1920 Massachusetts legislature

141st
Massachusetts General Court
141st; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 4, 1919
Senate
Members	40
President	Edwin T. McKnight (6th Middlesex)
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	Joseph E. Warner (4th Bristol)
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 7, 1920 – June 5, 1920; + 16-day extra session

Edwin McKnight, Senate president.

Joseph Warner, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1920.

The 141st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1920 during the governorship of Calvin Coolidge. Edwin T. McKnight served as president of the Senate and Joseph E. Warner served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district ^[6]
Frank G. Allen	October 6, 1874
Alvin E. Bliss		4th Middlesex
Frederick Butler
George H. Carrick
Andrew A. Casassa
George Dudley Chamberlain
John W. Churchill	November 17, 1853
Harry A. Cooke
George E. Curran
John A. Curtin	April 3, 1870
Edward N. Dahlborg
Thomas F. Donovan	September 26, 1890
Carl C. Emery	November 4, 1888
Samuel B. Finkel
William J. Foley	March 2, 1887
John Mellen Gibbs
Lyman W. Griswold	October 16, 1869
John Halliwell	February 21, 1864
Leonard F. Hardy
Walter A. Hardy	December 15, 1866
Joseph O. Knox
Augustus Peabody Loring	1856
John J. Mahoney	April 13, 1860
Daniel Aloysius Martin
David Story McIntosh
Edwin T. McKnight	October 11, 1869
Walter E. McLane
William C. Moulton	October 15, 1873
Arthur L. Nason	October 24, 1872
Christian Nelson
Gardner W. Pearson
Francis Prescott
Frank H. Putnam
Martin Lewis Quinn	January 19, 1862
Silas D. Reed
Warren E. Tarbell
John J. Walsh
Wellington Wells	April 18, 1868
Thomas Weston, Jr
Charles A. Winchester

