. Webster Butler August 22, 1858
Charles A. Card October 12, 1849
James F. Carey August 19, 1867
George Henry Carleton August 6, 1840
Charles A. Carruth December 13, 1853
John H. Casey July 22, 1848
N. Henry Chadwick March 17, 1838
Henry L. Chase February 5, 1853
Arthur Clark August 30, 1877
Amedee Cloutier April 25, 1868
Arthur H. Cluer April 12, 1853
John H. Colby January 13, 1862
Joseph L. Cole March 26, 1842
Robert Eugene Conwell June 12, 1854
Clifford A. Cook September 3, 1860
Daniel S. Coolidge September 21, 1845
Samuel Verry Crane October 4, 1855
Aaron S. Crosby October 6, 1842
J. Howell Crosby December 30, 1867
Thomas F. I. Curley June 22, 1864
J. Frank Dalton April 19, 1842
William Daly April 3, 1864
William Aiken Davenport October 23, 1869
Daniel W. Davis October 3, 1846
Thomas L. Davis March 15, 1852
William Ripley Davis March 8, 1862
Benjamin C. Dean March 8, 1843
Charles Austin Dean March 26, 1856
Frank S. Dewey, Jr. March 22, 1857
Thomas J. Dillon April 20, 1869
Thomas Donahue August 20, 1853
Edward J. Donovan March 15, 1864
James H. Donovan August 31, 1855
John L. Donovan June 3, 1876
Michael J. Donovan November 1, 1864
Thomas J. Dooling January 28, 1868
John J. Douglass February 9, 1873
George Francis Dow January 7, 1868
Aaron Coolidge Dowse March 27, 1856
Daniel J. Driscoll, 2d November 20, 1868
Curtis Eddy May 18, 1838
Charles O'M. Edson October 23, 1857
J. Lewis Ellsworth November 8, 1848
Freeman O. Emerson January 12, 1859
Charles O. Engstrom May 19, 1875
Augustine W. Esleeck March 28, 1848
Warren E. Fairbanks August 28, 1854
George H. Fall October 19, 1858
Frederick W. Farwell November 29, 1854
William H. Feiker March 11, 1870
George R. Fessenden December 6, 1849
Frank E. Fitts May 26, 1848
W. T. A. Fitzgerald December 19, 1871
Herbert E. Fletcher May 10, 1862
Frank A. Foster February 15, 1859
Frank W. Francis September 16, 1857
Archie N. Frost July 26, 1872
Michael E. Gaddis February 21, 1869
Horace B. Gale December 27, 1861
Arthur H. Gardner August 4, 1854
George H. Garfield July 18, 1858
John J. Gartland November 27, 1871
Samuel B. George February 9, 1833
Thomas E. Gibney June 25, 1843
Fred C. Gilpatric August 22, 1865
David J. Gleason July 14, 1864
Albert M. Goulding May 17, 1844
Thomas H. Green March 17, 1847
John G. Hagberg August 24, 1873
George R. Hamant March 11, 1843
Portus B. Hancock February 19, 1836
George H. Hapgood April 20, 1842
Arthur Harrington July 23, 1874
Benjamin C. Harvey September 4, 1847
Ulysses G. Haskell October 3, 1863
Frederick N. Haskins October 8, 1863
Richard J. Hayes October 4, 1861
Charles E. Haywood October 11, 1868
James F. Heath March 10, 1860
Francis D. Henderson March 6, 1847
William F. Herron August 8, 1864
Frederic M. Hersey January 8, 1853
Martin P. Higgins October 16, 1857
William Hopewell June 24, 1867
Francis J. Horgan July 2, 1869
Carleton F. How April 20, 1863
James Howell December 19, 1845
Willard Howland December 3, 1852
Edwin A. Hubbard November 26, 1848
Samuel E. Hull August 12, 1843
Bennett B. Humphrey April 11, 1838
Edward W. Hunt November 29, 1859
Harry Draper Hunt December 27, 1874
James Hunt January 27, 1833
Michael Bernard Jones August 20, 1864
John E. Kavenaugh October 19, 1864
Walter S. Keene November 9, 1858
Charles P. Keith March 14, 1843
Edward H. Keith October 23, 1859
Michael Kelly June 17, 1840
Nicholas B. Keyou April 25, 1828
Charles Francis King January 29, 1871
Walter C. Knowlton July 12, 1860
William S. Kyle July 12, 1851
John Philip Lanergan December 31, 1874
John T. Langford February 8, 1842
Robert H. Leland March 9, 1865
Jacob A. Leonard December 19, 1845
