1916 Massachusetts legislature

137th
Massachusetts General Court

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Overview
Legislative body| General Court
Senate
Members| 40
House
Members| 240

The 137th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1916.[1]

## Senators

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| Frank Bartlett  |  |
| Sanford Bates | July 17, 1884  |
| William A. L. Bazeley  | 1872  |
| Charles Sumner Beal  | August 14, 1856  | 1st Plymouth
| James W. Bean  | May 11, 1866  |
| John E. Beck | May 10, 1869  |
| Charles Donnell Brown  | June 5, 1862  |
| James F. Cavanagh  |  |
| Daniel J. Chapman  | January 18, 1878  |
| Ezra W. Clark  | October 12, 1842  |
| Herbert E. Cummings  |  |
| Charles W. Eldridge | October 16, 1877  |
| George H. Ellis  | October 3, 1848  |
| Frank S. Farnsworth  |  |
| Wilton B. Fay  |  |
| Charles L. Gifford | March 15, 1871  |
| Gurdon W. Gordon  |  |
| James I. Green  | April 9, 1885  |
| John W. Haigis | July 31, 1881  |
| Martin Hays  | October 14, 1876  |
| Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr.  | October 1, 1878  |
| John B. Hull Jr.  | July 17, 1871  |
| George H. Jackson  | March 9, 1865  |
| Charles A. Kimball  |  |
| Richard Knowles  |  |
| Louis F. R. Langelier  |  |
| George Edward Marchand  | December 22, 1877  |
| Joseph W. Martin Jr. | November 3, 1884  |
| Orion T. Mason  |  |
| Philip J. McGonagle  | October 21, 1871  |
| Walter E. McLane  |  |
| Edward F. McLaughlin | June 6, 1883  |
| W. Prentiss Parker  | December 11, 1857  |
| E. Howard Perley  |  |
| John F. Sheehan  |  |
| James R. Tetler  | August 26, 1877  |
| James P. Timilty | March 28, 1865  |
| Nathan A. Tufts | April 15, 1879  |
| Robert M. Washburn | January 4, 1868  |
| Henry Gordon Wells | October 12, 1879  |