Representatives

name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district ^[6]
Essex S. Abbott
Henry Achin Jr.	June 30, 1883
Talbot Aldrich		4th Norfolk
Charles H. Annis	January 12, 1869
Seth Fenelon Arnold	December 21, 1878
Charles M. Austin	May 2, 1884
James T. Bagshaw
William B. Baldwin	September 18, 1854
Frank E. Barrows	June 14, 1871
George J. Bates	February 25, 1891
Russell T. Bates
Arthur Enoch Beane
Addison P. Beardsley
Erastus T. Bearse
Chauncey A. Bennett
James D. Bentley	February 6, 1884
Adelard Berard
Alfred M. Bessette	March 25, 1876
Orlando C. Bidwell
Robert E. Bigney
Edgar A. Bowers
Eden K. Bowser
Alfred Bradbury
Charles D. Bradbury
Louis Adelard Breault
Owen E. Brennen	September 26, 1868
Frank L. Brier
George E. Briggs	May 3, 1873
John C. Brimblecom	1868
E. Gerry Brown
Charles H. Brown	January 19, 1879
Samuel F. Brown	December 26, 1878
Edgar J. Buck
Maurice Allan Buck
Albert W. Bullock	April 18, 1872
William J. Bullock
Frank James Burke	September 8, 1885
Herbert W. Burr	June 15, 1866
William A. Canty
John J. Carey	February 28, 1888
Julius F. Carman	August 7, 1861
John B. Cashman
Mial W. Chase
Henry S. Clark
Everett W. Coleman
William J. Conlon	March 14, 1868
William S. Conroy	October 2, 1877
D. Herbert Cook	June 2, 1851
Richard B. Coolidge	September 14, 1879
Thomas J. Corbett	May 10, 1883
Frank N. Coulson
Frank H. Cowin
William F. Craig	September 15, 1866
Samuel V. Crane	October 4, 1855
Walter Thomas Creese
William Cyril Crossley
James E. Curry
Warren Chapman Daggett	May 10, 1868
Elbridge Gerry Davis	August 20, 1877
Henry Ellsworth Dean	September 29, 1862
James P. Donnelly	February 26, 1890
Robert W. Dow	July 15, 1868
Lawrence F. Dowd
Andrew P. Doyle	August 15, 1869
Cornelius J. Driscoll
Timothy J. Driscoll
Henry Francis Duggan
Bernard Earley
James Joseph Early
George R. Ellis	July 29, 1876
Vernon W. Evans	January 5, 1895
Erland F. Fish	December 7, 1883
John I. Fitzgerald	July 18, 1882
Michael J. Fitzgerald	March 1, 1891
William Fleming
Charles R. Foote	July 9, 1865
William J. Francis
John F. Freeland
Harvey E. Frost	October 2, 1875
Tony Garofano	May 28, 1885
Daniel J. Gillen
George A. Gilman	August 16, 1880
Frederick P. Glazier	September 27, 1859
Albert C. Goff
James A. Goode
Charles Waite Gould	May 8, 1891
William H. Grady
William Grant	January 4, 1855
Louis L. Green
Thomas H. Green	May 11, 1883
Herbert S. Grutchfield
Fred C. Haigis
Walter S. Hale
Cornelius F. Haley	July 15, 1875
Leo Spotten Hamburger
William H. Hannagan
Edward F. Harrington	August 10, 1878
Edward Joseph Harrington	1894
Charles H. Hartshorn
John Francis Harvey	January 30, 1891
Brad Dudley Harvey
Daniel J. Hayden
James William Hayes
Walter Haynes
Martin Hays	October 14, 1876
Joseph E. Herrick
William P. Hickey	November 17, 1871
Matthew A. Higgins
Edward Carroll Hinckley
Charles Sumner Holden	May 2, 1857
Edgar F. Howland
George C. F. Hudson
John C. Hull (politician)	November 1, 1870
James Melville Hunnewell
Victor Francis Jewett
Arthur Westgate Jones	January 11, 1873
Michael H. Jordan	February 7, 1863
Thomas Martin Joyce
Jeremiah P. Keating
Kenneth W. Keith
James H. Kelleher
James J. Kelley
Frank M. Kelley
Walter H. Kemp
Davis B. Keniston
Clarence P. Kidder
Joseph E. King
Frederic W. Kingman
Hugh J. Lacey
Wilfrid J. Lamoureux	December 13, 1869
Benjamin C. Lane
Ernest A. LaRocque
Joseph Lawrence Larson
James F. Leland
Wilbur F. Lewis
Willard P. Lombard
William J. Look	June 20, 1867
Frank E. Lyman	September 15, 1866
Lloyd Makepeace
Robert L. Manley
Frank A. Manning
William J. Manning
Arthur E. Marsh
Daniel J. Marshall
John C. Marshall	November 28, 1877
John Henry McAllister
John W. McCormack	December 21, 1891
Elmer L. McCulloch
Allan R. McDonald
William H. McDonnell	April 9, 1885
Francis B. McKinney
James J. Mellen	March 30, 1875
Walter L. Mellen	January 10, 1868
Patrick J. Melody
Samuel W. Mendum
Julius Meyers	December 6, 1854
Herbert L. Miller
John Mitchell	September 4, 1877
Wesley E. Monk	August 1, 1874
Patrick F. Moran
James Morrison	February 17, 1857
J. Warren Moulton
James J. Moynihan
George G. Moyse	December 21, 1878
James J. Mulvey
Daniel C. Murphy	December 14, 1887
Albert J. Murphy
George F. Murphy
William J. Naphen
John R. Nelson	November 22, 1871
George Henry Newhall
Frederic C. Nichols
Thomas A. Niland	June 11, 1873
Edwin Gates Norman
Daniel W. O'Connor	March 12, 1877
Frank A. Oberti
William W. Ollendorff
Louis Orenberg
John Glenn Orr	February 27, 1857
Henry F. Paige	January 30, 1853
Walter S. Parker
George Penshorn
Chauncey Pepin
Frank B. Phinney
William Plattner
George K. Pond
James Tracy Potter	January 26, 1870
Arthur K. Reading
Abbott B. Rice
George Louis Richards
Alfred P. Richards
James W. Robertson
Arthur W. Robinson
Carl J. Rolander
Morrill S. Ryder
Roland D. Sawyer	January 8, 1874
Edward A. Scigliano
Leo P. Senecal
Henry Lee Shattuck	October 12, 1879
Walter Shuebruk
Coleman Silbert
Charles Henry Slowey
Almond Smith
Jerome S. Smith
Dexter Avery Snow	January 3, 1890
William L. Stedman
Emil K. Steele
Walter F. Stephens
Elihu D. Stone
James F. Sweeney
Charles Symonds
Edward Willis Taylor
John Thomas	January 27, 1859
Prince H. Tirrell
James A. Torrey	September 27, 1868
Raymond H. Trefry
James B. Troy
Arthur H. Turner
Albert T. Wall
Joseph E. Warner	May 16, 1884
Charles C. Warren
Frederick A. Warren
George M. Webber
George Pearl Webster	January 9, 1877
Henry H. Wheelock
Renton Whidden
John Addison White	August 8, 1859
Howard B. White
Alfred H. Whitney
James H. Wilkins
Edward E. Willard	September 25, 1862
Herbert Wing
Herbert Francis Winn
Isaac U. Wood
William H. Woodhead	September 17, 1860
Harry C. Woodill
Benjamin H. Woodsum
George M. Worrall
Samuel H. Wragg	June 9, 1882
Elwin Temple Wright
Benjamin Loring Young	1885

References

^ "Composition of the Massachusetts State Senate", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
^ "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+.
^ ^a ^b Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1920.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1920" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

External links

Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1920, hdl:2452/393333
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1920, hdl:2452/64532

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

[CompHouse-2] "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

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

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

[Officials-5] Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1920.

[Register-6] "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1920" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

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