1914 Massachusetts legislature

The 135th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1914 during the governorship of David I. Walsh. Calvin Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Grafton D. Cushing served as speaker of the House.[4]

135th
Massachusetts General Court
134th 136th
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 4, 1913
Senate
Members40
PresidentCalvin Coolidge
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerGrafton D. Cushing
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 7, 1914 (1914-01-07) – July 7, 1914 (1914-07-07) [3]
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, Senate president.
Grafton D. Cushing
Grafton D. Cushing, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1914.

Committees edit

  • Joint committees: Agriculture; Banks and Banking; Cities; Constitutional Amendments; Counties; Education; Election Laws; Federal Relations; Fisheries and Game; Harbors and Public Lands; Insurance; Labor; Legal Affairs; Mercantile Affairs; Metropolitan Affairs; Military Affairs; Municipal Finance; Public Health; Public Institutions; Public Lighting; Public Service; Railroads; Roads and Bridges; Social Welfare; State House and Libraries; Street Railways; Taxation; Towns; Water Supply.[5]
  • Senate committees: Bills in the Third Reading; Engrossed Bills; Judiciary; Rules; Ways and Means.[5]
  • House committees: Bills in the Third Reading; Elections; Engrossed Bills; Judiciary; Pay-Roll; Rules; Ways and Means.[5]

Senators edit

image name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 
Edward C. R. Bagley 1st Suffolk
 
William A. L. Bazeley 1872
 
William A. Bellamy
 
Alexis Boyer Jr. January 17, 1875
 
John P. Brennan March 1, 1876
 
James Henry Brennan December 21, 1888
Charles E. Burbank
 
Arthur Preston Chase January 25, 1866
 
Ezra W. Clark October 12, 1842
 
Calvin Coolidge July 4, 1872
Charles M. Cox
 
Charles A. Dean March 26, 1856
 
Andrew P. Doyle August 15, 1869
 
Henry J. Draper
 
Charles W. Eldridge October 16, 1877
 
Edward Fisher
 
Redmond S. Fitzgerald
 
Charles L. Gifford March 15, 1871
 
Gurdon W. Gordon
 
William P. Hickey November 17, 1871
 
Frederic H. Hilton
 
Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr. October 1, 1878
 
Francis J. Horgan
 
Charles Cabot Johnson December 9, 1876
 
Louis F. R. Langelier
 
Joseph Leonard
 
John H. Mack
 
Charles F. McCarthy August 15, 1876
 
Philip J. McGonagle October 21, 1871
 
Walter E. McLane
 
Malcolm Nichols May 8, 1876
 
C. Augustus Norwood
Hugh O'Rourke
John F. Sheehan
Edward N. Sibley
 
James R. Tetler August 26, 1877
 
James P. Timilty March 28, 1865
 
Charles E. Ward
 
Henry Gordon Wells October 12, 1879
 
Lombard Williams

Representatives edit

image name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 
Essex S. Abbott
 
Henry Achin Jr. June 30, 1883
Timothy J. Ahern 1885
Frank P. Allen August 1, 1869
 
John A. Anderson
 
Henry L. Andrews
 
Oscar E. Arkwell
 
William M. Armstrong August 17, 1850
 
Charles N. Atwood
 
James J. Bacigalupo
 
James T. Bagshaw
 
Samuel H. Bailey
 
James F. Barry December 4, 1857
 
Joseph L. Barry
Irving F. Batchelder
 
Sanford Bates July 17, 1884
 
John E. Beck May 10, 1869
 
Everett E. Belding February 15, 1879
Edward P. Bennett
 
Enos H. Bigelow
 
Edward C. Bodfish
 
William Booth June 21, 1862
 
Henry E. Bothfeld March 4, 1859
 
Arthur Bower
 
Eden K. Bowser
 
Patrick H. Boyle December 20, 1850
 
Alvah J. Bradstreet
John W. Brennan
 
George E. Briggs May 3, 1873
 
Vincent Brogna
 
Daniel J. Buckley
 
Morton Henry Burdick
 
Frederic W. Burke
 
Frederick H. Burke
 
Frederick Butler
 
Matthew J. Carbary
 
Julius F. Carman August 7, 1861
 
William E. Carney January 16, 1878
 
Maurice Caro
 
Peter Carr May 2, 1883
 
Edward Carr December 18, 1868
 
Andrew A. Casassa
 
Thomas J. Casey
 
Allison G. Catheron June 26, 1878
 
George Dudley Chamberlain
 
Cleaveland A. Chandler
 
Daniel J. Chapman January 18, 1878
 
Edward Earl Chapman
 
John W. Churchill November 17, 1853
Eben S. Cobb
 
James Coffey May 17, 1849
 
Samuel I. Collins March 4, 1851
Timothy C. Collins
Walter L. Collins
John P. Conroy
 
D. Herbert Cook June 2, 1851
 
Thomas J. Cooley
 
Michael H. Cotter
 
John J. Courtney
 
Walter D. Cowls
 
Channing H. Cox October 28, 1879
 
William N. Cronin
 
Fred Wilder Cross September 15, 1868
John E. Cuddy, Jr.
 