## Representatives

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| Essex S. Abbott  |  |
| Henry Achin Jr.  | June 30, 1883  |
| George C. F. Allen  |  | 14th Essex
| Philip R. Ammidon  |  |
| Algodt N. Anderson  |  |
| Charles H. Annis  | January 12, 1869  |
| William M. Armstrong  | August 17, 1850  |
| Benjamin S. Atwood  |  |
| George W. P. Babb  |  |
| James T. Bagshaw  |  |
| Edmund Baker  |  |
| William B. Baldwin  | September 18, 1854  |
| Philip Hosmer Ball  |  |
| Arthur W. Barker  |  |
| William J. Barry  | 1861  |
| Thomas William Baxter  |  |
| Addison P. Beardsley  |  |
| Joseph Belcher  |  |
| Joseph J. Benson  |  |
| James D. Bentley  | February 6, 1884  |
| Jacob Bitzer | January 16, 1865  |
| Alvin E. Bliss  |  |
| Cornelius Boothman  |  |
| Eden K. Bowser  |  |
| Manassah Edward Bradley  |  |
| Thomas H. Brennan  |  |
| James J. Brennan  | May 2, 1882  |
| Clarence A. Briggs  |  |
| Vincent Brogna  |  |
| Fred Johnson Brown  |  |
| Charles Henry Brown  | September 25, 1873  |
| Daniel J. Buckley  |  |
| George Bunting  | August 31, 1868  |
| Arthur E. Burr  |  |
| Frederick Butler  |  |
| Fred E. Cady  |  |
| Julius F. Carman  | August 7, 1861  |
| Daniel W. Casey  |  |
| Allison G. Catheron | June 26, 1878  |
| George Dudley Chamberlain  |  |
| Albert Minot Chandler  |  |
| Edward Earl Chapman  |  |
| Charles Chapman  |  |
| John W. Churchill  | November 17, 1853  |
| Frederic F. Clauss  |  |
| James Coffey  | May 17, 1849  |
| Arthur Willard Colburn  | December 1, 1877  |
| Benjamin G. Collins  |  |
| Samuel I. Collins  | March 4, 1851  |
| D. Herbert Cook  | June 2, 1851  |
| Thomas J. Cooley  |  |
| John J. Courtney  |  |
| Channing H. Cox | October 28, 1879  |
| John W. Craig  |  |
| Burton H. Crosby  |  |
| Fred Wilder Cross  | September 15, 1868  |
| John J. Cummings  |  |
| George E. Curran  |  |
| Edward N. Dahlborg  |  |
| Samuel Davis  | June 4, 1866  |
| Theodore H. Day  |  |
| George F. Dennis  |  |
| Thomas F. Donovan  | September 26, 1890  |
| John L. Donovan  | June 3, 1876  |
| Thomas E. Dowd  |  |
| Frederic E. Dowling  |  |
| George P. Drury  |  |
| Edward B. Eames  | April 15, 1856  |
| Carl C. Emery  | November 4, 1888  |
| John P. Englert  |  |
| John G. Faxon  |  |
| Horace F. Field  |  |
| Charles D. Fisher  |  |
| Michael J. Fitzgerald  | March 10, 1878  |
| John I. Fitzgerald | July 18, 1882  |
| William J. Foley | March 2, 1887  |
| Harry C. Foster | August 27, 1871  |
| Arthur W. Frail  |  |
| Joseph E. Freeling  |  |
| William P. French  | April 30, 1874  |
| William F. French  | March 21, 1873  |
| Harvey E. Frost  | October 2, 1875  |
| Charles Benjamin Frothingham  | November 11, 1858  |
| Mauran I. Furbish  |  |
| Charles F. Garrity  |  |
| Harry C. Gates  |  |
| John Mellen Gibbs  |  |
| Thomas J. Giblin  |  |
| John J. Gillis  |  |
| Nesbit G. Gleason  |  |
| Fred Parker Greenwood  |  |
| Julius Guild  | March 30, 1850  |
| Edgar H. Hall  |  |
| John Halliwell  | February 21, 1864  |
| Walter A. Hardy  | December 15, 1866  |
| Edward F. Harrington (state representative) | August 10, 1878  |
| James L. Harrop  |  |
| George F. Hart  | November 9, 1859  |
| Charles H. Hartshorn  |  |
| William M. Haskins  |  |
| James William Hayes  |  |
| Matthew A. Higgins  |  |
| Francis M. Hill  |  |
| Kenneth Page Hill  |  |
| John A. Hirsch | 1861  |
| William J. Holland  |  |
| Peter Holt  |  |
| Horace W. Hosie  | February 2, 1864  |
| John C. Hull (politician) | November 1, 1870  |
| Charles N. James  | September 3, 1853  |
| Henry W. Jarvis  |  |
| Victor Francis Jewett  |  |
| John G. Johnson  | May 23, 1864  |
| Michael H. Jordan  | February 7, 1863  |
| Thomas Martin Joyce  |  |
| John Joseph Kearney  |  |
| David Leon Kelley  | April 26, 1889  |
| Edward I. Kelley  |  |
| William W. Kennard  |  |
| Robert T. Kent  |  |
| Joseph O. Knox  |  |
| Arthur F. Lamb  |  |
| Ernest A. LaRocque  |  |
| Charles S. Lawler  |  |
| Joseph M. Levenson  |  |
| John N. Levins  |  |
| Fred Oliver Lewis  | June 12, 1878  |
| George E. Lilley  |  |
| Daniel Waldo Lincoln  | September 2, 1882  |
| George A. Lindberg  |  |
| George Washington Love  |  |
| James MacFarlane Lyle  |  |
| Frank E. Lyman | September 15, 1866  |
| Luther B. Lyman  | November 13, 1853  |
| John H. Lynch  | October 28, 1884  |
| James E. MacPherson  |  |
| John P. Mahoney  | May 26, 1888  |
| Lloyd Makepeace  |  |
| Michael F. Malone  |  |
| David Mancovitz | August 15, 1877  |
| Frank A. Manning  |  |
| Felix A. Marcella  |  |
| Robert B. Martin  |  |
| John Edwin Maybury  |  |
| John Henry McAllister  |  |
| Peter F. McCarty  |  |
| Joseph McGrath (American politician) | December 20, 1890  |
| James H. McInerney  | December 13, 1871  |
| Frederick William McKenzie  |  |
| Michael J. McNamee  |  |
| Charles J. McNulty  |  |
| Samuel H. Mildram  |  |
| John Mitchell  | September 4, 1877  |
| John L. Monahan  |  |
| Wesley E. Monk  | August 1, 1874  |
| Alfred James Moore  | August 7, 1891  |
| Daniel T. Morrill  |  |
| Edward G. Morris |  |
| James Morrison  | February 17, 1857  |
| Frank Mulveny  |  |
| John J. Murphy  | March 26, 1889  |
| Dennis A. Murphy | September 26, 1876  |
| William A. Murray  | June 17, 1889  |
| Ken Nash |  |
| Arthur N. Newhall  |  |
| John P. Nickerson  |  |
| Francis Norwood  |  |
| John Joseph O'Brien  |  |
| John Joseph O'Connell  |  |
| James T. O'Dowd  |  |
| Joseph A. Oakhem  |  |
| James E. Odlin  |  |
| Ambrose F. Ogden  |  |
| John N. Osborne  | January 28, 1853  |
| George E. Osgood  |  |
| Peter C. Paradis  |  |
| John H. Parker  | August 27, 1859  |
| Ward Mayhew Parker  |  |
| Chauncey Pepin  |  |
| Harold L. Perrin  |  |
| Edward Howland Perry  |  |
| Joseph H. Perry  | May 4, 1869  |
| Joseph C. Perry  | May 1, 1856  |
| James E. Phelan  | October 21, 1884  |
| Frederick Everett Pierce  | May 5, 1862  |
| James Tracy Potter  | January 26, 1870  |
| Francis Prescott  |  |
| Albert T. Quiry  |  |
| William C. Renne  |  |
| George Louis Richards  |  |
| Charles Freeman Rowley  |  |
| Louis Hooker Ruggles  |  |
| William F. Runnells  | February 18, 1865  |
| G. Oscar Russell  |  |
| John D. Ryan  | July 30, 1868  |
| Edward Julius Sandberg  | October 21, 1866  |
| Joseph A. Saunders  |  |
| Frederick W. Schlapp  |  |
| C. Burnside Seagrave  |  |
| C. Edgar Searing  |  |
| John H. Sherburne | 1877  |
| Michael J. Sherry  |  |
| Samuel Silverman  |  |
| Allston M. Sinnott  |  |
| Jerome S. Smith  |  |
| Fitz-Henry Smith Jr.  |  |
| William O. Souther Jr.  |  |
| Joseph Fayette Stone  | February 8, 1858  |
| Merrill E. Streeter  |  |
| Denis J. Sullivan  | July 24, 1889  |
| William H. Sullivan  | February 20, 1869  |
| Simon Swig | 1862  |
| James E. Tolman | November 8, 1867  |
| Albert Mason Tyler  |  |
| George J. Wall  |  |
| Robert J. Ware  |  |
| Joseph E. Warner | May 16, 1884  |
| George B. Waterman  |  |
| William E. Weeks | 1880  |
| Thomas Weston, Jr  |  |
| Albert L. Whitman  |  |
| Edgar H. Whitney  |  |
| Waterman Lester Williams  | August 10, 1867  |
| Alvin R. Wilson  |  |
| Herbert A. Wilson | November 27, 1870  |
| Walter Edgar Wolfe  |  |
| Isaac U. Wood  |  |
| William H. Woodhead  | September 17, 1860  |
| Harry C. Woodill  |  |
| George M. Worrall  |  |
| Benjamin Loring Young | 1885  |

