1869 Massachusetts legislature
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Massachusetts General Court
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| body = General Court
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| election = November 3, 1868
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| session1_start = {{Start date|1869|01|6}}
| session1_end = {{End date|1869|06|24}} {{cite book |chapter-url= https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge00mass2/page/348/mode/1up |year= 2009 |location=Boston |publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts |title= Manual for the Use of the General Court |chapter=Length of Legislative Sessions |page=348+ }}
| before = 89th
| after = 91st
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| chamber1 = Senate
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| membership1 = 40
| control1 = Republican
(38 Republicans, 2 Democrats){{cite book |title=Leading the Way: a History of the Massachusetts General Court, 1629-1980 |author1= Cornelius Dalton |author2= John Wirkkala |author3= Anne Thomas |isbn=0961391502 |publisher=Massachusetts Secretary of State |year=1984 |location=Boston |chapter= Political Complexion of the General Court 1867-1980 |page=441+ }}{{citation |title= Composition of the Massachusetts State Senate |publisher=Mass.gov |archive-date= June 6, 2020 |work=Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library |url= https://www.mass.gov/service-details/resources-on-massachusetts-political-figures-in-the-state-library |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606063917/https://www.mass.gov/doc/composition-of-the-massachusetts-state-senate-0/download }}
| chamber1_leader1_type = President
| chamber1_leader1 = George O. Brastow
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| chamber2 = House
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| membership2 = 240
| control2 = Republican
(224 Republicans, 16 Democrats){{citation |title=Composition of the State of Massachusetts House of Representatives |publisher=Mass.gov |archive-date= June 6, 2020 |work=Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library |url= https://www.mass.gov/service-details/resources-on-massachusetts-political-figures-in-the-state-library |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200606064043/https://www.mass.gov/doc/composition-of-the-massachusetts-state-house-of-representatives-0/download }}
| chamber2_leader1_type = Speaker
| chamber2_leader1 = Harvey Jewell
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| alt1 = George O. Brastow
| caption1 = George Brastow, Senate president.
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| alt2 = Harvey Jewell
| caption2 = Harvey Jewell, House speaker.
| footer = Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1869.
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The 90th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1869 during the governorship of Republican William Claflin.{{citation |title= Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1869 |hdl= 2452/795808 }} George O. Brastow and Robert Carter Pitman served as presidents of the Senate and Harvey Jewell served as speaker of the House.{{cite book |chapter-url= https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge00mass2/page/340/mode/2up |year= 2009 |location=Boston |publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts |title= Manual for the Use of the General Court |chapter=Organization of the Legislature Since 1780 |page=340+ }}{{cite book |chapter= Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |chapter-url= https://archive.org/details/massachusettsreg1869bost/page/16/mode/2up |title=Massachusetts Register, 1869 |via=Archive.org }}
Notable events include the creation of a Joint Special Committee on Woman Suffrage.{{citation |url=http://mastatelibrary.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-womens-suffrage-movement-in.html |author= Kaitlin Connolly |title=Women's Suffrage Movement in Massachusetts |date=September 24, 2012 |work= State Library of Massachusetts blog }}
Senators
Representatives
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- William T. Adams
- Alexander H. Allen
- John Allen
- William W. Amadon
- Frank M. Ames
- Isaac A. Anthony
- E. Foster Bailey
- John I. Baker
- Life Baldwin
- Henry Barker
- John Barlow
- William E. Barnes
- George H. Barrett
- William Bartlett
- Ezra Batcheller
- Jacob Bates
- Loring Bates
- Marcus Bates
- Alfred Belden
- Francis W. Bird
- Henry B. Blake
- Richard D. Blinn
- Samuel G. Bowdlear
- Charles Bradley
- Samuel P. Breed
- Ezra C. Brett
- Benjamin A. Bridges
- Jethro C. Brock
- William G. Brooks
- John Brown
- Obadiah S. Brown
- Werden R. Brown
- Ferdinand L. Burley
- Alvah A. Burrage
