The 97th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1876 during the governorship of Alexander H. Rice. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John Davis Long served as speaker of the House.
Members earned a salary of $650 per year.
Senators Image Name Date of birth District Party Moses O. Ayres July 21, 1826 4th Worcester Emery L. Bates March 16, 1823 3rd Worcester J. White Belcher November 14, 1823 3rd Norfolk Selwyn Zadock Bowman May 11, 1840 2nd Middlesex Elisha Brimhall March 25, 1825 5th Worcester Haydn Brown February 16, 1819 4th Essex Samuel Dexter Crane 1816 5th Suffolk John Cummings 1812 6th Middlesex Timothy John Dacey 1849 2nd Suffolk Edward Livingston Davis 1834 2nd Suffolk George L. Davis June 17, 1816 3rd Essex Joseph Emery Fiske 1839 2nd Norfolk Eustace Carey Fitz 1833 1st Suffolk Thomas Francis Fitzgerald 1848 6th Suffolk Michael Joseph Flatley 1823 3rd Suffolk William Miner Gaylord 1821 Hampshire Samuel Slocum Ginnodo 1816 1st Bristol Joseph Alfred Harwood March 26, 1827 5th Middlesex Tilly Haynes February 13, 1828 1st Hampden Jonathan Higgins November 21, 1816 Cape Ezra Coffin Howard September 1, 1831 Islands Charles Howes October 26, 1826 5th Essex Ebenezer Atherton Hunt January 26, 1826 Norfolk & Plymouth William E. Livingston June 25, 1832 7th Middlesex George B. Loring November 8, 1817 2nd Essex Horace Hawkes Mayhew 1826 Franklin Peter M. Neal September 21, 1811 1st Essex Albert Palmer January 17, 1831 1st Norfolk Francis J. Parker March 3, 1825 4th Middlesex Caleb Rand 1817 1st Middlesex Everett Robinson January 22, 1816 1st Plymouth George D. Robinson January 20, 1834 2nd Hampden Henry W. Robinson October 9, 1819 2nd Plymouth John Sargent June 21, 1799 3rd Middlesex Norman W. Shores 1834 Berkshire & Hampshire Francis Dana Stedman 1801 4th Suffolk Philip J. Tripp October 28, 1822 3rd Bristol Byron Weston April 9, 1832 Berkshire Benjamin Franklin Wing October 22, 1822 2nd Bristol
Representatives image Name Date of birth District Party James Abbe 1822 Ebenezer Adams 1830 Stillman Boyd Allen September 8, 1830 William Augustus Alley 1841 Edwin Amsden 1828 Jacob Franklin Appell 1840 Michael A. Atkinson 1813 Edwin Ayer 1827 John James Babson 1809 Daniel Danforth Bailey 1834 Monroe Elias Ballou 1836 Giles Gould Barker 1838 Patrick Barry 1834 Daniel Walton Bartlett 1829 James Edward Taylor Bartlett 1825 Benjamin Samuel Batchelor 1829 Eliakim Adams Bates 1817 Warren Augustus Bird 1837 Warren Palmer Bird 1843 Francis Charles Bowen 1834 Osgood Bradley 1836 Amos Franklin Breed October 15, 1830 Lysander Nelson Brownell 1817 Orrin Bryant 1837 Joseph Buckminster 1821 Francis Bugbee 1829 Isaac Tucker Burr 1828 Charles Cargill Capron 1841 Michael Carney 1827 Frederick Thomas Chase 1844 Gardner Asaph Churchill 1839 Frederick Waterston Clapp 1843 Lafayette Clapp 1824 John P. Clark 1837 Edward Coburn 1820 Henry Fayette Coggshall 1823 Charles Samuel Converse 1821 Horace Cook April 24, 1829 John Hawkins Cook 1841 Thomas Francis Cordis 1843 Jeremiah William Coveney 1840 Michael J. Croak 1843 Elisha Crocker 1814 Albert Willoughby Curtiss 1820 Charles Henry Danforth 1837 George Fisher Daniels 1820 Dallas Jay Dean 1816 Herbert Augustus Dean 1841 Henry Dennis 1827 Freeman Doane 1819 Neil Doherty 1838 Francis Elisha Downer 1832 Adin Cady Estabrook 1828 Alonzo Hathaway Evans February 24, 1820 George Otis Fairbanks 1815 William Wallace Fish 1832 Luther Fisk 1832 Wesley Lewis Fiske 1823 Theodore Narcisse Foque 1831 John Freeto 1825 Charles Fuller 1811 Henry William Fuller June 30, 1839 Charles Lefevre Gardner 1839 Thomas John Gargan 1844 Thomas Rogers Garity 1838 John Murray Gibbons 1833 Benjamin Gifford 1824 Onslow Gilmore 1832 Samuel Slater Gleason 1842 Curtis Banks Goodsell 1821 George Washington Granger 1821 Charles Hale June 7, 1831 Andrew Hall 1833 Leander Moody Hannum 1837 Lyman Sawin Hapgood 1822 Joseph Tolman Hartt 1830 James Dana Hartwell 1831 George Haskell 1809 Frederick Hathaway 1810 Isaac Newton Hathaway 