1854 Massachusetts legislature

75th
Massachusetts General Court
75th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Senate
President	Charles Edward Cook
House
Members	310
Speaker	Otis P. Lord
Sessions
1st
1st	January 4, 1854 – April 29, 1854

The 75th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1854 during the governorship of Emory Washburn. Charles Edward Cook served as president of the Senate and Otis P. Lord served as speaker of the House.^[3]^[4]

Notable legislation included incorporation of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company^[5]^[6] and funding for a "project to build a railroad tunnel through Hoosac Mountain that cost state taxpayers more than $10 million and took 21 years to complete."^[7]

Senators

Samuel D. Parker ^[8]

Representatives

Levi A. Abbott ^[9]
John Adams
Paul Adams
Albert K. Albee
Benjamin Allen
Zenas Allen
Josiah Allis
George H. Allyn
Albert Amsden
Isaac A. Anthony
Daniel Ayer
Albert Bacon
Charles Baker
George M. Baker
Charles Bangs
Frederick Barden
Gilbert Barker
Baxter Barnes
David Barton
William E. Bassett
Jonathan B. Bates
James H. Beal
John Smith Bell
Ezekiel Bemis
Henry Wetherby Benchley
Stephen R. Benton
Thaddeus B. Bigelow
John Blair
Benjamin Blaney
Albert Bliss
Samuel Bliss
Hiram Bosworth
George P. Bowers
Ebenezer Bradbury
William H. Bradway
Francis Brinley
Charles Brown
Henry F. Brown
Hiram C. Brown
Nehemiah Brown
William Brown
Amasa Bryant
Thomas Buffum
Robert I. Burbank
Charles Burnett
Theophilus Burr
William Burrage
Levi N. Campbell
John Canon
F. W. Carlton
John C. Carr
Joseph Carter
Ezra Cary
Henry H. Chamberlin
Anthony K. Chase
Josiah Childs
LeBaron B. Church
Otis Clapp
Zenas Clapp
Samuel Clark
George Coburn
Timothy V. Coburn
Waldo Colburn
Joseph S. Colby
Sumner Cole
Reuben Collins Jr.
James D. Colt II
Ithamar F. Conkey
Elizur D. Cook
William Cook
George W. Cooley
Albert Copeland
William A. Crafts
Samuel C. Cudworth
Augustus N. Currier
William E. Currier
Simeon N. Cutler
Joseph A. Dalton
David Daniels
John G. Davis
Reuben Davis
William Day Jr.
Enos W. Dean
Miles Demond
Tilson B. Denham
Hiram S. Denison
William Denton
Edward Dexter
Charles Drew
Henry W. Dwight
Oliver Dwight
Joseph Eames
John P. Ellis
Charles Emerson
Benjamin Evans
Leander Fales
Timothy Farrar
David Faulkner
John A. Fitch
Daniel Floyd
Charles H. French
Aaron Frost Jr.
Benjamin Fry
John E. Fry
Andrew L. Fuller
Henry Fuller
Nelson Gardner
Thomas J. Gardner
John S. Gaskell
William Gaston
Nathaniel Gilbert
George W. Gill
John A. Goodwin
Jason Gorham
Richard Gould
Dalton Goulding
Alpheus C. Grant
Charles E. Grant
James D. Green
Josiah W. Griswold
Chester Guild
James Guild
Franklin Hall
Hiram Hall
Joseph P. Hall
William P. Hamblin
Levi Hammond
Edward Hamond
George Haskell
Ira Haskell
Josiah Haven
Benjamin Hawkes
Samuel Hawkes
Leander Haynes
William Henshaw
Hiram S. Hollister
John S. Holmes
Daniel Holt
James M. Hood
Charles Howard
Peter P. Howe
Henry Howell
Eben Howes
John P. Hubbard
Roswell Hubbard
Willard A. Humphrey
David Ingraham
Elisha M. Ingram
Stephen B. Ives
Elias Jacobs
Justin A. Jacobs
Samuel H. Jenks
John Jewett
Henry Jones
Aaron Josselyn
Willard Judd
Robert Keith
George Kendall
Oliver S. Kendall
John Kenrick
Ensign Kimball
Barzillai King
James P. King
George Kingman
Benjamin Kingsbury
Daniel Kinsley
Henry W. Kinsman
William Knight
Samuel B. Krogman
Charles R. Ladd
Edward Lamb
John A. Lamson
John Lane
Job G. Lawton Jr.
Addison Leach
Amos Lefavor
Thomas Lewis II
Winslow Lewis
Gilbert Lincoln
Samuel E. Lloyd
Henry A. Longley
Otis P. Lord
Jonathan Lyman
Lemuel P. Lyman
Alonzo V. Lynde
George R. Marchant
Ephraim Mayhew Jr.
Leonard Millard
William Miller
William Mixter
Loman A. Moody
David Moore
Horatio Moore
David C. Murdock
Hiel Nichols
Richard Nutter
Asa R. Nye
Willard Nye
Benjamin Paine
Horatio G. Parker
Horatio Peck
William D. Peck
Almond T. Pierce
Israel Pierce
Lewis Pierce
Samuel H. Pierce
Henry Plimpton
George H. Plummer
Benjamin Pond
Benjamin Poole
Philip P. Potter
Parley J. Prindle
Jonathan S. Purple
Benjamin C. Putnam
Philemon Putnam
Calvin Reed
Jason Reed
Sampson Reed
Abraham W. Rice
Otis Rich
Edward Richards
Robert Richardson
Andrew A. Richmond
Joseph D. Roberts
Dexter Roby
Solomon L. Russell
Thomas H. Russell
Richard Sampson
Baylies Sanford
Ralph Sanger
Benjamin W. Seamans
William Sears
John M. Seeley
Charles C. Sewell
Samuel A. Shackford
William Shattuck
Ebenezer Shaw
John H. Sheppard
Jervis Shove
Mark A. Slocum
Abner M. Smith
Benjamin Smith
John Smith
John Smith
John Derby Smith
Oliver Smith II
Samuel Smith
Jonathan Snow
John Souther
Edward Southworth
Ira Spalding
Thomas H. Spencer
Samuel W. Spooner
James R. Sproat
Perley Stevens
Solon Stevens
Plenry G. Stewart
Joseph Stone
Samuel H. Stowell
James Stratton
Lyman J. Strickland
Josiah Swain
Van R. Swift
Milo Tallmadge
George Taylor
Eli Thayer
Henry F. Thomas
Newell A. Thompson
John G. Thurston
Elisha Tillson
David Tilton
Warren Tilton
James Townsend
John M. Tuttle
Samuel J. Tuttle
Jacob Ulman
Marshall S. Underwood
Nathan Vincent
Edwin Walden
Bradford L. Wales
Thornton K. Ware
Oliver Warner
Park Warner
William Warner
John Warren
W. R. P. Washburn
William B. Washburn
William A. Webber
Abner S. Webster
Charles A. Wells
Noah Wells
Daniel Wetherbee
Moses H. Wetherbee
Jonathan W. Wheeler
James S. Whitney
Joseph Whitney
James S. Wiggin
Alfred G. Williams
J. Otis Williams
Milo Wilson
Albert Winn
John C. Wolcott
Amos Wood
David Wood
Joseph T. Wood
Nathaniel Wood
Albert J. Wright
Asahel B. Wright
David Wright

