1916 Massachusetts legislature

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

137th
Massachusetts General Court
136th 138th
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
Senate
Members40
House
Members240

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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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