1908 Massachusetts legislature

129th
Massachusetts General Court
129th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 5, 1907
Senate
Members	40
President	William D. Chapple
Party control	Republican (31–9)
House
Members	240
Speaker	John N. Cole
Party control	Republican (175–65)
Sessions
1st
1st	January 1, 1908 – June 13, 1908

William D. Chapple, Senate president.

John N. Cole, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1908.

The 129th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1908 during the governorship of Curtis Guild Jr.^[4] William D. Chapple served as president of the Senate and John N. Cole served as speaker of the House.^[5]

Senators

name ^[6]	date of birth ^[7]	district ^[7]
Gideon B. Abbott		9th Suffolk
Tilton S. Bell		8th Suffolk
John J. Butler		7th Suffolk
William D. Chapple	August 6, 1868	2nd Essex
Edward A. Cowee		2nd Worcester
Charles L. Dean		4th Middlesex
Francke W. Dickinson		1st Hampden
Edward W. Dixson		3rd Suffolk
William Otis Faxon		2nd Norfolk
Charles D. B. Fisk		5th Suffolk
George J. Gallond		Franklin and Hampshire
George H. Garfield		2nd Plymouth
James W. Grimes		7th Middlesex
Alfred S. Hall		1st Suffolk
Dennis E. Halley		5th Essex
Joseph H. Hibbard		8th Middlesex
Charles F. Jenney		1st Norfolk
John Lovell Johnson		3rd Worcester
Eben S. S. Keith		Cape
Frank J. Linehan		6th Suffolk
Daniel D. Mahoney		2nd Hampden
Michael J. McEttrick	June 22, 1848	4th Suffolk
John Joseph Mitchell	May 9, 1873	5th Middlesex
George F. Monahan		2nd Suffolk
Harry P. Morse		4th Essex
Arthur D. Norcross	November 7, 1848	Worcester and Hampden
Elmer C. Potter		1st Worcester
Clinton Q. Richmond		Berkshire
Herbert S. Riley		6th Middlesex
William R. Salter		1st Essex
Winfield S. Schuster		4th Worcester
James F. Shaw	July 18, 1873	3rd Essex
Nathaniel P. Sowle	October 30, 1857	3rd Bristol
Thorndike Spalding		2nd Middlesex
Elmer A. Stevens	January 15, 1862	3rd Middlesex
Allen T. Treadway	September 16, 1867	Berkshire, Hampshire and Hampden
Joseph Turner		2nd Bristol
James H. Vahey	December 29, 1871	1st Middlesex
Frank G. Wheatley		1st Plymouth
Thomas W. Williams		1st Bristol

