# 1880 Massachusetts legislature

The 101st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1880 during the governorship of John Davis Long. Robert R. Bishop served as president of the Senate and Charles J. Noyes served as speaker of the House.

## Senators

| Name | Date of birth | District |
| William Abbott | 1834 | 2nd Worcester |
| Samuel N. Aldrich | February 3, 1839 | 4th Middlesex |
| Oliver Ames | February 4, 1831 | 1st Bristol |
| Stephen Francis Blaney | 1844 | 2nd Essex |
| Charles J. Brooks | July 6, 1844 | 8th Suffolk |
| Elisha S. Converse | July 28, 1820 | 1st Middlesex |
| Charles T. Crocker | March 2, 1833 | 5th Worcester |
| George Glover Crocker | December 15, 1843 | 4th Suffolk |
| Warren Currier | July 20, 1830 | 4th Essex |
| James William Dwyer | 1845 | North Berkshire |
| Anson D. Fessenden | February 18, 1839 | 5th Middlesex |
| Ebenezer T. Fogg | October 30, 1826 | 1st Plymouth |
| Jonas Harrod French | November 4, 1829 | 3rd Essex |
| Henry William Fuller | June 30, 1839 | 7th Suffolk |
| Emerson Gaylord | September 2, 1817 | 2nd Hampden |
| Harmon Hall | July 18, 1818 | 1st Essex |
| Alpheus Harding | January 12, 1818 | 4th Worcester |
| Eben Hutchinson | 1841 | 1st Suffolk |
| Marcus Perrin Knowlton | February 3, 1839 | 1st Hampden |
| Charles S. Lilley | December 13, 1851 | 7th Middlesex |
| Asa Porter Morse | 1818 | 3rd Middlesex |
| Stephen Osgood | November 16, 1826 | 5th Essex |
| John Lord Otis | 1827 | Hampshire |
| James Paine Ray | 1820 | 2nd Norfolk |
| Henry C. Rice | August 22, 1827 | 1st Worcester |
| George B. Richmond | November 9, 1821 | 3rd Bristol |
| Joseph Hubbard Root | 1823 | Franklin |
| Daniel Russell | July 16, 1824 | 6th Middlesex |
| Elizur Smith | January 5, 1812 | South Berkshire |
| Samuel Snow | 1828 | Cape |
| James W. Stockwell | December 6, 1837 | 3rd Worcester |
| Andrew C. Stone | May 16, 1839 | 6th Essex |
| William Taylor | 1831 | 3rd Suffolk |
| Nathaniel Wales | November 25, 1819 | 1st Norfolk |
| Alonzo Warren | 1827 | 5th Suffolk |
| Thomas Webb | October 24, 1819 | 2nd Bristol |
| Starkes Whiton | April 11, 1829 | 2nd Plymouth |
| Calvin M. Winch | November 26, 1832 | 6th Suffolk |

