# 1868 Massachusetts legislature

The 89th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1868 during the governorship of Republican Alexander Bullock. George O. Brastow served as president of the Senate and Harvey Jewell served as speaker of the House.

## Senators

| Name | Date of birth |
| Edward Avery | 1828 |
| Samuel Wells Bowerman | 1830 |
| George Oliver Brastow | September 8, 1811 |
| Silas Newton Brooks | 1825 |
| Frederick Davis Brown | 1824 |
| Samuel Angier Chace | 1820 |
| Knowlton Sampson Chaffee | 1814 |
| Tracy Patch Cheever | 1824 |
| Lee Claflin | 1791 |
| Benjamin Franklin Clark | 1808 |
| Samuel Dexter Crane | 1816 |
| Edward Crocker | 1814 |
| Charles Chase Dame | 1819 |
| Francis B. Fay | June 12, 1793 |
| Henry Fuller | 1825 |
| William Gaston | October 3, 1820 |
| Alonzo Madison Giles | 1821 |
| Erasmus Gould | 1817 |
| Andrew Malcolm McPhail | 1817 |
| John Green Mudge | 1823 |
| Daniel Needham | 1822 |
| James Oliver | 1820 |
| Clark Partridge | 1809 |
| George Penniman | 1810 |
| Lucius Wilson Pond | 1826 |
| Edmund Houghton Sawyer | 1821 |
| William Schouler | December 31, 1814 |
| Oliver Hazard Perry Smith | 1824 |
| Chester Snow | 1817 |
| Moses Tyler Stevens | October 10, 1825 |
| William Sutton | 1800 |
| Joseph Scott Todd | 1828 |
| Harrison Tweed | 1806 |
| Gershom Bradford Weston | August 27, 1799 |
| Jonathan Dodge Wheeler | 1806 |
| Marshall Wilcox | 1821 |