Representatives

name ^[6]	date of birth ^[7]	district ^[7]
Joseph Abbott	May 22, 1874	25th Suffolk
Arthur S. Adams	February 14, 1869	16th Essex
Wallace E. W. N. Arnold	June 29, 1863
Frank L. Barnes	August 20, 1864
Frank Barrell	July 26, 1853
Charles Homer Barrett	June 23, 1868	21st Essex
Henry B. Barton	May 21, 1853	3rd Franklin
Frank A. Bayrd
Joseph E. Beals	March 18, 1834
John C. Bennett	April 2, 1872	4th Hampden
Fred L. Beunke
Elias B. Bishop	August 2, 1869
Charles V. Blanchard	February 2, 1866
Charles E. Boivin	December 12, 1872	11th Bristol
Alexis Boyer Jr.	January 17, 1875
Bartholomew A. Brickley	May 7, 1883
William R. Brooks	March 1, 1865	20th Essex
Charles H. Brown	January 19, 1879
John T. Bryan	February 17, 1859
George Bunting	August 31, 1868	5th Essex
Andrew J. Burnett	1860
Alfred S. Burns	February 6, 1860
Herbert W. Burr	June 15, 1866
Clenric H. Cahoon	February 4, 1875	2nd Barnstable
Timothy F. Callahan	September 5, 1881
James B. Carbrey	January 16, 1854	11th Essex
Ignatius J. Carleton	August 7, 1866
Cornelius J. Carmody	January 11, 1867
James Chambers	December 8, 1864
William E. Chester
John E. Clarey	January 7, 1855	8th Berkshire
Samuel F. Coffin	December 27, 1851	26th Essex
David Cole	September 26, 1845	3rd Berkshire
John N. Cole		9th Essex
Ellenwood B. Coleman	May 31, 1862
Frank Collette Jr.	1871
Edward D. Collins	1878
James J. Conboy	December 1, 1873
Martin F. Conley	April 27, 1870
Thomas F. Coogan
Benjamin A. Cook
John F. Cook	June 24, 1843	10th Essex
William H. Cook	March 7, 1856	9th Bristol
William F. Cook	February 4, 1847	2nd Hampden
Frank O. Coombs	December 17, 1857	1st Bristol
Rednor P. Coombs	June 27, 1873
John S. Cormack	June 7, 1875	13th Essex
Samuel V. Crane	October 4, 1855
Daniel Joseph Curley	December 23, 1875
Elmer L. Curtiss	June 11, 1861
Grafton D. Cushing	August 4, 1864
Alfred L. Cutting	January 27, 1868
Ernest Dalton	January 7, 1869
Charles L. Davenport	May 4, 1854
Ralph Davol		5th Bristol
Thomas L. Davis	March 15, 1852	17th Essex
Henry Ellsworth Dean	September 29, 1862
Charles A. Dean	March 26, 1856
William M. Dean	November 16, 1874	4th Bristol
Daniel E. Denny	July 14, 1845
Joseph C. Desmond	October 15, 1875	7th Bristol
Joseph E. Donovan	April 21, 1882
William E. Dorman	June 23, 1875	12th Essex
Andrew P. Doyle	August 15, 1869	8th Bristol
Edward B. Draper	November 27, 1876
Florence J. Driscoll	October 15, 1871
Hugh P. Drysdale	December 11, 1875	1st Berkshire
Patrick J. Duane	August 18, 1862
S. Alden Eastman	October 14, 1847
Charles F. Elmer	August 25, 1856	1st Franklin
Samuel D. Elmore	December 29, 1868
Dennis E. Farley	June 12, 1852	4th Franklin
Thomas J. Fay	April 24, 1879
Francis J. Fennelly	February 18, 1860	10th Bristol
J. Bernard Ferber	May 28, 1876
Frederick L. Fisher
Charles J. Flagg
Louis E. Flye	January 18, 1881
Clarence J. Fogg	July 10, 1853	25th Essex
Herbert M. Forristall	August 14, 1859	15th Essex
Herbert S. Frost
Edward J. Fuller	January 30, 1854
William F. Garcelon	October 24, 1868
Joseph S. Gates	October 3, 1856
George A. Giles	August 4, 1875
Edward Gilmore	January 4, 1867
James T. Goggins	January 31, 1866	5th Berkshire
Thomas J. Grady	December 16, 1877
William J. Graham	October 2, 1873	8th Essex
Hamlet S. Greenwood	1871
Lyman W. Griswold	October 16, 1869	2nd Franklin
Homer A. Hall	November 24, 1871	2nd Berkshire
Martin T. Hall	December 23, 1877
Harry H. Ham
Oscar C. Hammarstrom	October 18, 1877
Portus B. Hancock	February 19, 1836
Bernard F. Hanrahan	July 27, 1875
Horace D. Hardy	February 28, 1877
John J. Hayes	October 14, 1875
Lewis J. Hewitt	February 13, 1870
William P. Higgins	May 16, 1881
Frederick H. Hilton	February 12, 1882
William Hoag	November 18, 1870
Ernest E. Hobson	September 29, 1878	1st Hampden
Frank G. Hodskins	December 26, 1876	7th Hampden
William M. Hogan	June 2, 1876
Samuel M. Holman	1862	1st Bristol
Charles T. Holt	August 1, 1845	6th Hampden
Frank A. Hosmer	November 14, 1853
Alonzo F. Hoyle	October 16, 1861
Eugene Hultman	July 13, 1875
George S. J. Hyde	November 1, 1849	7th Essex
William T. Jeffrey	January 23, 1876	19th Essex
Charles Cabot Johnson	December 9, 1876	14th Essex
J. B. Albert Johnson	September 8, 1878
Fred O. Johnson	February 10, 1855
Aaron F. Jones	September 11, 1832
James A. Jones	January 14, 1853
Frederick G. Katzmann	September 12, 1875
David P. Keefe	September 29, 1855	11th Bristol
Sidney B. Keene	January 10, 1861
Roland M. Keith	March 16, 1847
William A. Kelleher	May 27, 1875	6th Essex
Frank D. Kemp	June 9, 1862	5th Hampden
Michael J. Kenney	July 12, 1863	3rd Bristol
James W. Killam	July 12, 1874
Edwin M. Kittredge	September 27, 1872
James H. Knight	October 11, 1876
Frederick S. Lane	May 8, 1849
William F. Learned	January 12, 1850
Sidney Lees	September 23, 1866	8th Bristol
