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94th
Massachusetts General Court
←93rd 95th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 5, 1872
Senate
Members40
PresidentGeorge B. Loring
Party controlRepublican
(39 R, 1 D)[1][2]
House
Members240
SpeakerJohn E. Sanford
Party controlRepublican
(211 R, 24 D, 5 other)[1][3]
Sessions
1stJanuary 1873 (1873-01) – June 12, 1873 (1873-06-12) [4]
George B. Loring
George Loring, Senate president.
John E. Sanford
John Sanford, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1873.

The 94th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1873 during the governorship of Republican William B. Washburn. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford served as speaker of the House.[5]

Senators

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Image Name [6] Date of birth [7] District Party
Prentiss Chaffee Baird 1832
Joseph Kelley Baker 1827
Henry Lewis Bancroft 1821
Julius Kirkland Banister 1833
James Brown 1828
Erastus Payson Carpenter November 23, 1822
Jeremiah Clark 1819
Isaac Henry Coe 1818
Jedediah Dwelley 1834
Charles Howe French 1814
Robert Oliver Fuller 1829
Newell Giles 1818
Martin Griffin 1825
Samuel Moulton Griggs 1822
Nathan Williams Harmon 1813
Francis Wayland Jacobs 1837
Nathaniel Lafayette Johnson 1822
Robert Johnson 1823
Edward Lawrence 1810
William Henry Learnard 1828
Edward Learned 1820
George Walter Lobdell 1823
George B. Loring November 8, 1817
Moody Merrill 1836
Newton Morse 1832
Francis Augustus Nye 1823
Timothy Fairbanks Packard 1812
Lloyd Parsons 1816
Joseph Samson Potter 1822
Charles Pickett Stickney 1824
George Franklin Thompson 1827
John Douglas Todd 1814
George Arnold Torrey 1838
Levi Wallace 1831
Henry Stevenson Washburn 1813
William Whiting II May 24, 1841
George Danforth Whittle 1838
Rufus Dodd Woods 1818
David Titcomb Woodwell 1820
Carroll D. Wright July 25, 1840