1819 Nathan Mortimer Hawkes 1843 Alanson Knox Hawks 1828 Samuel Richardson Heywood 1821 Samuel Dexter Hicks 1824 Henry Bozyol Hill 1823 John Beckford Hill 1824 Joseph Warren Hill 1837 Otis M. Hitchings 1822 Ira Wilmarth Hoffman 1830 Richard Holley January 30, 1829 Henry Tolman Holmes 1829 George Francis Howe 1825 Weston Howland 1813 Jonas Sewall Hunt 1827 Caleb Burroughs Huse September 13, 1833 Ephraim Alfred Ingalls 1826 Thomas Leighton Jenks 1829 Jesse Henry Jones 1836 Ambrose Keith 1814 Isaac Newton Keith November 14, 1838 Monroe Keith 1835 Ziba Cary Keith July 13, 1842 Ensign Hosmer Kellogg July 6, 1812 Edward Kendall 1822 Patrick Kennedy 1838 Ensign Kimball 1818 Moses Kimball October 24, 1809 William Sterling King 1818 Joseph Addison Kingsbury 1837 Edwin Leander Kirtland 1832 Joel Knapp 1835 John Knowles 1823 Henry Charles Knowlton 1833 Hosea Morrill Knowlton 1847 Daniel Warren Lawrence 1830 Henry Lee 1817 Nathaniel Evan Lindsey 1843 Samuel Longley 1823 Charles Addison Loud 1829 James Mackintosh 1838 Seth Mann 1817 Andrus March 1812 Edward Franklin Mayo 1826 Ebenezer Martin McPherson 1836 Christopher Columbus Merritt September 29, 1830 George Whitney Merritt 1831 Henry Sherman Miner 1820 Joseph Mitchell 1809 Thomas Mooney 1840 John Morissey 1818 George Washington Morrill 1818 Elijah Adams Morse 1841 William Morse 1822 Frederick Pierce Moseley 1826 Jeremiah Murphy 1834 John Joseph Murphy 1842 Sherman Nelson 1834 John Burbank Nichols 1814 Reuben Noble 1820 Daniel Noonan 1834 John B. Norton 1823 Benjamin Alden Nourse 1836 Isaac Newton Nutter June 23, 1836 Weaver Osborn 1815 Charles Stuart Osgood 1839 Harvey McCullock Owen 1833 Frederick Parker 1810 George Gedney Parker 1826 David Allen Partridge 1833 Joseph Frost Paul 1824 George Robbins Perry 1836 Charles Hiram Pew 1842 Stephen Cobb Phinney 1829 Edward L. Pierce March 29, 1829 Albert Enoch Pillsbury August 19, 1849 Charles Greenwood Pope 1840 David Alden Preston 1846 David Prouty 1813 Henry Wheatland Putnam 1843 Charles Henry Read 1830 Henry Clifford Read 1810 Washington Read 1813 George Randall Reed 1832 George Williams Reed 1826 Rice Munn Reynolds 1838 Charles Baker Rice 1829 Charles Warren Richards 1824 Jonathan Cady Richmond 1821 Wallace Fullum Robinson 1832 Charles Alvan Rogers 1836 Joseph Hubbard Root 1823 Joseph Samuel Ropes February 6, 1818 Solomon Nash Russell 1822 Nathaniel Johnson Rust 1833 Addison Sandford 1821 Amos Joseph Saunders 1826 Samuel Dexter Sawin 1835 Ebenezer Sawyer 1809 Enoch Sawyer 1841 John Francis Searle 1839 Calvin Wilbur Shattuck 1811 Elijah Carter Shattuck 1820 Elon Sherman 1820 Albion King Slade 1822 Solomon Sias Sleeper 1815 Isaiah Atkins Small 1825 Andrew Smith 1838 Newton Smith 1837 Robert Dickson Smith 1838 Webster Smith 1825 Samuel Snow 1828 John Russell Southwick 1819 Benjamin Franklin Stacey 1834 James Trimble Stevens 1835 Frederick Mason Stone 1825 Michael Sullivan 1837 James Francis Supple 1844 Charles Alfonso Fletcher Swan 1830 Jackson Benjamin Swett 1815 Noah Swett 1826 Samuel Talbot 1822 Charles Andrews Taylor 1826 Oliver Taylor 1826 Davis Thayer 1816 Byron Truell 1834 Henry Grant Tuttle 1812 William Ingersoll Van Deusen 1819 Levi Clifford Wade 1843 Alexander Wadsworth 1806 Edwin Walden November 25, 1818 William Sprague Wallace 1838 Alanson Wendell Ward 1827 Alonzo Warren 1827 John Davis Washburn 1833 Eleazer Everett Waterman 1810 William Watts 1835 David Locke Webster 1813 Austin Clark Wellington 1840 John Wetherbee 1828 John Wolcott Wetherell 1820 John Dwelle Whicher 1825 Benjamin White 1826 James White 1828 Joseph Wilder White 1825 Edward Whitney 1815 Moses Williams 1846 George Colburn Wilson 1809 John Gilbert Wilson 1825 Daniel Wing 1841 Thomas Winship 1826 Isaac Winslow 1827 Eliphaz Hibbard Wood 1810 William Woods 1840 James Clifton Woodward 1825
See also 1876 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 44th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts
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