1919 Massachusetts legislature

140th
Massachusetts General Court

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

The 140th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1919.[1]

## Senators[edit]

image  | name [1] | date of birth [2] | district [2]

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| John E. Beck | May 10, 1869  | 1st Suffolk
| Charles Donnell Brown  | June 5, 1862  |
| Edward Callahan  |  |
| James F. Cavanagh  |  |
| George Dudley Chamberlain  |  |
| George B. Churchill | October 24, 1866  |
| Arthur Willard Colburn  | December 1, 1877  |
| Edward A. Counihan Jr.  |  |
| John Cronin  |  |
| George E. Curran  |  |
| John A. Curtin  | April 3, 1870  |
| Edward N. Dahlborg  |  |
| Edward B. Eames  | April 15, 1856  |
| Samuel B. Finkel  |  |
| William J. Foley | March 2, 1887  |
| Charles L. Gifford | March 15, 1871  |
| John Halliwell  | February 21, 1864  |
| Leonard F. Hardy  |  |
| Walter A. Hardy  | December 15, 1866  |
| George A. Hastings  |  |
| Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr.  | October 1, 1878  |
| George H. Jackson  | March 9, 1865  |
| John Joseph Kearney  |  |
| Joseph O. Knox  |  |
| Augustus Peabody Loring  | 1856  |
| John J. Mahoney  | April 13, 1860  |
| David Story McIntosh  |  |
| Edwin T. McKnight | October 11, 1869  |
| Walter E. McLane  |  |
| Arthur L. Nason  | October 24, 1872  |
| Malcolm Nichols | May 8, 1876  |
| Harold L. Perrin  |  |
| Francis Prescott  |  |
| Silas D. Reed  |  |
| Charles Sumner Smith  |  |
| Peter F. Sullivan | June 29, 1871  |
| Warren E. Tarbell  |  |
| John J. Walsh  |  |
| Thomas Weston Jr  |  |
| Charles A. Winchester  |  |

## Representatives[edit]

image  | name [1] | date of birth [2] | district [2]

