| 83rd Massachusetts General Court | |||||
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| Legislative body | General Court | ||||
| Election | November 5, 1861 | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 40 | ||||
| President | John Henry Clifford | ||||
| House | |||||
| Members | 240 | ||||
| Speaker | Alexander Hamilton Bullock | ||||
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John Henry Clifford, Senate president.
Alexander Hamilton Bullock, House speaker.Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1862.
The 83rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1862 during the governorship of John Albion Andrew. John Henry Clifford served as president of the Senate and Alexander Hamilton Bullock served as speaker of the House.
Senators
- John J. Babson, 5th Essex
- John W. Bacon, 3rd Middlesex
- Lewis Bodman
- Ezra P. Brownell
- Orlo Burt
- John H. Clifford
- Joshua E. Crane
- Alvah Crocker
- Joseph Day
- Benjamin Dean
- Charles Dillingham
- John C. Dodge
- Rufus B. Dodge
- Walter Fessenden
- Ebenezer Gay
- Edwin B. George
- G. H. Gilbert
- Whiting Griswold
- E. O. Haven
- William R. Hill
- William F. Johnson
- R. H. Libby
- Charles Greely Loring, 3rd Suffolk
- James H. Mitchell
- William D. Northend
- Thomas F. Plunkett
- Chester I. Reed
- Daniel S. Richardson
- Henry Smith
- Charles G. Stevens
- Stephen N. Stockwell
- William D. Swan
- James M. Thompson
- Christopher Tompkins
- John C. Tucker
- Alexander H. Twombly
- Horace P. Wakefield
- Jonathan Wales
- Milton B. Whitney
- Hartley Williams
Representatives
- J. W. P. Abbot
- Nathan Adams
- O. W. Albee
- Horace Armsby
- Wm. H. Atwell
- Charles R. Atwood
- Seth J. Axtell
- Jacob Baker
- Samuel N. Baker
- Henry Baldwin
- Everett C. Banfield
- Ezekiel Bates
- Josiah Beard
- Charles Beck
- Zachariah L. Bicknell
- Dexter Blood
- Simeon Borden
- Sylvester S. Bowen
- George O. Brastow
- Joseph Breck
- Aza A. Breed
- Abel E. Bridge
- Francis Brooks
- Amos Brown
- Edward Brown
- James Brown
- Joseph Brown
- Nathan G. Brown
- Uriah T. Brownell
- James Bullard
- R. I. Burbank
- Albert Butler
- Calvin Butrick
- Cyrus Butterfield
- David Cain
- Henry Cartwright
- AVilliam H. Cary
- Peleg W. Chandler
- Tracy P. Cheever
- Christopher A. Church
- Charles F. Claflin
- James W. Clark
- Harrison D. Clement
- John D. Coggswell
- Harvey B. Coleman
- Thorley Collester
- Horace Cook
- Samuel Cook
- Gilman Corning
- Noah Cummings
- Albert Currier
- George Curtis
- John R. Cushman
- Eben Cutler
- Keyes Danforth
- Joseph D. Daniels
- Charles G. Davis
- Seymour B. Dewey
- Reuben DeWitt
- John H. Dike
- Cornelius Doherty
- John J. Doland
- George W. Donaldson
- William D. Earle
- Ebenezer Eaton
- George Eaton
- George P. Elliot
- Caleb L. Ellis
- Hiram Emery
- Farwell F Fay
- Alfred R. Field
- Charles H. Field
- Jonathan E Field
- John T. Fitch
- John Fletcher, Jr.
