1912 Massachusetts legislature
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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]
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| Legislative body | General Court | ||||
| Election | November 7, 1911 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 40 | ||||
| President | Levi H. Greenwood | ||||
| Party control | Republican[1] | ||||
| House | |||||
| Members | 240 | ||||
| Speaker | Grafton D. Cushing | ||||
| Party control | Republican[2] | ||||
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Levi Greenwood, Senate president.
Grafton Cushing, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1912.
Notable legislation included the creation of a minimum wage commission.[5][6]
Senators edit
| image | name [7] | date of birth [8] | district [8] |
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Arthur S. Adams | February 14, 1869 | |
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Claude L. Allen | 4th Middlesex | |
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Erson B. Barlow | October 20, 1883 | |
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George L. Barnes | ||
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Frank P. Bennett Jr. | December 30, 1878 | |
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Charles V. Blanchard | February 2, 1866 | |
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Charles H. Brown | January 19, 1879 | |
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William R. Burke | July 14, 1870 | |
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Charles S. Chace | ||
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Ezra W. Clark | October 12, 1842 | |
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Calvin Coolidge | July 4, 1872 | |
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Daniel E. Denny | July 14, 1845 | |
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Edric Eldridge | ||
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Edward J. Grainger | ||
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Levi H. Greenwood | December 22, 1872 | |
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Dennis E. Halley | ||
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James A. Hatton | ||
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Frederic M. Hersey | ||
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Francis J. Horgan | ||
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John H. Hunt | ||
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Thomas Martin Joyce | ||
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Joseph P. Lomasney | ||
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John H. Mack | ||
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Charles F. McCarthy | August 15, 1876 | |
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Walter E. McLane | ||
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Henry C. Mulligan | ||
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Arthur L. Nason | October 24, 1872 | |
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George H. Newhall | October 24, 1850 | |
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Charles H. Pearson | ||
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James F. Powers | October 1, 1872 | |
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Francis X. Quigley | November 20, 1882 | |
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Samuel Ross | February 2, 1865 | |
| George A. Schofield | |||
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John H. Schoonmaker | February 14, 1869 | |
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Harry N. Stearns | October 5, 1874 | |
| Luke S. Stowe | |||
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James P. Timilty | March 28, 1865 | |
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George H. Tinkham | October 29, 1870 | |
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Thomas M. Vinson | ||
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William H. Wheeler |
Representatives edit
| image | name [7] | date of birth [8] | district [8] |
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Henry Achin Jr. | June 30, 1883 | 17th Middlesex |
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Henry L. Andrews | ||
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Oscar E. Arkwell | ||
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Frank W. Atkins | ||
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Edward C. R. Bagley | ||
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J. Herbert Baker | ||
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Willie W. Baker | ||
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John Ballantyne | July 9, 1869 | |
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Clarence A. Barnes | August 28, 1882 | |
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James F. Barry | December 4, 1857 | |
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Frederick D. Bartlett | ||
| A. Willis Bartlett | September 21, 1853 | ||
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Sanford Bates | July 17, 1884 | |
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William A. L. Bazeley | 1872 | |
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John Van Beal | ||
| Harry Clayton Beaman | March 9, 1863 | ||
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James W. Bean | May 11, 1866 | |
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William A. Bellamy | ||
| Arthur H. Bicknell | March 31, 1873 | ||
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Enos H. Bigelow | ||
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Alvin E. Bliss | ||
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Charles M. Blodgett | ||
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William Booth | June 21, 1862 | |
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Henry E. Bothfeld | March 4, 1859 | |
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George E. Bowker | ||
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John G. Brackett | ||
| George A. Braley | April 23, 1863 | ||
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Melvin B. Breath | March 28, 1881 | |
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James Henry Brennan | December 21, 1888 | |
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James J. Brennan | May 2, 1882 | |
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John P. Brennan | March 1, 1876 | |
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Vincent Brogna | ||
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Michael J. Brophy | ||
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George J. Brunell | November 1, 1865 | |
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Daniel J. Buckley | ||
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Morton Henry Burdick | ||
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George R. Burns | January 4, 1882 | |
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James D. Burns | July 4, 1876 | |
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Adolphus M. Burroughs | ||
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Otis W. Butler | ||
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Thomas F. J. Callahan | ||
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Matthew J. Carbary | ||
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John J. Carmody | ||
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Patrick B. Carr | ||
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James F. Cavanagh | ||
