# 1872 Massachusetts legislature

The 93rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1872 during the governorship of Republican William B. Washburn. Horace H. Coolidge served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford served as speaker of the House.

## Senators

| Name | Date of birth |
| Frederick Lothrop Ames | June 8, 1835 |
| Joseph Kelley Baker | 1827 |
| Andrew Jackson Bartholomew | 1834 |
| Alonzo Warren Boardman | 1828 |
| Charles Bradley | 1816 |
| Elisha Huntington Brewster | |
| Erastus Payson Carpenter | November 23, 1822 |
| Isaac Henry Coe | 1818 |
| Horace Hopkins Coolidge | February 11, 1832 |
| Rufus Smith Frost | July 18, 1826 |
| Robert Oliver Fuller | 1829 |
| Newell Giles | 1818 |
| Samuel Moulton Griggs | 1822 |
| Orrin Hewes | 1833 |
| James Humphrey | 1819 |
| Francis Wayland Jacobs | 1837 |
| Robert Johnson | 1823 |
| William Henry Learnard | 1828 |
| George Walter Lobdell | 1823 |
| William Bennet Long | 1827 |
| Reuben Noble | 1820 |
| Lloyd Parsons | 1816 |
| Josiah Newton Pike | 1824 |
| Joseph Samson Potter | 1822 |
| George Francis Richardson | December 6, 1829 |
| Daniel Ephraim Safford | 1826 |
| George Sheldon | November 30, 1818 |
| William Lafayette Smith | 1824 |
| Charles Pickett Stickney | 1824 |
| John Kemble Tarbox | May 6, 1838 |
| Adin Thayer | 1828 |
| Shepard Thayer | 1827 |
| George Arnold Torrey | 1838 |
| Thomas Lafayette Wakefield | 1817 |
| Levi Wallace | 1831 |
| Baxter Dodridge Whitney | 1817 |
| James Scollay Whitney | May 19, 1811 |
| Rufus Dodd Woods | 1818 |
| David Titcomb Woodwell | 1820 |
| Carroll D. Wright | July 25, 1840 |