Representatives

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image Name [6] Date of birth [7] District Party
John Henry Abbott 1825
Wales Aldrich 1811
Francis Roberts Allen 1817
Walter Brown Allen 1828
Arlon Sabin Atherton 1842 Franklin county No. 1
Horace Clinton Bacon 1824
Aaron Bagg 1810
Andrew Jackson Bailey 1840
Nahum Bailey 1823
William Baker 1821
George Washington Bardwell 1836 Franklin county No. 4
James Madison Barker 1839
George Bartholmesz 1821
John Mason Batchelder 1832
Elijah Eastman Belding 1813 Franklin county No. 3
Ezekiel Dodge Bement 1819 Franklin county No. 5
Austin Williams Benton 1818
Edward Adams Berdge 1829
Hiram Berry 1820
Edward Lyman Bigelow 1839
John Bigelow 1841
Sanford Waters Billings 1834
William Rufus Black August 23, 1830
George Baylis Blake 1823
Peleg Blankinship 1809
William Edward Blunt 1840
Dennis Bonner 1821
Franklin Bonney 1822
Horace Leander Bowker 1832
James William Bradley 1828
Bowman Bigelow Breed 1832
Richard Francis Briggs 1836
Richard Britton 1838
Giles Edwin Brownell 1819
Moses Loring Buck 1811
William Henry Buck 1818
Addison Burnett 1810
Henry Burt 1811
Jacob Brown Calley 1823
Adam Capen 1821
Charles Victor Carpenter 1830
Sumner Carruth December 22, 1834
Henry Bedell Chamberlin 1839
Edward Whitman Chapin 1840
Elijah Horne Chisholm 1824
Albe Cady Clark 1826
Francis Warren Clark 1829
George Washington Clark 1836
Alfred Alonzo Clatur 1835
Charles Russell Codman 1829
John Bear Doane Cogswell June 6, 1829
John Swain Coney 1823
William Henry Cook March 17, 1842
George Copeland 1837
Robert Couch 1817
William Augustus Cressy 1820
Charles Crittenden 1837 Franklin county No. 4
George Glover Crocker 1843
Daniel Aloysius Cronin 1846
Joseph Warren Cross 1808
John Cummings 1812
Benjamin Connor Currier 1822
John Cushing 1808
William Frank Darby 1838
George Edmund Davis 1827
Joshua Wingate Davis November 13, 1817
George Jackson Dean 1828
William Dean 1830
Isaac Walker Derby 1835
Seymour Boughton Dewey 1814
Lewis J. Dudley November 11, 1815
Joseph Dyer 1830
Henderson Josiah Edwards 1840
Frederick David Ely September 24, 1838
Alonzo Hathaway Evans February 24, 1820
George Otis Fairbanks 1815
Caleb Clesson Field 1810
Harrison Otis Field 1810
John Hancock Fisher 1807
Eustace Carey Fitz 1833
John Edward Fitzgerald 1844
Thomas Francis Fitzgerald 1848
Daniel Coolidge Fletcher 1829
John Ware Fletcher 1824
Granville Edward Foss August 16, 1842
Hiram Munroe French 1827
William Frost 1822
Kirke Edwin Gardner 1833
John Gates 1807
Addison Gilbert 1808
Charles Albert Gleason 1846
Asa Holland Goddard 1807
Stephen Dwight Goddard 1811
Andrew Jackson Gove 1834
Brownell Granger 1835
Fitz Edward Griffin 1840
Isaac Dennis Hall 1807
John Wilkes Hammond 1837
Charles Veranus Hanson 1844
Simon Hardy 1833
George Henry Harlow 1820
David Phillips Hatch 1814
Austin Hawley 1822
Lewis Hayden[8] December 2, 1811
Benjamin Franklin Hayes July 3, 1835
Francis Brown Hayes 1819
Samuel Stone Haynes 1822
Benjamin Heath 1821
Samuel William Heath 1804
Lot Higgins 1809
Samuel Eldridge Hildreth 1829
Amos Hill 1830
Henry Bozyol Hill 1823
John Warren Hollis 1812
Charles Jarvis Holmes 1834
Lewis Holmes 1806
Samuel Bugbee Hopkins 1823
Emory Adams Howard 1837
David Porter Howes 1815
George Henry Hoyt November 25, 1837
Barney Hull 1830
Richard Hales Humphrey 1829
Ebenezer Atherton Hunt January 26, 1826
Thomas Prentiss Hurlbut 1820
Richardson Hutchinson 1818
Alexis W. Ide 1826
Thomas Ingalls 1824
Nathan Sumner Jenkins 1820
Jonathan Johnson 1818
Edward Jenkins Jones 1822
Thomas Milton Judd 1840
Jesse Edson Keith 1824
George Perry Kendrick 1824
William Reed Kentfield 1814
Lucius Woodman Knight 1830
Charles Rensselaer Ladd April 9, 1822
Noah Davis Ladd 1820
Almond Ring Lancaster 1829
George Young Learned 1827
Willard Lewis 1808
William Hamilton Loughlin 1847
George A. Marden August 9, 1839
Elijah Marion 1812
Albert Mason 1836
David Mayhew 1834
Edward McCleave November 1, 1813
Samuel Walton McDaniel 1833
John Brooks Moore 1817
Thomas Jones Morgan 1823
Charles William Morrill 1839
Asa Porter Morse 1818
Charles Dimock Morse 1827
Andrew Marathon Morton 1839
Lewis Rufus Norton 1821
John Adams Nowell 1817
Edward Ornan Noyes 1840
Weaver Osborn 1815
Hiram Packard 1816
Liberty Dodge Packard 1831
Albert Palmer January 17, 1831
John Barnard Parker 1812
William Crowell Parker 1850
Daniel Augustus Patch 1832
John Winslow Peirce 1835
John Perkins 1825
Charles Perley 1823
Henry Willis Phelps 1830
Calvin Tilden Phillips 1836
Willard Peele Phillips 1825
William Caldwell Plunkett October 23, 1799
Francis Edward Porter 1824
Rodolphus Porter 1834
George Purrington 1829
Joseph Henry Read 1835
John Warren Regan 1833
William Roberts 1835
Philip Henry Robinson 1823
George Thomas Ryder 1827
Stephen Decatur Salmon 1845
John Samson 1821
George Sanborn 1816
Edward Sanford 1825
John Eliot Sanford November 22, 1830
George Jedediah Sanger 1826
Joseph Leonard Sargent 1829
Amos Joseph Saunders 1826
Isaac Fessenden Sawtelle August 1, 1816
Augustus Jonathan Sawyer 1816
Roger Henry Scannell 1837
John Cleveland Scott 1816
Nathaniel Sears 1825
Nathan Beebe Seaver 1822
Robert Seaver 1812
Henry Perkins Shattuck 1844
James Bayard Shaw 1837
John Shaw 1822
Amos Wight Shumway 1819
Henry Clinton Skinner 1824
James Smith 1831
Joshua Bowen Smith[8] 1813
Zoeth Snow 1825
Augustus Lord Soule April 19, 1827
Reuben Goodspeed Sparks 1822
Henry Splaine 1837
Franklin Harvey Sprague 1825
Oliver Martin Stacey 1816
Francis Dana Stedman 1801
James Aaron Stetson 1806
William Stewart 1820 Franklin county No. 3
Thomas Newcomb Stone 1818
William B. Stone January 24, 1811
John Henry Studley 1828
Andrew Hodges Sweet October 2, 1845
Charles Talbot 1811
James Gamage Tarr July 6, 1830
William Taylor 1831
Eliphalet Loring Thayer 1824
Joseph Augustus Titus 1838
Hugh James Toland 1844
Marcus Truesdell 1813
Quincy Adams Vinal 1826
William Nathaniel Walker 1823
Rodney Wallace December 21, 1823
Andrew Jackson Waters 1837
Edward Fox Watson 1807
Timothy W. Wellington 1811
James Lyman White 1821
Tisdale Sanford White 1809
William Henry Whitfield November 11, 1804
George Henry Whitman 1808
Austin Whitney 1817
Robert Rich Wiley 1828
Henry Warren Wilson 1834
Benjamin Franklin Wing October 22, 1822
Ezra Dyer Winslow 1839
Samuel Winslow 1827
Oliver Wolcott 1827
Moses Davis Woodbury 1821
Elijah Nichols Woods 1818

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Cornelius Dalton; John Wirkkala; Anne Thomas (1984). "Political Complexion of the General Court 1867-1980". Leading the Way: a History of the Massachusetts General Court, 1629-1980. Boston: Massachusetts Secretary of State. p. 441+. ISBN 0961391502.
  2. ^ "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
  3. ^ "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
  4. ^ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
  5. ^ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
  6. ^ a b Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1873. hdl:2452/40651.
  7. ^ a b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1873" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  8. ^ a b Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905

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