1920 Massachusetts legislature

The 141st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1920 during the governorship of Calvin Coolidge. Edwin T. McKnight served as president of the Senate and Joseph E. Warner served as speaker of the House.[4]

141st
Massachusetts General Court
140th 142nd
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 4, 1919
Senate
Members40
PresidentEdwin T. McKnight (6th Middlesex)
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerJoseph E. Warner (4th Bristol)
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 7, 1920 (1920-01-07) – June 5, 1920 (1920-06-05)
+ 16-day extra session[3]
Edwin T. McKnight
Edwin McKnight, Senate president.
Joseph E. Warner
Joseph Warner, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1920.

Senators

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portrait name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 
Frank G. Allen October 6, 1874
 
Alvin E. Bliss 4th Middlesex
 
Frederick Butler
 
George H. Carrick
 
Andrew A. Casassa
 
George Dudley Chamberlain
 
John W. Churchill November 17, 1853
 
Harry A. Cooke
 
George E. Curran
 
John A. Curtin April 3, 1870
 
Edward N. Dahlborg
 
Thomas F. Donovan September 26, 1890
 
Carl C. Emery November 4, 1888
 
Samuel B. Finkel
 
William J. Foley March 2, 1887
 
John Mellen Gibbs
 
Lyman W. Griswold October 16, 1869
 
John Halliwell February 21, 1864
 
Leonard F. Hardy
 
Walter A. Hardy December 15, 1866
 
Joseph O. Knox
 
Augustus Peabody Loring 1856
 
John J. Mahoney April 13, 1860
 
Daniel Aloysius Martin
 
David Story McIntosh
 
Edwin T. McKnight October 11, 1869
 
Walter E. McLane
 
William C. Moulton October 15, 1873
 
Arthur L. Nason October 24, 1872
 
Christian Nelson
 
Gardner W. Pearson
 
Francis Prescott
 
Frank H. Putnam
 
Martin Lewis Quinn January 19, 1862
 
Silas D. Reed
 
Warren E. Tarbell
 
John J. Walsh
 
Wellington Wells April 18, 1868
 
Thomas Weston, Jr
 
Charles A. Winchester

Representatives

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portrait name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 
Essex S. Abbott
 
