The 118th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1897 during the governorship of Roger Wolcott. George P. Lawrence served as president of the Senate and John L. Bates served as speaker of the House.

The 1897 legislature is the high-water mark for the Massachusetts Republican Party, which held 35 seats in the Senate and 202 in the House. Republicans have not surpassed either number since, though they would match their high of 35 Senate seats again in 1920.

Senators image name date of birth district James Alderson Bailey Jr. March 25, 1867 Harding R. Barber December 20, 1839 Albert F. Barker October 24, 1859 Lewis H. Bartlett April 2, 1854 William R. Black August 23, 1830 Edward S. Bradford December 1, 1842 William Hartwell Brigham February 1, 1863 William H. Cook January 7, 1843 Ellery B. Crane November 12, 1836 Frederick W. Dallinger October 2, 1871 William W. Davis August 8, 1862 James H. Derbyshire June 11, 1855 Noble W. Everett February 20, 1827 Joseph Byron Farley October 10, 1847 James H. Flint June 25, 1852 Charles E. Folsom February 24, 1855 James A. Gallivan October 22, 1866 John Dennis Hammond Gauss January 4, 1861 Clarke Partridge Harding June 20, 1853 Albert L. Harwood September 10, 1847 James E. Hayes August 10, 1865 Joshua B. Holden March 5, 1850 Richard William Irwin February 18, 1857 Dwight H. Ives January 28, 1837 Erastus Jones September 11, 1825 George P. Lawrence May 19, 1859 Martin Lomasney December 3, 1859 William Moran September 6, 1855 William A. Morse July 27, 1863 Henry Parsons February 2, 1842 John Jacob Prevaux March 16, 1857 George E. Putnam February 9, 1851 John Quinn Jr. December 16, 1859 Ernest W. Roberts November 22, 1858 Alfred Seelye Roe June 8, 1844 George Edwin Smith April 5, 1849 Rufus Albertson Soule 1839 William W. Towle August 21, 1860 John Loring Woodfall September 15, 1847 Charles F. Woodward November 19, 1852