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| Essex S. Abbott  |  |
| Henry Achin Jr.  | June 30, 1883  |
| Joseph B. Aigen  |  |
| Frank G. Allen | October 6, 1874  | 8th Norfolk
| Ernest William Allen  |  |
| Seth Fenelon Arnold  | December 21, 1878  |
| Charles M. Austin  | May 2, 1884  |
| Josiah Babcock Jr.  | May 21, 1880  |
| James T. Bagshaw  |  |
| John Henry Baker  |  |
| Francis N. Balch  | November 23, 1873  |
| William B. Baldwin  | September 18, 1854  |
| George Storer Baldwin  |  |
| Joseph L. Barry  |  |
| Herbert Amiel Bartlett  |  |
| George J. Bates | February 25, 1891  |
| Thomas William Baxter  |  |
| Arthur Enoch Beane  |  |
| Addison P. Beardsley  |  |
| Erastus T. Bearse  |  |
| Alton Leroy Bellows  |  |
| Chauncey A. Bennett  |  |
| James D. Bentley  | February 6, 1884  |
| Alfred M. Bessette  | March 25, 1876  |
| Orlando C. Bidwell  |  |
| Robert E. Bigney  |  |
| Jacob Bitzer | January 16, 1865  |
| Giles Blague  |  |
| Alvin E. Bliss  |  |
| Cornelius Boothman  |  |
| Eden K. Bowser  |  |
| Alfred Bradbury  |  |
| Charles D. Bradbury  |  |
| Albert C. Bray  |  |
| Louis Adelard Breault  |  |
| James Henry Brennan  | December 21, 1888  |
| Owen E. Brennen  | September 26, 1868  |
| Frank L. Brier  |  |
| Elmer L. Briggs  |  |
| Fred Johnson Brown  |  |
| Edgar J. Buck  |  |
| Maurice Allan Buck  |  |
| William J. Bullock  |  |
| George Bunting  | August 31, 1868  |
| Fred J. Burrell | March 12, 1889  |
| George F. Butterick  | August 16, 1855  |
| John J. Carey  | February 28, 1888  |
| John B. Cashman  |  |
| Mial W. Chase  |  |
| Henry S. Clark  |  |
| Frederic F. Clauss  |  |
| Everett W. Coleman  |  |
| Benjamin G. Collins  |  |
| William S. Conroy  | October 2, 1877  |
| D. Herbert Cook  | June 2, 1851  |
| Harry A. Cooke  |  |
| Charles L. Cooley  |  |
| Thomas J. Corbett  | May 10, 1883  |
| Patrick M. Costello  |  |
| Henry E. Cowdrey  |  |
| Frank H. Cowin  |  |
| Edward J. Cox  |  |
| Samuel V. Crane  | October 4, 1855  |
| Warren Chapman Daggett  | May 10, 1868  |
| Leon Warren Davis  |  |
| George L. Dawley  |  |
| Henry Ellsworth Dean  | September 29, 1862  |
| Thomas F. Donovan  | September 26, 1890  |
| Lawrence F. Dowd  |  |
| Andrew P. Doyle  | August 15, 1869  |
| Timothy J. Driscoll  |  |
| Horace E. Durgin  | December 4, 1863  |
| Bernard Early  |  |
| George R. Ellis  | July 29, 1876  |
| Joseph W. Ellsworth Jr.  |  |
| Carl C. Emery  | November 4, 1888  |
| John P. Englert  |  |
| Alfred C. Fairbanks  |  |
| Philip J. Feinberg  |  |
| John I. Fitzgerald | July 18, 1882  |
| Michael A. Flanagan  | February 21, 1890  |
| William Fleming  |  |
| Charles R. Foote  | July 9, 1865  |
| Robert T. Fowler  |  |
| William J. Francis  |  |
| Joseph E. Freeling  |  |
| William P. French  | April 30, 1874  |
| Howard F. Furness  |  |
| John Mellen Gibbs  |  |
| Daniel J. Gillen  |  |
| Frederick P. Glazier  | September 27, 1859  |
| Charles Waite Gould  | May 8, 1891  |
| William J. Granfield | December 18, 1889  |
| Clarence H. Granger  |  |
| Alfred A. Grant  |  |
| Maurice F. Greaney  |  |
| Thomas H. Green  | May 11, 1883  |
| Fred Parker Greenwood  |  |
| Fred C. Haigis  |  |
| Cornelius F. Haley  | July 15, 1875  |
| Leo Spotten Hamburger  |  |
| John Otis Hamilton  |  |
| Edward F. Harrington (state representative) | August 10, 1878  |
| Charles H. Hartshorn  |  |
| Daniel J. Hayden  |  |
| James William Hayes  |  |
| Walter Haynes  |  |
| Martin Hays  | October 14, 1876  |
| William H. Hearn  |  |
| Joseph E. Herrick  |  |
| William P. Hickey  | November 17, 1871  |
| Matthew A. Higgins  |  |
| Edward Carroll Hinckley  |  |
| Edgar F. Howland  |  |
| John Robert Hudson  |  |
| George C. F. Hudson  |  |
| John C. Hull (politician) | November 1, 1870  |
| Victor Francis Jewett  |  |
| William Louis Johnson  | October 23, 1856  |
| John G. Johnson  | May 23, 1864  |
| Arthur Westgate Jones  | January 11, 1873  |
| Benjamin Oliver Jones  | July 28, 1882  |
| Morris A. Jones  |  |
| Michael H. Jordan  | February 7, 1863  |
| Thomas Martin Joyce  |  |
| Jeremiah P. Keating  |  |
| David H. Keedy  |  |
| John A. Kelleher  | March 14, 1856  |
| Charles A. Kelley  | March 24, 1862  |
| David Leon Kelley  | April 26, 1889  |
| James J. Kelley  |  |
| Davis B. Keniston  |  |
| Clarence P. Kidder  |  |
| James F. Kiernan  | February 1, 1884  |
| William Aiken Kneeland  |  |
| Fred M. Knight  |  |
| Wilfrid J. Lamoureux  | December 13, 1869  |
| Benjamin C. Lane  |  |
| Ernest A. LaRocque  |  |
| Thomas Leavitt  |  |
| Luther B. Lyman  | November 13, 1853  |
| Frank E. Lyman | September 15, 1866  |
| Lloyd Makepeace  |  |
| Michael F. Malone  |  |
| David J. Maloney  |  |
