# 1918 Massachusetts legislature

The 139th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1918 during the governorship of Samuel W. McCall. Henry Gordon Wells served as president of the Senate and Channing H. Cox served as speaker of the House.

## Senators

| name | date of birth | district |
| John E. Beck | May 10, 1869 | 1st Suffolk |
| 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 | |
| George E. Curran | | |
| Edward N. Dahlborg | | |
| Edward B. Eames | April 15, 1856 | |
| John I. Fitzgerald | July 18, 1882 | |
| Charles L. Gifford | March 15, 1871 | |
| John Halliwell | February 21, 1864 | |
| Leonard F. Hardy | | |
| 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 | | |
| George H. Jackson | March 9, 1865 | |
| Joseph O. Knox | | |
| Charles S. Lawler | | |
| James E. MacPherson | | |
| 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 | | |
| Harold L. Perrin | | |
| Silas D. Reed | | |
| William Eustis Russell | | |
| Alpheus Sanford | | |
| Charles Sumner Smith | | |
| James R. Tetler | August 26, 1877 | |
| Henry Gordon Wells | October 12, 1879 | |
| Herbert A. Wilson | November 27, 1870 | |

## Representatives

| name | date of birth | district |
| Essex S. Abbott | | |
| Henry Achin Jr. | June 30, 1883 | |
| Peter I. Adams | | |
| Frank G. Allen | October 6, 1874 | 8th Norfolk |
| J. Weston Allen | April 19, 1872 | |
| Ernest William Allen | | |
| George C. F. Allen | | |
| Philip R. Ammidon | | |
| Seth Fenelon Arnold | December 21, 1878 | |
| Harrison Henry Atwood | August 26, 1863 | |
| Charles M. Austin | May 2, 1884 | |
| George W. P. Babb | | |
| James T. Bagshaw | | |
| John Henry Baker | | |
| William B. Baldwin | September 18, 1854 | |
| George Storer Baldwin | | |
| John Ballantyne | July 9, 1869 | |
| Joseph L. Barry | | |
| Herbert Amiel Bartlett | | |
| Frank Bartlett | | |
| William A. Bartlett | | |
| Russell T. Bates | | |
| George J. Bates | February 25, 1891 | |
| Thomas William Baxter | | |
| Charles H. Beaman | | |
| Alton Leroy Bellows | | |
| Chauncey A. Bennett | | |
| James D. Bentley | February 6, 1884 | |
| Jay Rogers Benton | | |
| Alfred M. Bessette | March 25, 1876 | |
| Jacob Bitzer | January 16, 1865 | |
| Giles Blague | | |
| Arthur Franklin Blanchard | January 27, 1883 | |
| Alvin E. Bliss | | |
| Cornelius Boothman | | |
| Arthur Bower | | |
| Eden K. Bowser | | |
| Albert C. Bray | | |
| Elmer L. Briggs | | |
| Fred Johnson Brown | | |
| Arthur Stanley Browne | | |
| 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 | | |
| George H. Carrick | | |
| John B. Cashman | | |
| Herman Stanley Cheney | | |
| Henry S. Clark | | |
| Frederic F. Clauss | | |
| Benjamin G. Collins | | |
| William S. Conroy | October 2, 1877 | |
| Harry A. Cooke | | |
| Charles L. Cooley | | |
| Thomas J. Corbett | May 10, 1883 | |
| Edwin S. Corey | | |
| Robert Shaw Corrigan | | |
| Patrick M. Costello | | |
| Henry E. Cowdrey | | |
| Edward J. Cox | | |
| William F. Craig | September 15, 1866 | |
| John W. Craig | | |
| John Cronin | | |
| Clarence A. Crooks | | |
| John T. Crowley | November 15, 1872 | |
| Warren Chapman Daggett | May 10, 1868 | |
| Henry Ellsworth Dean | September 29, 1862 | |
| George F. Dennis | | |
| Thomas F. Donovan | September 26, 1890 | |
| John L. Donovan | June 3, 1876 | |
| James Beattie Dow | | |
| Andrew P. Doyle | August 15, 1869 | |
| Timothy J. Driscoll | | |
| Eddy P. Dunbar | | |
| Horace E. Dunkle | | |
| William F. Dwyer | | |
| Carl C. Emery | November 4, 1888 | |
| John P. Englert | | |
| Philip J. Feinberg | | |
| James R. Ferry | | |
| Samuel B. Finkel | | |
| 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 | |
| Joseph E. Freeling | | |
| William F. French | March 21, 1873 | |
| William P. French | April 30, 1874 | |
| Charles Benjamin Frothingham | November 11, 1858 | |
| Howard F. Furness | | |
| John Mellen Gibbs | | |
| Edwin H. Gibson | | |
| Daniel J. Gillen | | |