## Representatives

| Name | Date of birth |
| John Ware Adams | 1836 |
| Charles Hastings Allen | 1828 |
| John Forrester Andrew | 1850 |
| Newell Sylvanus Atwood | 1834 |
| George Norval Bacon | 1835 |
| George Warren Bail | 1832 |
| Stephen Powers Bailey | 1818 |
| John Israel Baker | 1812 |
| Samuel Dwight Bardwell | 1819 |
| Samuel Augustus Bartholomew | 1824 |
| Philander Bates | 1842 |
| Ebenezer Beckford | 1833 |
| Lucius Beebe | 1810 |
| James William Bennett | 1833 |
| George Albert Berry | 1837 |
| John Frank Berry | 1840 |
| Abraham Orlando Bigelow | 1812 |
| Francis Bigelow | 1840 |
| John Winthrop Bigelow | 1832 |
| Lewis Bigelow | 1808 |
| William Blanchard | 1821 |
| George Henry Bond | 1840 |
| Samuel Wells Bowerman | 1830 |
| Benjamin Franklin Boyden | 1846 |
| John Quincy Adams Brackett | June 8, 1842 |
| Martin Luther Bradford | 1821 |
| Henry Harding Brigham | 1814 |
| George Bruce Brown | 1830 |
| William Austin Brown | 1820 |
| William Blanchard Brown | 1821 |
| William Wilson Brown | 1848 |
| James McKellar Bugbee | 1837 |
| Sidney Augustus Bull | 1847 |
| John Coburn Burley | 1837 |
| George Lathe Burt | 1829 |
| Joseph Burt | 1821 |
| John Haskell Butler | 1841 |
| Dexter Butterfield | March 15, 1842 |
| Hobart M. Cable | |
| Peter Cannon | 1825 |
| Nathan Dexter Canterbury | 1837 |
| William Henry Carberry | February 22, 1851 |
| James Albert Carruth | 1839 |
| Lewis L. Carter | 1822 |
| Joseph Henry Churchill | 1820 |
| Frank Allen Clapp | 1849 |
| John Milton Cochran | 1849 |
| Amos Coffin | |
| Lewis Coleman | 1817 |
| Elias Pike Collins | 1829 |
| Louis Atwood Cook | 1847 |
| John Cornell | 1830 |
| Isaac Newton Crosby | 1824 |
| Jeremiah John Crowley | 1850 |
| Eli Culley | 1840 |
| Edwin James Cushing | 1842 |
| Henry Putney Danforth | 1845 |
| Keyes Danforth | 1822 |
| James Franklin Davenport | 1832 |
| Person Davis | 1819 |
| Joshua Dean | 1830 |
| John Henry Dee | May 13, 1842 |
| John Delaney | 1815 |
| John Francis Dever | 1858 |
| Clinton Henry Dodge | 1835 |
| James Joseph Doherty | 1848 |
| Daniel Francis Dolan | 1847 |
| Elbridge Curtis Donnell | 1839 |
| James Thompson Drew | 1813 |
| George Wells Eddy | 1837 |
| George Dyer Eldridge | 1848 |
| James Madison Evans | 1837 |
| Walter Hamlet Faunce | 1832 |
| Charles Henry Ferson | 1819 |
| George Batchelder Fiske | 1834 |
| Stephen Flanders | 1835 |
| George Louis Flint | 1852 |
| William Abraham Foss | 1838 |
| Jesse Harding Freeman | 1826 |
| Edwin Gage | 1830 |
| William Howard Gale | 1831 |
| John Henry Galligan | 1851 |
| Francis Gardner | 1828 |
| Charles Frederick Gerry | 1823 |
| James Ellis Gifford | 1832 |
| Rufus Babcock Gifford | 1827 |
| George Dodge Glover | 1823 |
| Robert Goulding | 1825 |
| Bryan Harding | 1842 |
| Calvin Lyon Hartshorn | 1832 |
| Thomas Jones Hastings | January 24, 1835 |
| Thomas Bly Hathaway | December 5, 1825 |
| Edward Daniel Hayden | 1833 |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson | December 22, 1823 |
| Hamilton Andrews Hill | 1827 |
| Henry Hobbs | 1827 |
| Joseph Field Holbrook | 1841 |
| Horace Marshall Holmes | 1830 |
| Edwin Jackson Horton | 1837 |
| Nathaniel Augustus Horton | 1830 |
| Russell Spaulding Horton | 1825 |
| Charles Henry Howland | 1826 |
| Andrew Jackson Huntress | 1826 |
| Daniel Bowman Ingalls | 1829 |
| William Hutchins Ingraham | 1817 |
| Martin Van Buren Jefferson | 1833 |
| James Leonard Jenney | 1833 |
| George William Johnson | 1827 |
| Joseph Prosper Johnson | 1813 |
| Edward Dorr Griffin Jones | 1824 |
| Thomas Brooks Jones | 1839 |
| Benjamin Adams Jourdan | July 20, 1832 |
| John Joyce | 1837 |
| Albert Keith | 1823 |
| Simon Kelley | 1846 |
| Lorrin Porter Keyes | 1838 |
| James Langford | 1847 |
| Daniel Warren Lawrence | 1830 |
| James Madison Lawton | 1813 |
| Marcus Leonard | 1846 |
