1895 Massachusetts legislature

116th
Massachusetts General Court
116th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 6, 1894
Senate
Members	40
President	William M. Butler
Party control	Republican (36–4)
House
Members	240
Speaker	George von Lengerke Meyer
Party control	Republican (194–46)
Sessions
1st
1st	January 2, 1895 – June 5, 1895

William Butler, Senate president.

George von Lengerke Meyer, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1895.

The 116th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1895 during the governorship of Frederic T. Greenhalge. William M. Butler served as president of the Senate and George von Lengerke Meyer served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Notable legislation included an act related to "the Question of Granting Municipal Suffrage to Women."^[5]

Senators

image	name ^[6]	date of birth ^[7]	district
	Horace H. Atherton	October 23, 1847
	Edward B. Atwood	May 13, 1845
	Eugene A. Bessom	June 11, 1855
	Ledyard Bill	1836
	Percival Blodgett	July 18, 1841
	Edward S. Bradford	December 1, 1842
	George J. Burns	July 14, 1855
	William M. Butler	January 29, 1861
	Joseph J. Corbett	December 24, 1863
	Francis W. Darling	December 16, 1852
	William B. Durant	September 29, 1844
	Ether S. Foss	June 10, 1834
	Edward G. Frothingham	August 12, 1837
	Granville Austin Fuller	March 13, 1837
	George L. Gage	February 6, 1845
	George A. Galloupe	October 28, 1850
	Michael B. Gilbride	February 13, 1866
	Robert S. Gray	September 28, 1847
	Edwin B. Harvey	April 4, 1834
	Isaac P. Hutchinson	February 26, 1860
	George P. Lawrence	May 19, 1859
	James Cushing Leach	June 11, 1831
	Joseph B. Maccabe	November 19, 1857
	Dana Malone	October 8, 1857
	William Henry McMorrow	March 23, 1871
	Joel D. Miller	October 10, 1837
	William A. Morse	July 27, 1863
	Joseph O. Neill	January 31, 1838
	George W. Perkins	July 1, 1842
	John Quinn, Jr.	December 16, 1859
	George A. Reed	September 10, 1842
	John B. Ripley	July 8, 1849
	Stephen Salisbury III	March 31, 1835
	George P. Sanger	September 6, 1852
	Sylvanus Smith	March 10, 1829
	Louis C. Southard	April 1, 1854
	Charles F. Sprague	June 10, 1857
	Arthur Holbrook Wellman	October 30, 1855
	Marciene H. Whitcomb	October 24, 1837

