The 98th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1877 during the governorship of Alexander H. Rice. John B. D. Cogswell served as president of the Senate and John Davis Long served as speaker of the House.
Senators Image Name Date of birth District Party Charles Adams Jr. 1810 Stephen Merrill Allen 1819 George Sumner Barton 1825 Selwyn Zadock Bowman May 11, 1840 Amos Franklin Breed October 15, 1830 Elisha Brimhall March 25, 1825 Haydn Brown February 16, 1819 Abraham Burbank Coffin 1831 John Bear Doane Cogswell June 6, 1829 Samuel Dexter Crane 1816 George Parkman Denny 1826 Henry Clandins Ewing 1844 Joseph Emery Fiske 1839 Thomas Francis Fitzgerald 1848 Michael Joseph Flatley 1823 Harrison Garfield June 27, 1810 Lewis Newton Gilbert 1836 Samuel Slocum Ginnodo 1816 James John Howard Gregory 1827 Theodore "Tilly" Haynes February 13, 1828 Henry Bozyol Hill 1823 Charles Jarvis Holmes 1834 Charles Howes October 26, 1826 Francis Jewett September 19, 1820 Ensign Hosmer Kellogg July 6, 1812 Ebenezer Bissell Lynde 1823 Aaron C. Mayhew 1812 John Farwell Moors December 10, 1819 Joshua Morse February 24, 1822 Caleb Rand 1817 Charles Theodore Russell November 20, 1815 Amos Joseph Saunders 1826 Luther Henry Sherman 1838 John Sherburne Sleeper September 25, 1794 Frederick Mason Stone 1825 Jackson Benjamin Swett 1815 Byron Truell 1834 Francis M. Weld 1815 John Dwelle Whicher 1825 Jonathan White 1819
Representatives image Name Date of birth District Party Alfred Mark Adams 1835 Granville Stevens Allen 1825 Stillman Boyd Allen September 8, 1830 Job Kelly Anthony 1834 Samuel Atherton January 26, 1815 Edwin Ayer 1827 John James Babson 1809 Thomas McCrate Babson 1847 Orlando Sargent Baley 1818 Alonzo Bancroft 1820 Henry Francis Barker 1838 Charles Ellis Barnes 1840 James Edward Taylor Bartlett 1825 Perley Bartlett 1807 Henry Allen Barton 1821 Benjamin Samuel Batchelor 1829 Daniel Johnson Bates 1830 Crocker Hinckley Bearse 1810 Charles David Bickford 1821 Abraham Orlando Bigelow 1812 Francis William Bird 1809 Warren Augustus Bird 1837 Stephen Henry Bodurtha 1812 Francis Charles Bowen 1834 John Quincy Adams Brackett June 8, 1842 George Bradford 1819 Warren Sylvester Bragg 1837 Pharcellus Dean Bridges December 21, 1846 John Henry Brown 1844 William Henry Harrison Bryant 1826 Joseph Buckminster 1821 Horace John Canfield 1834 Francis Carll 1825 Nahum Chapin 1820 Charles Henry Chase 1835 Lafayette Clapp 1824 Leonard Clark 1821 Wilder Philander Clark October 12, 1832 John Doggett Cobb 1840 Aaron Cogswell 1807 John Draper Cogswell 1820 John Leonard Cole 1839 George Nelson Cone 1836 John Hawkins Cook 1841 William Henry Cook January 7, 1843 Israel Clark Cornish 1850 Samuel Emmons Crocker 1834 Edward Johnson Crossman 1824 Thomas Cunningham 1815 Daniel Jasper Curley April 2, 1841 George Fisher Daniels 1820 Charles Warren Davis 1826 George Asa Dean 1835 Obed Delano 1814 Cornelius Desmond 1838 Justin Dewey 1836 Abiathar Doane 1820 Daniel Doherty 1838 William Capar Donald 1816 Francis Mattby Draper 1834 Jarvis Nelson Dunham 1828 Curtis Eddy May 18, 1838 Francis Sylvester Egleston 1821 Theodore Waterbury Ellis 1823 William Fuller Ellis 1820 William Irving Ellis 1829 Levi Emery 1817 John Barnard Fairbank 1839 Jackson Benjamin Farnum 1828 George Augustus Flagg 1845 James W. Fox 1849 Andrew Jackson Freeman 1819 Henry William Fuller June 30, 1839 Charles Frederick Gerry 1823 Onslow Gilmore 1832 William Segar Gleason 1809 Martin Thomas Glynn 1848 Frank Palmer Goulding 1837 James Benton Graham 1835 Franklin Gray 1824 Frank Shunk Gross 1836 Charles Hale June 7, 1831 Andrew Hall 1833 Charles Hallett 1825 Patrick Henry Hallinan 1852 Leander Moody Hannum 1837 Henry Martin Hartshorn 1828 Thomas Jones Hastings January 24, 1835 Frederick Hathaway 1810 Nathan Mortimer Hawkes 1843 George Frederic Hayden 1836 Milton