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1878 Massachusetts legislature

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99th
Massachusetts General Court
←98th 100th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 6, 1877
Senate
Members40
PresidentJohn B. D. Cogswell
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerJohn Davis Long
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 2, 1878 (1878-01-02) – May 17, 1878 (1878-05-17)[3]
John B. D. Cogswell
John Cogswell, Senate president.
John Davis Long
John Long, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1878.

The 99th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1878 during the governorship of Alexander H. Rice. John B. D. Cogswell served as president of the Senate and John Davis Long served as speaker of the House.[4][5]

Senators

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Image Name[6] Date of birth[7] District Party
James Cochran Abbott 1825
Charles Adams 1810
Henry Francis Barker 1838
George Sumner Barton 1825
Joseph Sampson Beal 1814
Robert Roberts Bishop March 13, 1834
Amos Franklin Breed October 15, 1830
Frederic Perry Brown 1840
Alvah Augustus Burrage 1823
Horace John Canfield 1834
George Washington Cate 1834
Abraham Burbank Coffin 1831
John Bear Doane Cogswell June 6, 1829
Ezra Davol 1838
Marcellus Day 1833
Frederick David Ely September 24, 1838
Henry Clandins Ewing 1844
Michael Joseph Flatley 1823
Charles Lefevre Gardner 1839
Lewis Newton Gilbert 1836
Thomas Gogin 1824
James John Howard Gregory 1827
Benjamin Franklin Hayes
Henry Bozyol Hill 1823
William Allen Hodges 1834
Charles Jarvis Holmes 1834
Hosea Morrill Knowlton 1847
William Knowlton 1809
Ebenezer Bissell Lynde 1823
Charles Henry Merriam 1822
Albert Palmer January 17, 1831
Allan Rogers 1832
Joseph Samuel Ropes February 6, 1818
Charles Theodore Russell November 20, 1815
Amos Joseph Saunders 1826
Luther Henry Sherman 1838
Jackson Benjamin Swett 1815
Byron Truell 1834
James White 1828
Jonathan White 1819
Henry Winn 1837

