1917 Massachusetts legislature

The 138th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1917.^[1]

Senators

image	name [1]	date of birth [2]	district [2]
	James W. Bean	May 11, 1866	2nd Middlesex
	John E. Beck	May 10, 1869
	Charles Donnell Brown	June 5, 1862
	Daniel J. Buckley
	James F. Cavanagh
	George Dudley Chamberlain
	George B. Churchill	October 24, 1866
	Arthur Willard Colburn	December 1, 1877
	Fred Wilder Cross	September 15, 1868
	Edward N. Dahlborg
	Charles W. Eldridge	October 16, 1877
	John I. Fitzgerald	July 18, 1882
	Charles L. Gifford	March 15, 1871
	James L. Harrop
	George Fred Hart	November 9, 1859
	George A. Hastings
	Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr.	October 1, 1878
	Ernest E. Hobson	September 29, 1878
	Herman Hormel
	John B. Hull Jr.	July 17, 1871
	George H. Jackson	March 9, 1865
	Charles A. Kimball
	Richard Knowles
	Charles S. Lawler
	James E. MacPherson
	Joseph W. Martin Jr.	November 3, 1884
	Orion T. Mason
	Edwin T. McKnight	October 11, 1869
	Walter E. McLane
	Edward F. McLaughlin	June 6, 1883
	Edward G. Morris
	Ken Nash
	Malcolm Nichols	May 8, 1876
	E. Howard Perley
	Alpheus Sanford
	Charles Sumner Smith
	James R. Tetler	August 26, 1877
	James P. Timilty	March 28, 1865
	Henry Gordon Wells	October 12, 1879
	Herbert A. Wilson	November 27, 1870

