The 96th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1875 during the governorship of William Gaston. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford served as speaker of the House.

Notable legislation included an "Act To Provide For The Supervision Of The Construction And Maintenance Of Reservoirs And Dams."

Senators Image Name Date of birth District Party Moses O. Ayres July 21, 1826 4th Worcester J. White Belcher November 14, 1823 3rd Norfolk Richard Britton 1838 Andrew Jackson Clark 1835 Timothy John Dacey 1849 George L. Davis June 17, 1816 Francis Edson 1823 Charles Fitz 1806 Eustace Carey Fitz 1833 1st Suffolk Michael Joseph Flatley 1823 Henry Fuller 1825 Jeremiah Gatchell 1834 Joseph Alfred Harwood March 26, 1827 John Alexander Hawes 1823 Ezra Coffin Howard September 1, 1831 Ebenezer Atherton Hunt January 26, 1826 Henry Stanley Hyde August 18, 1837 Thomas Ingalls 1824 Jonathan Jones May 25, 1812 Jonathan A. Lane 1822 William E. Livingston June 25, 1832 George B. Loring November 8, 1817 William Croade Lovering February 25, 1835 Lysander John Orcutt 1826 Albert Palmer January 17, 1831 Ezra Parmenter March 20, 1823 William H. Phillips November 16, 1830 Henry W. Robinson October 9, 1819 Christopher E. Rymes September 27, 1827 Henry Smith July 16, 1827 Charles H. B. Snow August 7, 1822 Francis Dana Stedman 1801 Thomas Newcomb Stone 1818 Hugh James Toland 1844 Washington Tufts George F. Verry July 14, 1826 Zenas Caldwell Wardwell 1831 Tisdale Sanford White 1809 Robert Rich Wiley 1828 Ezra Dyer Winslow 1839

