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83rd Massachusetts General Court (1862)
The 83rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1862 during the governorship of John Albion Andrew. John Henry Clifford served as president of the Senate and Alexander Hamilton Bullock served as speaker of the House. Senators * John J. Babson, 5th Essex * John W. Bacon, 3rd Middlesex * Lewis Bodman * Ezra P. Brownell * Orlo Burt * John H. Clifford * Joshua E. Crane * Alvah Crocker * Joseph Day * Benjamin Dean * Charles Dillingham * John C. Dodge * Rufus B. Dodge * Walter Fessenden * Ebenezer Gay * Edwin B. George * G. H. Gilbert * Whiting Griswold * E. O. Haven * William R. Hill * William F. Johnson * R. H. Libby * Charles Greely Loring, 3rd Suffolk * James H. Mitchell * William D. Northend * Thomas F. Plunkett * Chester I. Reed * Daniel S. Richardson * Henry Smith * Charles G. Stevens * Stephen N. Stockwell * William D. Swan * James M. Thompson * Christopher Tompkins * John C. Tucker * Alexa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massachusetts General Court
The Massachusetts General Court (formally styled the General Court of Massachusetts) is the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The name "General Court" is a hold-over from the earliest days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, when the colonial assembly, in addition to making laws, sat as a judicial court of appeals. Before the adoption of the state constitution in 1780, it was called the ''Great and General Court'', but the official title was shortened by John Adams, author of the state constitution. It is a bicameral body. The upper house is the Massachusetts Senate which is composed of 40 members. The lower body, the Massachusetts House of Representatives, has 160 members. (Until 1978, it had 240 members.) It meets in the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill in Boston. The current President of the Senate is Karen Spilka, and the Speaker of the House is Ronald Mariano. Since 1959, Democrats have controlled both houses of the Massachusetts General Court ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Greely Loring (lawyer)
Charles Greely Loring Sr. (May 2, 1794 – October 8, 1867) was an American lawyer based in Boston. He also served one term in the Massachusetts Senate. Biography Early life Loring was born in 1794 in Boston, Massachusetts, a descendant of Thomas Loring, an early settler of the area who arrived from England in 1634. He was educated at Boston Latin School, then graduated from Harvard College in 1812, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He then attended Litchfield Law School in Connecticut and was admitted to the bar of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, in 1815. Professional career After working in the offices of Charles Jackson (judge), Charles Jackson, Loring established his own law practice. He was practicing in Boston by 1816, first with an unrelated partner until 1819, and later with his brother Francis Caleb Loring and his son Caleb William Loring. In 1851, Loring served, along with Robert Rantoul Jr. and Samuel Edmund Sewall, as defense counsel for Thomas Sims, an Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
