1892 Massachusetts legislature

113th
Massachusetts General Court
113th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 3, 1891
Senate
Members	40
President	Alfred S. Pinkerton
Party control	Split (20–20)
House
Members	240
Speaker	William Emerson Barrett
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 6, 1892 – June 17, 1892

Alfred Pinkerton, Senate president.

William Barrett, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1892.

The 113th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1892 during the governorship of William E. Russell. Alfred S. Pinkerton served as president of the Senate and William Emerson Barrett served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

image	name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district
	Francis P. Arnold	February 21, 1836
	Charles H. Baker	February 2, 1847
	William M. Butler	January 29, 1861
	William Henry Carberry	February 22, 1851
	Richard A. Carter	February 16, 1862
	Arthur B. Champlin	February 7, 1858
	Wilder Philander Clark	October 12, 1832
	John William Coveney	April 10, 1845
	Luther Dame	March 3, 1826
	John E. Drury	May 11, 1852
	William N. Eaton	December 29, 1845
	B. Marvin Fernald	February 14, 1847
	Gorham D. Gilman	May 29, 1822
	Stephen A. Hickox	May 20, 1839
	Robert Howard	February 8, 1845
	P. J. Kennedy	January 14, 1858
	Henry Albert Kimball	May 3, 1842
	James W. McDonald	May 15, 1857
	Michael J. McEttrick	June 22, 1848
	William S. McNary	March 29, 1863
	William E. Meade	August 2, 1839
	Christopher Columbus Merritt	September 29, 1830
	Edward Mott	June 19, 1830
	George K. Nichols	April 10, 1827
	Isaac Newton Nutter	June 23, 1836
	Henry Parkman	May 23, 1850
	Alfred Stamm Pinkerton	March 19, 1856
	William Provin	February 14, 1842
	William F. Ray	March 2, 1854
	Francis Henry Raymond	February 19, 1836
	John Read	May 19, 1840
	John Reade	December 1, 1826
	Edward Payson Shaw	September 1, 1841
	John Simpkins	June 27, 1862
	Sidney P. Smith	July 13, 1850
	Benjamin Franklin Southwick	July 5, 1835
	Eben S. Stevens	December 11, 1846
	John R. Thayer	March 9, 1845
	William H. West	January 27, 1830
	Edwin F. Wyer	September 28, 1832