| Nesbit G. Gleason | | |
| Charles Waite Gould | May 8, 1891 | |
| William J. Granfield | December 18, 1889 | |
| Clarence H. Granger | | |
| Thomas H. Green | May 11, 1883 | |
| Fred Parker Greenwood | | |
| Clarence Milton Hall | | |
| John Otis Hamilton | | |
| 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 | |
| William H. Hearn | | |
| Matthew A. Higgins | | |
| John A. Hirsch | 1861 | |
| William J. Holland | | |
| Edgar F. Howland | | |
| John Robert Hudson | | |
| John C. Hull (politician) | November 1, 1870 | |
| Victor Francis Jewett | | |
| William Louis Johnson | October 23, 1856 | |
| John G. Johnson | May 23, 1864 | |
| Arthur Westgate Jones | January 11, 1873 | |
| Benjamin Oliver Jones | July 28, 1882 | |
| Michael H. Jordan | February 7, 1863 | |
| Thomas Martin Joyce | | |
| Charles A. Kelley | March 24, 1862 | |
| Edward I. Kelley | | |
| David Leon Kelley | April 26, 1889 | |
| Nathaniel Putnam Kellogg | | |
| Robert T. Kent | | |
| James F. Kiernan | February 1, 1884 | |
| William Aiken Kneeland | | |
| Martin R. Lane | | |
| Ernest A. LaRocque | | |
| Thomas Leavitt | | |
| William G. Lord | | |
| Frank E. Lyman | September 15, 1866 | |
| 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 | | |
| Arthur E. Marsh | | |
| George S. Marsh | February 18, 1858 | |
| Robert B. Martin | | |
| John Henry McAllister | | |
| William H. McDonnell | April 9, 1885 | |
| Joseph McGrath (American politician) | December 20, 1890 | |
| David Story McIntosh | | |
| Francis P. McKeon | | |
| Francis B. McKinney | | |
| Henry J. McLaughlin | | |
| William Raymond McMenimen | | |
| Michael J. McNamee | | |
| Stephen R. Mealey | | |
| 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 | |
| James G. Moran | May 2, 1870 | |
| Charles H. Morrill | October 6, 1874 | |
| James Morrison | February 17, 1857 | |
| George D. Morse | | |
| J. Warren Moulton | | |
| James J. Moynihan | | |
| Frank Mulveny | | |
| Daniel C. Murphy | December 14, 1887 | |
| Dennis A. Murphy | September 26, 1876 | |
| John J. Murphy | March 26, 1889 | |
| Arthur L. Nason | October 24, 1872 | |
| Christian Nelson | | |
| Oscar H. Nelson | | |
| Arthur N. Newhall | | |
| Frederic C. Nichols | | |
| George L. Nourse | | |
| Edward H. Nutting | July 6, 1869 | |
| Charles S. O'Connor | | |
| John D. O'Connor | May 7, 1886 | |
| James E. Odlin | | |
| William W. Ollendorff | | |
| John Glenn Orr | February 27, 1857 | |
| John N. Osborne | January 28, 1853 | |
| Walter T. Packard | | |
| Arthur W. Paine | | |
| George Penshorn | | |
| Chauncey Pepin | | |
| Walter Perham | | |
| Frederick Everett Pierce | May 5, 1862 | |
| Leland Powers | | |
| Francis Prescott | | |
| Frank H. Putnam | | |
| Lawrence F. Quigley | | |
| Timothy F. Quinn | | |
| Dennis F. Reardon | | |
| George Louis Richards | | |
| Arthur W. Robinson | | |
| Charles Freeman Rowley | | |
| Roland D. Sawyer | January 8, 1874 | |
| Edward A. Scigliano | | |
| Harry L. Shedd | | |
| Michael Nathaniel Slotnick | | |
| Charles Henry Slowey | | |
| Jerome S. Smith | | |
| Fitz-Henry Smith Jr. | | |
| Dexter Avery Snow | January 3, 1890 | |
| Gilbert G. Southworth | | |
| Burgess H. Spinney | | |
| William N. Stetson | | |
| Simon Swig | 1862 | |
| Warren E. Tarbell | | |
| James E. Tolman | November 8, 1867 | |
| Frank A. Torrey | December 21, 1874 | |
| Charles L. Underhill | July 20, 1867 | |
| Albert P. Wadleigh | | |
| George Walker | | |
| Albert T. Wall | | |
| Joseph E. Warner | May 16, 1884 | |
| Jacob Wasserman | | |
| George B. Waterman | | |
| Thomas Weston, Jr | | |
| Joseph W. Wharton | | |
| Bion Thomas Wheeler | | |
| Albert L. Whitman | | |
| George A. Whitney | | |
| Alvin R. Wilson | | |
| Charles A. Winchester | | |
| Carlton Walen Wonson | | |
| Isaac U. Wood | | |
| Wilbur A. Wood | | |
| Harry C. Woodill | | |
| George M. Worrall | | |
| Myron A. Young | | |
| Benjamin Loring Young | 1885 | |