1916 Massachusetts legislature

137th Massachusetts General Court
← 136th 138th →
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Senate
Members	40
House
Members	240

The 137th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1916.

Senators

image	name	date of birth	district
	Frank Bartlett
	Sanford Bates	July 17, 1884
	William A. L. Bazeley	1872
	Charles Sumner Beal	August 14, 1856	1st Plymouth
	James W. Bean	May 11, 1866
	John E. Beck	May 10, 1869
	Charles Donnell Brown	June 5, 1862
	James F. Cavanagh
	Daniel J. Chapman	January 18, 1878
	Ezra W. Clark	October 12, 1842
	Herbert E. Cummings
	Charles W. Eldridge	October 16, 1877
	George H. Ellis	October 3, 1848
	Frank S. Farnsworth
	Wilton B. Fay
	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
	John B. Hull Jr.	July 17, 1871
	George H. Jackson	March 9, 1865
	Charles A. Kimball
	Richard Knowles
	Louis F. R. Langelier
	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
	Edward F. McLaughlin	June 6, 1883
	W. Prentiss Parker	December 11, 1857
	E. Howard Perley
	John F. Sheehan
	James R. Tetler	August 26, 1877
	James P. Timilty	March 28, 1865
	Nathan A. Tufts	April 15, 1879
	Robert M. Washburn	January 4, 1868
	Henry Gordon Wells	October 12, 1879