Adam Leining	December 4, 1836
J. Henry Leonard	September 18, 1879
Andrew R. Linscott
Martin Lomasney	December 3, 1859
George W. Long	July 28, 1872
John F. Lothrop	December 17, 1847
George E. Lovett	February 27, 1849
Robert Luce	December 2, 1862
Edward C. Lyford
Cornelius J. Lynch	December 18, 1877
Samuel J. Madden	May 17, 1882
Jens J. Madsen	October 9, 1869
Charles A. Malley	January 22, 1876
David Mancovitz	August 15, 1877
Charles H. Mansfield	March 20, 1842	15th Essex
Charles Mayberry	April 27, 1876
Ulysses E. Mayhew	August 16, 1848	1st Dukes
Herbert T. Maynard	December 9, 1867
Matthew McCann	1863	14th Essex
Jeremiah F. McCarthy	July 7, 1857
Charles F. McCarthy	August 15, 1876
Frederick T. McClatchey	October 1, 1873	4th Berkshire
Thomas P. McDavitt
Edward McDonald	July 17, 1844	7th Berkshire
Philip J. McGonagle	October 21, 1871
John F. McGrath	January 10, 1881
Edwin C. McIntire	October 18, 1867	23rd Essex
John H. McKenney	October 12, 1839	13th Essex
Lewis B. McKie	August 14, 1875
George McLane Jr.	July 4, 1869	5th Essex
Timothy J. Meade	November 7, 1874
John F. Meehan	November 24, 1875
Julius Meyers	December 6, 1854
Samuel H. Mildram
Jacob H. Mock	May 14, 1863
Fred Moore	April 4, 1874	9th Bristol
Daniel H. Morgan	January 14, 1879	5th Hampden
Leslie K. Morse	January 18, 1860	3rd Essex
Joseph J. Murley	October 8, 1876
William F. Murray	September 7, 1881
Melvin S. Nash	August 3, 1857
Arthur L. Nason	October 24, 1872	4th Essex
George H. Newhall	October 24, 1850	12th Essex
Malcolm Nichols	May 8, 1876
David Curtis Nickerson	January 21, 1854
William H. O'Brien	September 9, 1864
J. Frank O'Brien	January 6, 1879
M. Fred O'Connell	June 14, 1870
Patrick H. O'Connor	1882
James E. O'Donnell	September 29, 1875
James Oliver	June 28, 1836
Lewis C. Parker	May 9, 1880
Lewis Parkhurst	1856
Joseph A. Parks	May 2, 1877	10th Bristol
Louis E. Pattison	December 30, 1843
Thomas Pattison	January 20, 1854	1st Barnstable
Edwin C. Perham	March 4, 1858
John H. Pickford	September 9, 1849
Ernest H. Pierce	May 12, 1863
Myron E. Pierce	1874
Robert E. Pollock	October 23, 1851	18th Essex
Frank H. Pope	March 7, 1854
Samuel L. Porter	November 10, 1869	1st Essex
James F. Powers	October 1, 1872
Francis X. Quigley	November 20, 1882
Thomas P. Riley	July 11, 1875
William M. Robinson	July 21, 1875
William L. Robinson	December 15, 1855	2nd Bristol
Samuel Ross	February 2, 1865	7th Bristol
John E. Rousmaniere
Herbert P. Sanders		6th Berkshire
John H. Schoonmaker	February 14, 1869
Edward J. Sennott	April 4, 1867
Eugene E. Shaw
Frederick M. J. Sheenan
Oscar J. Shepardson	December 5, 1851	2nd Hampden
Joseph J. Shepherd	February 5, 1855
Isaac M. Small	1845	3rd Barnstable
William H. Smith	November 11, 1875
Joseph Soliday	1869
Harry N. Stearns	October 5, 1874
John A. Stoddart	May 10, 1869	22nd Essex
Lucian B. Stone	September 9, 1829
John F. Sullivan	May 17, 1875
Daniel L. Sullivan	October 16, 1878
George Swann	July 18, 1859
John H. Thompson	August 26, 1873
Frank P. Todd	March 3, 1853	24th Essex
Frank A. Torrey	December 21, 1874
William H. Trudel	July 19, 1866	2nd Essex
Charles L. Underhill	July 20, 1867
Charles F. Varnum	June 28, 1846
Joseph Walker (Massachusetts speaker)	1865
Joseph A. Wallis	December 12, 1837	20th Essex
Thomas S. Walsh	1859	3rd Hampden
Fred P. Warner
Robert M. Washburn	January 4, 1868
William L. Waugh
A. S. Parker Weeks	April 29, 1857
William E. Weeks	1880
Joseph O. Wellington
Norman H. White	December 25, 1871
Edgar H. Whitney
William B. Willcutt	December 14, 1874
Isaac E. Willetts	November 8, 1879	11th Bristol
Waterman Lester Williams	August 10, 1867
Herbert Wing		6th Bristol
Russell B. Worster	June 30, 1872

Images

Map of districts of the Massachusetts state senate apportioned in 1906

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 .
^ Massachusetts Year Book for 1908. Worcester: F.S. Blanchard. 1907.
^ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338 .
^ ^a ^b Who's Who in State Politics. Boston: Practical Politics. 1908 – via archive.org.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1908" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

External links

Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1908 – via State Library of Massachusetts
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1908, hdl:2452/73496

[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] Massachusetts Year Book for 1908. Worcester: F.S. Blanchard. 1907.

[5] "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338 .

[Who1908-6] Who's Who in State Politics. Boston: Practical Politics. 1908 – via archive.org.

[Register-7] "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1908" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

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