# 1916 Massachusetts legislature

The 137th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1916.

## Senators

| name | date of birth | district |
| Frank Bartlett | | |
| Sanford Bates | July 17, 1884 | |
| William A. L. Bazeley | 1872 | |
| Charles Sumner Beal | August 14, 1856 | 1st Plymouth |
| James W. Bean | May 11, 1866 | |
| John E. Beck | May 10, 1869 | |
| Charles Donnell Brown | June 5, 1862 | |
| James F. Cavanagh | | |
| Daniel J. Chapman | January 18, 1878 | |
| Ezra W. Clark | October 12, 1842 | |
| Herbert E. Cummings | | |
| Charles W. Eldridge | October 16, 1877 | |
| George H. Ellis | October 3, 1848 | |
| Frank S. Farnsworth | | |
| Wilton B. Fay | | |
| Charles L. Gifford | March 15, 1871 | |
| Gurdon W. Gordon | | |
| James I. Green | April 9, 1885 | |
| John W. Haigis | July 31, 1881 | |
| Martin Hays | October 14, 1876 | |
| Clarence Whitman Hobbs Jr. | October 1, 1878 | |
| John B. Hull Jr. | July 17, 1871 | |
| George H. Jackson | March 9, 1865 | |
| Charles A. Kimball | | |
| Richard Knowles | | |
| Louis F. R. Langelier | | |
| George Edward Marchand | December 22, 1877 | |
| Joseph W. Martin Jr. | November 3, 1884 | |
| Orion T. Mason | | |
| Philip J. McGonagle | October 21, 1871 | |
| Walter E. McLane | | |
| Edward F. McLaughlin | June 6, 1883 | |
| W. Prentiss Parker | December 11, 1857 | |
| E. Howard Perley | | |
| John F. Sheehan | | |
| James R. Tetler | August 26, 1877 | |
| James P. Timilty | March 28, 1865 | |
| Nathan A. Tufts | April 15, 1879 | |
| Robert M. Washburn | January 4, 1868 | |
| Henry Gordon Wells | October 12, 1879 | |