| Frank A. Manning  |  |
| William J. Manning  |  |
| George S. Marsh  | February 18, 1858  |
| Arthur E. Marsh  |  |
| Allan R. McDonald  |  |
| William H. McDonnell  | April 9, 1885  |
| Francis P. McKeon  |  |
| Francis B. McKinney  |  |
| Frank McMahon  | August 29, 1872  |
| William Raymond McMenimen  |  |
| James E. McVann |  |
| James J. Mellen  | March 30, 1875  |
| Walter L. Mellen  | January 10, 1868  |
| Patrick J. Melody  |  |
| Bernard F. Merriam  |  |
| Julius Meyers  | December 6, 1854  |
| John Mitchell  | September 4, 1877  |
| Wesley E. Monk  | August 1, 1874  |
| James G. Moran | May 2, 1870  |
| J. Warren Moulton  |  |
| James J. Moynihan  |  |
| Frank Mulveny  |  |
| James J. Mulvey  |  |
| Daniel C. Murphy  | December 14, 1887  |
| John J. Murphy  | March 26, 1889  |
| William J. Naphen  |  |
| Christian Nelson  |  |
| John R. Nelson  | November 22, 1871  |
| Arthur N. Newhall  |  |
| George H. Newhall | October 24, 1850  |
| Frederic C. Nichols  |  |
| Thomas A. Niland  | June 11, 1873  |
| William A. O'Brien  |  |
| John D. O'Connor  | May 7, 1886  |
| Frank A. Oberti  |  |
| James E. Odlin  |  |
| William W. Ollendorff  |  |
| John Glenn Orr  | February 27, 1857  |
| John N. Osborne  | January 28, 1853  |
| Chauncey Pepin  |  |
| Frank B. Phinney  |  |
| Frederick Everett Pierce  | May 5, 1862  |
| William Plattner  |  |
| Leland Powers  |  |
| Frank H. Putnam |  |
| Timothy F. Quinn  |  |
| Arthur K. Reading  |  |
| Dennis F. Reardon  |  |
| Michael J. Reidy  |  |
| Abbott B. Rice  |  |
| George Louis Richards  |  |
| James W. Robertson  |  |
| Arthur W. Robinson  |  |
| Morrill S. Ryder  |  |
| Harry R. Sackett  |  |
| Roland D. Sawyer | January 8, 1874  |
| William I. Schell  |  |
| Edward A. Scigliano  |  |
| Michael F. Shaw  | September 12, 1865  |
| Fitz-Henry Smith Jr.  |  |
| Jerome S. Smith  |  |
| Dexter Avery Snow  | January 3, 1890  |
| Burgess H. Spinney  |  |
| William L. Stedman  |  |
| Emil K. Steele  |  |
| Elihu D. Stone  |  |
| Charles Symonds  |  |
| Edward Willis Taylor  |  |
| John Thomas  | January 27, 1859  |
| Frank A. Torrey  | December 21, 1874  |
| James A. Torrey | September 27, 1868  |
| Walter L. Tower  |  |
| Charles L. Underhill | July 20, 1867  |
| Albert P. Wadleigh  |  |
| Albert T. Wall  |  |
| Joseph E. Warner | May 16, 1884  |
| George M. Webber  |  |
| George Pearl Webster  | January 9, 1877  |
| Wellington Wells | April 18, 1868  |
| Joseph W. Wharton  |  |
| Bion Thomas Wheeler  |  |
| Renton Whidden  |  |
| John Addison White  | August 8, 1859  |
| Albert L. Whitman  |  |
| James H. Wilkins  |  |
| Herbert Francis Winn  |  |
| Carlton Walen Wonson  |  |
| Isaac U. Wood  |  |
| William H. Woodhead  | September 17, 1860  |
| Harry C. Woodill  |  |
| Benjamin H. Woodsum  |  |
| George M. Worrall  |  |
| Samuel H. Wragg | June 9, 1882  |
| Elwin Temple Wright  |  |
| Benjamin Loring Young | 1885  |

## See also[edit]

* 1919 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
* 66th United States Congress
* List of Massachusetts General Courts

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston: Boston Review. 1919.
2. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1919" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - via State Library of Massachusetts

## Further reading[edit]

* Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1919.

## External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1919 Massachusetts legislature.

* Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1919, hdl:2452/303858
* Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1919, hdl:2452/79979

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Senate|

* 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
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1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th

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Berkshire|

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th

Bristol|

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

Cape and Islands|

Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket

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Franklin|

1st, 2nd

Hampden|

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

Hampshire|

1st, 2nd, 3rd

Middlesex|

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Norfolk  |

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th

Plymouth|

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

Suffolk|

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th

Worcester|

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th

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