Representatives image Name Date of birth District Party James Abbe 1822 Ebenezer Adams 1830 Samuel Allen 1825 Stephen Merrill Allen 1819 Andrew Athy 1832 Michael A. Atkinson 1813 John James Babson 1809 Amasa Winchester Bailey 1820 Daniel Danforth Bailey 1834 Cyrus Franklin Baker 1831 John Israel Baker 1812 Joseph Heaton Baker 1820 Giles Gould Barker 1838 Theodore Dwight Beach 1821 George Beal 1824 John Henry Bell 1829 William Harrison Bent 1840 James Bergin 1825 John Best 1836 John Charles Bickford 1836 John Henry Blake 1831 Stephen Francis Blaney 1844 William Edward Blunt 1840 Frederick Lincoln Bosworth 1836 Sylvester Warren Bowen 1833 Horace Leander Bowker 1832 Selwyn Zadock Bowman May 11, 1840 Reuben Boynton 1815 Osgood Bradley 1836 William Eustis Bridgman 1836 Wilbur Franklin Brigham 1839 William Ellery Bright 1831 Samuel Rhoden Brintnall 1820 Charles Morrill Brown 1820 Isaac Tucker Burr 1828 James Hazen Carleton 1818 Michael Carney 1827 William Carroll 1838 William Chase 1817 Gardner Asaph Churchill 1839 Isaiah Churchill 1806 Charles Russell Codman 1829 Abraham Burbank Coffin 1831 Patrick Collins 1830 Austin Henry Connell 1846 Owen Coogan 1820 Augustine Porter Cook 1843 Frederick Spaulding Coolidge December 7, 1841 Lowell Coolidge 1819 Alfred Minott Copeland 1830 Jeremiah William Coveney 1840 John Addison Cummings 1838 Benjamin Connor Currier 1822 Francis Chester Curtis 1836 William Derbyshire Curtis 1843 Levi Lincoln Cushing 1825 Benjamin Franklin Davis 1837 Epes Davis 1799 Jacob Winnie Davis 1824 Lewis Day 1835 Henry Dennis 1827 Neil Doherty 1838 Cornelius William Duggan 1844 James William Dwyer 1845 George Whitefield Dyer 1836 Edwin Ellis 1823 James Edward Estabrook John Brooks Fairbanks 1822 Luther Fisk 1832 Thomas Francis Fitzgerald 1848 Samuel Flower 1815 John David Flynn 1842 Alpheus Fobes 1829 Joseph Fobes 1811 William Frost 1822 Henry William Fuller June 30, 1839 Charles Lefevre Gardner 1839 Albert Warren Gaskill 1831 James Willis Gaylord 1844 William Miner Gaylord 1821 Emerson Geer 1835 Edward Eli Gibbs 1836 Benjamin Gifford 1824 Levi Lincoln Goodspeed 1822 Elbridge Henry Goss 1830 Charles Henry Green January 11, 1842 Daniel Gardner Green 1817 Thomas Thurston Griggs 1818 Dexter Grose 1830 Charles Hale June 7, 1831 Gayton Montgomery Hall 1835 George Hall 1831 Solomon Eldridge Hallett 1833 David Evans Harding 1826 William Ambrose Haskell 1826 Nicholas Hatheway 1824 George Haven 1809 Nathan Mortimer Hawkes 1843 George Heywood 1826 Moses Burpee Heywood 1827 Samuel Richardson Heywood 1821 James Edward Hill 1838 Joseph Warren Hill 1837 Beriah Tilton Hillman 1843 William Allen Hodges 1834 Elisha Everett Holbrook 1835 Amos Bradley Holden 1823 Henry Tolman Holmes 1829 Salmon Dutton Hood 1830 Daniel Parker Hopkinson 1835 Marius Milner Hovey 1818 William Brewster Howard 1836 Frederick George Howes 1832 Francis M. Hughes 1845 Simeon Alonzo Jacobs 1835 Henry Lyman James 1829 Edward Jonathan Johnson 1832 Thomas Johnson 1824 George Washington Jones 1822 Isaac Newton Keith November 14, 1838 Philo Keith 1806 William Keith 1810 Ziba Cary Keith July 13, 1842 Edward Kendall 1822 Moses Kimball October 24, 1809 William Sterling King 1818 George Parkman Kingsley 1840 Joel Knapp 1835 William Shadrach Knox September 10, 1843 Daniel Warren Lawrence 1830 John Burt Le Baron 1817 Benjamin Flint Leighton 1820 Daniel James Lewis 1810 George Tyler Lincoln 1840 Pliny Thurston Litchfield 1827 James Lovering Locke 1832 John Davis Long October 27, 1838 James Thomas Mahony 1843 John Bernard Martin 1848 William Martin 1815 Joseph Tinsley Massey 1808 Edward Selden May 1809 Samuel May 1810 James Athansius McDonald 1842 John Johnson McNutt 1822 William Branwell Merrill 1827 Clement Meserve 1822 Southard Harrison Miller 1811 Henry Sherman Miner 1820 Joseph Mitchell 1809 Franklin Gerrish Morris 1841 John Torrey Morse 1840 Frederick Pierce Moseley 1826 Willard Stanley Newhall 1831 George Lincoln Newton 1841 Edward Wolcott Noble 1811 Reuben Noble 1820 Daniel Noonan 1834 Isaac Newton Nutter June 23, 1836 Charles Stuart Osgood 1839 Harrison Davis Packard 1840 Joseph Frost Paul 1824 Charles Mason Peirce 1823 William Edward Perkins 1838 Charles Hiram Pew 1842 Willard Peele Phillips 1825 Stephen Cobb Phinney 1829 Edward L. Pierce March 29, 1829 James Pierce 1837 Thomas Fitzpatrick Plunkett 1804 Alanson Brown Pomeroy 1842 Richard Pope 1843 Isaac Pratt 1814 Willard Putnam 1838 Edward Benedict Rankin 1846 George Williams Reed 1826 Albert Edward Rice 1845 William Whitney Rice March 7, 1826 Thomas Rich 1820 Jonathan Cady Richmond 1821 John Lombard Robinson 1835 Joshua Crowell Robinson 1834 Wallace Fullum Robinson 1832 Charles Alvan Rogers 1836 Joseph Samuel Ropes February 6, 1818 Cyrus King Russell 1815 Nathaniel Johnson Rust 1833 John Stevens Ryder 1822 John Sanborn 1799 Edward Sanderson 1829 Charles Brigham Sanford 1817 John Eliot Sanford November 22, 1830 Cyrus Savage September 2, 1832 John Savery 1815 Ebenezer Sawyer 1809 Nathaniel Seaver 1807 John Mark Seeley 1814 Charles Luther Shaw 1823 Frederick Plummer Shaw 1811 Isaiah Atkins Small 1825 George Dillingham Smalley 1824 Abraham Howland Smith 1833 Albert Smith 1823 Edward F. Smith 1835 John Low Smith 1837 Edwin Adolphus Spaulding 1832 Richard Hall Stearns December 25, 1824 Isaac Stebbins 1817 Lafayette Stevens 1824 John Conant Stimpson 1813 Isaac Stone 1822 Charles Alfonso Fletcher Swan 1830 Daniel Joseph Sweeney 1834 Samuel Talbot 1822 Leonard Alden Thayer 1834 William Allen Thompson 1810 Daniel Holt Thurston 1813 Dexter Alley Tompkins 1827 George Howard Torrey 1819 Enoch Henry Towne 1835 Byron Truell 1834 Albert Jesse Trull 1845 Charles Russell Tucker 1844 Artemas Stanley Tyler 1824 Edmond Maxam Vincent 1828 Cranmore Nesmith Wallace 1844 George Milton Warren 1832 Austin Clark Wellington 1840 Joseph Wilder White 1825 Felix Grundy Whitney 1818 Wilbur Fisk Whitney 1839 Henry Munson Wilcox 1843 Ebenezer Crosby Willard 1821 Moses Williams 1846 William Winn 1809 Nathan Montgomery Wood 1825 John H. Woodbury 1840 William Woods 1840 Walter Wyman 1806

See also 44th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts

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