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Wendell P. Clark | ||
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Albert B. Clark | ||
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Zebedee E. Cliff | September 23, 1864 | |
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John Henry Cogswell | July 4, 1875 | |
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Samuel I. Collins | March 4, 1851 | |
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John D. Connors | ||
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Leon M. Conwell | April 15, 1870 | |
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James H. L. Coon | ||
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Michael H. Cotter | ||
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Channing H. Cox | October 28, 1879 | |
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Joseph Craig | ||
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Russell D. Crane | ||
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John J. Creed | ||
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Courtenay Crocker | February 4, 1881 | |
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Daniel Francis Cronin | ||
| Charles A. Crowley | June 11, 1873 | ||
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Thomas S. Cuff | ||
| Francis M. Cummings | October 4, 1885 | ||
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John A. Curtin | April 3, 1870 | |
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Grafton D. Cushing | August 4, 1864 | |
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George T. Daly | ||
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Thomas Davies | February 11, 1875 | |
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Charles A. Dean | March 26, 1856 | |
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John L. Donovan | June 3, 1876 | |
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Andrew P. Doyle | August 15, 1869 | |
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George P. Drury | ||
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William S. Duncan | ||
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John F. Dwyer | ||
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James Frank Eagan | ||
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Harry Millett Eames | ||
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George W. W. Edson | ||
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Charles W. Eldridge | October 16, 1877 | |
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George H. Ellis | October 3, 1848 | |
| William F. Emerson | October 6, 1849 | ||
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Wilton B. Fay | ||
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John B. Fellows | ||
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Edward Fisher | ||
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Daniel Fitzpatrick | ||
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John T. Flanagan | May 25, 1869 | |
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Harold H. Flower | ||
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Louis A. Foley | ||
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Fred W. Ford | ||
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James Eugene Fowle | November 22, 1880 | |
| Gerrett Geils, Jr. | |||
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Benjamin D. Gifford | ||
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William H. Gifford | January 20, 1851 | |
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Charles L. Gifford | March 15, 1871 | |
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Gurdon W. Gordon | ||
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Isaac Gordon | ||
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Frederic J. Grady | ||
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William J. Graham | October 2, 1873 | |
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James I. Green | April 9, 1885 | |
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Fred Parker Greenwood | ||
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James F. Griffin | January 19, 1884 | |
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John W. Haigis | July 31, 1881 | |
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Benjamin F. Haines | November 25, 1876 | |
| Freeman Hall | July 22, 1867 | ||
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Edward M. Hall | ||
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Clarence W. Harding | ||
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Leonard F. Hardy | ||
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Edward F. Harrington (state representative) | August 10, 1878 | |
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James A. Hart | October 29, 1864 | |
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Edward R. Hathaway | ||
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Truman R. Hawley | ||
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Martin Hays | October 14, 1876 | |
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Michael A. Henebery | ||
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Ira G. Hersey | ||
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William P. Hickey | November 17, 1871 | |
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Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr. | October 1, 1878 | |
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Henry W. Holbrook | February 18, 1875 | |
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Alexander Holmes | ||
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Charles T. Holt | August 1, 1845 | |
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Charles H. Howe | ||
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Frederick W. Hurlburt | ||
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James M. Hurley | ||
| Lester W. Jenney | April 24, 1876 | ||
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Victor Francis Jewett | ||
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John E. Kearns | ||
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Michael S. Keenan | ||
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Michael Kelly | June 17, 1840 | |
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William W. Kennard | ||
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Louis R. Kiernan | ||
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Clifford L. King | ||
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William S. Kinney | ||
| James Kittle | |||
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H. Bert Knowles | ||
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Francis X. Le Boeuf | ||
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Joseph Leonard | ||
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William J. Leslie | ||
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George W. Libbey | ||
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Edwin F. Lilley | ||
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Martin Lomasney | December 3, 1859 | |
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Paul I. Lombard | ||
| John E. Lyman | July 1, 1859 | ||
| Herman A. MacDonald | November 11, 1881 | ||
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James P. Maguire | ||
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John C. Mahoney | ||
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Joseph W. Martin Jr. | November 3, 1884 | |
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John F. McCarthy | ||
| Almiron J. McCulloch | October 29, 1847 | ||
