1905 Massachusetts legislature

The 126th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1905 during the governorship of William Lewis Douglas. William F. Dana served as president of the Senate and Louis A. Frothingham served as speaker of the House.^[4]

126th Massachusetts General Court
← 125th 127th →
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 8, 1904
Senate
Members	40
President	William F. Dana
Party control	Republican (34–6)[1]
House
Members	240
Speaker	Louis A. Frothingham
Party control	Republican (169–69–2)[2]
Sessions
1st January 4, 1905 (1905-01-04) – May 26, 1905 (1905-05-26) [3]

William Dana, Senate president.

Louis Frothingham, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1905.

Senators

image	name [5]	date of birth [6]	district
	John E. Beck	May 10, 1869
	William J. Bullock	January 31, 1864
	William A. Burns	January 9, 1875
	Edward B. Callender	February 23, 1851
	Edwin J. Castle	April 15, 1853
	Frank M. Chace	April 16, 1856
	Alvin B. Chamberlain	December 16, 1842
	William D. Chapple	August 6, 1868
	Edwards Cheney	May 3, 1861
	Chester W. Clark	August 9, 1851
	Thomas J. Collins	October 28, 1868
	Morton E. Converse	November 17, 1837
	William F. Craig	September 15, 1866
	Prentiss Cummings	September 10, 1840
	William F. Dana [7]	June 26, 1863
	Charles Leroy Dean	May 29, 1844
	George H. Garfield	July 18, 1858
	John J. Gartland	November 27, 1871
	Frank Gerrett	February 4, 1857
	Heman A. Harding	February 6, 1871
	Frank M. Heath	September 8, 1852
	Sidney Adelvin Hill	August 26, 1849
	Samuel E. Hull	August 12, 1843
	Harrie C. Hunter	March 16, 1869
	Loren P. Keyes	January 6, 1838
	Moody Kimball	July 2, 1862
	William S. Kyle	July 12, 1851
	Daniel W. Lane	December 11, 1871
	David Dennis Leahy	April 15, 1876
	James J. Mellen	March 30, 1875
	Harold P. Moseley	November 13, 1871
	John P. Munroe	June 28, 1850
	Edward B. Nevin	November 10, 1858
	Fordis C. Parker	January 3, 1868
	Andrew James Peters	April 3, 1872
	Silas Dean Reed	June 25, 1872
	William J. Rounds	June 24, 1855
	William Taylor	May 5, 1862
	James H. Walker	August 24, 1872
	John M. Woods	August 18, 1839

