1918 Massachusetts legislature

The 139th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1918 during the governorship of Samuel W. McCall. Henry Gordon Wells served as president of the Senate and Channing H. Cox served as speaker of the House.[4]

139th
Massachusetts General Court
138th 140th
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 6, 1917
Senate
Members40
PresidentHenry Gordon Wells
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerChanning H. Cox
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 2, 1918 (1918-01-02) – June 3, 1918 (1918-06-03) [3]
Henry Gordon Wells
Henry Gordon Wells, Senate president.
Channing H. Cox
Channing H. Cox, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1918.

Senators

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John E. Beck May 10, 1869 1st Suffolk
 
Charles Donnell Brown June 5, 1862
 
Daniel J. Buckley
 
James F. Cavanagh
 
George Dudley Chamberlain
 
George B. Churchill October 24, 1866
 
Arthur Willard Colburn December 1, 1877
 
Fred Wilder Cross September 15, 1868
 
George E. Curran
 
Edward N. Dahlborg
 
Edward B. Eames April 15, 1856
 
John I. Fitzgerald July 18, 1882
 
Charles L. Gifford March 15, 1871
 
John Halliwell February 21, 1864
 
Leonard F. Hardy
 
James L. Harrop
 
George Fred Hart November 9, 1859
 
George A. Hastings
 
Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr. October 1, 1878
 
Ernest E. Hobson September 29, 1878
 
Herman Hormel
 
George H. Jackson March 9, 1865
 
Joseph O. Knox
 
Charles S. Lawler
 
James E. MacPherson
 
Edwin T. McKnight October 11, 1869
 
Walter E. McLane
 
Edward F. McLaughlin June 6, 1883
 
Edward G. Morris
 
Ken Nash
 
Malcolm Nichols May 8, 1876
 
E. Howard Perley
 
Harold L. Perrin
 
Silas D. Reed
 
William Eustis Russell
 
Alpheus Sanford
 
Charles Sumner Smith
 
James R. Tetler August 26, 1877
 
Henry Gordon Wells October 12, 1879
 
Herbert A. Wilson November 27, 1870

Representatives

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Essex S. Abbott
 
Henry Achin Jr. June 30, 1883
 
Peter I. Adams
 
Frank G. Allen October 6, 1874 8th Norfolk
 
J. Weston Allen April 19, 1872
 
Ernest William Allen
 
George C. F. Allen
 
Philip R. Ammidon
 
Seth Fenelon Arnold December 21, 1878
 
Harrison Henry Atwood August 26, 1863
 
Charles M. Austin May 2, 1884
 
George W. P. Babb
 
James T. Bagshaw
 
John Henry Baker
 
William B. Baldwin September 18, 1854
 
George Storer Baldwin
 
John Ballantyne July 9, 1869
 
Joseph L. Barry
 
Herbert Amiel Bartlett
 
Frank Bartlett
 
William A. Bartlett
 
Russell T. Bates
 
George J. Bates February 25, 1891
 
Thomas William Baxter
 
Charles H. Beaman
 
Alton Leroy Bellows
 
Chauncey A. Bennett
 
James D. Bentley February 6, 1884
 
Jay Rogers Benton
 
Alfred M. Bessette March 25, 1876
 
Jacob Bitzer January 16, 1865
 
Giles Blague
 
Arthur Franklin Blanchard January 27, 1883
 
Alvin E. Bliss
 
Cornelius Boothman
 
Arthur Bower
 
Eden K. Bowser
 
Albert C. Bray
 
Elmer L. Briggs
 
Fred Johnson Brown
 
Arthur Stanley Browne
 
George J. Brunell November 1, 1865
 
George Bunting August 31, 1868
 
Frank James Burke September 8, 1885
 
Arthur E. Burr
 
Fred J. Burrell March 12, 1889
 
Frederick Butler
 
Ralph N. Butterworth
 
George H. Carrick
 
John B. Cashman
 
Herman Stanley Cheney
 
Henry S. Clark
 
Frederic F. Clauss
 
Benjamin G. Collins
 
William S. Conroy October 2, 1877
 
Harry A. Cooke
 
Charles L. Cooley
 
Thomas J. Corbett May 10, 1883
 
Edwin S. Corey
 
Robert Shaw Corrigan
 
Patrick M. Costello
 
Henry E. Cowdrey
 
Edward J. Cox
 
William F. Craig September 15, 1866
 
John W. Craig
 
John Cronin
 
Clarence A. Crooks
 
John T. Crowley November 15, 1872
 
Warren Chapman Daggett May 10, 1868
 
Henry Ellsworth Dean September 29, 1862
 
George F. Dennis
 
Thomas F. Donovan September 26, 1890
 
John L. Donovan June 3, 1876
 
James Beattie Dow
 
Andrew P. Doyle August 15, 1869
 
Timothy J. Driscoll
 
Eddy P. Dunbar
 
Horace E. Dunkle
 
William F. Dwyer
 
Carl C. Emery November 4, 1888
 
John P. Englert
 
Philip J. Feinberg
 
James R. Ferry
 
Samuel B. Finkel
 
Michael J. Fitzgerald March 10, 1878
 
