The

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of the

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Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

is known as the General Court. It has a 40-member upper house (

Massachusetts Senate The Massachusetts Senate is the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Senate comprises 40 elected members from 40 single-member senatorial districts in the ...

) and a 160-member lower house (

Massachusetts House of Representatives The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into single-member ...

). Descended from the colonial legislature, the first Massachusetts General Court met in October 1780 and consisted of one-year elected terms for both houses. This was expanded to two-year terms starting with the 142nd General Court in January 1921.

Legislatures

1780-1899

12th Massachusetts General Court (1791–1792) 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1 ...

* 13th Massachusetts General Court (1792–1793) * 14th Massachusetts General Court (1793–1794) * 15th Massachusetts General Court (1794–1795) *

16th Massachusetts General Court (1795–1796) 16 (sixteen) is the natural number following 15 and preceding 17. 16 is a composite number, and a square number, being 42 = 4 × 4. It is the smallest number with exactly five divisors, its proper divisors being , , and . In English speech, ...

17th Massachusetts General Court (1796–1797) 17 (seventeen) is the natural number following 16 and preceding 18. It is a prime number. Seventeen is the sum of the first four prime numbers. In mathematics 17 is the seventh prime number, which makes seventeen the fourth super-prime, as ...

18th Massachusetts General Court (1797–1798) 18 (eighteen) is the natural number following 17 and preceding 19. In mathematics * Eighteen is a composite number, its divisors being 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9. Three of these divisors (3, 6 and 9) add up to 18, hence 18 is a semiperfect number. ...

19th Massachusetts General Court (1798–1799) 19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 and preceding 20. It is a prime number. Mathematics 19 is the eighth prime number, and forms a sexy prime with 13, a twin prime with 17, and a cousin prime with 23. It is the third full r ...

* 20th Massachusetts General Court (1799–1800) *

21st Massachusetts General Court (1800–1801) First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one (#1). First or 1st may also refer to: *World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement Arts and media Music * 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and reco ...

* 22nd Massachusetts General Court (1801–1802) *

23rd Massachusetts General Court (1802–1803) Third or 3rd may refer to: Numbers * 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3 * , a fraction of one third * 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute'' Places * 3rd Street (disambiguation) * Third Avenue (disambiguation) * Hig ...

24th Massachusetts General Court (1803–1804) Fourth or the fourth may refer to: * the ordinal form of the number 4 * ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971 * Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision * Fourth (music), a musical interval * ''The Fourth'' (1972 film), a Sovie ...

25th Massachusetts General Court (1804–1805) Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five. Fifth or The Fifth may refer to: * Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth" * Fifth column, a political term * Fifth disease, a contagious rash tha ...

47th Massachusetts General Court (1826–1827) 47th may refer to: Chicago Transit Authority stations * 47th station (CTA Green Line) 47th is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's "L" system, located in the Grand Boulevard community area of Chicago, Illinois and serving the Green ...

60th Massachusetts General Court (1839) The 60th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1839 during the governorship of Edward Everett. Myron Lawrence served as president of the Senate and Robert Charle ...

* 61st Massachusetts General Court (1840) * 62nd Massachusetts General Court (1841) * 63rd Massachusetts General Court (1842) *

64th Massachusetts General Court (1843) The 64th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1843 during the governorship of Marcus Morton. Phineas W. Leland and Frederick Robinson served as presidents of the ...

65th Massachusetts General Court (1844) The 65th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1844 during the governorship of George N. Briggs. Josiah Quincy Jr. served as president of the Senate. Thomas H. ...

* 66th Massachusetts General Court (1845) * 67th Massachusetts General Court (1846) * 68th Massachusetts General Court (1847) * 69th Massachusetts General Court (1848) *

70th Massachusetts General Court (1849) The 70th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1849 during the governorship of George N. Briggs. Joseph M. Bell served as president of the Senate and Francis Cr ...

71st Massachusetts General Court (1850) The 71st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1850 during the governorship of George N. Briggs. Marshall Pinckney Wilder served as president of the Senate and ...

72nd Massachusetts General Court (1851) The 72nd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1851 during the Governor of Massachusetts, governorship of George S. Boutwell. Henry Wilson served as President of ...

* 73rd Massachusetts General Court (1852) * 74th Massachusetts General Court (1853) *

75th Massachusetts General Court (1854) The 75th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1854 during the governorship of Emory Washburn. Charles Edward Cook served as president of the Senate and Otis P. ...