## Representatives

| Name | Date of birth |
| Levi Augustus Abbott | 1824 |
| John Quincy Adams II | September 22, 1833 |
| Rufus Adams | 1829 |
| George Ellis Allen | 1817 |
| Samuel Appleton | 1841 |
| Elisha Watson Arnold | 1837 |
| William Frederick Arnold | 1815 |
| John Henry Bangs | 1829 |
| William Barker | 1820 |
| Henry Bassett | 1820 |
| William Gelston Bates | November 17, 1803 |
| Irving Bates | 1839 |
| Phineas Alden Beaman | 1819 |
| Hugh Ramsey Bean | 1820 |
| Charles Bird | 1829 |
| Charles Chauncey Bixby | 1824 |
| Willard Blackinton | 1800 |
| Charles Henry Blanchard | 1828 |
| John Currier Blasdell | 1809 |
| Albert Blood | 1818 |
| Morton Van Buren Bonney | 1841 |
| Charles Bradley | 1816 |
| George Egbert Bridges | 1827 |
| Oliver Hazard Perry Brown | 1813 |
| Ralph Steele Brown | 1828 |
| William Blanchard Brown | 1821 |
| Ezra Plummer Brownell | 1819 |
| John Richards Bullard | 1846 |
| William Henry Burbeck | 1822 |
| Hodgdon Fowler Buzzell | 1834 |
| James Capen | 1823 |
| Thomas Hale Carruth | 1810 |
| Dennis Cawley | 1834 |
| Jonas Allen Champney | 1831 |
| Philo Chapin | 1806 |
| Charles William Chase | 1822 |
| Heman Baker Chase | 1825 |
| Linus Mason Child | 1835 |
| Henry Martyn Clarke | 1826 |
| Patrick Andrew Collins | March 12, 1844 |
| Benjamin Franklin Cook | 1833 |
| Henry Harvey Cook | 1804 |
| Lament Bacon Corbin | 1813 |
| Joseph Warren Cornell | 1810 |
| George Parker Cox | 1814 |
| Orlando Bradford Crane | 1835 |
| Alanson Crittenden | 1814 |
| Thomas Cunningham | 1826 |
| David Cushing | 1813 |
| Francis Everett Cushing | 1825 |
| Richard Henry Dana | August 1, 1815 |
| George Keith Daniell | 1810 |
| Leander Sloan Daniels | 1834 |
| Curtis Davis | 1814 |
| Jeremy Bentham Dennett | 1833 |
| Thaddeus Kingsley DeWolf | 1801 |
| Charles Henry Drew | 1838 |
| Silas Dunton | 1818 |
| Moses Farnum | 1826 |
| Thomas Joseph Fay | 1832 |
| Stephen Chapman Felton | 1835 |
| Frederick William Field | 1819 |
| Samuel Tobey Field | 1820 |
| Thomas Jackson Field | 1822 |
| Charles Henry Fiske | 1840 |
| Ezra Hastings Flagg | 1823 |
| John Dana Flagg | 1817 |
| James Turner Ford | 1827 |
| Dudley Foster | 1809 |
| James Augustus Fox | August 11, 1827 |
| Charles Amasa Fox | 1832 |
| James Bicheno Francis | May 18, 1815 |
| Andrew Jackson Freeman | 1819 |
| Samuel Freeman | 1830 |
| Josiah Ober Friend | 1835 |
| Roscoe Wisner Gage | 1839 |
| Thomas John Gargan | 1844 |
| Josiah Gates | 1805 |
| Noah Murray Gaylord | 1822 |
| Delano Alexander Goddard | 1831 |
| Levi Swanton Gould | March 27, 1831 |
| Samuel Herrick Gould | 1814 |
| John Otis Hale | 1831 |
| Josiah Sturtevant Hammond | 1810 |
| Abraham Gifford Hart | 1831 |
| David Dexter Hart | 1819 |
| Joseph Hall Hathaway | 1812 |
| James Aigin Hervey | 1828 |
| Charles Amasa Hewins | 1822 |
| Charles Heywood | 1831 |
| George Washington Heywood | 1829 |
| Noble Hind Hill | 1821 |
| George Miller Hobbs | 1827 |
| Alvah Holway | 1809 |
| Anson Parker Hooker | 1829 |
| Daniel Howard | 1823 |
| Solomon Henry Howe | 1821 |
| William Howland | 1822 |
| John Avery Hughes | 1822 |
| Edward Alden Hulbert | 1824 |
| Jacob Randall Huntington | 1829 |
| Melville E. Ingalls | 1842 |
| George Washington Jackman | 1814 |
| Harvey Jewell | May 26, 1820 |
| William Drury Jones | 1815 |
| Lewis Strong Judd | 1827 |
| William Wallace Kellogg | 1824 |
| Dexter S. King | 1806 |
| William Alonzo King | 1822 |
| Richmond Kingman | 1821 |
| Charles James Kittredge | 1818 |
| William Knowlton | 1809 |
| Augustus Lane | 1818 |