Representatives

image	name ^[6]	date of birth ^[7]	district
	Daniel W. Allen	June 17, 1827
	Romeo E. Allen	October 17, 1852
	Isaiah P. Atsatt	March 17, 1848
	Frederick E. Austin	August 6, 1865
	George W. Bailey	March 20, 1848
	James Alderson Bailey Jr.	March 25, 1867
	Theophilus B. Baker	May 16, 1830
	Charles T. Balch	February 23, 1844
	Charles Grey Bancroft	December 3, 1866
	Solon Bancroft	June 22, 1839
	Harding R. Barber	December 20, 1839
	Albert F. Barker	October 24, 1859
	Erwin F. Barnes	March 14, 1846
	Franklin O. Barnes	November 11, 1841
	Daniel J. Barry	August 27, 1859
	John L. Bates	September 18, 1859
	Algernon T. Beaman	1847
	Frank S. Bennett	May 12, 1857
	George B. Bird	February 15, 1867
	Henry Clay Bliss	May 5, 1846
	Benjamin F. Blodgett	June 6, 1843
	Charles P. Bond	July 24, 1855
	Samuel S. Bourne	December 9, 1850
	Harvey L. Boutwell	April 5, 1860
	Fred H. Bradford	July 13, 1850
	Manassah Edward Bradley	August 15, 1863
	Charles Donnell Brown	June 5, 1862
	Frederick A. Brown	October 24, 1856
	Benjamin S. Bullock	May 12, 1850
	William H. Burges	November 3, 1835
	J. Marshall Burt	August 28, 1842
	T. Preston Burt	July 20, 1844
	Charles W. Carroll	November 1, 1863
	William Carter	February 25, 1830
	Daniel C. Casey	August 10, 1867
	Frank Chandler	February 20, 1852
	Luther W. Clark	September 19, 1851
	James A. Cochran	June 27, 1847
	Michael W. Collins	August 5, 1868
	Heman S. Cook	May 13, 1840
	Gilbert Cooke	August 4, 1841
	Ellery B. Crane	November 12, 1836
	James F. Creed	December 4, 1869
	Frederick W. Dallinger	October 2, 1871
	William W. Davis	August 8, 1862
	Thomas M. Denham	February 2, 1840
	David T. Dickinson	August 13, 1867
	Thomas Donahue	August 20, 1853
	Timothy J. Donovan	April 7, 1867
	William F. Donovan	December 29, 1866
	William J. Donovan	October 31, 1862
	Harry R. Dow	February 12, 1862
	William H. Drew	March 27, 1855
	Daniel M. Driscoll	January 2, 1861
	William P. Driscoll	May 1, 1857
	Levi A. Drury	August 9, 1847
	Robert Duddy	1847
	George Morton Eddy	August 5, 1843
	Henry Edgarton	December 29, 1820
	Albert H. Edgerton	August 23, 1843
	Alpheus M. Eldredge	January 25, 1828
	Benjamin F. Estes	August 28, 1836
	Thomas F. Fallon	December 7, 1857
	Clarentine E. Ferson	May 19, 1845
	Wellington Fillmore	October 18, 1850
	Henry H. Fisk	June 5, 1843
	James H. Flint	June 25, 1852
	Silas W. Flint	September 4, 1843
	Joseph J. Flynn	May 1, 1862
	William H. Foote	January 15, 1833
	William E. Ford	July 20, 1823
	Otis Foss	October 4, 1838
	George E. Fowle	July 4, 1837
	Zenas A. French	September 4, 1843
	James A. Gallivan	October 22, 1866
	John J. Gardner	February 23, 1853
	John Dennis Hammond Gauss	January 4, 1861
	Henry E. Gaylord	June 5, 1846
	Michael P. Geary	August 16, 1868
	Samuel Wesley George	April 26, 1862
	James Love Gillingham	July 12, 1857
	Charles W. Goodrich	December 30, 1840
	William T. Graham	February 1, 1861
	Alexander Grant	September 26, 1853
	Joshua S. Gray	August 16, 1840
	Abner Greenwood	September 10, 1826
	Thomas Ellwood Grover	February 9, 1846
	Edward A. Hale	January 11, 1850
	Charles L. Hammond	September 1, 1860
	George Hammond	December 14, 1839
	Franklin P. Harlow
	Benjamin C. Harvey	September 4, 1847
	Albert L. Harwood	September 10, 1847
	Samuel Hastings	February 1, 1837
	Bowers C. Hathaway	March 18, 1823
	Frederic W. Hathaway	March 6, 1836
	Wesley O. Hawkes	July 7, 1842
	William Henry Irving Hayes	June 21, 1848
	George A. Hibbard	October 27, 1864
	Sumner C. Higgins	November 24, 1843
	Thomas F. Hoban	December 20, 1860
	Joshua B. Holden	March 5, 1850
	Timothy Holland	July 12, 1865
	J. Edward Hollis	1840
	E. Clarence Holt	January 13, 1850
	John Gregory Horan	November 28, 1868
	Louis P. Howe	May 29, 1858
	Henry D. Humphrey	June 20, 1861
	Caleb Burroughs Huse	September 13, 1833
	William H. Hutchinson	March 26, 1834
	Richard William Irwin	February 18, 1857
	Dwight H. Ives	January 28, 1837
	William S. Jenks	December 1, 1855
	Edward P. Johnson	October 21, 1844
	George R. Jones	February 8, 1862
	Cyrus Anson Jordan	April 7, 1859
	Benjamin Adams Jourdan	July 20, 1832
	Frank W. Kaan	September 11, 1861
	James Keenan	March 4, 1850
	Thomas F. Keenan	March 11, 1854
	John E. Kellogg	July 2, 1845
	William G. Kimball	December 25, 1846
	Francis M. Kingman	May 25, 1837
	Joseph Brewster Knox	December 12, 1828
	Franz H. Krebs, Jr	1868
	Amos A. Lawrence	November 3, 1847
	George A. Leach	February 3, 1848
	Osgood L. Leach	September 18, 1848
	Warren S. Leach	February 23, 1847
	Charles F. Light	August 1, 1860
	Francis Cabot Lowell	January 7, 1855
	John M. Lynch	November 26, 1860
	John A. Macomber, 2d	January 25, 1849
	Hugo Mann	September 27, 1837
