1915 Massachusetts legislature

The 136th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1915 during the governorship of David I. Walsh. Calvin Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Channing H. Cox served as speaker of the House.^[4]

136th Massachusetts General Court
← 135th 137th →
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 3, 1914
Senate
Members	40
President	Calvin Coolidge
Party control	Republican[1]
House
Members	240
Speaker	Channing H. Cox
Party control	Republican[2]
Sessions
1st January 6, 1915 (1915-01-06) – June 4, 1915 (1915-06-04) [3]

Calvin Coolidge, Senate president.

Channing Cox, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1915.

Senators

image	name [5]	date of birth [6]	district [6]
	Edward C. R. Bagley
	Frank Bartlett
	Sanford Bates	July 17, 1884	9th Suffolk
	William A. L. Bazeley	1872
	Charles Sumner Beal	August 14, 1856
	James W. Bean	May 11, 1866
	James F. Cavanagh
	Ezra W. Clark	October 12, 1842
	Calvin Coolidge	July 4, 1872
	Herbert E. Cummings
	Andrew P. Doyle	August 15, 1869
	Charles W. Eldridge	October 16, 1877
	George H. Ellis	October 3, 1848
	Frank S. Farnsworth
	Wilton B. Fay
	Redmond S. Fitzgerald
	Julius Garst
	Charles L. Gifford	March 15, 1871
	Gurdon W. Gordon
	James I. Green	April 9, 1885
	John W. Haigis	July 31, 1881
	Martin Hays	October 14, 1876
	Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr.	October 1, 1878
	George H. Jackson	March 9, 1865
	Charles A. Kimball
	Louis F. R. Langelier
	Joseph Leonard
	George Edward Marchand	December 22, 1877
	Joseph W. Martin Jr.	November 3, 1884
	Orion T. Mason
	Philip J. McGonagle	October 21, 1871
	Walter E. McLane
	C. Augustus Norwood
	E. Howard Perley
	John F. Sheehan
	William J. Sullivan	April 14, 1865
	James R. Tetler	August 26, 1877
	James P. Timilty	March 28, 1865
	Nathan A. Tufts	April 15, 1879
	Henry Gordon Wells	October 12, 1879

