1912 Massachusetts legislature

The 133rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1912 during the governorship of Eugene Foss. Levi H. Greenwood served as president of the Senate and Grafton D. Cushing served as speaker of the House.[4]

133rd
Massachusetts General Court
132nd 134th
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 7, 1911
Senate
Members40
PresidentLevi H. Greenwood
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerGrafton D. Cushing
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 3, 1912 (1912-01-03) – June 13, 1912 (1912-06-13) [3]
Levi H. Greenwood
Levi Greenwood, Senate president.
Grafton D. Cushing
Grafton Cushing, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1912.

Notable legislation included the creation of a minimum wage commission.[5][6]

Senators

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Arthur S. Adams February 14, 1869
 
Claude L. Allen 4th Middlesex
 
Erson B. Barlow October 20, 1883
 
George L. Barnes
 
Frank P. Bennett Jr. December 30, 1878
 
Charles V. Blanchard February 2, 1866
 
Charles H. Brown January 19, 1879
 
William R. Burke July 14, 1870
 
Charles S. Chace
 
Ezra W. Clark October 12, 1842
 
Calvin Coolidge July 4, 1872
 
Daniel E. Denny July 14, 1845
 
Edric Eldridge
 
Edward J. Grainger
 
Levi H. Greenwood December 22, 1872
 
Dennis E. Halley
 
James A. Hatton
 
Frederic M. Hersey
 
Francis J. Horgan
 
John H. Hunt
 
Thomas Martin Joyce
 
Joseph P. Lomasney
 
John H. Mack
 
Charles F. McCarthy August 15, 1876
 
Walter E. McLane
 
Henry C. Mulligan
 
Arthur L. Nason October 24, 1872
 
George H. Newhall October 24, 1850
 
Charles H. Pearson
 
James F. Powers October 1, 1872
 
Francis X. Quigley November 20, 1882
 
Samuel Ross February 2, 1865
George A. Schofield
 
John H. Schoonmaker February 14, 1869
 
Harry N. Stearns October 5, 1874
Luke S. Stowe
 
James P. Timilty March 28, 1865
 
George H. Tinkham October 29, 1870
 
Thomas M. Vinson
 
William H. Wheeler

Representatives

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Henry Achin Jr. June 30, 1883 17th Middlesex
 
Henry L. Andrews
 
Oscar E. Arkwell
 
Frank W. Atkins
 
Edward C. R. Bagley
 
J. Herbert Baker
 
Willie W. Baker
 
John Ballantyne July 9, 1869
 
Clarence A. Barnes August 28, 1882
 
James F. Barry December 4, 1857
 
Frederick D. Bartlett
A. Willis Bartlett September 21, 1853
 
Sanford Bates July 17, 1884
 
William A. L. Bazeley 1872
 
John Van Beal
Harry Clayton Beaman March 9, 1863
 
James W. Bean May 11, 1866
 
William A. Bellamy
Arthur H. Bicknell March 31, 1873
 
Enos H. Bigelow
 
Alvin E. Bliss
 
Charles M. Blodgett
 
William Booth June 21, 1862
 
Henry E. Bothfeld March 4, 1859
 
George E. Bowker
 
John G. Brackett
George A. Braley April 23, 1863
 
Melvin B. Breath March 28, 1881
 
James Henry Brennan December 21, 1888
 
James J. Brennan May 2, 1882
 
John P. Brennan March 1, 1876
 
Vincent Brogna
 
Michael J. Brophy
 
George J. Brunell November 1, 1865
 
Daniel J. Buckley
 
Morton Henry Burdick
 
George R. Burns January 4, 1882
 
James D. Burns July 4, 1876
 
Adolphus M. Burroughs
 
Otis W. Butler
 
Thomas F. J. Callahan
 
Matthew J. Carbary
 
John J. Carmody
 
Patrick B. Carr
 
James F. Cavanagh
 
Wendell P. Clark
 
Albert B. Clark
 
Zebedee E. Cliff September 23, 1864
 
John Henry Cogswell July 4, 1875
 
Samuel I. Collins March 4, 1851
 
John D. Connors
 
Leon M. Conwell April 15, 1870
 
James H. L. Coon
 
Michael H. Cotter
 
Channing H. Cox October 28, 1879
 
Joseph Craig
 
Russell D. Crane
 
John J. Creed
 
Courtenay Crocker February 4, 1881
 
Daniel Francis Cronin
Charles A. Crowley June 11, 1873
 
Thomas S. Cuff
Francis M. Cummings October 4, 1885
 
John A. Curtin April 3, 1870
 
Grafton D. Cushing August 4, 1864
 
George T. Daly
 
Thomas Davies February 11, 1875
 
Charles A. Dean March 26, 1856
 
John L. Donovan June 3, 1876
 
Andrew P. Doyle August 15, 1869
 
George P. Drury
 
William S. Duncan
 
John F. Dwyer
 
James Frank Eagan
 
Harry Millett Eames
 
George W. W. Edson
 
Charles W. Eldridge October 16, 1877
 
George H. Ellis October 3, 1848
William F. Emerson October 6, 1849
 
Wilton B. Fay
 
John B. Fellows
 
Edward Fisher
 
Daniel Fitzpatrick
 
John T. Flanagan May 25, 1869
 
Harold H. Flower
 
Louis A. Foley
 
Fred W. Ford
 
James Eugene Fowle November 22, 1880
Gerrett Geils, Jr.
 