	William H. Marden	May 30, 1843
	Samuel N. Mayo	May 24, 1839
	Jeremiah Justin McCarthy	March 29, 1852
	Bernard McMackin	April 2, 1869
	James F. Melaven	November 19, 1858
	George H. Mellen	October 7, 1850
	James H. Mellen	November 7, 1845
	George von Lengerke Meyer	June 24, 1858
	Charles E. Mills	December 28, 1847
	Samuel H. Mitchell	November 2, 1854
	Joseph F. Mooney	May 21, 1866
	E. Lewis Moore	January 21, 1834
	William Moran	September 6, 1855
	Eugene Michael Moriarty	April 15, 1849
	Mark B. Mulvey	July 9, 1868
	Timothy F. Murphy	August 9, 1864
	James J. Myers	November 20, 1842
	Herbert Newell	April 2, 1855
	Richard Newell	April 17, 1839
	George H. Newhall	October 24, 1850
	John B. Newhall	October 1, 1862
	Joseph J. Norton	November 19, 1870
	Michael J. O'Brien	November 9, 1855
	John J. O'Connor	April 13, 1871
	John M. O'Hara	July 2, 1865
	L. Edgar Osgood	February 13, 1865
	Theodore K. Parker	September 3, 1841
	George W. Penniman	May 31, 1859
	Lyman H. Perkins	March 29, 1864
	Carlton T. Phelps	October 13, 1867
	Edward W. Pinkham	February 9, 1839
	Burrill Porter	February 22, 1832
	George W. Porter	January 30, 1844
	J. Frank Porter	April 8, 1847
	John Jacob Prevaux	March 16, 1857
	George E. Putnam	February 9, 1851
	Nicolas M. Quint	July 18, 1838
	Charles I. Quirk	August 15, 1871
	Henry F. Rice	January 29, 1844
	Robert A. Richardson	1840
	Ernest W. Roberts	November 22, 1858
	Alfred Seelye Roe	June 8, 1844
	Silas B. Root	July 21, 1850
	George A. Roper	July 25, 1849
	Samuel Ross	February 2, 1865
	Daniel D. Rourke	July 16, 1869
	Fred H. Rourke	May 23, 1867
	George G. Russell	November 4, 1845
	James F. Ryan	January 6, 1864
	Martin F. Ryder	November 1, 1854
	Charles F. Sargent	August 31, 1858
	George Melville Scates	September 30, 1841
	William P. Searls	June 3, 1851
	John Timothy Shea	February 14, 1866
	John F. Sheehan	September 2, 1861
	William Shepherd	September 17, 1837
	Frank M. Sibley	October 12, 1854
	Henry D. Sisson	December 8, 1836
	David F. Slade	November 5, 1855
	George T. Sleeper	September 15, 1852
	Albert C. Smith	March 14, 1845
	Henry M. Smith	March 12, 1852
	George F. Snow	June 12, 1841
	Amasa E. Southworth	May 19, 1844
	Warren F. Spalding	January 14, 1841
	John C. Spofford	November 25, 1854
	Arthur L. Spring	February 25, 1858
	Thomas E. St. John	March 2, 1831
	Fred D. Stanley	October 17, 1863
	Ezra A. Stevens	March 12, 1827
	Joseph W. Stocker	April 6, 1824
	Daniel D. Stone	October 23, 1844
	Homer O. Strong	October 22, 1850
	Charles F. Sturtevant	March 31, 1848
	George J. Tarr	February 1, 1832
	Robert T. Teamoh^[8]	1864
	Josiah P. Thacher	April 8, 1858
	Lyman D. Thurston	September 8, 1832
	William Tolman	June 2, 1858
	Henry Tower	June 24, 1829
	William W. Towle	August 21, 1860
	Michael Tuite	June 29, 1853
	Arthur H. Turner	September 26, 1858
	George W. Turner	February 24, 1829
	John E. Tuttle	November 3, 1835
	Charles Henry Utley	November 27, 1857
	Frank Lewis Wadden	April 21, 1847
	J. Gilman Waite	March 20, 1837
	Charles Elliott Wakefield	December 23, 1854
	George Albert Wales	March 26, 1858
	Horace E. Wallis	November 3, 1862
	Stephen Cady Warriner	August 25, 1839
	George B. Waterman	July 10, 1862
	George L. Wentworth	May 24, 1852
	Clarence P. Weston	August 23, 1845
	Mark O. Wheaton	November 22, 1833
	Elbridge J. Whitaker	November 11, 1859
	George E. White	June 13, 1849
	William S. White	February 28, 1863
	Albert L. Wiley	December 14, 1835
	Edward E. Willard	September 25, 1862
	Edward H. Wilson	September 26, 1848
	John Winn	July 3, 1828
	Henry O. Wood	February 26, 1837
	John Loring Woodfall	September 15, 1847
	Charles L. Young	May 23, 1850

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+.
^ Kaitlin Connolly (September 24, 2012), "Women's Suffrage Movement in Massachusetts", State Library of Massachusetts blog
^ ^a ^b Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1895 – via Internet Archive.
^ ^a ^b "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1895" (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: 1895, hdl:2452/429112
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1895, hdl:2452/83201

[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+.

[5] Kaitlin Connolly (September 24, 2012), "Women's Suffrage Movement in Massachusetts", State Library of Massachusetts blog

[Manual-6] Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1895 – via Internet Archive.

[Register-7] "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1895" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

[black2010-8] Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905

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