The 99th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1878 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 James Cochran Abbott 1825 Charles Adams 1810 Henry Francis Barker 1838 George Sumner Barton 1825 Joseph Sampson Beal 1814 Robert Roberts Bishop March 13, 1834 Amos Franklin Breed October 15, 1830 Frederic Perry Brown 1840 Alvah Augustus Burrage 1823 Horace John Canfield 1834 George Washington Cate 1834 Abraham Burbank Coffin 1831 John Bear Doane Cogswell June 6, 1829 Ezra Davol 1838 Marcellus Day 1833 Frederick David Ely September 24, 1838 Henry Clandins Ewing 1844 Michael Joseph Flatley 1823 Charles Lefevre Gardner 1839 Lewis Newton Gilbert 1836 Thomas Gogin 1824 James John Howard Gregory 1827 Benjamin Franklin Hayes Henry Bozyol Hill 1823 William Allen Hodges 1834 Charles Jarvis Holmes 1834 Hosea Morrill Knowlton 1847 William Knowlton 1809 Ebenezer Bissell Lynde 1823 Charles Henry Merriam 1822 Albert Palmer January 17, 1831 Allan Rogers September 6, 1832 Joseph Samuel Ropes February 6, 1818 Charles Theodore Russell November 20, 1815 Amos Joseph Saunders 1826 Luther Henry Sherman 1838 Jackson Benjamin Swett 1815 Byron Truell 1834 James White 1828 Jonathan White 1819 Henry Winn 1837
Representatives image Name Date of birth District Party Charles Phelps Aldrich 1832 Charles Hastings Allen 1828 James Howe Ames 1842 Israel Warren Andrews 1820 Job Kelly Anthony 1834 George Minott Baker 1826 John Israel Baker 1812 Alonzo Bancroft 1820 Charles Ellis Barnes 1840 Sidney Barnes 1831 George Varnum Barrett 1839 Elisha Parks Bartholomew 1847 James Edward Taylor Bartlett 1825 Theodore Dwight Beach 1821 Melvin Beal 1832 George C. Belcher August 26, 1844 Myron Wallace Bent 1849 Joseph Billings 1842 Francis William Bird 1809 William Blanchard 1821 William Bradford Bliss 1834 Matthew Bolles 1807 Henry Clay Bonney 1841 John Quincy Adams Brackett June 8, 1842 George Otis Brigham 1822 William Allen Brooks 1835 Luther Julius Brown 1827 Martin Wait Burnett 1815 Charles Webster Bush 1834 Charles Ruthven Byram 1844 William Henry Carberry February 22, 1851 Francis Carll 1825 Lewis Carroll 1845 Charles Allen Case 1846 Alvin B. Chamberlain December 16, 1842 Nahum Chapin 1820 Charles Henry Chase 1835 Leonard Clark 1821 Benjamin Clough 1819 Philander Cobb 1818 Hiram Boardman Coffin 1836 Samuel Coffin October 9, 1827 George Franklin Colburn 1830 Elisha S. Converse July 28, 1820 William Henry Cook January 7, 1843 Hiram Nathaniel Cooke 1834 John Cornell 1830 Israel Clark Cornish 1850 George Albert Cowdrey 1848 John W. Cummings August 25, 1855 Thomas Cunningham 1815 John Warren Curtice 1839 Jason Langdon Curtis 1824 Orson Ballou Curtis 1825 Levi Lincoln Cushing 1825 Anthony Charles Daly 1853 Charles Augustine Davis 1847 Robert Lewis Davis 1822 Cornelius Desmond 1838 Abiathar Doane 1820 Freeman Doane 1819 Daniel Doherty 1838 Jarvis Nelson Dunham 1828 Edward Rutledge Eager 1830 William Irving Ellis 1829 Levi Emery 1817 James Webster Emory 1826 Noble W. Everett February 20, 1827 John Barnard Fairbank 1839 Lucius Field August 15, 1840 Ralph Adams Field 1837 Isaiah Fish 1811 Charles Fisher 1829 John Thomas Flood 1845 Gardner French 1811 John Henry Galligan 1851 Nelson Gardner 1815 Francis Gargan 1847 Edwin Gilbert 1820 Freeman L. Gilman 1830 Jacob Taylor Glines 1817 Frank Palmer Goulding 1837 Thomas Robinson Greene 1806 Edwin Blaisdell Hale 1839 Noah Leonard Hardy 1828 John Williams Hart 1826 Edward Howard Haskell 1845 Thomas Jones Hastings January 24, 1835 Rawson Hathaway 1828 Thomas Bly Hathaway December 5, 1825 Nathan Mortimer Hawkes 1843 Alanson Knox Hawks 1828 George Frederic Hayden 1836 James Hildreth 1839 Clement Hugh Hill 1836 Hamilton Andrews Hill 1827 John Henry Hooper 1833 Asa Frederic