Michael A. Flanagan February 21, 1890
 
William Fleming
 
William J. Foley March 2, 1887
 
William Foster January 21, 1869
 
Joseph E. Freeling
 
William F. French March 21, 1873
 
William P. French April 30, 1874
 
Charles Benjamin Frothingham November 11, 1858
 
Howard F. Furness
 
John Mellen Gibbs
 
Edwin H. Gibson
 
Daniel J. Gillen
 
Nesbit G. Gleason
 
Charles Waite Gould May 8, 1891
 
William J. Granfield December 18, 1889
 
Clarence H. Granger
 
Thomas H. Green May 11, 1883
 
Fred Parker Greenwood
 
Clarence Milton Hall
 
John Otis Hamilton
 
Rowland P. Harriman
 
Edward F. Harrington (state representative) August 10, 1878
 
Charles H. Hartshorn
 
William M. Haskins
 
James William Hayes
 
Walter Haynes
 
Martin Hays October 14, 1876
 
William H. Hearn
 
Matthew A. Higgins
 
John A. Hirsch 1861
 
William J. Holland
 
Edgar F. Howland
 
John Robert 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
 
Michael H. Jordan February 7, 1863
 
Thomas Martin Joyce
 
Charles A. Kelley March 24, 1862
 
Edward I. Kelley
 
David Leon Kelley April 26, 1889
 
Nathaniel Putnam Kellogg
 
Robert T. Kent
 
James F. Kiernan February 1, 1884
 
William Aiken Kneeland
 
Martin R. Lane
 
Ernest A. LaRocque
 
Thomas Leavitt
 
William G. Lord
 
Frank E. Lyman September 15, 1866
 
Winthrop Magee
 
John P. Mahoney May 26, 1888
 
William Henry Mahoney
 
Lloyd Makepeace
 
Michael F. Malone
 
David J. Maloney
 
Frank A. Manning
 
William J. Manning
 
Arthur E. Marsh
 
George S. Marsh February 18, 1858
 
Robert B. Martin
 
John Henry McAllister
 
William H. McDonnell April 9, 1885
 
Joseph McGrath (American politician) December 20, 1890
 
David Story McIntosh
 
Francis P. McKeon
 
Francis B. McKinney
 
Henry J. McLaughlin
 
William Raymond McMenimen
 
Michael J. McNamee
 
Stephen R. Mealey
 
Walter L. Mellen January 10, 1868
 
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
 
Charles H. Morrill October 6, 1874
 
James Morrison February 17, 1857
 
George D. Morse
 
J. Warren Moulton
 
James J. Moynihan
 
Frank Mulveny
 
Daniel C. Murphy December 14, 1887
 
Dennis A. Murphy September 26, 1876
 
John J. Murphy March 26, 1889
 
Arthur L. Nason October 24, 1872
 
Christian Nelson
 
Oscar H. Nelson
 
Arthur N. Newhall
 
Frederic C. Nichols
 
George L. Nourse
 
Edward H. Nutting July 6, 1869
 
Charles S. O'Connor
 
John D. O'Connor May 7, 1886
 
James E. Odlin
 
William W. Ollendorff
 
John Glenn Orr February 27, 1857
 
John N. Osborne January 28, 1853
 
Walter T. Packard
 
Arthur W. Paine
 
George Penshorn
 
Chauncey Pepin
 
Walter Perham
 
Frederick Everett Pierce May 5, 1862
 
Leland Powers
 
Francis Prescott
 
Frank H. Putnam
 
Lawrence F. Quigley
 
Timothy F. Quinn
 
Dennis F. Reardon
 
George Louis Richards
 
Arthur W. Robinson
 
Charles Freeman Rowley
 
Roland D. Sawyer January 8, 1874
 
Edward A. Scigliano
 
Harry L. Shedd
 
Michael Nathaniel Slotnick
 
Charles Henry Slowey
 
Jerome S. Smith
 
Fitz-Henry Smith Jr.
 
Dexter Avery Snow January 3, 1890
 
Gilbert G. Southworth
 
Burgess H. Spinney
 
William N. Stetson
 
Simon Swig 1862
 
Warren E. Tarbell
 
James E. Tolman November 8, 1867
 
Frank A. Torrey December 21, 1874
 
Charles L. Underhill July 20, 1867
 
Albert P. Wadleigh
 
George Walker
 
Albert T. Wall
 
Joseph E. Warner May 16, 1884
 
Jacob Wasserman
 
George B. Waterman
 
Thomas Weston, Jr
 
Joseph W. Wharton
 
Bion Thomas Wheeler
 
Albert L. Whitman
 
George A. Whitney
 
Alvin R. Wilson
 
Charles A. Winchester
 
Carlton Walen Wonson
 
Isaac U. Wood
 
Wilbur A. Wood
 
Harry C. Woodill
 
George M. Worrall
 
Myron A. Young
 
Benjamin Loring Young 1885

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. 2005. p. 338+.
  5. ^ a b Who's Who in State Politics. Boston: Practical Politics. 1918.
  6. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1918" (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 (1917), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1918, hdl:2452/43509
  • Court, Massachusetts General (1918). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40696.
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