Lewis Perry Heustis 1825 Samuel Richardson Heywood 1821 Clement Hugh Hill 1836 John Hillis 1847 Richard Holley January 30, 1829 William Carey Howard 1841 Caleb Burroughs Huse September 13, 1833 Charles Halstead Ingalls 1840 Edward John Jenkins 1854 George William Johnson 1827 Peter Rogers Johnson 1824 Joseph James Kelley 1842 Patrick Keyes 1830 Ensign Kimball 1818 William Bird Kimball 1833 William Hales Kinsman 1821 Hosea Morrill Knowlton 1847 Asa Stillman Lawrence 1820 Alfred Laws 1831 Henry Lee 1817 Chauncey Wheeler Lessey 1829 Thomas Lonergan 1827 John Davis Long October 27, 1838 Benjamin Starks Lovell 1845 John Dana Lovell 1818 Francis Low 1824 Lewis Gold Lowe 1828 Hale Sisson Luther 1830 James Mackintosh 1838 Pardon Macomber February 9, 1833 Hugh Ambrose Madden 1839 James Thomas Mahony 1843 Seth Mann 1817 William Marchant 1817 Isaac Burgess Martin 1825 Matthew James McCafferty 1829 George Brackett Melcher 1836 James Henry Mellen 1845 Francis Peabody Merriam 1818 Frederick Warren Merrill 1842 Simeon Merritt 1823 Alfred Miller 1815 William Haswell Montague 1824 Thomas Mooney 1840 Aaron Rathburn Morse 1839 Enoch Robinson Morse 1822 James Thomas Murphy 1842 Erastus Maltby Nash 1826 Dexter Newton 1823 James Hale Newton 1832 John Franklin Newton 1829 Nathaniel Avery Newton 1814 Charles Johnson Noyes August 7, 1841 Dennis O'Connor 1838 Cornelius O'Sullivan 1825 Weaver Osborn 1815 Charles Stuart Osgood 1839 Henry Bryant Osgood 1818 Edwin Patch 1820 Alonzo Penney September 23, 1835 Ephraim Augustus Perkins 1839 Baxter Edwards Perry April 26, 1826 John Charles Perry 1839 William Cowper Peters 1827 Darius Pierce 1836 Henry Pierce 1826 Albert Enoch Pillsbury August 19, 1849 Samuel Cloon Pitman 1811 Charles Greenwood Pope 1840 Charles Jones Prescott 1838 Dennis George Quirk 1836 Oliver James Rand 1820 David Randall 1818 Charles Everett Ranlett 1816 James Paine Ray 1820 William Arthur Read 1849 George Randall Reed 1832 Rice Munn Reynolds 1838 Charles Baker Rice 1829 Charles Warren Richards 1824 James Henry Richards 1839 Samuel Roads 1825 William Robinson 1835 John Austin Rogers 1828 Cyrus King Russell 1815 John Crockett Sanborn 1832 George Webster Sanderson 1830 Luther Haines Sargent 1842 Horace Mills Sessions 1828 Josephus Shaw 1832 Harrison Allen Sheldon 1830 Henry Shortle 1834 John Killbourne Clough Sleeper 1828 Solomon Sias Sleeper 1815 Dana Zenas Smith 1819 Iram Smith 1807 Peter Dove Smith 1842 Newell Snow 1816 Samuel Snow 1828 Mark Henry Spaulding 1827 Charles Stickney 1829 Eben Francis Stone August 3, 1822 Ezekiel Reed Studley 1831 Charles B. Swain Noah Swett 1826 Lewis Northey Tappan June 15, 1831 Oliver Taylor 1826 Edward Flint Thayer 1835 Francis Nicholas Thayer 1846 Edward Isaiah Thomas 1833 Leonard Thompson 1817 Charles Frederick Thurston 1844 John Wilson Tilton 1844 Dexter Alley Tompkins 1827 William Ripley Tompkins 1826 Merritt Torrey 1825 William G. Train 1825 John Turner 1827 Augustus Sherman Tuttle 1824 Levi Clifford Wade 1843 Edwin Walden November 25, 1818 Joseph Walker 1825 James Lawrence Walsh 1843 Alonzo Warren 1827 Emory Washburn February 14, 1800 John Davis Washburn 1833 William Watts 1835 Lewis Taylor Webster 1832 Michael Francis Wells 1832 Samuel Hidden Wentworth John Wilson Wheeler 1832 John Birtwistle Whitaker 1816 James White 1828 Sydney Franklin Whitehouse 1822 Charles Stimson Whitmore 1815 William Gunn Whitmore 1849 Edward Whitney 1815 William Ward Wilde 1821 Henry Hills Wilder 1824 George Andrew Wilson 1825 George Colburn Wilson 1809 Daniel Wing 1841 Henry Winn 1837 Thomas Winship 1826 Isaac Winslow 1827 Joseph Wiswell 1816 Henry Pickett Woodbury 1835 John Henry Wright 1843
See also 1877 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 45th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts
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