Henry Achin Jr. June 30, 1883
 
Talbot Aldrich 4th Norfolk
 
Charles H. Annis January 12, 1869
 
Seth Fenelon Arnold December 21, 1878
 
Charles M. Austin May 2, 1884
 
James T. Bagshaw
 
William B. Baldwin September 18, 1854
 
Frank E. Barrows June 14, 1871
 
George J. Bates February 25, 1891
 
Russell T. Bates
 
Arthur Enoch Beane
 
Addison P. Beardsley
 
Erastus T. Bearse
 
Chauncey A. Bennett
 
James D. Bentley February 6, 1884
 
Adelard Berard
 
Alfred M. Bessette March 25, 1876
 
Orlando C. Bidwell
 
Robert E. Bigney
 
Edgar A. Bowers
 
Eden K. Bowser
 
Alfred Bradbury
 
Charles D. Bradbury
 
Louis Adelard Breault
 
Owen E. Brennen September 26, 1868
 
Frank L. Brier
 
George E. Briggs May 3, 1873
 
John C. Brimblecom 1868
 
E. Gerry Brown
 
Charles H. Brown January 19, 1879
 
Samuel F. Brown December 26, 1878
 
Edgar J. Buck
 
Maurice Allan Buck
 
Albert W. Bullock April 18, 1872
 
William J. Bullock
 
Frank James Burke September 8, 1885
 
Herbert W. Burr June 15, 1866
 
William A. Canty
 
John J. Carey February 28, 1888
 
Julius F. Carman August 7, 1861
 
John B. Cashman
 
Mial W. Chase
 
Henry S. Clark
 
Everett W. Coleman
 
William J. Conlon March 14, 1868
 
William S. Conroy October 2, 1877
 
D. Herbert Cook June 2, 1851
 
Richard B. Coolidge September 14, 1879
 
Thomas J. Corbett May 10, 1883
 
Frank N. Coulson
 
Frank H. Cowin
 
William F. Craig September 15, 1866
 
Samuel V. Crane October 4, 1855
 
Walter Thomas Creese
 
William Cyril Crossley
 
James E. Curry
 
Warren Chapman Daggett May 10, 1868
 
Elbridge Gerry Davis August 20, 1877
 
Henry Ellsworth Dean September 29, 1862
 
James P. Donnelly February 26, 1890
 
Robert W. Dow July 15, 1868
 
Lawrence F. Dowd
 
Andrew P. Doyle August 15, 1869
 
Cornelius J. Driscoll
 
Timothy J. Driscoll
 
Henry Francis Duggan
 
Bernard Earley
 
James Joseph Early
 
George R. Ellis July 29, 1876
 
Vernon W. Evans January 5, 1895
 
Erland F. Fish December 7, 1883
 
John I. Fitzgerald July 18, 1882
 
Michael J. Fitzgerald March 1, 1891
 
William Fleming
 
Charles R. Foote July 9, 1865
 
William J. Francis
 
John F. Freeland
 
Harvey E. Frost October 2, 1875
 
Tony Garofano May 28, 1885
 
Daniel J. Gillen
 
George A. Gilman August 16, 1880
 
Frederick P. Glazier September 27, 1859
 
Albert C. Goff
 
James A. Goode
 
Charles Waite Gould May 8, 1891
 
William H. Grady
 
William Grant January 4, 1855
 
Louis L. Green
 
Thomas H. Green May 11, 1883
 
Herbert S. Grutchfield
 
Fred C. Haigis
 
Walter S. Hale
 
Cornelius F. Haley July 15, 1875
 
Leo Spotten Hamburger
 
William H. Hannagan
 
Edward F. Harrington August 10, 1878
Edward Joseph Harrington 1894
 
Charles H. Hartshorn
 
John Francis Harvey January 30, 1891
 
Brad Dudley Harvey
 
Daniel J. Hayden
 
James William Hayes
 
Walter Haynes
 
Martin Hays October 14, 1876
 
Joseph E. Herrick
 
William P. Hickey November 17, 1871
 
Matthew A. Higgins
 
Edward Carroll Hinckley
 
Charles Sumner Holden May 2, 1857
 
Edgar F. Howland
 
George C. F. Hudson
 
John C. Hull (politician) November 1, 1870
 
James Melville Hunnewell
 
Victor Francis Jewett
 
Arthur Westgate Jones January 11, 1873
 
Michael H. Jordan February 7, 1863
 
Thomas Martin Joyce
 
Jeremiah P. Keating
 
Kenneth W. Keith
 
James H. Kelleher
 
James J. Kelley
 
Frank M. Kelley
 
Walter H. Kemp
 
Davis B. Keniston
 
Clarence P. Kidder
 
Joseph E. King
 
Frederic W. Kingman
 
Hugh J. Lacey
 
Wilfrid J. Lamoureux December 13, 1869
 
Benjamin C. Lane
 
Ernest A. LaRocque
 
Joseph Lawrence Larson
 
James F. Leland
 
Wilbur F. Lewis
 
Willard P. Lombard
 
William J. Look June 20, 1867
 
Frank E. Lyman September 15, 1866
 
Lloyd Makepeace
 
Robert L. Manley
 
Frank A. Manning
 
William J. Manning
 
Arthur E. Marsh
 
Daniel J. Marshall
 
John C. Marshall November 28, 1877
 
John Henry McAllister
 
John W. McCormack December 21, 1891
 
Elmer L. McCulloch
 
Allan R. McDonald
 
William H. McDonnell April 9, 1885
 
Francis B. McKinney
 
James J. Mellen March 30, 1875
 
Walter L. Mellen January 10, 1868
 
Patrick J. Melody
 
Samuel W. Mendum
 
Julius Meyers December 6, 1854
 
Herbert L. Miller
 
John Mitchell September 4, 1877
 
Wesley E. Monk August 1, 1874
 
Patrick F. Moran
 
James Morrison February 17, 1857
 
J. Warren Moulton
 
James J. Moynihan
 
George G. Moyse December 21, 1878
 
James J. Mulvey
 
Daniel C. Murphy December 14, 1887
 
Albert J. Murphy
 
George F. Murphy
 
William J. Naphen
 
John R. Nelson November 22, 1871
 
George Henry Newhall
 
Frederic C. Nichols
 
Thomas A. Niland June 11, 1873
 
Edwin Gates Norman
 
Daniel W. O'Connor March 12, 1877
 
Frank A. Oberti
 
William W. Ollendorff
 
Louis Orenberg
 
John Glenn Orr February 27, 1857
 
Henry F. Paige January 30, 1853
 
Walter S. Parker
 
George Penshorn
 
Chauncey Pepin
 
Frank B. Phinney
 
William Plattner
 
George K. Pond
 
James Tracy Potter January 26, 1870
 
Arthur K. Reading
 
Abbott B. Rice
 
George Louis Richards
 
Alfred P. Richards
 
James W. Robertson
 
Arthur W. Robinson
 
Carl J. Rolander
 
Morrill S. Ryder
 
Roland D. Sawyer January 8, 1874
 
Edward A. Scigliano
 
Leo P. Senecal
 
Henry Lee Shattuck October 12, 1879
 
Walter Shuebruk
 
Coleman Silbert
 
Charles Henry Slowey
 
Almond Smith
 
Jerome S. Smith
 
Dexter Avery Snow January 3, 1890
 
William L. Stedman
 
Emil K. Steele
 
Walter F. Stephens
 
Elihu D. Stone
 
James F. Sweeney
 
Charles Symonds
 
Edward Willis Taylor
 
John Thomas January 27, 1859
 
Prince H. Tirrell
 
James A. Torrey September 27, 1868
 
Raymond H. Trefry
 
James B. Troy
 
Arthur H. Turner
 
Albert T. Wall
 
Joseph E. Warner May 16, 1884
 
Charles C. Warren
 
Frederick A. Warren
 
George M. Webber
 
George Pearl Webster January 9, 1877
 
Henry H. Wheelock
 
Renton Whidden
 
John Addison White August 8, 1859
 
Howard B. White
 
Alfred H. Whitney
 
James H. Wilkins
 
Edward E. Willard September 25, 1862
 
Herbert Wing
 
Herbert Francis Winn
 
Isaac U. Wood
 
William H. Woodhead September 17, 1860
 
Harry C. Woodill
 
Benjamin H. Woodsum
 
George M. Worrall
 
Samuel H. Wragg June 9, 1882
 
Elwin Temple Wright
 
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. 1920.
  6. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1920" (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 (1919), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1920, hdl:2452/43511
  • Court, Massachusetts General (1920). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40698.
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  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1920, hdl:2452/393333
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1920, hdl:2452/64532