Representatives image name date of birth district Albert E. Addis May 4, 1864 Benjamin C. Ames December 20, 1859 Richard F. Andrews, Jr April 13, 1863 Julius C. Anthony September 24, 1856 Edward R. Ashley May 15, 1824 Henry C. Attwill March 11, 1872 Gustavus Atwood November 18, 1843 Thomas C. Bachelder November 6, 1860 Charles O. Bailey January 24, 1863 Horace P. Bailey March 3, 1840 John E. Baldwin June 26, 1869 Frank W. Barnard January 3, 1853 Franklin O. Barnes November 11, 1841 George H. Bartlett September 6, 1857 Jonathan B. L. Bartlett October 11, 1849 John L. Bates September 18, 1859 Charles O. Beede December 29, 1840 Henry A. Belcher August 6, 1845 Scott F. Bickford November 14, 1864 Osgood C. Blaney January 20, 1860 John Bleiler May 9, 1837 Henry H. Bosworth March 16, 1868 Harvey L. Boutwell April 5, 1860 Walter L. Bouve October 28, 1849 Henry J. Boyd May 9, 1831 Cary C. Bradford February 8, 1855 Manassah Edward Bradley August 15, 1863 Charles Donnell Brown June 5, 1862 Charles E. Brown November 18, 1850 George A. Brown November 24, 1854 Joseph G. Brown January 19, 1825 Aaron R. Bunting August 26, 1833 Clement F. Burr January 22, 1849 Ernest W. Calkins December 25, 1855 Edward B. Callender February 23, 1851 Andrew Campbell May 3, 1826 Leonard B. Chandler August 29, 1851 William D. Chapple August 6, 1868 George F. Chase December 11, 1851 James B. Clancy May 26, 1868 Albert B. Clark June 5, 1854 Albert Clarke October 13, 1840 Samuel Cole December 15, 1856 James W. Coleman March 17, 1855 Walter S. V. Cooke August 12, 1851 George W. Coombs November 4, 1837 Edward A. Cowee July 23, 1857 Fred E. Crawford July 7, 1857 Charles C. Crocker August 21, 1831 Thomas W. Crocker December 27, 1832 Alfred R. Crosby August 30, 1838 Richard Cullinane February 2, 1859 Nelson P. Cummings April 27, 1847 Daniel J. Curley April 2, 1841 William Curtis August 8, 1857 Daniel W. Davis October 3, 1846 William Ripley Davis March 8, 1862 Cornelius R. Day December 29, 1847 Charles Leroy Dean May 29, 1844 Thomas M. Denham February 2, 1840 Robert F. Denvir September 8, 1840 John B. Dewing January 28, 1835 David T. Dickinson August 13, 1867 Richard Dobbins June 2, 1845 Thomas Donahue August 20, 1853 Jeremiah F. Donovan May 10, 1856 Thomas J. Dooling January 28, 1868 James M. Douglass February 24, 1839 Daniel M. Driscoll January 2, 1861 Hugo A. Dubuque November 3, 1854 A. Glendon Dyar August 4, 1860 Freeman O. Emerson January 12, 1859 A. Edwin Enberg September 9, 1866 Eugene B. Estes December 7, 1850 Frank W. Estey December 16, 1866 George S. Evans September 12, 1841 E. Walter Everett April 11, 1864 Wilson H. Fairbank April 3, 1836 John J. Falvey May 26, 1864 Francis F. Farrar January 10, 1833 John J. Feneno March 24, 1866 George E. Fisher January 22, 1823 E. Knowlton Fogg October 24, 1837 Albert T. Folsom November 9, 1831 Otis Foss October 4, 1838 Frank W. Francis September 16, 1857 George G. Frederick January 14, 1867 George F. Fuller March 8, 1842 Charles W. Gale October 3, 1846 Jefferson C. Gallison August 8, 1841 John J. Gardner February 23, 1853 Samuel Wesley George April 26, 1862 Emery B. Gibbs October 23, 1862 Moses D. Gilman May 23, 1846 Otis M. Gove May 3, 1851 Oliver S. Grant April 30, 1866 James Wilson Grimes November 21, 1865 Almon E. Hall December 6, 1846 Amos E. Hall July 6, 1838 Luther Hall November 5, 1842 Frederick Hammond February 27, 1847 Frederic Hanson May 2, 1835 Edward H. Harding April 17, 1854 Joseph M. Harrington July 26, 1828 Frederic W. Hathaway March 6, 1836 William Henry Irving Hayes June 21, 1848 Albert F. Hayward January 24, 1840 Charles E. Hoag September 18, 1849 Charles E. Hosmer May 25, 1837 Walter F. Howard September 20, 1855 Rufus Howe September 28, 1837 Edward H. Hoyt July 11, 1849 Franklin E. Huntress April 19, 1866 Charles Hiller Innes August 6, 1870 John W. Johnson June 14, 1856 George R. Jones February 8, 1862 Melville D. Jones September 25, 1842 William A. Josselyn February 8, 1856 James Keenan March 4, 1850 Thomas F. Keenan March 11, 1854 John A. Keliher