George F. Leslie September 12, 1850
William C. Litchfield March 31, 1840
Joseph Patrick Love August 26, 1852
Michael J. Lydon September 13, 1872
Frederic O. MacCartney November 2, 1864
William A. MacCord March 14, 1871
William E. Mahoney May 15, 1872
Frederick C. Mahony January 18, 1875
David Manning August 29, 1846
John J. Mansfield October 10, 1869
Matthew M. Mansfield September 25, 1866
Charles S. Marchant August 31, 1845
John F. Marsh February 1, 1828
J. Manuel Marshall June 1, 1869
Jeremiah F. McCarthy July 7, 1857
Daniel V. McIsaac November 6, 1871
James H. McKinley May 21, 1860
William I. McLoughlin January 16, 1872
William S. McNary March 29, 1863
Charles J. McPherson February 20, 1856
Edward C. Mead December 25, 1858
James H. Mellen November 7, 1845
Charles P. Mills August 22, 1853
Edwin J. Mills May 1, 1861
Cornelius Minihan August 15, 1862
John M. Minton March 23, 1872
James A. Montgomery May 17, 1864
William L. Mooney February 16, 1867
J. Myron Moore November 3, 1866
Merrick A. Morse May 1, 1847
John P. Munroe June 28, 1850
Mortimer D. A. Murphy May 9, 1867
James J. Myers November 20, 1842
H. Huestis Newton December 2, 1860
Darius M. Nickerson, Jr. July 11, 1863
William S. O'Brien August 16, 1856
John E. O'Neill January 15, 1862
James E. Odlin April 9, 1857
Timothy Paige July 14, 1851
William Colvard Parker April 12, 1858
Alexander Sinclair Paton November 20, 1854
James Pearce May 7, 1843
Charles H. Persons January 5, 1859
John Q. A. Pettengill July 12, 1856
James C. Poor June 25, 1851
Thomas F. Porter October 30, 1847
Silas Dean Reed June 25, 1872
George Robert Russell Rivers May 28, 1853
Samuel Roads, Jr. October 22, 1853
Martin Robbins October 13, 1852
Arthur E. Roberts June 22, 1861
Lewis D. Robinson June 21, 1842
Arthur P. Russell June 16, 1871
William R. Salter July 6, 1861
Charles R. Saunders November 22, 1862
William Schofield February 14, 1857
George Shepley Selfridge September 25, 1868
Ebenezer Wallen Sheppard May 7, 1860
Harvey F. Shufelt March 19, 1860
Henry R. Skinner May 9, 1860
Charles F. A. Smith July 18, 1866
George E. Smith March 18, 1848
Levi M. Snow April 19, 1841
John Thomas Sparks July 9, 1865
Stillman J. Spear April 25, 1839
Wallace Spooner November 28, 1856
Eugene H. Sprague May 23, 1864
George H. Stackpole September 7, 1843
Hugh L. Stalker December 31, 1857
Silas A. Stone February 3, 1843
Willmore B. Stone June 24, 1853
Charles S. Sullivan June 29, 1875
Michael J. Sullivan October 23, 1870
French O. J. Tarbox September 2, 1861
Charles T. Tatman December 16, 1871
John E. Thomson September 22, 1861
Edward M. Thurston July 18, 1832
Patrick H. Tobin September 12, 1870
William Turtle June 20, 1855
Samuel Walker Twombly July 31, 1822
Charles H. Upson June 4, 1848
George E. Varney July 8, 1864
David I. Walsh November 11, 1872
William S. Warriner July 15, 1866
James A. Watson June 24, 1870
Walter S. Watson September 11, 1851
Alvin G. Weeks October 22, 1866
Walter S. Weston November 12, 1852
Frank E. Wetherell December 18, 1843
Harry Bertram Whall September 5, 1868
William D. Wheeler May 7, 1868
John B. Whelan February 19, 1864
Horace C. White January 26, 1836
Orange Whitney March 16, 1849
Edward E. Willard September 25, 1862
Temple A. Winsloe October 14, 1875
Isaac C. Wright December 21, 1824

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. ^ a b Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1900 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ a b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1900" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

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