Representatives

image	name [5]	date of birth [6]	district [6]
	Essex S. Abbott
	Henry Achin Jr.	June 30, 1883
	Austin Flint Adams		3rd Worcester
	J. Weston Allen	April 19, 1872
	Charles H. Annis	January 12, 1869
	William M. Armstrong	August 17, 1850
	Harrison Henry Atwood	August 26, 1863
	James T. Bagshaw
	Samuel H. Bailey
	Edmund Baker
	Philip Hosmer Ball
	Arthur W. Barker
	Joseph L. Barry
	William J. Barry	1861
	Addison P. Beardsley
	Joseph Belcher
	Joseph J. Benson
	Jacob Bitzer	January 16, 1865
	Thomas William Blanchard
	Alvin E. Bliss
	Henry E. Bothfeld	March 4, 1859
	Arthur Bower
	Eden K. Bowser
	Thomas H. Brennan
	James J. Brennan	May 2, 1882
	Fred Johnson Brown
	Daniel J. Buckley
	George Bunting	August 31, 1868
	Frederic W. Burke
	Arthur E. Burr
	Frederick Butler
	Fred E. Cady
	Matthew J. Carbary
	Julius F. Carman	August 7, 1861
	Maurice Caro
	Peter Carr	May 2, 1883
	Andrew A. Casassa
	Daniel W. Casey
	Allison G. Catheron	June 26, 1878
	George Dudley Chamberlain
	Albert Minot Chandler
	Edward Earl Chapman
	John W. Churchill	November 17, 1853
	A. Schuyler Clapp
	Frederic F. Clauss
	James Coffey	May 17, 1849
	Arthur Willard Colburn	December 1, 1877
	Benjamin G. Collins
	Samuel I. Collins	March 4, 1851
	D. Herbert Cook	June 2, 1851
	Thomas J. Cooley
	Michael H. Cotter
	John J. Courtney
	Walter D. Cowls
	George H. Creighton
	William N. Cronin
	Burton H. Crosby
	Fred Wilder Cross	September 15, 1868
	John T. Crowley	November 15, 1872
	Patrick J. Curley
	George E. Curran
	Edward J. Dailey
	Samuel Davis	June 4, 1866
	Ernest F. Davis
	Theodore H. Day
	William Abner Dodge
	John F. Doherty	June 9, 1881
	Peter J. Donaghue
	William J. Donahoe
	Joseph Joyce Donahue
	John A. Donoghue
	John L. Donovan	June 3, 1876
	Thomas E. Dowd
	Aaron Coolidge Dowse
	George P. Drury
	Dennis Francis Duggan
	Frank B. Edgell
	Carl C. Emery	November 4, 1888
	Charles A. Ericson
	John G. Faxon
	Frederick B. Felton
	Horace F. Field
	Joseph La Flamme
	Maurice R. Flynn	July 28, 1889
	William J. Foley	March 2, 1887
	Harry C. Foster	August 27, 1871
	Harvey E. Frost	October 2, 1875
	Charles Benjamin Frothingham	November 11, 1858
	Alvan T. Fuller	February 27, 1878
	Howard F. Furness
	Charles F. Garrity
	Harry C. Gates
	Joseph S. Gates	October 3, 1856
	John Mellen Gibbs
	Thomas J. Giblin
	John J. Gilbride
	Joseph P. Good
	Shirley P. Graves
	Fred Parker Greenwood
	Edgar H. Hall
	John Halliwell	February 21, 1864
	Edward F. Harrington (state representative)	August 10, 1878
	James L. Harrop
	George F. Hart	November 9, 1859
	John F. Hatch Jr.
	Matthew A. Higgins
	Albert Holway
	John C. Hull (politician)	November 1, 1870
	Charles N. James	September 3, 1853
	Victor Francis Jewett
	John Joseph Kearney
	Thomas R. Kelley
	Jeremiah J. Kelly
	William W. Kennard
	Robert T. Kent
	Richard Knowles
	Joseph O. Knox
	Louis LaDame
	Arthur F. Lamb
	Francis X. Le Boeuf
	George B. Leonard
	John N. Levins
	Fred Oliver Lewis	June 12, 1878
	E. Ellsworth Lincoln
	George A. Lindberg
	Martin Lomasney	December 3, 1859
	Henry Follansbee Long
	Frederick H. Lucke
	James MacFarlane Lyle
	Frank E. Lyman	September 15, 1866
	John H. Lynch	October 28, 1884
	Frederick William MacKenzie
	James E. MacPherson
	Frederick H. Magison
	John P. Mahoney	May 26, 1888
	Michael F. Malone
	Frank A. Manning
	Felix A. Marcella
	John L. Mather
	John Edwin Maybury
	John Henry McAllister
	John F. McCarthy
	Charles H. McGlue
	Joseph McGrath (American politician)	December 20, 1890
	Orlando McKenzie
	Jared B. McLane
	Henry J. McLaughlin
	Edward F. McLaughlin	June 6, 1883
	William M. McMorrow
	Michael J. McNamee
	Samuel H. Mildram
	John Mitchell	September 4, 1877
	John L. Monahan
	Wesley E. Monk	August 1, 1874
	Alfred James Moore	August 7, 1891
	Charles H. Morrill	October 6, 1874
	Edward G. Morris
	George D. Morse
	Hugh E. Mullen
	Thomas B. Mulvehill
	Frank Mulveny
	John J. Murphy	March 26, 1889
	Dennis A. Murphy	September 26, 1876
	Edward P. Murphy
	James J. Murphy	February 11, 1885
	Patrick E. Murray	August 22, 1869
	David W. Murray	September 9, 1874
	Ken Nash
	Arthur N. Newhall
	John P. Nickerson
	Francis Norwood
	Edward H. Nutting	July 6, 1869
	James T. O'Dowd
	Joseph A. Oakhem
	Ambrose F. Ogden
	John N. Osborne	January 28, 1853
	James Goodridge Page
	Peter C. Paradis
	John H. Parker	August 27, 1859
	Chauncey Pepin
	Edward Howland Perry
	Joseph H. Perry	May 4, 1869
	Joseph C. Perry	May 1, 1856
	Immanuel Pfeiffer Jr.
	James E. Phelan	October 21, 1884
	James Tracy Potter	January 26, 1870
	Winfield F. Prime	November 22, 1860
	Martin Lewis Quinn	January 19, 1862
	Albert T. Quiry
	George J. Rabouin
	Cyril R. Read
	Dennis F. Reardon
	John J. Reilly
	William C. Renne
	Robert Robinson	January 4, 1889
	William M. Robinson	July 21, 1875
	Silas B. Root
	Charles Freeman Rowley
	G. Oscar Russell
	Walter F. Russell
	John D. Ryan	July 30, 1868
	Edward Julius Sandberg	October 21, 1866
	Alfred Santosuosso
	Joseph A. Saunders
	Roland D. Sawyer	January 8, 1874
	C. Burnside Seagrave
	John Francis Sheehan	August 25, 1879
	John H. Sherburne	1877
	Michael J. Sherry
	Allston M. Sinnott
	Jerome S. Smith
	Fitz-Henry Smith Jr.
	Ralph M. Smith
	William O. Souther Jr.
	Charles Elmer Stanwood
	Joseph Fayette Stone	February 8, 1858
	Merrill E. Streeter
	Denis J. Sullivan	July 24, 1889
	Lewis R. Sullivan
	William H. Sullivan	February 20, 1869
	John F. Sullivan	May 17, 1875
	Edmond P. Talbot	1884
	Warren E. Tarbell
	James E. Tolman	November 8, 1867
	George J. Wall
	Joseph E. Warner	May 16, 1884
	Robert M. Washburn	January 4, 1868
	George B. Waterman
	Samuel W. Weare
	Thomas Weston, Jr
	Hartley L. White
	George A. Whitney
	Edgar H. Whitney
	Herbert A. Wilson	November 27, 1870
	Herbert Wing
	Walter Edgar Wolfe
	Harry C. Woodill
	George M. Worrall

See also

• 1915 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
• 64th 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. 2005. p. 338+.
5. Who's Who in State Politics. Boston: Practical Politics. 1915.
6. "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1915" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

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 (1914), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1915, hdl:2452/43506
• Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1915. hdl:2452/40693.
• Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators: 1915. A. M. Bridgman. 1915. hdl:2452/43361.

External links

• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1915, hdl:2452/303853
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1915, hdl:2452/79976