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Leo F. McCullough | ||
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Edward J. McDermott | ||
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James A. McElaney Jr. | ||
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John D. McGivern | ||
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Edward E. McGrath | ||
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James H. McInerney | December 13, 1871 | |
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Hugh M. McKay | ||
| Stewart H. McLeod | |||
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William M. McMorrow | ||
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Timothy J. Meade | November 7, 1874 | |
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John F. Meaney | ||
| Walter R. Meins | January 14, 1883 | ||
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John Mitchell | September 4, 1877 | |
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Charles H. Morgan | January 15, 1869 | |
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Charles H. Morrill | October 6, 1874 | |
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Edward T. Morse | ||
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Frank Mulveny | ||
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John J. Murphy | March 26, 1889 | |
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James J. Murphy | February 11, 1885 | |
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David W. Murray | September 9, 1874 | |
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William J. Murray | October 7, 1885 | |
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William J. Naphen | ||
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Arthur N. Newhall | ||
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C. Augustus Norwood | ||
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William P. O'Brien | ||
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Charles R. O'Connell | September 16, 1874 | |
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Francis D. O'Donnell | ||
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William A. O'Hearn | March 8, 1887 | |
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J. Howard O'Keefe | ||
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Charles A. Orstrom | ||
| Charles B. Packard | January 29, 1858 | ||
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Joseph H. Parker Jr. | April 16, 1871 | |
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Joseph A. Parks | May 2, 1877 | |
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Henry H. Parsons | August 11, 1866 | |
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Norman B. Parsons | ||
| Joseph H. Pendergast | December 9, 1879 | ||
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Chauncey Pepin | ||
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Laurence S. Perry | ||
| Walter E. Piper | September 22, 1857 | ||
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Frank H. Pope | March 7, 1854 | |
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Arthur Franklin Priest | ||
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Harry Bancroft Putnam | September 7, 1878 | |
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Martin Lewis Quinn | January 19, 1862 | |
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John E. Quinn | ||
| George Francis Reardon | February 2, 1878 | ||
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Joseph J. Reed | ||
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Michael J. Reidy | ||
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Ralph R. Rideout | ||
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Louis O. Rieutord | ||
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John Lee Saltonstall | May 23, 1878 | |
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John C. Sanborn | ||
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Edgar E. Sargent | ||
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Frederick W. Schlapp | ||
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C. Burnside Seagrave | ||
| Alexander Sedgwick | 1867 | ||
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Benjamin Sharp | 1858 | |
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John H. Sherburne | 1877 | |
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Albert H. Silvester | ||
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Jerome S. Smith | ||
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Charles D. Smith | ||
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John G. Stevens | ||
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Waldo L. Stone | ||
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Henry M. Storm | ||
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William H. Sullivan | February 20, 1869 | |
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William J. Sullivan | April 14, 1865 | |
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Benjamin F. Sullivan | ||
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Edward A. Sweeney | ||
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Daniel W. Teehan | ||
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Alfred Tewksbury | ||
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Herbert E. Thompson | ||
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Eugene F. Toomey | ||
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Nathan A. Tufts | April 15, 1879 | |
| William D. Turner | October 22, 1866 | ||
| James D. Tyler | June 15, 1848 | ||
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E. Warren Tyler | ||
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Charles L. Underhill | July 20, 1867 | |
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John R. Wallace | ||
| Henry W. Warner | November 12, 1858 | ||
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Robert M. Washburn | January 4, 1868 | |
| J. Thomas Webb | September 16, 1838 | ||
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George Pearl Webster | January 9, 1877 | |
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Henry Gordon Wells | October 12, 1879 | |
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Thomas W. White | January 10, 1876 | |
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Isaac E. Willetts | November 8, 1879 | |
| Henry J. Winslow | June 27, 1880 | ||
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Ernest A. Witt | ||
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Roger Wolcott | July 25, 1877 | |
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Charles J. Wood | March 18, 1854 | |
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Russell A. Wood | ||
| Norman P. Wood | July 30, 1846 | ||
| Otis L. Wright | October 4, 1853 | ||
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Henry D. Wright |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "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
- ^ "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
- ^ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
- ^ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
- ^ 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
- ^ "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
- ^ a b Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1912.
- ^ 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 edit
- 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.
External links edit
- Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1912, hdl:2452/429129
- Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1912, hdl:2452/73500