Howe 1845 Simon Herbert Howe 1835 William Howe 1814 Thomas Prince Howes 1817 John Humphrey 1826 Eben Hutchinson 1841 Henry Dwight Hyde 1838 Charles Halstead Ingalls 1840 John Jackson 1822 Charles Volbert Jaeger 1846 Edward John Jenkins 1854 Andrew Jackson Jennings 1849 Henry Augustus Johnson 1818 Augustine Jones 1835 Joseph James Kelley 1842 Jarvis Plato Kelly 1833 Patrick Keyes 1830 Ensign Kimball 1818 William Sterling King 1818 Marcus Perrin Knowlton February 3, 1839 Frank Daniel Leary 1854 Edwin Forrest Leighton 1839 James Foster Leonard 1837 John Arnold Lewis 1833 George Caleb Lincoln 1821 James Lovering Locke 1832 Andrew Lovell 1813 Benjamin Starks Lovell 1845 John Dana Lovell 1818 George W. Lowther 1822 Pardon Macomber February 9, 1833 William Penn Macomber 1832 John Mahon 1832 James Thomas Mahony 1843 William Manning 1823 Frederic A. Marden 1843 John Marlor 1845 Edwin Wilson Marsh 1821 George Sampson Marshall 1833 Samuel Stukey McGibbons 1826 Patrick Michael McGlynn 1853 Ebenezer Martin McPherson 1836 James Henry Mellen 1845 Artemas Merriam Amos Washington Merritt 1833 Phillips Moore 1835 Albert Moors 1828 Elbridge Gerry Morton 1841 Frederick Pierce Moseley 1826 Patrick Francis Murphy 1860 John Franklin Newton 1829 Richard Elliott Nickerson 1830 Joseph Gilbert Noble 1837 Eugene L. Norton March 26, 1825 Charles Johnson Noyes 1841 Chauncey Orman Noyes 1840 James H. Nugent 1831 Joseph Henry O'Neil March 23, 1853 William Clift Oakman 1809 Charles Stuart Osgood 1839 John Lord Otis 1827 Henry Brett Packard 1823 Henry Paddack April 2, 1838 Calvin Paige May 20, 1848 Lucius R. Paige 1802 Joseph Sumner Parmenter 1827 David Allen Partridge 1833 William Gaylord Peck 1841 James Phillip Peirce 1835 Josiah Perry 1832 Benjamin Ashton Phillips 1838 James Davis Pike 1829 Albert Enoch Pillsbury August 19, 1849 Timothy Dimmick Potter 1840 Henry Webster Powers 1837 Charles Jones Prescott 1838 George Price 1806 Henry Wheatland Putnam 1843 William Pynchon 1820 Oliver James Rand 1820 David Randall 1818 Charles Everett Ranlett 1816 William Arthur Read 1849 William Reed October 3, 1820 William Reed Jr. December 2, 1842 George Willard Rice 1836 James Henry Richards 1839 Jesper Richardson 1821 John Wesley Ricker 1824 Michael Rinn 1847 William Robinson 1835 Solomon Nash Russell 1822 Baalis Sanford 1833 Edmund Pillsbury Sargent 1823 Lucius Manlius Sargent 1836 John Bernard Shea 1851 Henry Shortle 1834 Matthew Smith 1814 William Augustus Somerset Smyth 1824 Rufus Albertson Soule 1839 Pliny Fisk Spaulding 1821 Timothy Gridley Spaulding 1851 Leander Sprague 1824 Stephen Abbott Stackpole 1819 Henry Salmon Stiles 1818 Eben Francis Stone August 3, 1822 William James Stuart 1828 Ezekiel Reed Studley 1831 Van Rensselaer Swift 1813 Zadok Arnold Taft 1817 Edward Isaiah Thomas 1833 Leonard Thompson 1817 Charles Frederick Thurston 1844 John Wilson Tilton 1844 Payson Elliott Tucker 1834 Thomas J. Tucker John Turner 1827 Horace Underwood 1828 Levi Clifford Wade 1843 Alexander Wadsworth 1806 Abijah Tyler Wales 1833 James Lawrence Walsh 1843 Solon Walton 1830 Alonzo Warren 1827 John Davis Washburn 1833 Abel Webster 1818 Edwin R. Webster 1831 Samuel Hidden Wentworth Daniel Nathaniel White 1830 Newton White 1813 Joseph Whitehead 1823 Sydney Franklin Whitehouse 1822 Charles Stimson Whitmore 1815 William Howe Wiggin 1823 Henry Munson Wilcox 1843 Henry Hills Wilder 1824 Sydney Wilder 1813 George Andrew Wilson 1825 John Winn July 3, 1828 Joseph Wiswell 1816 Charles Henry Wonson 1843 Solon Wood 1834 John Henry Wright 1843 Oliver Brown Wyman 1826
See also 1878 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 45th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts
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