## See also

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* 1916 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
* 64th United States Congress
* List of Massachusetts General Courts

## References

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1. ^ a b c Who's Who in State Politics. Boston: Practical Politics. 1916.
2. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1916" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - via State Library of Massachusetts

## Further reading

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* Number of assessed polls, registered voters and persons who voted in each voting precinct in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at the state, city and town elections (1915), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1916, hdl:2452/43507
* Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1916.
* Bridgman, Arthur Milnor (1916). Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators: 1916. A. M. Bridgman. hdl:2452/43362.
* "Court ban on apportionment", Boston Daily Globe, September 9, 1916, "Declares Constitution transgressed by 'glaring' and 'flagrant' violations of prescribed equality in Suffolk County redistricting"

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* Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1916, hdl:2452/303855
* Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1916, hdl:2452/60138

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* Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden
* Bristol and Norfolk
* Bristol and Plymouth: 1st, 2nd
* Cape and Islands
* Essex: 1st, 2nd, 3rd
* Essex and Middlesex: 1st, 2nd
* Hampden
* Hampden and Hampshire: 1st, 2nd
* Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester
* Middlesex: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
* Middlesex and Norfolk: 1st, 2nd
* Middlesex and Suffolk
* Middlesex and Worcester
* Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex
* Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth
* Norfolk and Plymouth
* Norfolk and Suffolk
* Plymouth and Barnstable
* Plymouth and Bristol: 1st, 2nd
* Plymouth and Norfolk
* Suffolk: 1st, 2nd
* Suffolk and Middlesex: 1st, 2nd
* Worcester: 1st, 2nd
* Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex
* Worcester and Middlesex
* Worcester and Norfolk
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1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th

Bristol|

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th

Cape and Islands|

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Franklin|

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Hampden|

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Hampshire|

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