1872 Massachusetts legislature

The 93rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1872 during the governorship of Republican William B. Washburn.[5] Horace H. Coolidge served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford served as speaker of the House.[6][7]

93rd
Massachusetts General Court
←92nd 94th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 7, 1871
Senate
Members40
PresidentHorace H. Coolidge
Party controlRepublican
(35 R, 0 D, 5 other)[1][2]
House
Members240
SpeakerJohn E. Sanford
Party controlRepublican
(176 R, 0 D, 64 other)[1][3]
Sessions
1stJanuary 3, 1872 (1872-01-03) – May 7, 1872 (1872-05-07)
+ extra session[4]
Horace Coolidge, Senate president.
John Sanford, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1872.

Senators
Image Name [8] Date of birth [9] District Party
Frederick Lothrop Ames June 8, 1835
Joseph Kelley Baker 1827
Andrew Jackson Bartholomew 1834
Alonzo Warren Boardman 1828
Charles Bradley 1816
Elisha Huntington Brewster
Erastus Payson Carpenter November 23, 1822
Isaac Henry Coe 1818
Horace Hopkins Coolidge February 11, 1832
Rufus Smith Frost July 18, 1826
Robert Oliver Fuller 1829
Newell Giles 1818
Samuel Moulton Griggs 1822
Orrin Hewes 1833
James Humphrey 1819
Francis Wayland Jacobs 1837
Robert Johnson 1823
William Henry Learnard 1828
George Walter Lobdell 1823
William Bennet Long 1827
Reuben Noble 1820
Lloyd Parsons 1816
Josiah Newton Pike 1824
Joseph Samson Potter 1822
George Francis Richardson December 6, 1829
Daniel Ephraim Safford 1826
George Sheldon November 30, 1818
William Lafayette Smith 1824
Charles Pickett Stickney 1824
John Kemble Tarbox May 6, 1838
Adin Thayer 1828
Shepard Thayer 1827
George Arnold Torrey 1838
Thomas Lafayette Wakefield 1817
Levi Wallace 1831
Baxter Dodridge Whitney 1817
James Scollay Whitney May 19, 1811
Rufus Dodd Woods 1818
David Titcomb Woodwell 1820
Carroll D. Wright July 25, 1840