Representatives

image	name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district
	Edward W. Ackley	April 16, 1838
	John William Adams	June 20, 1828
	James E. Allen	February 19, 1841
	Stephen Anderson	December 24, 1840
	Miles S. Andrews	January 17, 1855
	Francis H. Appleton	June 17, 1847
	Henry W. Ashley	February 16, 1855
	E. Elbridge Atwood	March 8, 1842
	Edward B. Atwood	May 13, 1845
	James Lewis Austin	March 19, 1851
	Charles M. Bacheller	June 29, 1863
	William G. Baker	June 9, 1845
	George S. Ball	May 22, 1822
	Henry D. Bardwell	October 24, 1856
	Benjamin B. Barney	January 25, 1868
	Richard F. Barrett	August 4, 1848
	William Emerson Barrett	December 29, 1858
	Hiram W. Barrows	January 19, 1834
	Thomas Barstow	April 26, 1850
	Lewis H. Bartlett	April 2, 1854
	Robert G. Bartlett	April 8, 1834
	Henry C. Batcheller	September 5, 1830
	Jacob P. Bates	April 7, 1843
	David W. Battles	January 20, 1854
	Frank P. Bennett	May 2, 1853
	Eugene A. Bessom	June 11, 1855
	Zechariah L. Bicknell	June 20, 1820
	S. Stillman Blanchard	June 23, 1835
	Frederic Wright Bliss	October 14, 1852
	Albert G. Blodgett	September 2, 1841
	Percival Blodgett	July 18, 1841
	Franklin C. Bourne	November 3, 1827
	Daniel F. Breen	June 7, 1860
	Edward S. Brewer	June 13, 1846
	William Hartwell Brigham	February 1, 1863
	Lemuel M. Brock	November 6, 1837
	Patrick F. Brogan	January 3, 1862
	Benjamin F. Brown	February 23, 1834
	Samuel J. Brown	October 2, 1835
	Charles H. Bryant	May 28, 1854
	Anson Buck	May 3, 1839
	William P. Buckley	August 15, 1859
	Roland E. Burbank	June 1, 1852
	James F. Burke	November 2, 1861
	Lewis Burnham	April 23, 1844
	William Cannon	November 15, 1829
	Robert P. Capen	May 6, 1824
	Michael Carroll	July 11, 1849
	James H. Carter	November 16, 1832
	Thomas M. Carter	July 17, 1832
	Joseph J. Casey	December 25, 1863
	Charles J. Chance	December 19, 1857
	Salem D. Charles	March 19, 1850
	Dwight Chester	March 2, 1835
	Edward P. Clark	December 4, 1854
	Hiram E. W. Clark	April 15, 1835
	Louis M. Clark	December 14, 1858
	Horace E. Clayton	1854
	George S. Clough	May 2, 1839
	Daniel H. Coakley	December 10, 1865
	Clarence G. Coburn	January 15, 1850
	Francis Connolly	March 4, 1849
	George A. Crane	June 4, 1837
	James Prince Crosby	August 15, 1835
	Charles Crosman	December 27, 1839
	Elkanah Crowell	February 2, 1829
	Jeremiah J. Crowley	1852
	George Edward Cutler	August 22, 1824
	Charles M. Dacey	August 7, 1863
	Edward L. Daley	October 6, 1855
	John Morton Danforth	1840
	Patrick Delaney	April 26, 1852
	William D. Dennis	October 11, 1847
	Edgar Simon Dodge	October 21, 1853
	William J. Dolan	November 4, 1864
	Eben S. Dole	August 8, 1847
	John A. Driscoll	June 13, 1860
	William B. Durant	September 29, 1844
	Perlie A. Dyar	March 26, 1857
	John Norman Easland	March 13, 1855
	Edward Fairbanks	November 20, 1836
	George Fall	October 30, 1850
	James O. Fallon	March 16, 1840
	James M. Fay	March 23, 1847
	Myron J. Ferren	August 16, 1836
	Granville C. Fiske	August 21, 1845
	Joseph Henry Fletcher	September 26, 1844
	Frank W. Francis	September 16, 1857
	Russell M. French	April 22, 1850
	George H. Friend	December 3, 1846
	George A. Galloupe	October 28, 1850
	William W. Gallup	January 29, 1824
	Arthur H. Gardner	August 4, 1854
	George H. Garfield	July 18, 1858
	Edwin H. George	May 2, 1858
	Michael B. Gilbride	February 13, 1866
	Joseph J. Giles	March 24, 1842
	Frederick H. Gillett	October 16, 1851
	Ransom W. Gillett	November 27, 1847
	John Golding	1849
	John R. Graham	December 19, 1847
	Joshua S. Gray	August 16, 1840
	George Henry Bartlett Green	December 15, 1845
	Charles H. Hale	January 11, 1851
	Henry Clay Hall	1838
	Dennis E. Halley	May 26, 1863
	Nathan F. Harding	November 3, 1843
	Charles Edward Harris ^[7]	1852
	William H. Hart	March 28, 1864
	Joseph B. Heald	March 18, 1850
	Lemuel Healy	September 23, 1835
	Edward J. Heffernan	November 4, 1858
	Patrick J. Heffernin	1856
	William H. Hemenway	December 28, 1846
	Thomas David Hevey	August 14, 1846
	John Franklin Hinds	May 1, 1819
	John J. Hoar	June 1, 1864
	Charles H. Hobson	June 20, 1857
	Charles H. Hooker	September 14, 1850
	John Hopewell, Jr.	February 2, 1845
	Everett S. Horton	June 15, 1836
	George C. Howard	October 2, 1860
	Simeon Augustus Howe	July 2, 1839
	Warren Hoyt	January 4, 1843
	William S. Hyde	June 20, 1838
	Charles T. Jackson	August 13, 1837
	Robert B. Jenkins	September 16, 1837
	George W. Jenks	January 14, 1840
	Henry J. Jennings	November 25, 1829
	Henry J. Jennison	June 8, 1842
	Gilbert L. Jewett	December 22, 1839
	Edgar E. Jordan	October 4, 1844