Representatives

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image Name[6] Date of birth[7] District Party
Charles Phelps Aldrich 1832
Charles Hastings Allen 1828
James Howe Ames 1842
Israel Warren Andrews 1820
Job Kelly Anthony 1834
George Minott Baker 1826
John Israel Baker 1812
Alonzo Bancroft 1820
Charles Ellis Barnes 1840
Sidney Barnes 1831
George Varnum Barrett 1839
Elisha Parks Bartholomew 1847
James Edward Taylor Bartlett 1825
Theodore Dwight Beach 1821
Melvin Beal 1832
George C. Belcher August 26, 1844
Myron Wallace Bent 1849
Joseph Billings 1842
Francis William Bird 1809
William Blanchard 1821
William Bradford Bliss 1834
Matthew Bolles 1807
Henry Clay Bonney 1841
John Quincy Adams Brackett June 8, 1842
George Otis Brigham 1822
William Allen Brooks 1835
Luther Julius Brown 1827
Martin Wait Burnett 1815
Charles Webster Bush 1834
Charles Ruthven Byram 1844
William Henry Carberry February 22, 1851
Francis Carll 1825
Lewis Carroll 1845
Charles Allen Case 1846
Alvin B. Chamberlain December 16, 1842
Nahum Chapin 1820
Charles Henry Chase 1835
Leonard Clark 1821
Benjamin Clough 1819
Philander Cobb 1818
Hiram Boardman Coffin 1836
Samuel Coffin October 9, 1827
George Franklin Colburn 1830
Elisha S. Converse July 28, 1820
William Henry Cook January 7, 1843
Hiram Nathaniel Cooke 1834
John Cornell 1830
Israel Clark Cornish 1850
George Albert Cowdrey 1848
John W. Cummings August 25, 1855
Thomas Cunningham 1815
John Warren Curtice 1839
Jason Langdon Curtis 1824
Orson Ballou Curtis 1825
Levi Lincoln Cushing 1825
Anthony Charles Daly 1853
Charles Augustine Davis 1847
Robert Lewis Davis 1822
Cornelius Desmond 1838
Abiathar Doane 1820
Freeman Doane 1819
Daniel Doherty 1838
Jarvis Nelson Dunham 1828
Edward Rutledge Eager 1830
William Irving Ellis 1829
Levi Emery 1817
James Webster Emory 1826
Noble W. Everett February 20, 1827
John Barnard Fairbank 1839
Lucius Field August 15, 1840
Ralph Adams Field 1837
Isaiah Fish 1811
Charles Fisher 1829
John Thomas Flood 1845
Gardner French 1811
John Henry Galligan 1851
Nelson Gardner 1815
Francis Gargan 1847
Edwin Gilbert 1820
Freeman L. Gilman 1830
Jacob Taylor Glines 1817
Frank Palmer Goulding 1837
Thomas Robinson Greene 1806
Edwin Blaisdell Hale 1839
Noah Leonard Hardy 1828
John Williams Hart 1826
Edward Howard Haskell 1845
Thomas Jones Hastings January 24, 1835
Rawson Hathaway 1828
Thomas Bly Hathaway December 5, 1825
Nathan Mortimer Hawkes 1843
Alanson Knox Hawks 1828
George Frederic Hayden 1836
James Hildreth 1839
Clement Hugh Hill 1836
Hamilton Andrews Hill 1827
John Henry Hooper 1833
Asa Frederic Howe 1845
Simon Herbert Howe 1835
William Howe 1814
Thomas Prince Howes 1817
John Humphrey 1826
Eben Hutchinson 1841
Henry Dwight Hyde 1838
Charles Halstead Ingalls 1840
John Jackson 1822
Charles Volbert Jaeger 1846
Edward John Jenkins 1854
Andrew Jackson Jennings 1849
Henry Augustus Johnson 1818
Augustine Jones 1835
Joseph James Kelley 1842
Jarvis Plato Kelly 1833
Patrick Keyes 1830
Ensign Kimball 1818
William Sterling King 1818
Marcus Perrin Knowlton February 3, 1839
Frank Daniel Leary 1854
Edwin Forrest Leighton 1839
James Foster Leonard 1837
John Arnold Lewis 1833
George Caleb Lincoln 1821
James Lovering Locke 1832
Andrew Lovell 1813
Benjamin Starks Lovell 1845
John Dana Lovell 1818
George W. Lowther[8] 1822
Pardon Macomber February 9, 1833
William Penn Macomber 1832
John Mahon 1832
James Thomas Mahony 1843
William Manning 1823
Frederic A. Marden 1843
John Marlor 1845
Edwin Wilson Marsh 1821
George Sampson Marshall 1833
Samuel Stukey McGibbons 1826
Patrick Michael McGlynn 1853
Ebenezer Martin McPherson 1836
James Henry Mellen 1845
Artemas Merriam
Amos Washington Merritt 1833
Phillips Moore 1835
Albert Moors 1828
Elbridge Gerry Morton 1841
Frederick Pierce Moseley 1826
Patrick Francis Murphy 1860
John Franklin Newton 1829
Richard Elliott Nickerson 1830
Joseph Gilbert Noble 1837
Eugene L. Norton March 26, 1825
Charles Johnson Noyes 1841
Chauncey Orman Noyes 1840
James H. Nugent 1831
Joseph Henry O'Neil March 23, 1853
William Clift Oakman 1809
Charles Stuart Osgood 1839
John Lord Otis 1827
Henry Brett Packard 1823
Henry Paddack April 2, 1838
Calvin Paige May 20, 1848
Lucius R. Paige 1802
Joseph Sumner Parmenter 1827
David Allen Partridge 1833
William Gaylord Peck 1841
James Phillip Peirce 1835
Josiah Perry 1832
Benjamin Ashton Phillips 1838
James Davis Pike 1829
Albert Enoch Pillsbury August 19, 1849
Timothy Dimmick Potter 1840
Henry Webster Powers 1837
Charles Jones Prescott 1838
George Price 1806
Henry Wheatland Putnam 1843
William Pynchon 1820
Oliver James Rand 1820
David Randall 1818
Charles Everett Ranlett 1816
William Arthur Read 1849
William Reed October 3, 1820
William Reed Jr. December 2, 1842
George Willard Rice 1836
James Henry Richards 1839
Jesper Richardson 1821
John Wesley Ricker 1824
Michael Rinn 1847
William Robinson 1835
Solomon Nash Russell 1822
Baalis Sanford 1833
Edmund Pillsbury Sargent 1823
Lucius Manlius Sargent 1836
John Bernard Shea 1851
Henry Shortle 1834
Matthew Smith 1814
William Augustus Somerset Smyth 1824
Rufus Albertson Soule 1839
Pliny Fisk Spaulding 1821
Timothy Gridley Spaulding 1851
Leander Sprague 1824
Stephen Abbott Stackpole 1819
Henry Salmon Stiles 1818
Eben Francis Stone August 3, 1822
William James Stuart 1828
Ezekiel Reed Studley 1831
Van Rensselaer Swift 1813
Zadok Arnold Taft 1817
Edward Isaiah Thomas 1833
Leonard Thompson 1817
Charles Frederick Thurston 1844
John Wilson Tilton 1844
Payson Elliott Tucker 1834
Thomas J. Tucker
John Turner 1827
Horace Underwood 1828
Levi Clifford Wade 1843
Alexander Wadsworth 1806
Abijah Tyler Wales 1833
James Lawrence Walsh 1843
Solon Walton 1830
Alonzo Warren 1827
John Davis Washburn 1833
Abel Webster 1818
Edwin R. Webster 1831
Samuel Hidden Wentworth
Daniel Nathaniel White 1830
Newton White 1813
Joseph Whitehead 1823
Sydney Franklin Whitehouse 1822
Charles Stimson Whitmore 1815
William Howe Wiggin 1823
Henry Munson Wilcox 1843
Henry Hills Wilder 1824
Sydney Wilder 1813
George Andrew Wilson 1825
John Winn July 3, 1828
Joseph Wiswell 1816
Charles Henry Wonson 1843
Solon Wood 1834
John Henry Wright 1843
Oliver Brown Wyman 1826

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. ^ "Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts". Massachusetts Register, 1878. 1874. p. 15+ – via Archive.org.
  6. ^ a b Court, Massachusetts General (1878). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40656.
  7. ^ a b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1878" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  8. ^ 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

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  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1878, hdl:2452/619067
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1878, hdl:2452/89614
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