1878 Massachusetts legislature

99th
Massachusetts General Court

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Overview
Legislative body| General Court
Election| November 6, 1877
Senate
Members| 40
President| John B. D. Cogswell
Party control| Republican[1]
House
Members| 240
Speaker| John Davis Long
Party control| Republican[2]
Sessions
| 1st| January 2, 1878 (1878-01-02) – May 17, 1878 (1878-05-17)[3]

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John Cogswell, Senate president.

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

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| 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

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| 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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* 1878 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
* 45th United States Congress
* List of Massachusetts General Courts

## 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". Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1878. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1882. pp. 28 v. hdl:2027/pst.000020100131 - via HathiTrust. (includes description of legislature)

## External links

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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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