November 6, 1866 John L. Kelly March 29, 1869 George H. Kelton September 20, 1861 Thomas W. Kenefick September 17, 1855 Patrick J. Kennedy March 20, 1862 David T. King January 19, 1864 William A. Lang May 26, 1836 James Lawrence March 23, 1853 James H. Leary November 28, 1868 Ottho William Lewis July 17, 1853 Charles F. Light August 1, 1860 Warren J. Livermore January 5, 1835 Alexander Lockhart December 22, 1854 Francis Cabot Lowell January 7, 1855 Albert W. Lyon March 1, 1869 John E. Magenis May 5, 1873 Jeremiah E. Mahoney November 8, 1864 Forrest C. Manchester September 11, 1859 William H. Marden May 30, 1843 Lyman Mason April 4, 1838 Arthur A. Maxwell January 24, 1858 Will W. Mayhew January 15, 1857 Benjamin W. Mayo April 17, 1836 Jeremiah Justin McCarthy March 29, 1852 George M. McClain March 9, 1842 John E. McClellan September 5, 1847 James S. McKenna January 11, 1864 Levi G. McKnight April 30, 1843 John A. McManus March 9, 1860 George F. Mead May 22, 1854 George W. Mellen May 11, 1837 William H. Mellen November 9, 1842 John M. Merriam September 20, 1862 Charles E. Mills December 28, 1847 Charles P. Mills August 22, 1853 Eugene Michael Moriarty April 15, 1849 William L. Morse May 1, 1849 James J. Myers November 20, 1842 Joseph O. Neill January 31, 1838 Edward B. Nevin November 10, 1858 Thaddeus H. Newcomb March 15, 1826 George H. Norton May 28, 1863 B. Alden Nourse July 19, 1836 Frank J. O'Toole October 13, 1867 William Odlin April 5, 1865 John B. Packard February 22, 1837 Herbert C. Parsons January 15, 1862 Joseph E. Pattee April 24, 1843 Francis C. Perry June 27, 1853 Frank H. Pervere March 24, 1831 Lemuel W. Peters July 29, 1860 Franklin F. Phillips December 21, 1852 Edward L. Pickard December 25, 1834 Edward L. Pierce March 29, 1829 Oliver K. Pierce January 27, 1835 John H. Ponce November 1, 1857 Burrill Porter February 22, 1832 William H. Porter May 8, 1856 Thomas Post August 16, 1834 John A. Powers September 15, 1853 David G. Pratt November 7, 1848 Nicolas M. Quint July 18, 1838 Charles I. Quirk August 15, 1871 James P. Ramsay April 30, 1861 Silas Dean Reed June 25, 1872 William Louis Reed April 5, 1866 Michael J. Reidy August 8, 1870 George M. Rice October 20, 1843 Clinton Q. Richmond December 17, 1859 Atherton W. Rogers August 10, 1848 Samuel Ross February 2, 1865 Daniel D. Rourke July 16, 1869 Edward T. Rowell 1836 Michael L. Russell December 15, 1860 Howard K. Sanderson July 10, 1865 Frank P. Sargent November 4, 1854 Tristram T. Savory September 19, 1834 William H. Severance January 12, 1857 Charles S. Shattuck June 5, 1840 David B. Shaw August 20, 1870 John F. Sheehan September 2, 1861 P. Howard Shirley August 15, 1857 William E. Skillings October 23, 1843 George B. Smart February 25, 1835 Harvey C. Smith November 20, 1847 Henry R. Smith October 7, 1842 Mark E. Smith June 22, 1871 Cyrus Spaulding April 17, 1835 Hugh L. Stalker December 31, 1857 Fred D. Stanley October 17, 1863 Edward A. Stevens December 9, 1841 John M. Stevenson August 31, 1846 Joseph I. Stewart April 25, 1847 Joseph W. Stocker April 6, 1824 Willmore B. Stone June 24, 1853 Cornelius F. Sullivan June 15, 1865 Simon S. Sullivan August 5, 1868 Peter Francis Tague June 4, 1871 James Thompson May 18, 1848 Henry Thrasher May 29, 1837 Charles W. Tilton April 6, 1836 John J. Toomey September 18, 1868 Charles E. Trow April 18, 1833 J. Gilman Waite March 20, 1837 Charles G. Washburn January 28, 1857 Eben C. Waterman March 1, 1840 Otis V. Waterman August 13, 1834 William W. Waterman December 4, 1831 Jackson Webster March 14, 1849 George W. Whidden June 15, 1858 Horace C. White January 26, 1836 Zadoc L. White December 29, 1854 James Whitehead December 20, 1857 William A. Whittlesey February 21, 1849 Francis O. Winslow March 20, 1844 Alva S. Wood May 12, 1828 John A. Woodbury August 22, 1836 Daniel S. Woodman April 12, 1842 Joseph W. Woodman January 25, 1847 Willie C. Young May 28, 1848

See also 55th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts

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