| Arthur Lincoln | 1842 |
| Clark Lincoln | 1821 |
| George Brigham Livermore | 1836 |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | 1850 |
| Dwight B. Look | 1820 |
| Daniel Bolles Lord | 1821 |
| Marcus Morton Loud | 1839 |
| Pardon Macomber | February 9, 1833 |
| James Pollock Magee | |
| Patrick Francis Mahoney | 1847 |
| James Thomas Mahony | 1843 |
| Thomas Main | 1807 |
| George Sampson Marshall | 1833 |
| Hugh Maxwell | 1836 |
| James William McDonald | May 15, 1857 |
| Patrick Francis McGaragle | 1845 |
| James Aloysius McGeough | 1853 |
| Patrick Michael McGlynn | 1853 |
| John McSorley | 1832 |
| Andrew Nelson Medbery | 1827 |
| Christopher Columbus Merritt | September 29, 1830 |
| Edwin Dickinson Metcalf | March 14, 1848 |
| Eben Colbraith Milliken | 1843 |
| Alfred Cushing Monroe | 1841 |
| Eugene Michael Moriarty | April 15, 1849 |
| Daniel Tilton Morrison | 1820 |
| Robert McNeil Morse | 1837 |
| John Dennis Mulchinock | 1855 |
| Jeremiah Henry Mullane | August 15, 1852 |
| Norman Carmi Munson | 1820 |
| J. Allston Newhall | 1847 |
| Leander Warren Newton | 1838 |
| Joseph John Nichols | 1850 |
| Erastus Nickerson | 1821 |
| Charles Johnson Noyes | August 7, 1841 |
| Increase Eldredge Noyes | 1834 |
| James H. Nugent | 1831 |
| John O'Donnell | 1853 |
| Joseph Henry O'Neil | March 23, 1853 |
| Henry Paddack | April 2, 1838 |
| George Winter Park | 1834 |
| Charles Oscar Parmenter | 1833 |
| John Wesley Peabody | 1837 |
| Edward Pease | 1838 |
| Walter Barber Peck | 1838 |
| William Gaylord Peck | 1841 |
| Henry Moses Phillips | 1845 |
| John James Pickman | January 9, 1850 |
| Francis Plunkett | 1840 |
| Edward Payson Poor | 1829 |
| Edwin Bartlett Pratt | 1832 |
| Lyman Knight Putney | 1833 |
| James Lawrence Quigley | 1848 |
| John Dennis Reed | 1827 |
| George Willard Rice | 1836 |
| Joseph Marcus Rice | 1827 |
| Stephen Rich | 1834 |
| Richard Roach | 1833 |
| Charles Robinson | 1829 |
| Horace Tyler Rockwell | 1838 |
| Thomas Pitkin Root | 1824 |
| Isaac Rosnosky | November 6, 1846 |
| George Thomas Sampson | 1819 |
| William Sanders | 1843 |
| William Henry Sargent | 1836 |
| Augustus Elwin Scott | 1838 |
| Charles Edwin Seagrave | 1825 |
| Dwight Loomis Shaw | 1822 |
| James Shead | 1818 |
| Seth Carroll Shepard | 1815 |
| John Henry Sherburne | 1845 |
| Jonathan Edward Shipman | 1832 |
| Henry Almy Slocum | 1825 |
| William Smeath | 1834 |
| Charles Whipple Smith | 1846 |
| Hinsdale Smith | 1819 |
| Zenas Elmer Smith | 1821 |
| Arthur John Clark Sowdon | 1835 |
| James Harvey Sparrow | 1825 |
| Robert Lyman Spear | 1839 |
| George Morrison Starbird | 1833 |
| Eben Francis Stone | August 3, 1822 |
| Augustus Whittemore Stover | 1834 |
| Charles Francis Swift | 1825 |
| Joseph Russell Taber | 1821 |
| Robert Tarr | 1832 |
| Levi Taylor | 1824 |
| Michael John Teahan | 1840 |
| John Randolph Thayer | 1845 |
| Samuel Proctor Thayer | 1853 |
| Silas Foster Thayer | 1822 |
| Edward Isaiah Thomas | 1833 |
| William Tinker | 1823 |
| William Ripley Tompkins | 1826 |
| William Eaton Topliff | 1826 |
| William Henry Tozer | 1835 |
| Edward Trask | 1843 |
| Arthur Webster Tufts | 1828 |
| Joseph Augustine Tufts | 1835 |
| Samuel Burns Valpey | 1829 |
| Merritt Van Deusen | 1820 |
| Leavitt R.J. Varnum | 1847 |
| Chester Kingsley Waite | 1825 |
| Jonathan Wales | 1849 |
| Joseph Henry Walker | 1829 |
| William James Wallace | 1833 |
| Horace Everett Ware | 1845 |
| John Flavel Warner | |
| Lewis Henry Warner | 1845 |
| Nathan Warren | 1838 |
| William Cullen Warren | 1822 |
| Alonzo Carter Webber | 1827 |
| Edwin R. Webster | 1831 |
| John Gerrish Webster | 1811 |
| Henry Jackson Wells | 1823 |
| Charles Augustus Wentworth | 1830 |
| Howard Alphonso Wheeler | 1848 |
| Joseph Dudley Wilde | 1829 |
| Hiram Williams | 1824 |
| Henry Franklin Wing | 1825 |