49th Illinois General Assembly

49th Illinois General Assembly
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The Illinois State Capitol
Overview
Meeting place	Springfield, Illinois
Term	1915 – 1916
Election	1914
Illinois Senate
President	Barratt O'Hara, Democratic
President pro tempore	Stephen D. Canady, Democratic
Illinois House of Representatives
Speaker	David Shanahan, Republican

The 49th Illinois General Assembly met from 1915 to 1917. The first session convened on January 6, 1915 and adjourned sine die on June 30, 1915.^[1] The first special session convened on November 22, 1915 and adjourned sine die on May 10, 1916.^[2] The second special session convened on January 11, 1916 and adjourned sine die on February 14, 1916.^[2]

Barratt O'Hara of Chicago was the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and thus ex officio President of the Senate.^[a][3] Stephen D. Canady of Hillsboro was President pro tempore of the Senate.^[3] David Shanahan of Chicago was the Speaker of the House of Representatives.^[4] Shanahan was made Temporary Speaker on February 16 after 68 ballots^[5] and was made full Speaker on February 17 on the first ballot.^[6] In the first session 1,548 bills were introduced, of which 293 became law.^[7]

Districts

Illinois was divided into 51 districts, each of which elected one Senator and three Representatives. Districts were last reapportioned in 1901^[8] and would not be reapportioned again until 1947.^[9]

The counties of each district were as follows:^[10]

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 17th, 19th, 21st, 23rd, 25th, 27th, 29th, and 31st: Parts of Cook
• 8th: Lake, McHenry, and Boone
• 10th: Ogle and Winnebago
• 12th: Stephenson, Jo Daviess, and Carroll
• 14th: Kane and Kendall
• 16th: Marshall, Putnam, Livingston, and Woodford
• 18th: Peoria
• 20th: Grundy, Kankakee, and Iroquois
• 22nd: Vermillion and Edgar
• 24th: Champaign, Piatt, and Moultrie
• 26th: Ford and McLean
• 28th: DeWitt, Logan, and Macon
• 30th: Tazewell, Mason, Menard, Cass, Schuyler, and Brown
• 32nd: Hancock, McDonough, and Warren
• 33rd: Henderson, Mercer, and Rock Island
• 34th: Douglas, Coles, and Clark
• 35th: Whiteside, Lee, and DeKalb
• 36th: Adams, Pike, Calhoun, and Scott
• 37th: Henry, Stark, and Bureau
• 38th: Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, and Montgomery
• 39th: LaSalle
• 40th: Christian, Shelby, Cumberland, and Fayette
• 41st: DuPage and Will
• 42nd: Clinton, Marion, Clay, and Effingham
• 43rd: Knox and Fulton
• 44th: Jackson, Perry, Washington, Randolph, and Monroe
• 45th: Morgan and Sangamon
• 46th: Jefferson, Wayne, Richland, and Jasper
• 47th: Madison and Bond
• 48th: Hardin, Gallatin, White, Edwards, Wabash, Lawrence, and Crawford
• 49th: St. Clair
• 50th: Hamilton, Saline, Pope, Johnson, and Massac
• 51st: Franklin, Williamson, Union, Pulaski, and Alexander

Members

Senate

There were 51 senators.

Unless otherwise stated, "Chairman of the Committee on X" is abbreviated to "Chairman of X", etc.

Members of the 49th Illinois General Assembly in the Senate by district^[11]