Representatives

image	name [1]	date of birth [2]	district [2]
	Essex S. Abbott
	Henry Achin Jr.	June 30, 1883
	Peter I. Adams		6th Berkshire
	Park W. Allen
	Ernest William Allen
	George C. F. Allen
	J. Weston Allen	April 19, 1872
	Philip R. Ammidon
	Charles H. Annis	January 12, 1869
	Harrison Henry Atwood	August 26, 1863
	George W. P. Babb
	James T. Bagshaw
	William B. Baldwin	September 18, 1854
	Joseph L. Barry
	Frank Bartlett
	William A. Bartlett
	Russell T. Bates
	Thomas William Baxter
	Charles H. Beaman
	Addison P. Beardsley
	Chauncey A. Bennett
	James D. Bentley	February 6, 1884
	Jay Rogers Benton
	Alfred M. Bessette	March 25, 1876
	Jacob Bitzer	January 16, 1865
	Alvin E. Bliss
	Cornelius Boothman
	Arthur Bower
	George W. Bowman
	Eden K. Bowser
	Manassah Edward Bradley
	Albert C. Bray
	Thomas H. Brennan
	Clarence A. Briggs
	Elmer L. Briggs
	Vincent Brogna
	Fred Johnson Brown
	George J. Brunell	November 1, 1865
	George Bunting	August 31, 1868
	Frank James Burke	September 8, 1885
	Arthur E. Burr
	Fred J. Burrell	March 12, 1889
	Frederick Butler
	Ralph N. Butterworth
	Fred E. Cady
	Edward Carr	December 18, 1868
	George H. Carrick
	Daniel W. Casey
	Albert Minot Chandler
	Jeremiah K. Chandler	September 30, 1863
	Henry S. Clark
	Frederic F. Clauss
	Samuel I. Collins	March 4, 1851
	Benjamin G. Collins
	William S. Conroy	October 2, 1877
	Thomas J. Corbett	May 10, 1883
	Henry E. Cowdrey
	Channing H. Cox	October 28, 1879
	Edward J. Cox
	John W. Craig
	John Cronin
	John T. Crowley	November 15, 1872
	George E. Curran
	Henry Ellsworth Dean	September 29, 1862
	George F. Dennis
	John L. Donovan	June 3, 1876
	Thomas F. Donovan	September 26, 1890
	Thomas E. Dowd
	Eddy P. Dunbar
	Horace E. Dunkle
	Edward B. Eames	April 15, 1856
	Carl C. Emery	November 4, 1888
	John P. Englert
	James R. Ferry
	Michael J. Fitzgerald	March 10, 1878
	Michael A. Flanagan	February 21, 1890
	William Fleming
	William J. Foley	March 2, 1887
	William Foster	January 21, 1869
	Arthur W. Frail
	Joseph E. Freeling
	William P. French	April 30, 1874
	William F. French	March 21, 1873
	Harvey E. Frost	October 2, 1875
	Charles Benjamin Frothingham	November 11, 1858
	Howard F. Furness
	John Mellen Gibbs
	Edwin H. Gibson
	Nesbit G. Gleason
	William J. Granfield	December 18, 1889
	Clarence H. Granger
	Fred Parker Greenwood
	Julius Guild	March 30, 1850
	Clarence Milton Hall
	John Halliwell	February 21, 1864
	Leo Spotten Hamburger
	Walter A. Hardy	December 15, 1866
	Rowland P. Harriman
	Edward F. Harrington (state representative)	August 10, 1878
	Charles H. Hartshorn
	William M. Haskins
	James William Hayes
	Walter Haynes
	Martin Hays	October 14, 1876
	Matthew A. Higgins
	Francis M. Hill
	Kenneth Page Hill
	John A. Hirsch	1861
	William J. Holland
	Horace W. Hosie	February 2, 1864
	John Robert Hudson
	John C. Hull (politician)	November 1, 1870
	Henry W. Jarvis
	Victor Francis Jewett
	William Louis Johnson	October 23, 1856
	John G. Johnson	May 23, 1864
	Michael H. Jordan	February 7, 1863
	Thomas Martin Joyce
	John Joseph Kearney
	David Leon Kelley	April 26, 1889
	Charles A. Kelley	March 24, 1862
	William W. Kennard
	Robert T. Kent
	James F. Kiernan	February 1, 1884
	William Aiken Kneeland
	Joseph O. Knox
	Martin R. Lane
	Ernest A. LaRocque
	Thomas Leavitt
	George E. Lilley
	Daniel Waldo Lincoln	September 2, 1882
	George A. Lindberg
	Martin Lomasney	December 3, 1859
	William G. Lord
	George Washington Love
	James MacFarlane Lyle
	Frank E. Lyman	September 15, 1866
	John H. Lynch	October 28, 1884
	Eugene Anthony Lynch
	Winthrop Magee
	John P. Mahoney	May 26, 1888
	William Henry Mahoney
	Lloyd Makepeace
	Michael F. Malone
	David J. Maloney
	Frank A. Manning
	William J. Manning
	George S. Marsh	February 18, 1858
	Arthur E. Marsh
	Robert B. Martin
	John Edwin Maybury
	John Henry McAllister
	Joseph McGrath (American politician)	December 20, 1890
	James H. McInerney	December 13, 1871
	David Story McIntosh
	Francis B. McKinney
	Henry J. McLaughlin
	Michael J. McNamee
	Charles J. McNulty
	Walter L. Mellen	January 10, 1868
	Bernard F. Merriam
	Julius Meyers	December 6, 1854
	John Mitchell	September 4, 1877
	Wesley E. Monk	August 1, 1874
	William A. Moore
	Alfred James Moore	August 7, 1891
	James G. Moran	May 2, 1870
	Daniel T. Morrill
	Charles H. Morrill	October 6, 1874
	James Morrison	February 17, 1857
	George D. Morse
	J. Warren Moulton
	Frank Mulveny
	John J. Murphy	March 26, 1889
	Dennis A. Murphy	September 26, 1876
	Daniel C. Murphy	December 14, 1887
	William A. Murray	June 17, 1889
	Arthur L. Nason	October 24, 1872
	Charles S. O'Connor
	Joseph A. Oakhem
	James E. Odlin
	John Glenn Orr	February 27, 1857
	John N. Osborne	January 28, 1853
	Walter T. Packard
	Arthur W. Paine
	John H. Parker	August 27, 1859
	Ward Mayhew Parker
	George Penshorn
	Chauncey Pepin
	Walter Perham
	Harold L. Perrin
	Edward Howland Perry
	Joseph H. Perry	May 4, 1869
	Frederick Everett Pierce	May 5, 1862
	James Tracy Potter	January 26, 1870
	Frank H. Putnam
	Lawrence F. Quigley
	Frank E. Raymond
	Dennis F. Reardon
	George Louis Richards
	Charles Freeman Rowley
	William F. Runnells	February 18, 1865
	G. Oscar Russell
	Joseph A. Saunders
	Henry A. Savage
	Roland D. Sawyer	January 8, 1874
	John H. Sherburne	1877
	Charles Henry Slowey
	Fitz-Henry Smith Jr.
	Jerome S. Smith
	Gilbert G. Southworth
	Burgess H. Spinney
	William N. Stetson
	Merrill E. Streeter
	Lewis R. Sullivan
	Denis J. Sullivan	July 24, 1889
	Simon Swig	1862
	Warren E. Tarbell
	James E. Tolman	November 8, 1867
	George Albert Wales
	Joseph E. Warner	May 16, 1884
	Jacob Wasserman
	George B. Waterman
	Thomas Weston, Jr
	Joseph W. Wharton
	Albert L. Whitman
	George A. Whitney
	Waterman Lester Williams	August 10, 1867
	John W. Williams
	Alvin R. Wilson
	Charles A. Winchester
	Thomas A. Winston
	Roger Wolcott	July 25, 1877
	Isaac U. Wood
	Harry C. Woodill
	John Wooldredge
	George M. Worrall
	Daniel J. Young
	Myron A. Young
	Benjamin Loring Young	1885

See also

• 1917 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
• 65th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

References

Further reading

• Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1917.
• Bridgman, Arthur Milnor (1917). Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators: 1917. A. M. Bridgman.
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