- John F. Flynn
- Edmund D. Foster
- George Foster
- Abram S. French
- Josiak B. French
- Zadock W. Gates
- Samuel H. Gibbens
- Robert Gibbs
- Nathaniel Gilbert
- Alonzo M. Giles
- James A. Gillis
- Delano A. Goddard
- Austin Gove
- Daniel G. Grafton
- Zachariah Graves
- Zebedee Green
- Erastus F Gunn
- Caleb Gushing
- Andrew J. Hadley
- Lucas W. Hannum
- James L. Hanson
- Hamlin R. Harding
- Samuel R. Hathaway
- Manson B. Haws
- Jared M. Heard
- Lorenzo D. Hervey
- George Heywood
- Samuel Higgins
- Paul Hill
- Luther Holland
- Jesse Holmes
- Benjamin Homer
- William P. Hood
- Anson Hooker
- Nathaniel Howard
- Sereno Howe
- Isaiah Jenkins
- Harvey Jewell
- James S. Jewett
- Amos H. Johnson
- George N. Johnson
- Joseph P. Johnson
- Thomas H. Kelt
- John R. Kimball
- D. Webster King
- Ezra Kingman
- Lucius J. Knowles
- Artemas Lee
- George C. Lee
- Daniel G. Littlefield
- Ansel Lothrop
- H. Augustus Lothrop
- Henry O. Lothrop
- Oliver Loud
- Asa E. Lovell
- Henry Luscomb, Jr.
- Sewall G. Mack
- Henry B. Maglathlin
- Charles Manning
- Edgar Marchant
- J. F. B. Marshall
- Francis W. Mason
- William B. May
- Charles J. McCarthy
- Joseph McGregory
- John Meacom
- William T. Metcalf
- Augustus Moody
- Joseph Morrill
- Chas W. Morris
- Elias A. Morse
- Andrew J. Morton
- William Mulligan
- John L. Murphy
- Jonathan H. Nelson
- Stephen G. Newton
- W. H. Nichols
- Amasa Norcross
- William A. Northup
- Lewis R. Norton
- Benjamin Oliver
- Francis J. Parker
- Thomas Parsons
- Henry Peirce
- Ezra Penniman
- Noble M. Perkins
- Simeon Perkins
- Andrew J. Pickens
- Daniel J. Pickering
- Henry L. Pierce
- Charles B. Pool
- Moses Pool
- David Porter
- Henry Pratt
- Benjamin C. Putnam
- Daniel Putnam
- James W. Putnam
- Oliver Ramsdell
- Josiah M. Read
- Mathias Rice
- James Riley
- Samuel Roads
- William A. Robbins
- Austin J. Roberts
- William L. Rodman
- John S. E Rogers
- Hezekiah Root
- Patten Sargent
- John K. Sears
- Joshua M. Sears
- Charles C. Sewall
- Henry Shaw
- Edward F. Sherman
- Emery Sherman
- Elisha Smith
- Sylvanus Smith
- William H. Smith
- William L. Smith
- Otis W. Soule
- Zibeon Southard
- Samuel Souther
- Ebenezer Stanwood
- Theodore Stebbins
- Phineas Stedman
- Danforth S. Steel
- George F. Stetson
- Benjamin Stevens
- Hiram A. Stevens
- Moses T. Stevens
- Joseph P. Stickney
- Samuel W. Stickney
- Eliphalet Stone
- F. M. Stone
- Isaac N. Stone
- Moses Stone
- Phineas J. Stone
- Edward M. Taylor
- Seth Thayer
- Ephraim H. Thompson
- John C. Thompson
- Hudson Tolman
- Everett Torrey
- Charles M. Tyler
- John S. Tyler
- Seth H. Vinall
- Eugene Vosburgh
- Caleb Wait
- Charles T. Walcott
- Cornelius Walker
- Samuel L. Ward
- Stephen G. Wheatland
- Royal Whitaker
- Charles P. White
- Nelson D. White
- Samuel O. Whitmore
- Henry Wilder
- Cyrus Williams
- John D. Wilson
- Albert Winn
- Amos I. Withey
- Hapgood Wright
See also
References
- "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. 2009. p. 340+.
- "Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts". Massachusetts Register, 1862 – via Archive.org.
- ^ Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1862. hdl:2452/40640.
- "The Election". The Pittsfield Sun. Pittsfield, Massachusetts. November 7, 1861. p. 2. Retrieved November 5, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
Further reading
- "Massachusetts". American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1862. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1863. (includes description of legislature)
External links
- Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1862, hdl:2452/684924 – via State Library of Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1862, hdl:2452/92944
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