District	Member	Notes
1st	George F. Harding Jr., Republican	Chairman of Revenue and Finance[12]
2nd	Francis A. Hurley, Democratic
3rd	Samuel A. Ettelson, Democratic	Chairman of License and Miscellany[12]
4th	Al F. Gorman, Democratic
5th	Morton D. Hull, Republican	Chairman of Public Efficiency and Civil Service, Chairman of Rules[13]
6th	George W. Harris, Progressive	Chairman of Labor, Mines and Mining[13]
7th	Frederick B. Roos, Republican	Chairman of Executive Committee[14]
8th	Albert J. Olson, Republican	Chairman of Agriculture, Live Stock and Dairying[14]
9th	P. J. Carroll, Democratic
10th	Henry Andrus, Republican
11th	Percival G. Baldwin, Republican
12th	Michael H. Cleary, Democratic
13th	John A. Swanson, Republican
14th	Thomas B. Stewart, Republican	Chairman of Charitable, Penal and Reformatory Institutions[14]
15th	John J. Boehm, Democratic
16th	Christian Haase, Democratic
17th	Edward J. Glackin, Democratic
18th	John Dailey, Republican	Chairman of Public Utilities[12]
19th	John T. Denvir, Democratic
20th	Edward C. Curtis, Republican
21st	Edward J. Hughes, Democratic
22nd	Martin B. Bailey, Republican	Chairman of Railroads[15]
23rd	Henry W. Austin, Republican
24th	Raymond B. Meeker, Democratic
25th	Daniel Herlihy, Democratic
26th	Noah E. Franklin, Republican
27th	John Broderick, Democratic
28th	Willis R. Shaw, Democratic
29th	Patrick J. Sullivan, Democratic
30th	Walter I. Manny, Democratic
31st	Willet H. Cornwell, Republican
32nd	William A. Compton, Democratic
33rd	Frank A. Landee, Republican
34th	John R. Hamilton, Republican
35th	Adam C. Cliffe, Republican
36th	Charles R. McNay, Democratic
37th	Clayton C. Pervier, Republican
38th	Stephen D. Canady, Democratic
39th	Peter E. Coleman, Democratic
40th	F. Jeff Tossey, Democratic
41st	Richard J. Barr, Republican
42nd	F. C. Campbell, Democratic
43rd	W. S. Jewell, Republican
44th	Kent E. Keller, Democratic
45th	Elbert S. Smith, Republican
46th	W. Duff Piercy, Democratic
47th	J. G. Bardill, Republican
48th	J. A. Womack, Democratic
49th	Paul W. Abt, Republican
50th	D. T. Woodward, Democratic
51st	Sam W. Latham, Republican

House of Representatives

Prior to the Cutback Amendment in 1980, each district in the Illinois House of Representatives elected three members via cumulative voting. There were 79 Republicans, and the rest were mostly Democrats with a few Socialists and Progressives.^[16]

Members of the 49th Illinois General Assembly in the House of Representatives by district^[16]

District	Member	Notes
1st	John Griffin, Democratic
	William M. Brinkman, Republican
	Sheadrick B. Turner, Republican
2nd	George U. Lipschulch, Democratic
	Frank Ryan, Democratic
	John J. Gardner, Republican
3rd	John P. Walsh, Democratic
	Edward M. Santry, Democratic
	Robert R. Jackson, Republican
4th	George C. Hilton, Democratic	Chairman of To Visit Penal Institutions[17]
	Hubert Killens, Democratic
	Thomas A. Boyer, Republican
5th	Michael L. Igoe, Democratic	Chairman of Waterways[17]
	Isaac S. Rothschild, Republican
	John H. Helwig, Republican
6th	Joseph A. Weber, Democratic
	Robert E. Wilson, Democratic
	William M. Brown, Republican
9th	Robert J. Mulcahy, Democratic
	Joseph Placek, Democratic
	David Shanahan, Republican	Elected Speaker
12th	Charles F. Franz, Democratic
	R. R. Thompson, Democratic
	John D. Turnbaugh, Republican
50th	James H. Felts, Democratic
	Charles Curren, Republican
	C.A. Stewart, Republican
51st	W.C. Kane, Democratic
	Elwood Barker, Republican
	Oral P. Tuttle, Republican

See also

• List of Illinois state legislatures

Notes

1. This arrangement was discontinued with the adoption of the current Constitution of Illinois in 1970, effective 1973.

References

1. House Journal p. ii
2. Senate Journal p. iii
3. Senate journal p. vi
4. House Journal p. iv
5. House Journal p. 100
6. House Journal p. 106
7. House Journal p. v
8. Almanac p. 823
9. Devine, Michael J. "State Politics". Encyclopedia of Chicago.
10. Almanac pp. 821–822
11. Senate Synopsis p. 3
12. Senate Synopsis p. 14
13. Senate Synopsis p. 15
14. Senate Synopsis p. 16
15. Senate Synopsis p. 12
16. House Journal pp. 2–3
17. House Journal p. 186

Bibliography

• James Langland, M.A. (1920). The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year-Book for 1921. Chicago, IL: The Chicago Daily News Company.
• Journal of the House of Representatives of the 49th General Assembly of the State of Illinois. Springfield, IL: Illinois State Journal Co. 1915.
• Journal of the Senate of the first special session of the Forty-Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois. Springfield, IL: Illinois State Journal Co. 1916.
• Senate Synopsis, 49th General Assembly, State of Illinois. Springfield, IL: Schnepp and Barnes, State Printers. 1915.