# 1917 Massachusetts legislature

The 138th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1917.

## Senators

| name | date of birth | district |
| James W. Bean | May 11, 1866 | 2nd Middlesex |
| John E. Beck | May 10, 1869 | |
| 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 | |
| Edward N. Dahlborg | | |
| Charles W. Eldridge | October 16, 1877 | |
| John I. Fitzgerald | July 18, 1882 | |
| Charles L. Gifford | March 15, 1871 | |
| 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 | | |
| John B. Hull Jr. | July 17, 1871 | |
| George H. Jackson | March 9, 1865 | |
| Charles A. Kimball | | |
| Richard Knowles | | |
| Charles S. Lawler | | |
| James E. MacPherson | | |
| Joseph W. Martin Jr. | November 3, 1884 | |
| Orion T. Mason | | |
| 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 | | |
| Alpheus Sanford | | |
| Charles Sumner Smith | | |
| James R. Tetler | August 26, 1877 | |
| James P. Timilty | March 28, 1865 | |
| 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 | | 6th Berkshire |
| Park W. Allen | | |
| Ernest William Allen | | |
| George C. F. Allen | | |
| J. Weston Allen | April 19, 1872 | |
| Philip R. Ammidon | | |
| Charles H. Annis | January 12, 1869 | |
| Harrison Henry Atwood | August 26, 1863 | |
| George W. P. Babb | | |
| James T. Bagshaw | | |
| William B. Baldwin | September 18, 1854 | |
| Joseph L. Barry | | |
| Frank Bartlett | | |
| William A. Bartlett | | |
| Russell T. Bates | | |
| Thomas William Baxter | | |
| Charles H. Beaman | | |
| Addison P. Beardsley | | |
| Chauncey A. Bennett | | |
| James D. Bentley | February 6, 1884 | |
| Jay Rogers Benton | | |
| Alfred M. Bessette | March 25, 1876 | |
| Jacob Bitzer | January 16, 1865 | |
| Alvin E. Bliss | | |
| Cornelius Boothman | | |
| Arthur Bower | | |
| George W. Bowman | | |
| Eden K. Bowser | | |
| Manassah Edward Bradley | | |
| Albert C. Bray | | |
| Thomas H. Brennan | | |
| Clarence A. Briggs | | |
| Elmer L. Briggs | | |
| Vincent Brogna | | |
| Fred Johnson Brown | | |
| 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 | | |
| Fred E. Cady | | |
| Edward Carr | December 18, 1868 | |
| George H. Carrick | | |
| Daniel W. Casey | | |
| Albert Minot Chandler | | |
| Jeremiah K. Chandler | September 30, 1863 | |
| Henry S. Clark | | |
| Frederic F. Clauss | | |
| Samuel I. Collins | March 4, 1851 | |
| Benjamin G. Collins | | |
| William S. Conroy | October 2, 1877 | |
| Thomas J. Corbett | May 10, 1883 | |
| Henry E. Cowdrey | | |
| Channing H. Cox | October 28, 1879 | |
| Edward J. Cox | | |
| John W. Craig | | |
| John Cronin | | |
| John T. Crowley | November 15, 1872 | |
| George E. Curran | | |
| Henry Ellsworth Dean | September 29, 1862 | |
| George F. Dennis | | |
| John L. Donovan | June 3, 1876 | |
| Thomas F. Donovan | September 26, 1890 | |
| Thomas E. Dowd | | |
| Eddy P. Dunbar | | |
| Horace E. Dunkle | | |
| Edward B. Eames | April 15, 1856 | |
| Carl C. Emery | November 4, 1888 | |
| John P. Englert | | |
| James R. Ferry | | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Howard F. Furness | | |
| John Mellen Gibbs | | |
| Edwin H. Gibson | | |
| Nesbit G. Gleason | | |
| William J. Granfield | December 18, 1889 | |
| Clarence H. Granger | | |
| Fred Parker Greenwood | | |
| Julius Guild | March 30, 1850 | |
| Clarence Milton Hall | | |
| John Halliwell | February 21, 1864 | |
| Leo Spotten Hamburger | | |
| Walter A. Hardy | December 15, 1866 | |
| 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 | |
| Matthew A. Higgins | | |
| Francis M. Hill | | |
| Kenneth Page Hill | | |
| John A. Hirsch | 1861 | |
| William J. Holland | | |
| Horace W. Hosie | February 2, 1864 | |
| John Robert Hudson | | |