- Alfred A. Burrill
- Frederick Butler
- Oliver S. Butler
- Michael Carney
- Solomon Carter
- Dennis Cawley, Jr
- Albert Chamberlin
- Henry Chase
- Linus M. Child
- William M. Child
- Horace Choate
- Le Baron B. Church
- Joseph N. Clark
- Samuel Clark
- Asa Clement
- Samuel Cloon
- Aury G. Coes
- Patrick A. Collins
- Benjamin F. Cook
- George P. Cox
- Freeborn W. Cressey
- Alanson Crittenden
- Stephen M. Crosby
- James M. Cunliff
- Robert S. Daniels
- Elnathan Davis
- William W. Davis
- Ebenezer Dawes
- John Dean
- Avery J. Denison
- Benjamin Dupar
- J. Franklin Dyer
- William I. Edwards
- Thomas Ellis
- Addison G. Fay
- Jacob Fisher
- Charles A. Fiske
- William Fletcher
- James B. Francis
- Benjamin Franklin
- Rodney French
- Josiah O. Friend, Jr
- Chauncey G. Fuller
- George L. Gibbs
- Edwin Gilbert
- Kimball C. Gleason
- Abijah W. Goddard
- Stephen D. Goddard
- John B. Goodrich
- Thomas H. Goodspeed
- Dennis J. Gorman
- Levi S. Gould
- Samuel H. Gould
- Wesley A. Gove
- William T. Grammar
- C. S. Greenwood
- Charles H. Guild
- Moses H. Hale
- Lyman S. Hapgood
- R. P. A. Harris
- Abraham G. Hart
- Edward H. Hartshorn
- Andrew L. Haskell
- William H. Haskell
- Tilly Haynes
- James A. Hervey
- James Hewes
- Elmer Hewett
- Charles A. Hewins
- William Hichborn
- Levi W. Hobart
- Thorndike D. Hodges
- Ambrous Hodgkins
- Alvah Holway
- James Horswell
- Samuel Horton
- Charles H. Hovey
- George F. Howland
- James Humphrey
- Theodore C. Hurd
- Harvey Jewell
- Henri L. Johnson
- Robert Johnson
- Herbert C. Joyner
- Lewis S. Judd
- Shubael B. Kelley
- William W. Kellogg
- Thomas G. Kent
- Moses Kimball
- Dexter S. King
- Enoch King
- Daniel W. Knight
- Joseph S. Knight
- Franklin C. Knox
- David Lane
- Albert Langdon
- Roger H. Leavitt
- Manning Leonard
- Nahum Leonard, Jr
- William Livermore
- Caleb Lombard
- Josiah Lord, Jr
- Marcus M. Luther
- Charles P. Lyon
- Hugh A. Madden
- Charles N. Marsh
- Murdock Matheson
- Charles J. Mclntire
- William Melcher
- William R. Melden
- Charles H. Merriam
- John M. Merrick
- Moody Merrill
- William H. Merritt
- Lansing Millis
- Eben Mitchell
- Elliott Montague
- Lyman E. Moore
- Asa P. Morse
- F. H. Morse
- James R. Morse
- Newton Morse
- Edwin Mudge
- Nathaniel C. Nash
- Henry J. Nazro
- Thomas L. Nelson
- Daniel H. Newton
- Jeremiah L. Newton
- George K. Nichols
- William W. Nichols
- Francis A. Nye
- John P. Ober
- Weaver Osborn
- Rufus S. Owen
- Samuel S. Paine
- William H. Parker
- John C. Peak
- Joseph D. Peirce
- Francis A. Perry
- M. C. Phipps
- A. A. Plimpton
- Avery Plumer
- Thomas F. Plunkett
- Thomas K. Plunkett
- Augustus Pratt
- Joseph A. Priest
- Asabel D. Puffer
- Caleb Rand
- Eduar H. Reed
- Ezra Rice
- Otis Rich
- James Ritchie
- James H. Roberts
- Isaiah F. Robinson
- Ensign B. Rogers
- Joseph N. Rolfe
- John Runey
- Augustine K. Russell
- William A. Russell
- George J. Sanger
- Joseph L. Sargent
- Samuel D. Sawin
- Clark Sears
- John N. Sherman
- Lemuel B. Simmons
- Rufus S. Slade
- Abner L. Smith
- Edward Smith
- Horace Smith
- Iram Smith
- John J. Smith{{citation |url= http://mastatelibrary.blogspot.com/2013/03/massachusetts-legislators-john-james.html |author= Kaitlin Connolly |title= Massachusetts Legislators: John James Smith |date= March 4, 2013 |work= State Library of Massachusetts blog }}{{citation |title=Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present |hdl=2452/48905 |publisher= State Library of Massachusetts |year=2010 }}
- Martin L. Smith
- Willis Smith
- Charles W. Soule
- Welcome W. Sprague
- L. Miles Standish
- Haynes K. Starkweather
- Eliphalet Stone
- Edward Stowell
- Joseph A. Stranger
- Ruel F. Thayer
- Shepherd Thayer
- Justus Tower
- S. K. Towle
- William P. Tyler
- Joseph Vaill
- Welcome H. Wales
- S. H. Walker
- Royal S. Warren
- Thomas S. Waters
- Jerome Wells
- Henry White
- D. Dwight Whitmore
- Emerson Wight
- Charles Wilcox
- Salem Wilder
- Alfred M. Williams
- Warren Williams
- Samuel S. Willson
- James Wilson
- William D. Witherell
- Orlow Wolcott
- George M. Woodward
- David T. Woodwell
- Luther A. Wright
- P. Ambrose Young
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See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |title=American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1869 |chapter=Massachusetts |chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/appletonsannualc09newyuoft/page/410/mode/1up |publisher=D. Appleton and Company |location=New York |year=1870 }} (includes description of legislature)
External links
- {{citation |hdl= 2452/619058 |title= Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1869 |author= Massachusetts General Court }}
- {{citation |hdl =2452/92951 |title = Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1869 }}
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