* 76th Massachusetts General Court (1855) * 77th Massachusetts General Court (1856) *

78th Massachusetts General Court (1857) The 78th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1857 during the governorship of Henry Gardner. Charles Wentworth Upham served as president of the Senate and Charle ...

* 79th Massachusetts General Court (1858) * 80th Massachusetts General Court (1859) * 81st Massachusetts General Court (1860) * 82nd Massachusetts General Court (1861) * 83rd Massachusetts General Court (1862) * 84th Massachusetts General Court (1863) *

85th Massachusetts General Court (1864) The 85th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1864 during the governorship of John Albion Andrew. Jonathan E. Field served as president of the Senate and Alexa ...

86th Massachusetts General Court (1865) The 86th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1865 during the governorship of John Albion Andrew. Jonathan E. Field served as president of the Senate and Alexa ...

* 87th Massachusetts General Court (1866) *

88th Massachusetts General Court (1867) The 88th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1867 during the governorship of Republican Alexander Bullock. Joseph Adams Pond served as president of the Senate ...

89th Massachusetts General Court (1868) 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 ...

* 90th Massachusetts General Court (1869) * 91st Massachusetts General Court (1870) * 92nd Massachusetts General Court (1871) * 93rd Massachusetts General Court (1872) *

94th Massachusetts General Court (1873) The 94th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1873 during the Governor of Massachusetts, governorship of Republican William B. Washburn. George B. Loring served ...

95th Massachusetts General Court (1874) The 95th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1874 during the Governor of Massachusetts, governorships of William B. Washburn and Thomas Talbot (Massachusetts p ...

96th Massachusetts General Court (1875) The 96th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1875 during the governorship of William Gaston. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John E. S ...

97th Massachusetts General Court (1876) The 97th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1876 during the governorship of Alexander H. Rice. George B. Loring served as president of the Senate and John D ...

116th Massachusetts General Court (1895) The 116th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1895 during the Governor of Massachusetts, governorship of Frederic T. Greenhalge. William M. Butler served as Pre ...

* 117th Massachusetts General Court (1896) * 118th Massachusetts General Court (1897) * 119th Massachusetts General Court (1898) * 120th Massachusetts General Court (1899)

1900-2000

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* 121st Massachusetts General Court (1900) * 122nd Massachusetts General Court (1901) * 123rd Massachusetts General Court (1902) * 124th Massachusetts General Court (1903) * 125th Massachusetts General Court (1904) * 126th Massachusetts General Court (1905) * 127th Massachusetts General Court (1906) * 128th Massachusetts General Court (1907) * 129th Massachusetts General Court (1908) *

130th Massachusetts General Court (1909) The 130th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1909 during the Governor of Massachusetts, governorship of Eben Sumner Draper. Allen T. Treadway served as Presid ...

131st Massachusetts General Court (1910) The 131st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1910 during the Governor of Massachusetts, governorship of Eben Sumner Draper. Allen T. Treadway served as Presid ...

151st Massachusetts General Court (1939) The 151st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1939 during the Governor of Massachusetts, governorship of Leverett Saltonstall. Joseph R. Cotton served as Presi ...

2001-current

* 182nd Massachusetts General Court (2001–2002) * 183rd Massachusetts General Court (2003–2004) * 184th Massachusetts General Court (2005–2006) * 185th Massachusetts General Court (2007–2008) * 186th Massachusetts General Court (2009–2010) * 187th Massachusetts General Court (2011–2012) * 188th Massachusetts General Court (2013–2014) * 189th Massachusetts General Court (2015–2016) * 190th Massachusetts General Court (2017–2018) *

191st Massachusetts General Court (2019–2020) 191st may refer to: *191st (Southern Alberta) Battalion, CEF, a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War * 191st Air Refueling Squadron, a unit of the Utah Air National Guard *191st Airlift Group, an airlift unit located ...

* 192nd Massachusetts General Court (2021–2022)

References

External links

* * (digitized published directories) * * * * (bibliographic catalog of works related to the General Court) * Index to reports of the Massachusetts Legislative Research Council:
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{{Massachusetts government

Legislatures A legislature is an assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city. They are often contrasted with the executive and judicial powers of government. Laws enacted by legislatures are usually known as p ...

Legislature A legislature is an assembly with the authority to make law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its p ...

Legal history of Massachusetts