Benjamin D. Gifford
 
William H. Gifford January 20, 1851
 
Charles L. Gifford March 15, 1871
 
Gurdon W. Gordon
 
Isaac Gordon
 
Frederic J. Grady
 
William J. Graham October 2, 1873
 
James I. Green April 9, 1885
 
Fred Parker Greenwood
 
James F. Griffin January 19, 1884
 
John W. Haigis July 31, 1881
 
Benjamin F. Haines November 25, 1876
Freeman Hall July 22, 1867
 
Edward M. Hall
 
Clarence W. Harding
 
Leonard F. Hardy
 
Edward F. Harrington (state representative) August 10, 1878
 
James A. Hart October 29, 1864
 
Edward R. Hathaway
 
Truman R. Hawley
 
Martin Hays October 14, 1876
 
Michael A. Henebery
 
Ira G. Hersey
 
William P. Hickey November 17, 1871
 
Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr. October 1, 1878
 
Henry W. Holbrook February 18, 1875
 
Alexander Holmes
 
Charles T. Holt August 1, 1845
 
Charles H. Howe
 
Frederick W. Hurlburt
 
James M. Hurley
Lester W. Jenney April 24, 1876
 
Victor Francis Jewett
 
John E. Kearns
 
Michael S. Keenan
 
Michael Kelly June 17, 1840
 
William W. Kennard
 
Louis R. Kiernan
 
Clifford L. King
 
William S. Kinney
James Kittle
 
H. Bert Knowles
 
Francis X. Le Boeuf
 
Joseph Leonard
 
William J. Leslie
 
George W. Libbey
 
Edwin F. Lilley
 
Martin Lomasney December 3, 1859
 
Paul I. Lombard
John E. Lyman July 1, 1859
Herman A. MacDonald November 11, 1881
 
James P. Maguire
 
John C. Mahoney
 
Joseph W. Martin Jr. November 3, 1884
 
John F. McCarthy
Almiron J. McCulloch October 29, 1847
 
Leo F. McCullough
 
Edward J. McDermott
 
James A. McElaney Jr.
 
John D. McGivern
 
Edward E. McGrath
 
James H. McInerney December 13, 1871
 
Hugh M. McKay
Stewart H. McLeod
 
William M. McMorrow
 
Timothy J. Meade November 7, 1874
 
John F. Meaney
Walter R. Meins January 14, 1883
 
John Mitchell September 4, 1877
 
Charles H. Morgan January 15, 1869
 
Charles H. Morrill October 6, 1874
 
Edward T. Morse
 
Frank Mulveny
 
John J. Murphy March 26, 1889
 
James J. Murphy February 11, 1885
 
David W. Murray September 9, 1874
 
William J. Murray October 7, 1885
 
William J. Naphen
 
Arthur N. Newhall
 
C. Augustus Norwood
 
William P. O'Brien
 
Charles R. O'Connell September 16, 1874
 
Francis D. O'Donnell
 
William A. O'Hearn March 8, 1887
 
J. Howard O'Keefe
 
Charles A. Orstrom
Charles B. Packard January 29, 1858
 
Joseph H. Parker Jr. April 16, 1871
 
Joseph A. Parks May 2, 1877
 
Henry H. Parsons August 11, 1866
 
Norman B. Parsons
Joseph H. Pendergast December 9, 1879
 
Chauncey Pepin
 
Laurence S. Perry
Walter E. Piper September 22, 1857
 
Frank H. Pope March 7, 1854
 
Arthur Franklin Priest
 
Harry Bancroft Putnam September 7, 1878
 
Martin Lewis Quinn January 19, 1862
 
John E. Quinn
George Francis Reardon February 2, 1878
 
Joseph J. Reed
 
Michael J. Reidy
 
Ralph R. Rideout
 
Louis O. Rieutord
 
John Lee Saltonstall May 23, 1878
 
John C. Sanborn
 
Edgar E. Sargent
 
Frederick W. Schlapp
 
C. Burnside Seagrave
Alexander Sedgwick 1867
 
Benjamin Sharp 1858
 
John H. Sherburne 1877
 
Albert H. Silvester
 
Jerome S. Smith
 
Charles D. Smith
 
John G. Stevens
 
Waldo L. Stone
 
Henry M. Storm
 
William H. Sullivan February 20, 1869
 
William J. Sullivan April 14, 1865
 
Benjamin F. Sullivan
 
Edward A. Sweeney
 
Daniel W. Teehan
 
Alfred Tewksbury
 
Herbert E. Thompson
 
Eugene F. Toomey
 
Nathan A. Tufts April 15, 1879
William D. Turner October 22, 1866
James D. Tyler June 15, 1848
 
E. Warren Tyler
 
Charles L. Underhill July 20, 1867
 
John R. Wallace
Henry W. Warner November 12, 1858
 
Robert M. Washburn January 4, 1868
J. Thomas Webb September 16, 1838
 
George Pearl Webster January 9, 1877
 
Henry Gordon Wells October 12, 1879
 
Thomas W. White January 10, 1876
 
Isaac E. Willetts November 8, 1879
Henry J. Winslow June 27, 1880
 
Ernest A. Witt
 
Roger Wolcott July 25, 1877
 
Charles J. Wood March 18, 1854
 
Russell A. Wood
Norman P. Wood July 30, 1846
Otis L. Wright October 4, 1853
 
Henry D. Wright

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. 2009. p. 340+.
  5. ^ Andrew Glass (June 4, 2015), "Massachusetts law requires wage boards to set new wage rates, June 4, 1912", Politico.com, archived from the original on February 9, 2016, retrieved June 4, 2020
  6. ^ "1912 Chap. 0706. An Act To Establish The Minimum Wage Commission And To Provide For The Determination Of Minimum Wages For Women And Minors", Massachusetts Acts and Resolves, 1912, hdl:2452/78308
  7. ^ a b Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1912.
  8. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1912" (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 (1911), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1912, hdl:2452/43503
  • Who's Who in State Politics: 1912. Boston: Practical Politics. 1912. hdl:2452/119270.
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  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1912, hdl:2452/429129
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1912, hdl:2452/73500