John J. Cummings
 
Herbert E. Cummings
 
Patrick J. Curley
 
George E. Curran
Rudolph W. Currier
 
John A. Curtin April 3, 1870
 
Grafton D. Cushing August 4, 1864
 
Edward N. Dahlborg
 
Edward J. Dailey
 
Charles Robert Damon June 21, 1864
 
Albert M. Darling
Alfred Davenport
 
Samuel Davis June 4, 1866
 
Theodore H. Day
Frederick S. Delafield
 
John F. Doherty June 9, 1881
 
William H. Dolben January 23, 1878
 
John A. Donoghue
 
John L. Donovan June 3, 1876
George E. Dow
 
Thomas E. Dowd
William F. Doyle
 
George P. Drury
 
Frank B. Edgell
 
George H. Ellis October 3, 1848
John Ennis
 
Frank S. Farnsworth
George W. Faulkner January 24, 1874
 
Frederick B. Felton
 
Alfred N. Fessenden
 
Joseph La Flamme
 
John T. Flanagan May 25, 1869
John J. Fleming
 
Maurice R. Flynn July 28, 1889
 
Elmer G. Fosgate
 
James Eugene Fowle November 22, 1880
 
Harvey E. Frost October 2, 1875
 
John J. Gilbride
William L. F. Gilman
Thomas A. Glennon
John L. G. Glynn
 
Arthur G. Greaney
 
Fred Parker Greenwood
 
James F. Griffin January 19, 1884
Harold P. Gurney
 
William N. Hackett
 
Benjamin F. Haines November 25, 1876
 
Edward M. Hall
 
John Halliwell February 21, 1864
 
Bernard F. Hanrahan July 27, 1875
Leo M. Harlow
 
Stephen H. Harrington
 
Edward F. Harrington (state representative) August 10, 1878
 
James L. Harrop
 
George Fred Hart November 9, 1859
 
John F. Hatch Jr.
 
Martin Hays October 14, 1876
Thomas A. Henry
 
William Edward Hickey
 
Matthew A. Higgins
 
Albert Holway
 
John B. Hull Jr. July 17, 1871
 
Frederick W. Hurlburt
 
James M. Hurley
 
Victor Francis Jewett
Jeremiah J. Kelley
 
William W. Kennard
 
James T. Kenney June 20, 1870
Michael B. Kenney
John R. Kiggins
 
Charles A. Kimball
 
Richard Knowles
 
Joseph O. Knox
 
Charles S. Lawler
 
Francis X. Le Boeuf
 
Fred Oliver Lewis June 12, 1878
 
E. Ellsworth Lincoln
Amos R. Little
Stuart L. Little
 
Martin Lomasney December 3, 1859
 
Henry Follansbee Long
 
William J. Look June 20, 1867
 
Frederick H. Lucke
 
John J. Lydon
 
James MacFarlane Lyle
 
John H. Lynch October 28, 1884
 
Frederick H. Magison
 
John C. Mahoney
 
Henry J. Mahoney
 
Daniel C. Manning
 
Frank A. Manning
 
George E. Mansfield
 
Joseph W. Martin Jr. November 3, 1884
 
Orion T. Mason
Alfred E. McCleary
 
Leo F. McCullough
Joseph S. McDonough
 
Moses H. McGaughey December 27, 1880
 
Charles H. McGlue
 
Michael F. McGrath
 
James H. McInerney December 13, 1871
 
Henry J. McLaughlin
 
Edward F. McLaughlin June 6, 1883
 
P. Joseph McManus
 
William M. McMorrow
 
Timothy J. Meade November 7, 1874
 
John Mitchell September 4, 1877
 
Charles H. Morrill October 6, 1874
George Frederick Morse Jr. 1885
 
Frank Mulveny
 
Edward P. Murphy
 
James J. Murphy February 11, 1885
 
Dennis A. Murphy September 26, 1876
 
Patrick E. Murray August 22, 1869
 
William J. Naphen
 
Ken Nash
 
Arthur N. Newhall
 
Thomas A. Niland June 11, 1873
 
James T. O'Dowd
 
Ambrose F. Ogden
 
John N. Osborne January 28, 1853
Harry B. Parker
 
Chauncey Pepin
 
Edward Howland Perry
 
Immanuel Pfeiffer Jr.
 
James E. Phelan October 21, 1884
Eben F. Phillips
 
William H. Poole
 
Winfield F. Prime November 22, 1860
Charles W. Proctor
Herbert L. Ray
 
John J. Reilly
Frank B. Rich
 
Robert Robinson January 4, 1889
 
William M. Robinson July 21, 1875
 
Walter F. Russell
 
John D. Ryan July 30, 1868
 
Clifford B. Sanborn
 
Edward Julius Sandberg October 21, 1866
 
Roland D. Sawyer January 8, 1874
 
Henry H. Sears
 
John Francis Sheehan August 25, 1879
 
John H. Sherburne 1877
 
Ralph M. Smith
 
Jerome S. Smith
 
Fitz-Henry Smith Jr.
 
William O. Souther Jr.
 
Charles Elmer Stanwood
 
Joseph Fayette Stone February 8, 1858
 
Merrill E. Streeter
 
John F. Sullivan May 17, 1875
 
Lewis R. Sullivan
 
Michael T. Sullivan
David F. Sullivan
 
Peter Francis Tague June 4, 1871
John G. Tilden
 
James E. Tolman November 8, 1867
 
Nathan A. Tufts April 15, 1879
 
James J. Twohig September 26, 1886
 
George J. Wall
Henry W. Warner November 12, 1858
 
Joseph E. Warner May 16, 1884
 
Robert M. Washburn January 4, 1868
 
Charles H. Waterman
 
George Pearl Webster January 9, 1877
 
Charles H. Webster
 
Thomas W. White January 10, 1876
 
Herbert A. Wilson November 27, 1870
 
Thomas E. P. Wilson
 
Herbert Wing
Abel S. Wolfe
 
George M. Worrall
 
Henry D. Wright

See also edit

References edit

  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. ^ a b c d e Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1914.
  6. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1914" (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 (1913), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1914, hdl:2452/43505

External links edit

  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1914, hdl:2452/393332
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1914, hdl:2452/73502