	Thomas J. Keliher	October 13, 1858
	Charles Aloysius Kelly	April 7, 1858
	Richard G. Kilduff	July 1, 1854
	Charles H. Kohlrausch, Jr.	August 6, 1848
	James A. Lakin	1841
	Howard G. Lane	December 15, 1850
	Andrew M. Lanigan	July 10, 1860
	Erastus D. Larkin	1835
	Amos A. Lawrence	November 3, 1847
	William B. Lawrence	November 15, 1856
	Mahlon Rich Leonard	January 8, 1836
	Stephen R. Lincoln	February 1, 1845
	John C. Loud	July 26, 1844
	Joseph L. Lougee	December 3, 1836
	Emery M. Low	March 29, 1859
	William W. Lowe	February 7, 1834
	Patrick B. Luby	1859
	William Luther	April 2, 1833
	Edwin Francis Lyford	September 8, 1857
	John B. Lynch	April 13, 1858
	Cornelius E. Mahoney	January 17, 1858
	Frank McAnally	November 29, 1855
	Samuel W. McCall	February 28, 1851
	Daniel McCarthy	July 1, 1856
	John W. McEvoy	July 8, 1865
	Isaac McLean	March 3, 1841
	John T. McLoughlin	June 2, 1865
	Richard F. McSolla	January 27, 1855
	James F. Melaven	November 19, 1858
	James H. Mellen	November 7, 1845
	Marcus M. Merritt	April 1, 1839
	George von Lengerke Meyer	June 24, 1858
	Horace E. Miller	May 23, 1849
	William L. Mooney	February 16, 1867
	Eugene Michael Moriarty	April 15, 1849
	Stillman F. Morse	November 23, 1857
	Richard Newell	April 17, 1839
	DeWitt C. Nichols	August 13, 1846
	Osborn Nickerson	May 25, 1846
	John H. Norton	June 9, 1839
	Andrew L. Nourse	January 24, 1842
	Arthur F. Nutting	February 4, 1861
	Charles H. Nye	December 9, 1821
	John J. O'Brien	June 11, 1862
	Eugene J. O'Neil	February 29, 1856
	William H. Oakes	January 24, 1857
	James M. Olmstead	February 6, 1852
	Bowdoin Strong Parker	August 10, 1841
	James Orlando Parker	November 22, 1827
	Wellington Evarts Parkhurst	January 19, 1835
	Augustus G. Perkins	June 20, 1846
	George W. Perkins	July 1, 1842
	Samuel A. Potter	September 2, 1850
	Wilbur Howard Powers	January 22, 1849
	Amasa Pratt	July 28, 1842
	Edward W. Presho	May 29, 1859
	George O. Proctor	February 23, 1847
	Thomas A. Quinn	1858
	Timothy F. Quinn	December 27, 1863
	Franklin F. Read	June 14, 1827
	Albert W. Richardson	August 28, 1854
	Arthur C. Richardson	October 31, 1837
	Jeremiah T. Richmond	March 24, 1829
	Silas P. Richmond	June 19, 1831
	Malcolm E. Rideout	June 9, 1851
	George Robert Russell Rivers	May 28, 1853
	Henry Franklin Rockwell	September 9, 1849
	Alfred Seelye Roe	June 8, 1844
	Isaac Rosnosky	November 6, 1846
	Samuel Ross	February 2, 1865
	George H. Rugg	January 14, 1825
	Henry E. Ruggles	July 25, 1858
	J. Bradford Sargent	June 14, 1859
	Patrick J. Savage	February 26, 1863
	Ira O. Sawyer	January 16, 1838
	Samuel L. Sawyer	June 20, 1845
	Charles Francis Shute	June 17, 1838
	George R. Simonds	April 2, 1852
	James B. Smith	October 1, 1828
	Sumner Smith	August 21, 1825
	Sylvanus Smith	March 10, 1829
	George L. Soule	March 25, 1832
	Henry C. Sparhawk	February 19, 1865
	Charles F. Sprague	June 10, 1857
	Thomas E. St. John	March 2, 1831
	Clarence Stickney	July 12, 1849
	Benjamin J. Sullivan	June 12, 1856
	Michael F. Sullivan	September 21, 1859
	John F. Sundberg	October 15, 1860
	Andrew H. Sweet	October 2, 1845
	Henry Gordon Taft	1836
	Daniel P. Toomey	March 16, 1861
	George F. Tucker	January 19, 1852
	Edward E. Turner	April 15, 1837
	Bentley W. Warren	April 20, 1864
	Arthur Holbrook Wellman	October 30, 1855
	N. Emery Whitcomb	April 11, 1836
	Fred N. Wier	July 4, 1861
	Aaron O. Wilder	August 4, 1833
	George S. Winslow	April 6, 1829
	Bernard M. Wolf	February 17, 1862
	Frank C. Wood	September 20, 1849
	Benjamin Herbert Woodsum	October 4, 1857
	Amos P. Woodward	December 23, 1837

References

^ "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+.
^ ^a ^b Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1892 – via Internet Archive.
^ ^a ^b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1892" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
^ Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905

External links

Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1892, hdl:2452/429109
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1892, hdl:2452/83198

[CompSenate-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

[CompHouse-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+.

[Manual-5] Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1892 – via Internet Archive.

[Register-6] "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1892" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

[black2010-7] Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905

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