1885 Massachusetts legislature

106th Massachusetts General Court
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Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 4, 1884
Senate
Members	40
President	Albert E. Pillsbury
Party control	Republican[1]
House
Members	240
Speaker	John Q. A. Brackett
Party control	Republican[2]
Sessions
1st January 7, 1885 (1885-01-07) – June 19, 1885 (1885-06-19) [3]

Albert Pillsbury, Senate president.

John Brackett, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1885.

The 106th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1885 during the governorship of George D. Robinson. Albert E. Pillsbury served as president of the Senate and John Q. A. Brackett served as speaker of the House.^[4]

In 1885 the legislature officialized the state coat of arms and seal.^[5] Other notable legislation included an "Act to Protect Persons Using Public Libraries From Disturbance."^[6]

Senators

• Frank M. Ames ^[7]
• John F. Andrew
• Josiah C. Bennett
• Francis Bigelow
• Eleazar Boynton
• Frederick L. Burden
• George L. Burt
• William Cogswell
• Charles A. Denny
• James R. Dunbar
• Charles B. Emerson
• Newton P. Frye
• Wesley A. Gove
• Levi J. Gunn
• John M. Harlow
• Charles H. Howland
• Martin V. B. Jefferson
• Herbert C. Joyner
• Paul H. Kendricken
• Job M. Leonard
• George A. Marden
• Alexander McGahey
• Eben C. Milliken
• George W. Morrill
• Henry F. Naphen
• Howes Norris
• Henry S. Nourse
• Albert E. Pillsbury
• Horace Reed
• Thomas P. Root
• George W. Sanderson
• Augustus E. Scott
• William R. Sessions
• William H. Tappan
• S. Proctor Thayer
• Edward I. Thomas
• Ezra J. Trull
• Myron P. Walker
• Henry J. Wells
• Arthur F. Whitin

Representatives

• Julius Caesar Chappelle^[8][9]

See also

• 49th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

References

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
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. 2009. p. 340+.
5. Stephanie Turnbull (July 13, 2015), "The Official This, That and the Other Thing of Massachusetts", State Library of Massachusetts blog
6. Alexandra Bernson (October 30, 2017), "Quiet in the library – or else!", State Library of Massachusetts blog
7. Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1885.
8. Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905
9. Alexandra Bernson (February 17, 2020), "Julius Caesar Chappelle and Black Boston", State Library of Massachusetts blog

Further reading

• Official Gazette, Commonwealth of Massachusetts: the Government of 1885. Boston. 1885.
• "Massachusetts". Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1885. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1886. hdl:2027/mdp.39015053690403 – via HathiTrust. (includes description of legislature)

External links

• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1885, hdl:2452/619074
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1885, hdl:2452/89621