References

^ "Composition of the State of Massachusetts House of Representatives", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
^ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
^ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338+.
^ "Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts". Massachusetts Register, 1854.
^ "1854 Chap. 0371. An Act To Incorporate The Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company", Massachusetts Acts and Resolves, hdl:2452/96740
^ Edward Everett Hale (1891). The Story of Massachusetts. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. p. 327.
^ Robert David Sullivan (2005). "A Toast to the General Court". CommonWealth Magazine. 10 (4).
^ Rules and Orders to be Observed in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the Year 1854, Boston, hdl:2452/739808
^ "Members of the House of Representatives, 1854" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1854, pp. 1045+

External links

Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1854, hdl:2452/738676 – via State Library of Massachusetts
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1854, hdl:2452/92936

[CompHouse-1] "Composition of the State of Massachusetts House of Representatives", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020

[2] "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.

[3] "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338+.

[Register-4] "Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts". Massachusetts Register, 1854.

[5] "1854 Chap. 0371. An Act To Incorporate The Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company", Massachusetts Acts and Resolves, hdl:2452/96740

[6] Edward Everett Hale (1891). The Story of Massachusetts. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. p. 327.

[7] Robert David Sullivan (2005). "A Toast to the General Court". CommonWealth Magazine. 10 (4).

[Rules-8] Rules and Orders to be Observed in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the Year 1854, Boston, hdl:2452/739808

[9] "Members of the House of Representatives, 1854" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1854, pp. 1045+

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