| Howard Malcom Lane | 1833 |
| Edward Howard Lathrop | 1838 |
| Roger Hooker Leavitt | July 21, 1805 |
| Joseph Leavitt | 1802 |
| John Lee | 1813 |
| Job Mason Leonard | 1824 |
| John Livermore | 1813 |
| James Lovering Locke | 1832 |
| George Howard Long | 1842 |
| Willard Mann | 1818 |
| James Fisk Mansfield | 1837 |
| John Manson | 1805 |
| Murdock Matheson | 1827 |
| John McDuffie | 1828 |
| Wallace McFarland | 1825 |
| William McFarlin | 1806 |
| Leonard McKenzie | 1815 |
| Isaac Hall Meserve | 1813 |
| William Mixter | 1809 |
| Frederick Augustus Morey | 1840 |
| Amasa Childs Morse | 1833 |
| Ellis Wesley Morton | 1840 |
| Edwin Mudge | 1818 |
| Nathaniel Cushing Nash | 1804 |
| Henry Newton | 1811 |
| John Pond Ordway | August 1, 1824 |
| Weaver Osborn | 1815 |
| George Henry Peirson | 1816 |
| Simeon Perkins | 1801 |
| John Perley | 1808 |
| George Phipps | 1802 |
| Edward Henry Pierce | 1841 |
| Jonathan Pierce | 1815 |
| Thomas Fitzpatrick Plunkett | 1804 |
| Henry Eliphalet Pond | 1823 |
| Moses Pool | 1815 |
| Henry Smith Porter | 1821 |
| Joseph Samson Potter | 1822 |
| Nathan Parker Pratt | 1811 |
| Benjamin Proctor | 1811 |
| Caleb Rand | 1817 |
| Henry Sears Ranney | 1817 |
| Alvah Raymond | 1829 |
| William Hathaway Reynard | 1808 |
| Jeremiah A. Rich | 1823 |
| Otis Rich | 1806 |
| Eleazer Richmond | 1804 |
| John Howe Robinson | 1809 |
| Ensign Bassett Rogers | 1825 |
| Joseph Ross | 1822 |
| Edward Hutchins Robbins Ruggles | 1800 |
| Otis Taft Ruggles | 1829 |
| John Runey | 1814 |
| George Sanford | 1830 |
| William Seaver | 1806 |
| William Seaver | 1818 |
| William Robert Sessions | 1835 |
| Charles Luther Shaw | 1823 |
| William Sherburne | 1825 |
| Henry Shortle | 1834 |
| Hiram Smith Shurtleff | 1841 |
| Lemuel Bacon Simmons | 1802 |
| Iram Smith | 1807 |
| John James Smith | 1825 |
| Oliver W. Smith | 1828 |
| Edwin Nathaniel Snow | 1828 |
| Henry Souther | 1810 |
| Walter Scott Sprague | 1835 |
| Charles Stanwood | 1816 |
| Isaac Holden Stearns | 1825 |
| John Warren Stevens | 1833 |
| Walter Briggs Studley | 1827 |
| John Howland Swain | 1823 |
| John Kemble Tarbox | May 6, 1838 |
| James Gardner Tewksbury | 1828 |
| Shepard Thayer | 1827 |
| Prescott Alexander Thompson | 1825 |
| Hubbard Winslow Tilton | 1835 |
| John Michael Tobin | 1841 |
| Dexter Alley Tompkins | 1827 |
| Samuel Knapp Towle | 1829 |
| George Edwin Towne | 1829 |
| Jacob Perkins Towne | 1803 |
| Charles Russell Train | October 18, 1817 |
| Mason Van Deusen | 1802 |
| Eden Wadsworth | 1793 |
| William Henry Waitt | 1819 |
| Aaron Gifford Walker | 1815 |
| George Walker | 1824 |
| Levi Wallace | 1831 |
| Horace Ward | 1819 |
| Eben Nichols Wardwell | 1825 |
| Francis Warland Warren | 1819 |
| Royal Sibley Warren | 1822 |
| Thomas Shales Waters | 1818 |
| Willard Wheeler | 1804 |
| Rufus A. White | 1840 |
| Windsor Newton White | 1823 |
| Sydney Franklin Whitehouse | 1822 |
| William Whiting | 1816 |
| Daniel H. Whitney | 1825 |
| Charles Woodward Wilder | 1819 |
| John Adams Wiley | 1825 |
| Benjamin Jenkins Williams | 1840 |
| George Frederick Williams | 1817 |
| Joel Benedict Williams | 1818 |
| Nathan Sumner Williams | 1829 |
| Warren Williams | 1811 |
| John William Fletcher Wilson | 1828 |
| Joseph Wilson | 1819 |
| Charles Wing | 1816 |
| James Baxter Wood | 1809 |
| Jonathan Henry Wood | 1822 |
| George Washington Woodwell | 1829 |
| James Sullivan Woodworth | 1805 |
| Charles Whiting Worcester | 1808 |
| William Henry Prentiss Wright | 1828 |
| Patrick Ambrose Young | 1834 |