1923–1924 Massachusetts legislature

The 143rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1923 and 1924 during the governorship of Channing H. Cox. Frank G. Allen served as president of the Senate and Benjamin Loring Young served as speaker of the House.[4]

143rd
Massachusetts General Court
142nd 144th
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 7, 1922
Senate
Members40
PresidentFrank G. Allen (Norfolk district)
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerBenjamin Loring Young (13th Middlesex)
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 3, 1923 (1923-01-03) – May 26, 1923 (1923-05-26)
2ndJanuary 2, 1924 (1924-01-02) – June 5, 1924 (1924-06-05)[3]
Frank Allen
Frank Allen, Senate president.
Benjamin Loring Young
Benjamin Loring Young, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1923.

Senators

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portrait name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 
Frank G. Allen October 6, 1874
 
Charles M. Austin May 2, 1884
 
George W. P. Babb 8th Suffolk
 
Alvin E. Bliss
 
George H. Carrick
 
George Dudley Chamberlain
 
Henry S. Clark
 
Edward J. Cox
 
Walter Thomas Creese
 
Eben S. Draper Jr. August 30, 1893
 
William J. Francis
 
Charles Benjamin Frothingham November 11, 1858
 
Richard A. Gibbons
 
John Mellen Gibbs
 
John W. Haigis July 31, 1881
 
John Halliwell February 21, 1864
 
Charles H. Hartshorn
 
William Ignatius Hennessey
 
Charles P. Howard
 
William J. Look June 20, 1867
 
John W. McCormack December 21, 1891
 
Walter E. McLane
 
Patrick J. Melody
 
James G. Moran May 2, 1870
 
James J. Mulvey
 
Christian Nelson
 
William A. O'Hearn March 8, 1887
 
Frank H. Putnam
 
Albert Taylor Rhodes
 
Abbott B. Rice
 
John Francis Shea August 21, 1882
 
Walter Shuebruk
 
Dexter Avery Snow January 3, 1890
 
John A. Stoddart May 10, 1869
 
Warren E. Tarbell
 
Albert P. Wadleigh
 
Charles C. Warren
 
George M. Webber
 
Wellington Wells April 18, 1868

Representatives

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portrait name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 
Charles E. Abbott February 22, 1856 9th Essex
 