## Representatives

| Name | Date of birth |
| Milton Abbey | 1819 |
| John Henry Abbott | 1825 |
| Henry Sewall Adams | 1832 |
| William Augustus Adams | 1830 |
| William Hastings Aldrich | 1825 |
| Ephraim Allen | 1806 |
| Lafayette Anderson | 1824 |
| William Henry Anderson | 1836 |
| William Frederick Arnold | 1815 |
| William Markwick Ashby | 1821 |
| Oliver Ayers | 1821 |
| William Babbitt | 1817 |
| James Prentiss Bacheller | 1840 |
| Horace Clinton Bacon | 1824 |
| Andrew Jackson Bailey | 1840 |
| John Stanton Baldwin | 1834 |
| Edward Dana Bancroft | 1821 |
| Julius Kirkland Banister | 1833 |
| James Madison Barker | 1839 |
| Lewis Barnard | 1815 |
| George Bartholmesz | 1821 |
| George Hubert Bates | 1839 |
| Austin Williams Benton | 1818 |
| Alden Besse | 1821 |
| Edward Lyman Bigelow | 1839 |
| William Rufus Black | August 23, 1830 |
| George Baylis Blake | 1823 |
| John Williston Blaney | 1815 |
| William Edward Blunt | 1840 |
| James William Bradley | 1828 |
| Bowman Bigelow Breed | 1832 |
| Frederic Perry Brown | 1840 |
| Willard Augustus Brown | 1828 |
| Giles Edwin Brownell | 1819 |
| Henry Oliver Burr | 1829 |
| Seneca Burr | 1831 |
| Samuel Augustus Carlton | 1827 |
| Michael Carney | 1827 |
| Thomas Marshall Carter | July 17, 1832 |
| Erastus Chase | 1826 |
| John Cummings Choate | 1832 |
| John Henry Church | 1836 |
| Sumner Uriah Church | 1810 |
| George Washington Clark | 1836 |
| Nelson Cochran | 1824 |
| Charles Russell Codman | 1829 |
| John Bear Doane Cogswell | June 6, 1829 |
| Moses Rich Colman | 1806 |
| Chapin Converse | 1811 |
| Benjamin Hough Corliss | 1818 |
| Joseph Howland Cornell | March 23, 1818 |
| Joseph Henry Cotton | 1833 |
| Robert Couch | 1817 |
| Roswell P. Crafts | September 17, 1822 |
| Seth Brockway Crafts | 1844 |
| Freeborn Woodbury Cressy | 1839 |
| William Augustus Cressy | 1820 |
| Michael J. Croak | 1843 |
| Charles Curtis | 1836 |
| William Cushing | 1823 |
| Christopher Columbus Denny | 1813 |
| Elbridge Curtis Donnell | 1839 |
| Simeon Parker Dresser | 1845 |
| James Henry Durgin | 1833 |
| David Eastman | 1806 |
| George Henry Eddy | 1829 |
| Alfred Brewster Ely | 1817 |
| Augustus Bradford Endicott | September 10, 1818 |
| George Otis Fairbanks | 1815 |
| Henry Hardwick Faxon | 1823 |
| Hawkes Fearing | 1826 |
| Francis Fisher | 1811 |
| Jonathan Philbrick Folsom | October 9, 1820 |
| Job Gardner | |
| Robert Folger Gardner | 1815 |
| John Gates | 1807 |
| Benjamin Whitney Gleason | 1806 |
| George Going | 1824 |
| Brownell Granger | 1835 |
| Edward Waldo Griggs | 1834 |
| Isaac Dennis Hall | 1807 |
| John Wilkes Hammond | 1837 |
| Charles Veranus Hanson | 1844 |
| Franklin Powers Harlow | December 8, 1827 |
| Southworth Harlow | 1824 |
| John Morton Harris | 1819 |
| Thomas Burdett Harris | 1825 |
| George Hatch | 1832 |
| Benjamin Franklin Hayes | July 3, 1835 |
| Horace Heard | 1804 |
| Horatio Brooks Hersey | 1823 |
| Lot Higgins | 1809 |
| Amos Hill | 1830 |
| Henry Bozyol Hill | 1823 |
| George Webster Hobbs | 1839 |
| Thomas Fry Holder | 1839 |
| Asa Alexander Holton | 1818 |
| Samuel Bugbee Hopkins | 1823 |
| Leverett Hopkinson | 1822 |
| Ezra Coffin Howard | September 1, 1831 |
| Jonas Elijah Howe | 1814 |
| Joseph Sidney Howe | 1832 |
| Emerson Harris Howland | 1846 |
| George Henry Hoyt | November 25, 1837 |
| Barney Hull | 1830 |
| George W. Humphrey | 1826 |
| Nathaniel Mayhew Jernegan | 1820 |
| Peter Rogers Johnson | 1824 |
| Henry Jones | 1821 |
| Horace Israel Joslin | 1836 |
| Timothy Keefe | 1839 |
| William Keith | 1810 |
| Albert Francis Kelley | 1840 |
| Jonas Kendall | 1804 |
| George Perry Kendrick | 1824 |
| Asa Keyes | 1805 |
| John White Kimball | February 27, 1828 |
| Moses Kimball | October 24, 1809 |
| Charles M. Kingsley | 1811 |