Representatives

image	name	date of birth	district
	Essex S. Abbott
	Henry Achin Jr.	June 30, 1883
	George C. F. Allen		14th Essex
	Philip R. Ammidon
	Algodt N. Anderson
	Charles H. Annis	January 12, 1869
	William M. Armstrong	August 17, 1850
	Benjamin S. Atwood
	George W. P. Babb
	James T. Bagshaw
	Edmund Baker
	William B. Baldwin	September 18, 1854
	Philip Hosmer Ball
	Arthur W. Barker
	William J. Barry	1861
	Thomas William Baxter
	Addison P. Beardsley
	Joseph Belcher
	Joseph J. Benson
	James D. Bentley	February 6, 1884
	Jacob Bitzer	January 16, 1865
	Alvin E. Bliss
	Cornelius Boothman
	Eden K. Bowser
	Manassah Edward Bradley
	Thomas H. Brennan
	James J. Brennan	May 2, 1882
	Clarence A. Briggs
	Vincent Brogna
	Fred Johnson Brown
	Charles Henry Brown	September 25, 1873
	Daniel J. Buckley
	George Bunting	August 31, 1868
	Arthur E. Burr
	Frederick Butler
	Fred E. Cady
	Julius F. Carman	August 7, 1861
	Daniel W. Casey
	Allison G. Catheron	June 26, 1878
	George Dudley Chamberlain
	Albert Minot Chandler
	Edward Earl Chapman
	Charles Chapman
	John W. Churchill	November 17, 1853
	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
	John J. Courtney
	Channing H. Cox	October 28, 1879
	John W. Craig
	Burton H. Crosby
	Fred Wilder Cross	September 15, 1868
	John J. Cummings
	George E. Curran
	Edward N. Dahlborg
	Samuel Davis	June 4, 1866
	Theodore H. Day
	George F. Dennis
	Thomas F. Donovan	September 26, 1890
	John L. Donovan	June 3, 1876
	Thomas E. Dowd
	Frederic E. Dowling
	George P. Drury
	Edward B. Eames	April 15, 1856
	Carl C. Emery	November 4, 1888
	John P. Englert
	John G. Faxon
	Horace F. Field
	Charles D. Fisher
	Michael J. Fitzgerald	March 10, 1878
	John I. Fitzgerald	July 18, 1882
	William J. Foley	March 2, 1887
	Harry C. Foster	August 27, 1871
	Arthur W. Frail
	Joseph E. Freeling
	William P. French	April 30, 1874
	William F. French	March 21, 1873
	Harvey E. Frost	October 2, 1875
	Charles Benjamin Frothingham	November 11, 1858
	Mauran I. Furbish
	Charles F. Garrity
	Harry C. Gates
	John Mellen Gibbs
	Thomas J. Giblin
	John J. Gillis
	Nesbit G. Gleason
	Fred Parker Greenwood
	Julius Guild	March 30, 1850
	Edgar H. Hall
	John Halliwell	February 21, 1864
	Walter A. Hardy	December 15, 1866
	Edward F. Harrington (state representative)	August 10, 1878
	James L. Harrop
	George F. Hart	November 9, 1859
	Charles H. Hartshorn
	William M. Haskins
	James William Hayes
	Matthew A. Higgins
	Francis M. Hill
	Kenneth Page Hill
	John A. Hirsch	1861
	William J. Holland
	Peter Holt
	Horace W. Hosie	February 2, 1864
	John C. Hull (politician)	November 1, 1870
	Charles N. James	September 3, 1853
	Henry W. Jarvis
	Victor Francis Jewett
	John G. Johnson	May 23, 1864
	Michael H. Jordan	February 7, 1863
	Thomas Martin Joyce
	John Joseph Kearney
	David Leon Kelley	April 26, 1889
	Edward I. Kelley
	William W. Kennard
	Robert T. Kent
	Joseph O. Knox
	Arthur F. Lamb
	Ernest A. LaRocque
	Charles S. Lawler
	Joseph M. Levenson
	John N. Levins
	Fred Oliver Lewis	June 12, 1878
	George E. Lilley
	Daniel Waldo Lincoln	September 2, 1882
	George A. Lindberg
	George Washington Love
	James MacFarlane Lyle
	Frank E. Lyman	September 15, 1866
	Luther B. Lyman	November 13, 1853
	John H. Lynch	October 28, 1884
	James E. MacPherson
	John P. Mahoney	May 26, 1888
	Lloyd Makepeace
	Michael F. Malone
	David Mancovitz	August 15, 1877
	Frank A. Manning
	Felix A. Marcella
	Robert B. Martin
	John Edwin Maybury
	John Henry McAllister
	Peter F. McCarty
	Joseph McGrath (American politician)	December 20, 1890
	James H. McInerney	December 13, 1871
	Frederick William McKenzie
	Michael J. McNamee
	Charles J. McNulty
	Samuel H. Mildram
	John Mitchell	September 4, 1877
	John L. Monahan
	Wesley E. Monk	August 1, 1874
	Alfred James Moore	August 7, 1891
	Daniel T. Morrill
	Edward G. Morris
	James Morrison	February 17, 1857
	Frank Mulveny
	John J. Murphy	March 26, 1889
	Dennis A. Murphy	September 26, 1876
	William A. Murray	June 17, 1889
	Ken Nash
	Arthur N. Newhall
	John P. Nickerson
	Francis Norwood
	John Joseph O'Brien
	John Joseph O'Connell
	James T. O'Dowd
	Joseph A. Oakhem
	James E. Odlin
	Ambrose F. Ogden
	John N. Osborne	January 28, 1853
	George E. Osgood
	Peter C. Paradis
	John H. Parker	August 27, 1859
	Ward Mayhew Parker
	Chauncey Pepin
	Harold L. Perrin
	Edward Howland Perry
	Joseph H. Perry	May 4, 1869
	Joseph C. Perry	May 1, 1856
	James E. Phelan	October 21, 1884
	Frederick Everett Pierce	May 5, 1862
	James Tracy Potter	January 26, 1870
	Francis Prescott
	Albert T. Quiry
	William C. Renne
	George Louis Richards
	Charles Freeman Rowley
	Louis Hooker Ruggles
	William F. Runnells	February 18, 1865
	G. Oscar Russell
	John D. Ryan	July 30, 1868
	Edward Julius Sandberg	October 21, 1866
	Joseph A. Saunders
	Frederick W. Schlapp
	C. Burnside Seagrave
	C. Edgar Searing
	John H. Sherburne	1877
	Michael J. Sherry
	Samuel Silverman
	Allston M. Sinnott
	Jerome S. Smith
	Fitz-Henry Smith Jr.
	William O. Souther Jr.
	Joseph Fayette Stone	February 8, 1858
	Merrill E. Streeter
	Denis J. Sullivan	July 24, 1889
	William H. Sullivan	February 20, 1869
	Simon Swig	1862
	James E. Tolman	November 8, 1867
	Albert Mason Tyler
	George J. Wall
	Robert J. Ware
	Joseph E. Warner	May 16, 1884
	George B. Waterman
	William E. Weeks	1880
	Thomas Weston, Jr
	Albert L. Whitman
	Edgar H. Whitney
	Waterman Lester Williams	August 10, 1867
	Alvin R. Wilson
	Herbert A. Wilson	November 27, 1870
	Walter Edgar Wolfe
	Isaac U. Wood
	William H. Woodhead	September 17, 1860
	Harry C. Woodill
	George M. Worrall
	Benjamin Loring Young	1885

See also

• 1916 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
• 64th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

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 (1915), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1916, hdl:2452/43507
• Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1916.
• Bridgman, Arthur Milnor (1916). Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators: 1916. A. M. Bridgman. hdl:2452/43362.
• "Court ban on apportionment", Boston Daily Globe, September 9, 1916, Declares Constitution transgressed by 'glaring' and 'flagrant' violations of prescribed equality in Suffolk County redistricting

External links

• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1916, hdl:2452/303855
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1916, hdl:2452/60138