Henry Achin Jr. June 30, 1883
 
Elijah Adlow August 15, 1896
 
Walter Dickey Allen March 15, 1896
 
Charles W. Ames March 10, 1860
 
Charles H. Annis January 12, 1869
 
Charles H. Ashley February 13, 1860
 
Harrison Henry Atwood August 26, 1863
 
Frank E. Barrows June 14, 1871
 
Thomas R. Bateman October 11, 1878
 
George J. Bates February 25, 1891
 
John E. Beck May 10, 1869
 
William J. Bell December 7, 1884
 
James D. Bentley February 6, 1884
 
Alfred M. Bessette March 25, 1876
 
Thomas H. Bilodeau February 3, 1885
 
Arthur Franklin Blanchard January 27, 1883
 
Owen E. Brennen September 26, 1868
 
George E. Briggs May 3, 1873
 
John C. Brimblecom 1868
 
George Francis Brooks August 23, 1856
 
James B. Brown March 3, 1885
 
Albert W. Bullock April 18, 1872
 
Ralph Howard Burckes
 
Hugh Joseph Campbell September 28, 1896
 
William A. Canty
 
Edward J. Carey January 29, 1884
 
Julius F. Carman August 7, 1861
 
William Casey November 20, 1884
 
James Bernard Casey June 19, 1897
 
Francis E. Cassidy February 14, 1888
 
Francis Peter Clark August 22, 1896
 
Ezra W. Clark October 12, 1842
 
Maynard Clemons December 11, 1866
 
William J. Conlon March 14, 1868
 
William S. Conroy October 2, 1877
 
D. Herbert Cook June 2, 1851
 
Fred Robbins Cooksey April 14, 1893
 
Thomas J. Corbett May 10, 1883
 
Joseph R. Cotton November 16, 1890
 
Francis X. Coyne March 15, 1892
 
Elbert M. Crockett August 14, 1871
 
Richard D. Crockwell October 23, 1886
 
Thomas Charles Crowther April 28, 1892
 
P. Sarsfield Cunniff September 12, 1874
 
Bert S. Currier August 2, 1864
 
J. Frederick Curtin November 30, 1892
 
Joseph D. Curtis November 2, 1868
 
Warren Chapman Daggett May 10, 1868
 
David D. Daley March 23, 1872
 
Herbert King Davidson October 19, 1882
 
J. Bradford Davis September 26, 1889
 
Elbridge Gerry Davis August 20, 1877
 
Elmer E. Dawson October 11, 1861
 
Ernest J. Dean April 5, 1883
 
Hiram Nichols Dearborn December 21, 1867
 
Louis N. M. DesChenes April 7, 1872
 
Burt Dewar December 29, 1884
 
Robert Dinsmore December 22, 1897
 
Timothy D. Donahue November 3, 1869
 
Sylvia Donaldson[7] July 12, 1849
 
John F. Donovan April 26, 1897
 
Timothy Francis Donovan August 21, 1889
 
Walter Franklyn Douglas August 22, 1869
 
Robert W. Dow July 15, 1868
 
Andrew P. Doyle August 15, 1869
 
John H. Drew August 23, 1890
 
William L. DuBois July 31, 1892
 
Edward Nelson Eames October 19, 1858
 
Bernard Early
 
Frank W. Eaton February 22, 1871
 
Vernon W. Evans January 5, 1895
 
Gustave William Everberg June 24, 1890
 
John T. Farrell January 30, 1893
 
Bernard Finkelstein July 4, 1887
 
Erland F. Fish December 7, 1883
 
William Arthur Fish July 4, 1885
 
Susan Walker Fitzgerald[7] May 9, 1871
 
John I. Fitzgerald July 18, 1882
 
Maurice E. Foley February 8, 1893
 
George F. Foley November 6, 1896
 
Tony Garofano May 28, 1885
 
Hugh H. Garrity May 4, 1883
 
Richard J. Garvey July 19, 1892
 
Herbert J. George May 16, 1868
 
George A. Gilman August 16, 1880
 
Charles H. Gilmore February 27, 1878
 
Frederick P. Glazier September 27, 1859
 
Richard D. Gleason September 22, 1896
 
Harold R. Goewey October 12, 1893
 
Andrew J. Gorey January 13, 1898
 
Patrick E. Granfield March 17, 1894
 
Walter Bernard Grant February 11, 1885
 
Merle Dixon Graves October 13, 1887
 
Maurice F. Greaney
 
Louis L. Green
 
Eugene B. Griffin
 
Frank W. Guillo
 
C. Wesley Hale February 13, 1872
 
Albert Harrison Hall
 
Leo J. Halloran
 
William H. Hannagan
 
Edward F. Harrington (state representative) August 10, 1878
 
John A. Hawson
 
James William Hayes
 
Martin Hays October 14, 1876
 
Jeremiah Joseph Healy July 2, 1872
 
John J. Heffernan January 27, 1893
 
William P. Hickey November 17, 1871
 
Matthew A. Higgins
 
Charles R. Hillberg
 
Edward Carroll Hinckley
 
Charles Sumner Holden
 
Robert H. J. Holden
 
Elisha Hooper
 