| John C. Hull (politician) | November 1, 1870 | |
| Henry W. Jarvis | | |
| Victor Francis Jewett | | |
| William Louis Johnson | October 23, 1856 | |
| John G. Johnson | May 23, 1864 | |
| Michael H. Jordan | February 7, 1863 | |
| Thomas Martin Joyce | | |
| John Joseph Kearney | | |
| David Leon Kelley | April 26, 1889 | |
| Charles A. Kelley | March 24, 1862 | |
| William W. Kennard | | |
| Robert T. Kent | | |
| James F. Kiernan | February 1, 1884 | |
| William Aiken Kneeland | | |
| Joseph O. Knox | | |
| Martin R. Lane | | |
| Ernest A. LaRocque | | |
| Thomas Leavitt | | |
| George E. Lilley | | |
| Daniel Waldo Lincoln | September 2, 1882 | |
| George A. Lindberg | | |
| Martin Lomasney | December 3, 1859 | |
| William G. Lord | | |
| George Washington Love | | |
| James MacFarlane Lyle | | |
| Frank E. Lyman | September 15, 1866 | |
| John H. Lynch | October 28, 1884 | |
| Eugene Anthony Lynch | | |
| 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 | | |
| George S. Marsh | February 18, 1858 | |
| Arthur E. Marsh | | |
| Robert B. Martin | | |
| John Edwin Maybury | | |
| John Henry McAllister | | |
| Joseph McGrath (American politician) | December 20, 1890 | |
| James H. McInerney | December 13, 1871 | |
| David Story McIntosh | | |
| Francis B. McKinney | | |
| Henry J. McLaughlin | | |
| Michael J. McNamee | | |
| Charles J. McNulty | | |
| 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 | |
| William A. Moore | | |
| Alfred James Moore | August 7, 1891 | |
| James G. Moran | May 2, 1870 | |
| Daniel T. Morrill | | |
| Charles H. Morrill | October 6, 1874 | |
| James Morrison | February 17, 1857 | |
| George D. Morse | | |
| J. Warren Moulton | | |
| Frank Mulveny | | |
| John J. Murphy | March 26, 1889 | |
| Dennis A. Murphy | September 26, 1876 | |
| Daniel C. Murphy | December 14, 1887 | |
| William A. Murray | June 17, 1889 | |
| Arthur L. Nason | October 24, 1872 | |
| Charles S. O'Connor | | |
| Joseph A. Oakhem | | |
| James E. Odlin | | |
| John Glenn Orr | February 27, 1857 | |
| John N. Osborne | January 28, 1853 | |
| Walter T. Packard | | |
| Arthur W. Paine | | |
| John H. Parker | August 27, 1859 | |
| Ward Mayhew Parker | | |
| George Penshorn | | |
| Chauncey Pepin | | |
| Walter Perham | | |
| Harold L. Perrin | | |
| Edward Howland Perry | | |
| Joseph H. Perry | May 4, 1869 | |
| Frederick Everett Pierce | May 5, 1862 | |
| James Tracy Potter | January 26, 1870 | |
| Frank H. Putnam | | |
| Lawrence F. Quigley | | |
| Frank E. Raymond | | |
| Dennis F. Reardon | | |
| George Louis Richards | | |
| Charles Freeman Rowley | | |
| William F. Runnells | February 18, 1865 | |
| G. Oscar Russell | | |
| Joseph A. Saunders | | |
| Henry A. Savage | | |
| Roland D. Sawyer | January 8, 1874 | |
| John H. Sherburne | 1877 | |
| Charles Henry Slowey | | |
| Fitz-Henry Smith Jr. | | |
| Jerome S. Smith | | |
| Gilbert G. Southworth | | |
| Burgess H. Spinney | | |
| William N. Stetson | | |
| Merrill E. Streeter | | |
| Lewis R. Sullivan | | |
| Denis J. Sullivan | July 24, 1889 | |
| Simon Swig | 1862 | |
| Warren E. Tarbell | | |
| James E. Tolman | November 8, 1867 | |
| George Albert Wales | | |
| Joseph E. Warner | May 16, 1884 | |
| Jacob Wasserman | | |
| George B. Waterman | | |
| Thomas Weston, Jr | | |
| Joseph W. Wharton | | |
| Albert L. Whitman | | |
| George A. Whitney | | |
| Waterman Lester Williams | August 10, 1867 | |
| John W. Williams | | |
| Alvin R. Wilson | | |
| Charles A. Winchester | | |
| Thomas A. Winston | | |
| Roger Wolcott | July 25, 1877 | |
| Isaac U. Wood | | |
| Harry C. Woodill | | |
| John Wooldredge | | |
| George M. Worrall | | |
| Daniel J. Young | | |
| Myron A. Young | | |
| Benjamin Loring Young | 1885 | |