Representatives

image	name [5]	date of birth [6]	district
	Cecil L. Adams	June 14, 1878
	William Leck Adams	October 24, 1852
	James Sidney Allen	July 3, 1831
	Henry Stoddard Ames	May 21, 1861
	William H. Ames	March 1, 1861
	James Robert Anderson	March 27, 1859
	Charles A. Andrews	July 2, 1872
	William A. Bailey	September 26, 1849
	George O. Baker	April 6, 1835
	Arthur Wesley Barker	September 19, 1847
	George L. Barnes	June 24, 1879
	James Barr	September 20, 1854
	James Timothy Barrett	February 10, 1870
	George H. Battis	1863
	Fred Alfred Bearse	February 15, 1871
	March G. Bennett	January 31, 1869
	Frank P. Bennett Jr.	December 30, 1878
	George Frederick Birch	April 12, 1848
	Stephen H. Bodurtha	March 10, 1858
	Henry E. Bodurtha	March 15, 1865
	Richard Bossidy	December 1, 1864
	Edward A. Bower	August 1, 1869
	Rolfe Bradbury	March 12, 1861
	Eugene T. Brazzell	March 21, 1878
	Edward H. Brewer	December 12, 1851
	William M. Brigham	January 23, 1864
	Henry W. Brown	October 14, 1856
	John J. Butler	June 7, 1865
	Robert D. Cadagon	June 6, 1870
	George H. Cadigan	February 22, 1873
	Edward C. Callahan	March 14, 1874
	John W. Chapin	January 28, 1859
	James W. Chrystal	March 24, 1876
	Maurice P. Clare	August 26, 1852
	Ezra W. Clark	October 12, 1842
	Edward E. Clark	November 4, 1870
	John N. Cole	November 4, 1863
	Walter L. Collins	April 7, 1878
	Waldo E. Conant	February 1, 1855
	John J. Conway	September 12, 1873
	William H. Cook	March 7, 1856
	Lyman Alexander Crafts	October 28, 1854
	Edward C. Creed	January 5, 1877
	Frank H. Crossman	January 12, 1846
	Thomas F. Curley [8]	March 22, 1871
	William H. Cushman	June 8, 1850
	Samuel Newton Cutler	January 25, 1855
	Charles L. Davenport	May 4, 1854
	Thomas L. Davis	March 15, 1852
	Charles S. Davis	1858
	Frederick Simpson Deitrick	April 9, 1875
	Charles S. Denham	October 17, 1853
	Francis J. Doherty	August 26, 1875
	William J. Doogue	April 28, 1876
	Thomas Dowd	May 1, 1864
	Jeremiah F. Downey	February 9, 1878
	Alonzo W. Dunbar	May 4, 1850
	William C. Dunham	September 14, 1830
	Theodore F. Dwight	September 19, 1863
	Jonathan P. Edwards	April 7, 1854
	Winslow H. Edwards	August 13, 1870
	John F. Egan	July 6, 1874
	Michael L. Eisner	July 30, 1878
	Eugene F. Endicott	October 14, 1848
	Wilmot R. Evans Jr.	March 18, 1878
	Fred A. Ewell	June 12, 1865
	William Otis Faxon	October 24, 1853
	Francis Joseph Fennelly	February 18, 1860
	Jacob Bernard Ferber	May 28, 1876
	Charles D. B. Fisk	February 17, 1850
	John Leonard Fiske	August 21, 1872
	John J. Flaherty	May 5, 1872
	Daniel L. Flanagan	June 14, 1870
	Josiah Willard Flint	November 4, 1840
	Richard Rich Freeman	November 19, 1860
	Louis A. Frothingham	July 13, 1871
	Chester E. Gleason	March 13, 1869
	Ira N. Goddard	March 1, 1830
	Albert G. Godfrey	August 28, 1855
	Jeremiah J. Good	May 6, 1865
	Eben H. Googins	July 28, 1845
	Robert J. Gove	May 22, 1863
	Thomas J. Grady	December 16, 1877
	William P. Grady	November 25, 1878
	William J. Graham	October 2, 1873
	John M. Grosvenor Jr.	April 22, 1864
	John Burgess Gunn	April 13, 1846
	Alfred Stevens Hall	April 14, 1850
	Portus B. Hancock	February 19, 1836
	William E. Hannan	October 26, 1873
	William Henry Irving Hayes	June 21, 1848
	George L. Hemenway	November 23, 1850
	Joseph H. Hibbard	April 5, 1860
	William Edward Hickey	December 29, 1870
	Aubrey Hilliard	April 6, 1861
	Horton H. Hilton	December 11, 1869
	John A. Holway	March 31, 1865
	Fred V. Hooke	August 19, 1859
	Michael B. Houlihan	March 24, 1874
	William C. Howe	July 15, 1849
	Frank H. Howe	January 22, 1861
	Alonzo F. Hoyle	October 16, 1861
	Augustus Hubbard	June 27, 1849
	Thomas Huse	1851
	George H. Jackson	March 9, 1865
	Lester W. Jenney	April 24, 1876
	Warren Carlton Jewett	January 28, 1855
	James Albert Jones	January 14, 1853
	Samuel O. Jones	November 17, 1858
	David P. Keefe	September 29, 1855
	Edward James Kenney	January 19, 1867
	Alec E. Knowlton	October 29, 1857
	Joseph J. Leonard	May 8, 1876
	Henry N. Locklin	March 7, 1853
	Martin Lomasney	December 3, 1859
	Fred Wyatt Lord	September 22, 1860
	James Arnold Lowell	February 5, 1869
	John B. Lowney	March 17, 1879
	Robert Luce	December 2, 1862
	Orion T. Mason	April 4, 1865
	George Washington Maxon	August 3, 1862
	Henry Morrill Maxwell	January 21, 1867
	Charles Mayberry	April 27, 1876
	Hamilton Mayo	February 26, 1851
	Matthew McCann	1863
	James F. McDermott	March 1, 1877
	Daniel J. McDonald	August 14, 1872
	John M. McDonald	June 2, 1873
	James A. McDonald, Jr.	May 19, 1871
	Edward F. McGrady	January 22, 1874
	Edwin C. McIntire	October 18, 1867
	Orlando McKenzie	April 23, 1868
	Robert K. McKirdy	October 4, 1870
	Edward L. McManus	December 22, 1866