| Daniel Webster Knight | 1835 |
| William Knowlton | 1809 |
| John Augustus Lamson | 1831 |
| Almond Ring Lancaster | 1829 |
| Alvin Lawton | 1833 |
| Frederick Walker Lincoln | 1817 |
| Noah Lincoln | 1810 |
| Edward Payson Loring | 1837 |
| William Hamilton Loughlin | 1847 |
| Henry Bacon Lovering | April 8, 1841 |
| Alvin Marshall | 1815 |
| John McDuffie | 1828 |
| Anson McLoud | |
| Christopher Columbus Merritt | September 29, 1830 |
| Ira Loriston Moore | 1824 |
| Benjamin Lyman Morrison | 1828 |
| Rice Shaw Munn | 1814 |
| John Joseph Murphy | 1842 |
| Patrick Murphy | 1837 |
| William Henry Murray | 1826 |
| John Newell | 1816 |
| Jeremiah Lemuel Newton | |
| Curtis Coe Nichols | 1814 |
| Lewis Rufus Norton | 1821 |
| William Nutt | August 5, 1836 |
| Patrick O'Connor | 1842 |
| William Henry Osborne | 1840 |
| Liberty Dodge Packard | 1831 |
| Albert Palmer | January 17, 1831 |
| George Alanson Parker | 1821 |
| James Parker | 1815 |
| Ezra Parmenter | March 20, 1823 |
| Daniel Augustus Patch | 1832 |
| George Howe Peabody | 1838 |
| Edward Pearl | 1825 |
| George O. Peck | 1817 |
| Francis Ellis Pedrick | 1829 |
| Jesse Small Pendergrast | 1835 |
| Noah Cushman Perkins | 1810 |
| William Perkins | 1824 |
| Ellis Perry | 1809 |
| Ralph Perry | 1811 |
| Josiah Peterson | 1820 |
| John Wesley Phelps | 1844 |
| Willard Peele Phillips | 1825 |
| Charles Varnum Poor | 1817 |
| George Horace Poor | 1841 |
| Thomas Whittier Porter | 1820 |
| Burton Willis Potter | 1843 |
| Laban Pratt | 1829 |
| Artemus Conant Putnam | 1805 |
| Samuel Bell Quigley | 1821 |
| Samuel Miller Quincy | June 13, 1832 |
| Edward Benedict Rankin | 1846 |
| Joseph Henry Read | 1835 |
| John Wales Robinson | 1826 |
| John Randolph Rogerson | 1812 |
| Joseph Hubbard Root | 1823 |
| Isaac Newton Ross | 1824 |
| George Sanborn | 1816 |
| John Eliot Sanford | November 22, 1830 |
| Benjamin Franklin Sargent | 1813 |
| Irving Bertoldo Sayles | 1839 |
| Charles Augustus Sayward | 1837 |
| George Franklin Scribner | 1830 |
| Nathaniel Sears | 1825 |
| Robert Seaver | 1812 |
| George Atwood Shaw | 1816 |
| George Sheldon | 1817 |
| James Stratton Shepard | 1815 |
| Simon Harrison Sibley | 1816 |
| Reuben Sikes | 1824 |
| Albert Gallatin Sinclair | 1845 |
| David Nelson Skillings | 1818 |
| Charles Eber Slater | 1830 |
| George Fayette Slocomb | 1823 |
| Cyrus Burnet Smith | 1839 |
| John James Smith | 1825 |
| Zoeth Snow | 1825 |
| Reuben Goodspeed Sparks | 1822 |
| Chauncey Loren Spear | 1819 |
| Henry Splaine | 1837 |
| Charles Stanwood | 1816 |
| Francis Dana Stedman | 1801 |
| William Stone | 1827 |
| Warner Claflin Sturtevant | 1809 |
| Charles H. Taylor | 1846 |
| William Taylor | 1831 |
| Eliphalet Loring Thayer | 1824 |
| Noah Blanchard Thayer | 1830 |
| William Henry Thomas | 1829 |
| Charles Perkins Thompson | July 7, 1827 |
| John Thomas Zebediah Thompson | 1811 |
| Charles Q. Tirrell | December 10, 1844 |
| Hugh James Toland | 1844 |
| Joseph Rice Torrey | 1828 |
| Edward Justus Tower | 1833 |
| George Edwin Towne | 1829 |
| Thomas Bush Tripp | 1838 |
| David Warren Tucker | 1820 |
| Obed Chester Turner | 1840 |
| William Upham | 1825 |
| Charles Folsom Walcott | December 22, 1836 |
| Ansel Hill Ward | 1837 |
| George Washington Ware | 1837 |
| Henry Stevenson Washburn | 1813 |
| Thomas Barstow Waterman | 1830 |
| Nathan Horace Webb | 1835 |
| Tisdale Sanford White | 1809 |
| William Henry Whitfield | November 11, 1804 |
| Frederick Theodore Whiting | 1825 |
| William Joseph Wightman | 1810 |
| Ludovicus French Wild | 1825 |
| Benjamin Franklin Wing | October 22, 1822 |
| Ezra Dyer Winslow | 1839 |
| Harding Woods | 1822 |
| Lyman Woodward | 1831 |
| Albert Judd Wright | |
| Ira Berkeley Wright | 1830 |
| Walter Wyman | 1806 |