Representatives
image Name [8] Date of birth [9] District Party
Milton Abbey 1819
John Henry Abbott 1825
Henry Sewall Adams 1832
William Augustus Adams 1830
William Hastings Aldrich 1825
Ephraim Allen 1806
Lafayette Anderson 1824
William Henry Anderson 1836
William Frederick Arnold 1815
William Markwick Ashby 1821
Oliver Ayers 1821
William Babbitt 1817
James Prentiss Bacheller 1840
Horace Clinton Bacon 1824
Andrew Jackson Bailey 1840
John Stanton Baldwin 1834
Edward Dana Bancroft 1821
Julius Kirkland Banister 1833
James Madison Barker 1839
Lewis Barnard 1815
George Bartholmesz 1821
George Hubert Bates 1839
Austin Williams Benton 1818
Alden Besse 1821
Edward Lyman Bigelow 1839
William Rufus Black August 23, 1830
George Baylis Blake 1823
John Williston Blaney 1815
William Edward Blunt 1840
James William Bradley 1828
Bowman Bigelow Breed 1832
Frederic Perry Brown 1840
Willard Augustus Brown 1828
Giles Edwin Brownell 1819
Henry Oliver Burr 1829
Seneca Burr 1831
Samuel Augustus Carlton 1827
Michael Carney 1827
Thomas Marshall Carter July 17, 1832
Erastus Chase 1826
John Cummings Choate 1832
John Henry Church 1836
Sumner Uriah Church 1810
George Washington Clark 1836
Nelson Cochran 1824
Charles Russell Codman 1829
John Bear Doane Cogswell June 6, 1829
Moses Rich Colman 1806
Chapin Converse 1811
Benjamin Hough Corliss 1818
Joseph Howland Cornell March 23, 1818
Joseph Henry Cotton 1833
Robert Couch 1817
Roswell P. Crafts September 17, 1822
Seth Brockway Crafts 1844
Freeborn Woodbury Cressy 1839
William Augustus Cressy 1820
Michael J. Croak 1843
Charles Curtis 1836
William Cushing 1823
Christopher Columbus Denny 1813
Elbridge Curtis Donnell 1839
Simeon Parker Dresser 1845
James Henry Durgin 1833
David Eastman 1806
George Henry Eddy 1829
Alfred Brewster Ely 1817
Augustus Bradford Endicott September 10, 1818
George Otis Fairbanks 1815
Henry Hardwick Faxon 1823
Hawkes Fearing 1826
Francis Fisher 1811
Jonathan Philbrick Folsom October 9, 1820
Job Gardner
Robert Folger Gardner 1815
John Gates 1807
Benjamin Whitney Gleason 1806
George Going 1824
Brownell Granger 1835
Edward Waldo Griggs 1834
Isaac Dennis Hall 1807
John Wilkes Hammond 1837
Charles Veranus Hanson 1844
Franklin Powers Harlow December 8, 1827
Southworth Harlow 1824
John Morton Harris 1819
Thomas Burdett Harris 1825
George Hatch 1832
Benjamin Franklin Hayes July 3, 1835
Horace Heard 1804
Horatio Brooks Hersey 1823
Lot Higgins 1809
Amos Hill 1830
Henry Bozyol Hill 1823
George Webster Hobbs 1839
Thomas Fry Holder 1839
Asa Alexander Holton 1818
Samuel Bugbee Hopkins 1823
Leverett Hopkinson 1822
Ezra Coffin Howard September 1, 1831
Jonas Elijah Howe 1814
Joseph Sidney Howe 1832
Emerson Harris Howland 1846
George Henry Hoyt November 25, 1837
Barney Hull 1830
George W. Humphrey 1826
Nathaniel Mayhew Jernegan 1820
Peter Rogers Johnson 1824
Henry Jones 1821
Horace Israel Joslin 1836
Timothy Keefe 1839
William Keith 1810
Albert Francis Kelley 1840
Jonas Kendall 1804
George Perry Kendrick 1824
Asa Keyes 1805
John White Kimball February 27, 1828
Moses Kimball October 24, 1809
Charles M. Kingsley 1811
Daniel Webster Knight 1835
William Knowlton 1809
John Augustus Lamson 1831
Almond Ring Lancaster 1829
Alvin Lawton 1833
Frederick Walker Lincoln 1817
Noah Lincoln 1810
Edward Payson Loring 1837
William Hamilton Loughlin 1847
Henry Bacon Lovering April 8, 1841
Alvin Marshall 1815
John McDuffie 1828
Anson McLoud
Christopher Columbus Merritt September 29, 1830
Ira Loriston Moore 1824
Benjamin Lyman Morrison 1828
Rice Shaw Munn 1814
John Joseph Murphy 1842
Patrick Murphy 1837
William Henry Murray 1826
John Newell 1816
Jeremiah Lemuel Newton
Curtis Coe Nichols 1814
Lewis Rufus Norton 1821
William Nutt August 5, 1836
Patrick O'Connor 1842
William Henry Osborne 1840
Liberty Dodge Packard 1831
Albert Palmer January 17, 1831
George Alanson Parker 1821
James Parker 1815
Ezra Parmenter March 20, 1823
Daniel Augustus Patch 1832
George Howe Peabody 1838
Edward Pearl 1825
George O. Peck 1817
Francis Ellis Pedrick 1829
Jesse Small Pendergrast 1835
Noah Cushman Perkins 1810
William Perkins 1824
Ellis Perry 1809
Ralph Perry 1811
Josiah Peterson 1820
John Wesley Phelps 1844
Willard Peele Phillips 1825
Charles Varnum Poor 1817
George Horace Poor 1841
Thomas Whittier Porter 1820
Burton Willis Potter 1843
Laban Pratt 1829
Artemus Conant Putnam 1805
Samuel Bell Quigley 1821
Samuel Miller Quincy June 13, 1832
Edward Benedict Rankin 1846
Joseph Henry Read 1835
John Wales Robinson 1826
John Randolph Rogerson 1812
Joseph Hubbard Root 1823
Isaac Newton Ross 1824
George Sanborn 1816
John Eliot Sanford November 22, 1830
Benjamin Franklin Sargent 1813
Irving Bertoldo Sayles 1839
Charles Augustus Sayward 1837
George Franklin Scribner 1830
Nathaniel Sears 1825
Robert Seaver 1812
George Atwood Shaw 1816
George Sheldon 1817
James Stratton Shepard 1815
Simon Harrison Sibley 1816
Reuben Sikes 1824
Albert Gallatin Sinclair 1845
David Nelson Skillings 1818
Charles Eber Slater 1830
George Fayette Slocomb 1823
Cyrus Burnet Smith 1839
John James Smith [10][11] 1825
Zoeth Snow 1825
Reuben Goodspeed Sparks 1822
Chauncey Loren Spear 1819
Henry Splaine 1837
Charles Stanwood 1816
Francis Dana Stedman 1801
William Stone 1827
Warner Claflin Sturtevant 1809
Charles H. Taylor 1846
William Taylor 1831
Eliphalet Loring Thayer 1824
Noah Blanchard Thayer 1830
William Henry Thomas 1829
Charles Perkins Thompson July 7, 1827
John Thomas Zebediah Thompson 1811
Charles Q. Tirrell December 10, 1844
Hugh James Toland 1844
Joseph Rice Torrey 1828
Edward Justus Tower 1833
George Edwin Towne 1829
Thomas Bush Tripp 1838
David Warren Tucker 1820
Obed Chester Turner 1840
William Upham 1825
Charles Folsom Walcott December 22, 1836
Ansel Hill Ward 1837
George Washington Ware 1837
Henry Stevenson Washburn 1813
Thomas Barstow Waterman 1830
Nathan Horace Webb 1835
Tisdale Sanford White 1809
William Henry Whitfield November 11, 1804
Frederick Theodore Whiting 1825
William Joseph Wightman 1810
Ludovicus French Wild 1825
Benjamin Franklin Wing October 22, 1822
Ezra Dyer Winslow 1839
Harding Woods 1822
Lyman Woodward 1831
Albert Judd Wright
Ira Berkeley Wright 1830
Walter Wyman 1806

See also

References
  1. 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. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1872, 1872 – via Google Books
  6. "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
  7. "Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts". Massachusetts Register, 1872. Boston: Sampson, Davenport, & Company. 1872. p. 19+ – via Archive.org.
  8. Court, Massachusetts General (1872). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40650.
  9. "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1872" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  10. Kaitlin Connolly (March 4, 2013), "Massachusetts Legislators: John James Smith", State Library of Massachusetts blog
  11. Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905

Further reading
  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1872, hdl:2452/619061
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1872, hdl:2452/92954
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