1923–1924 Massachusetts legislature

143rd Massachusetts General Court
← 142nd 144th →
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 7, 1922
Senate
Members	40
President	Frank G. Allen (Norfolk district)
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	Benjamin Loring Young (13th Middlesex)
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st January 3, 1923 (1923-01-03) – May 26, 1923 (1923-05-26) 2nd January 2, 1924 (1924-01-02) – June 5, 1924 (1924-06-05)

Frank Allen, Senate president.

Benjamin Loring Young, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1923.

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.

Senators

portrait	name	date of birth	district
	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

portrait	name	date of birth	district
	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	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	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

• 1924 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
• 68th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

Further reading

• 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 (1922), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1923, hdl:2452/43514
• Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1923. hdl:2452/40700.
• Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: 1923

External links

• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1923, hdl:2452/265583 – via State Library of Massachusetts
• 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