	Lewis H. Millett	December 22, 1873
	John Joseph Mitchell	May 9, 1873
	Joseph E. Mooney	June 25, 1874
	George Henry Moore	May 16, 1844
	Harry Payson Morse	July 27, 1854
	Francis T. Nelson	November 11, 1851
	Harry S. Nicoll	December 1, 1858
	Arthur D. Norcross	November 7, 1848
	Charles Henry Nowell	October 15, 1843
	Edward H. O'Brien	February 1, 1874
	Daniel M. O'Connell	May 30, 1865
	Michael Frederick O'Connell	June 14, 1870
	J. Frank O'Hare	October 14, 1874
	Hugh O'Rourke	March 1, 1869
	David M. Owens	January 12, 1877
	Edwin H. Oxner	1867
	Frank E. Packard	May 7, 1857
	Charles William Paradise	May 31, 1857
	Joseph A. Parks	May 2, 1877
	Chauncey E. Parsons	November 22, 1847
	William E. Patrick	May 2, 1847
	Edward C. Paull	September 5, 1862
	W. Rodman Peabody	March 3, 1874
	Pierre F. Peloquin	May 26, 1851
	Winthrop Edmund Perry	November 6, 1842
	Michael F. Phelan	October 22, 1875
	Amos A. Phelps	January 12, 1867
	Stephen W. Phillips	January 9, 1873
	Charles S. Pierce	September 5, 1874
	Mellen A. Pingree	March 9, 1861
	Noah Allen Plympton	September 7, 1841
	George M. Poland	July 16, 1877
	Herbert L. Pollard	September 24, 1844
	Samuel L. Porter	November 10, 1869
	Elmer C. Potter	August 23, 1868
	William H. Potter	April 12, 1850
	Maurice J. Power	July 21, 1872
	A. Frederick Putnam	February 10, 1871
	John H. Quinlan	February 29, 1864
	John Quinn, Jr.	December 16, 1859
	Charles H. Reinhart	March 8, 1867
	Herbert S. Riley	December 20, 1859
	Reginald L. Robbins	December 5, 1875
	John G. Robinson	November 24, 1860
	Samuel Ross	February 2, 1865
	Gilbert Jones Rugg	March 27, 1836
	William R. Salter	July 6, 1861
	George R. Sampson	October 2, 1852
	George A. Schofield	April 26, 1863
	Charles Schumaker	March 2, 1867
	George A. Scigliano	August 26, 1874
	Frank Seiberlich	October 29, 1874
	Edward J. Sennott	April 4, 1867
	Henry Walter Seward	January 18, 1865
	John F. Sheehan	September 2, 1861
	Daniel J. Sheehan	August 11, 1857
	Nelson Sherburne	November 18, 1864
	Joseph Sherman	September 7, 1840
	Arthur Wesley Sim	December 21, 1859
	Mark N. Skerrett	February 23, 1870
	Edward H. Slater	November 18, 1856
	Walter C. Slocum	November 18, 1862
	C. Aylmer Smith	February 15, 1846
	Charles B. Smith	March 9, 1857
	Elijah Olin Snow	April 24, 1851
	Joseph Soliday	1869
	Nathaniel P. Sowle	October 30, 1857
	John H. Spinlow	April 7, 1841
	Samuel O. Staples	April 16, 1843
	Clarence Winfield Starratt	March 19, 1861
	George H. Stevens	August 18, 1868
	Everett J. Stevens	May 11, 1847
	Elmer A. Stevens	January 15, 1862
	Luke S. Stowe	August 9, 1834
	Patrick John Sullivan	August 23, 1860
	Simon Swig	May 15, 1865
	Arthur M. Taft	January 28, 1854
	Edgar V. Tanner	August 28, 1835
	Frederick H. Tarr	October 8, 1868
	Frank W. Thayer	July 2, 1865
	George Henry Thorburn	February 21, 1866
	Harry L. Timmons	November 12, 1875
	George A. Titcomb	June 19, 1853
	Noble B. Turner	November 5, 1848
	Arthur P. Vinal	June 14, 1854
	Edward A. Walker	May 28, 1869
	Joseph Walker	1865
	Charles E. Ward	October 17, 1849
	Robert J. Ware	March 15, 1870
	Edgar W. Warren	October 4, 1853
	Edmund Weber	March 1, 1871
	Walter Archibald Webster	December 4, 1875
	William E. Weeks	1880
	Arthur J. Wellington	July 21, 1871
	William E. Westall	January 5, 1853
	John P. Whalen	November 11, 1878
	Frank G. Wheatley	July 6, 1851
	Harvey Wheeler	November 5, 1847
	Frederick W. Whitcomb	September 7, 1863
	Frank L. White	August 10, 1869
	John E. White	December 13, 1873
	Ezra Scott Whitmarsh	May 29, 1858
	Isaac E. Willetts	November 8, 1879
	Thomas W. Williams	September 15, 1865
	Frederick G. Wooden	May 26, 1871
	William H. Woodhead	September 17, 1860
	Allen S. Woodward	December 23, 1850

See also

• 59th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

References

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
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. Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1905 – via Internet Archive.
6. "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1905" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
7. "William Franklin Dana". New England Historical and Genealogical Register. 1922.
8. "Expels Imprisoned Member: Massachusetts Legislature Unseats Curley", New York Times, January 5, 1905

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 (1904), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1905, hdl:2452/43496
• Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators: 1905. A. M. Bridgman. 1905.

External links

• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1905, hdl:2452/429122
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1905, hdl:2452/73493