## Representatives

| name | date of birth | district |
| Essex S. Abbott | | |
| Henry Achin Jr. | June 30, 1883 | |
| George C. F. Allen | | 14th Essex |
| Philip R. Ammidon | | |
| Algodt N. Anderson | | |
| Charles H. Annis | January 12, 1869 | |
| William M. Armstrong | August 17, 1850 | |
| Benjamin S. Atwood | | |
| George W. P. Babb | | |
| James T. Bagshaw | | |
| Edmund Baker | | |
| William B. Baldwin | September 18, 1854 | |
| Philip Hosmer Ball | | |
| Arthur W. Barker | | |
| William J. Barry | 1861 | |
| Thomas William Baxter | | |
| Addison P. Beardsley | | |
| Joseph Belcher | | |
| Joseph J. Benson | | |
| James D. Bentley | February 6, 1884 | |
| Jacob Bitzer | January 16, 1865 | |
| Alvin E. Bliss | | |
| Cornelius Boothman | | |
| Eden K. Bowser | | |
| Manassah Edward Bradley | | |
| Thomas H. Brennan | | |
| James J. Brennan | May 2, 1882 | |
| Clarence A. Briggs | | |
| Vincent Brogna | | |
| Fred Johnson Brown | | |
| Charles Henry Brown | September 25, 1873 | |
| Daniel J. Buckley | | |
| George Bunting | August 31, 1868 | |
| Arthur E. Burr | | |
| Frederick Butler | | |
| Fred E. Cady | | |
| Julius F. Carman | August 7, 1861 | |
| Daniel W. Casey | | |
| Allison G. Catheron | June 26, 1878 | |
| George Dudley Chamberlain | | |
| Albert Minot Chandler | | |
| Edward Earl Chapman | | |
| Charles Chapman | | |
| John W. Churchill | November 17, 1853 | |
| Frederic F. Clauss | | |
| James Coffey | May 17, 1849 | |
| Arthur Willard Colburn | December 1, 1877 | |
| Benjamin G. Collins | | |
| Samuel I. Collins | March 4, 1851 | |
| D. Herbert Cook | June 2, 1851 | |
| Thomas J. Cooley | | |
| John J. Courtney | | |
| Channing H. Cox | October 28, 1879 | |
| John W. Craig | | |
| Burton H. Crosby | | |
| Fred Wilder Cross | September 15, 1868 | |
| John J. Cummings | | |
| George E. Curran | | |
| Edward N. Dahlborg | | |
| Samuel Davis | June 4, 1866 | |
| Theodore H. Day | | |
| George F. Dennis | | |
| Thomas F. Donovan | September 26, 1890 | |
| John L. Donovan | June 3, 1876 | |
| Thomas E. Dowd | | |
| Frederic E. Dowling | | |
| George P. Drury | | |
| Edward B. Eames | April 15, 1856 | |
| Carl C. Emery | November 4, 1888 | |
| John P. Englert | | |
| John G. Faxon | | |
| Horace F. Field | | |
| Charles D. Fisher | | |
| Michael J. Fitzgerald | March 10, 1878 | |
| John I. Fitzgerald | July 18, 1882 | |
| William J. Foley | March 2, 1887 | |
| Harry C. Foster | August 27, 1871 | |
| 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 | |
| Mauran I. Furbish | | |
| Charles F. Garrity | | |
| Harry C. Gates | | |
| John Mellen Gibbs | | |
| Thomas J. Giblin | | |
| John J. Gillis | | |
| Nesbit G. Gleason | | |
| Fred Parker Greenwood | | |
| Julius Guild | March 30, 1850 | |
| Edgar H. Hall | | |
| John Halliwell | February 21, 1864 | |
| Walter A. Hardy | December 15, 1866 | |
| Edward F. Harrington (state representative) | August 10, 1878 | |
| James L. Harrop | | |
| George F. Hart | November 9, 1859 | |
| Charles H. Hartshorn | | |
| William M. Haskins | | |
| James William Hayes | | |
| Matthew A. Higgins | | |
| Francis M. Hill | | |
| Kenneth Page Hill | | |
| John A. Hirsch | 1861 | |
| William J. Holland | | |
| Peter Holt | | |
| Horace W. Hosie | February 2, 1864 | |
| John C. Hull (politician) | November 1, 1870 | |
| Charles N. James | September 3, 1853 | |
| Henry W. Jarvis | | |
| Victor Francis Jewett | | |
| John G. Johnson | May 23, 1864 | |
| Michael H. Jordan | February 7, 1863 | |
| Thomas Martin Joyce | | |
| John Joseph Kearney | | |
| David Leon Kelley | April 26, 1889 | |
| Edward I. Kelley | | |
| William W. Kennard | | |
| Robert T. Kent | | |
| Joseph O. Knox | | |
| Arthur F. Lamb | | |
| Ernest A. LaRocque | | |
| Charles S. Lawler | | |
| Joseph M. Levenson | | |
| John N. Levins | | |
| Fred Oliver Lewis | June 12, 1878 | |
| George E. Lilley | | |
| Daniel Waldo Lincoln | September 2, 1882 | |
| George A. Lindberg | | |
| George Washington Love | | |
| James MacFarlane Lyle | | |
| Frank E. Lyman | September 15, 1866 | |
| Luther B. Lyman | November 13, 1853 | |
| John H. Lynch | October 28, 1884 | |
| James E. MacPherson | | |
| John P. Mahoney | May 26, 1888 | |
| Lloyd Makepeace | | |
| Michael F. Malone | | |
| David Mancovitz | August 15, 1877 | |
| Frank A. Manning | | |
| Felix A. Marcella | | |
| Robert B. Martin | | |
| John Edwin Maybury | | |
| John Henry McAllister | | |
| Peter F. McCarty | | |
| Joseph McGrath (American politician) | December 20, 1890 | |
| James H. McInerney | December 13, 1871 | |
| Frederick William McKenzie | | |
| Michael J. McNamee | | |
| Charles J. McNulty | | |
| Samuel H. Mildram | | |
| John Mitchell | September 4, 1877 | |
| John L. Monahan | | |
| Wesley E. Monk | August 1, 1874 | |
| Alfred James Moore | August 7, 1891 | |
| Daniel T. Morrill | | |
| Edward G. Morris | | |
| James Morrison | February 17, 1857 | |
| Frank Mulveny | | |
| John J. Murphy | March 26, 1889 | |
| Dennis A. Murphy | September 26, 1876 | |
| William A. Murray | June 17, 1889 | |
| Ken Nash | | |
| Arthur N. Newhall | | |
| John P. Nickerson | | |
| Francis Norwood | | |
| John Joseph O'Brien | | |
| John Joseph O'Connell | | |
| James T. O'Dowd | | |
| Joseph A. Oakhem | | |
| James E. Odlin | | |
| Ambrose F. Ogden | | |
| John N. Osborne | January 28, 1853 | |
| George E. Osgood | | |
| Peter C. Paradis | | |
| John H. Parker | August 27, 1859 | |
| Ward Mayhew Parker | | |
| Chauncey Pepin | | |
| Harold L. Perrin | | |
| Edward Howland Perry | | |
| Joseph H. Perry | May 4, 1869 | |
| Joseph C. Perry | May 1, 1856 | |
| James E. Phelan | October 21, 1884 | |
| Frederick Everett Pierce | May 5, 1862 | |
| James Tracy Potter | January 26, 1870 | |
| Francis Prescott | | |
| Albert T. Quiry | | |
| William C. Renne | | |
| George Louis Richards | | |
| Charles Freeman Rowley | | |
| Louis Hooker Ruggles | | |
| William F. Runnells | February 18, 1865 | |
| G. Oscar Russell | | |
| John D. Ryan | July 30, 1868 | |
| Edward Julius Sandberg | October 21, 1866 | |
| Joseph A. Saunders | | |
| Frederick W. Schlapp | | |
| C. Burnside Seagrave | | |
| C. Edgar Searing | | |
| John H. Sherburne | 1877 | |
| Michael J. Sherry | | |
| Samuel Silverman | | |
| Allston M. Sinnott | | |
| Jerome S. Smith | | |
| Fitz-Henry Smith Jr. | | |
| William O. Souther Jr. | | |
| Joseph Fayette Stone | February 8, 1858 | |
| Merrill E. Streeter | | |
| Denis J. Sullivan | July 24, 1889 | |
| William H. Sullivan | February 20, 1869 | |
| Simon Swig | 1862 | |
| James E. Tolman | November 8, 1867 | |
| Albert Mason Tyler | | |
| George J. Wall | | |
| Robert J. Ware | | |
| Joseph E. Warner | May 16, 1884 | |
| George B. Waterman | | |
| William E. Weeks | 1880 | |
| Thomas Weston, Jr | | |
| Albert L. Whitman | | |
| Edgar H. Whitney | | |
| Waterman Lester Williams | August 10, 1867 | |
| Alvin R. Wilson | | |
| Herbert A. Wilson | November 27, 1870 | |
| Walter Edgar Wolfe | | |
| Isaac U. Wood | | |
| William H. Woodhead | September 17, 1860 | |
| Harry C. Woodill | | |
| George M. Worrall | | |
| Benjamin Loring Young | 1885 | |