Michael F. Hourihan
 
Harold E. Howard
 
Edgar F. Howland
 
John C. Hull (politician) November 1, 1870
 
James Melville Hunnewell
 
Albert E. Hutt
 
Alfred Wesley Ingalls
 
George Frederick James
 
Victor Francis Jewett
 
Thomas H. Johnston March 5, 1872
 
John Alfred Jones
 
Arthur Westgate Jones January 11, 1873
 
Michael H. Jordan February 7, 1863
 
Thomas Martin Joyce
 
Frederick E. Judd
 
Roland M. Keith March 16, 1847
 
James H. Kelleher
 
John Augustine Kelleher May 15, 1891
 
Charles A. Kelley March 24, 1862
 
Edward J. Kelley December 25, 1897
 
Peter L. Kelley
 
Coleman E. Kelly
 
Joseph Francis Kelly
 
Davis B. Keniston
 
Harry P. Kent
 
Clarence P. Kidder
 
Howard F. King
 
John Fenderson Kyes
 
William D. Lancaster
 
Joseph A. Langone Sr. August 10, 1866
 
Ernest A. LaRocque
 
Joseph Lawrence Larson
 
Allen Lawson
 
Fred Oliver Lewis June 12, 1878
 
Wilbur F. Lewis
 
Jeremiah M. Linnehan
 
John Tilton Litch
 
Arthur E. Littlefield
 
John H. Logue
 
Robert L. Manley
 
William Henry McCarthy
 
John J. McCarthy
 
Richard J. McCormick August 11, 1888
 
Elmer L. McCulloch
 
Carroll Meins October 22, 1892
 
James J. Mellen March 30, 1875
 
John L. Mitchell
 
John Mitchell September 4, 1877
 
Edward Brastow Moor
 
Thomas J. Morton March 2, 1856
 
George G. Moyse December 21, 1878
 
Daniel C. Murphy December 14, 1887
 
George Henry Newhall
 
Thomas H. Nickerson
 
Edward H. Nutting July 6, 1869
 
John J. O'Brien October 18, 1879
 
Daniel W. O'Connor March 12, 1877
 
James H. O'Dea
 
Olof F. Ohlson
 
Henry F. Paige January 30, 1853
 
Herman Pehrsson
 
George Peirce
 
George Penshorn
 
Chauncey Pepin
 
Lewis Hilton Peters
 
Frank B. Phinney
 
Chester Arthur Pike
 
George K. Pond
 
Everett R. Prout
 
George Louis Richards
 
Joseph N. Roach March 22, 1883
 
Everett William Robinson
 
Morrill S. Ryder
 
Leverett Saltonstall September 1, 1892
 
Edward Julius Sandberg October 21, 1866
 
Roland D. Sawyer January 8, 1874
 
Frank O. Scott
 
Leo P. Senecal
 
Henry Lee Shattuck October 12, 1879
 
Michael F. Shaw September 12, 1865
 
Charles H. Shaylor
 
John P. Shepard
 
George S. Sinnicks
 
Charles Henry Slowey
 
Francis W. K. Smith
 
Almond Smith
 
Fred L. Snow
 
Walter Herbert Snow
 
Frederick Dexter Sowle
 
Ernest H. Sparrell
 
Lemuel W. Standish
 
William E. Staples
 
James D. Stewart
 
Ralph Raymond Stratton
 
Albert Austin Sutherland
 
James F. Sweeney
 
Charles Symonds
 
Valmore P. Tetreault
 
John E. Thayer Jr.
 
William Franklin Thomas Jr.
 
John Thomas January 27, 1859
 
Harlie E. Thompson
 
Elwin L. Thompson
 
Prince H. Tirrell
 
Joseph D. Toomey
 
James A. Torrey September 27, 1868
 
George M. Underwood
 
Edward F. Wallace
 
Richard McClennan Walsh February 5, 1878
 
Robert Burns Walsh
 
James E. Warren
 
Frederick A. Warren
 
Slater Washburn
 
George Pearl Webster January 9, 1877
 
James T. Welch
 
Henry H. Wheelock
 
Renton Whidden
 
Benjamin Franklin White Jr.
 
Herbert Francis Winn
 
William Henry Winnett
 
Temple A. Winsloe
 
Thomas A. Winston
 
Samuel H. Wragg June 9, 1882
 
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 Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1923.
  6. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1923" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  7. ^ a b Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators (2015), "Important Dates for Women in Massachusetts Government", History of Women in the Massachusetts Legislature 1923–2015

Further reading

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  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1923, hdl:2452/265583
  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1924, hdl:2452/393335
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1923, hdl:2452/64535
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1924, hdl:2452/64536