List of Massachusetts General Courts

The legislature of the U.S. state of Massachusetts is known as the General Court. It has a 40-member upper house (Massachusetts Senate) and a 160-member lower house (Massachusetts House of Representatives). 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

Members of the Committee on Railroads, 1892

1900-2000

Massachusetts politicians in the mid-1980s: house speaker George Keverian at podium. Back row: senate president William M. Bulger, state representative John McDonough, mayor Raymond L. Flynn, two unidentified men, state representative William Galvin, governor Michael S. Dukakis

2001-current

See also

References

  1. ^ Composition of the State of Massachusetts House of Representatives (PDF), Mass.gov, retrieved April 8, 2020
  2. ^ a b c Kaitlin Connolly (January 5, 2016), "Short-Lived Biennial Legislative Session System in Massachusetts", State Library of Massachusetts blog

Further reading

  • Charles Jacob Babbitt; State Library of Massachusetts (1912). "Massachusetts". Hand-list of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws...United States and Its Possessions and of the Several States. p. 175+.
  • Arthur Darling (1925). Political Changes in Massachusetts, 1824–1848. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. OCLC 1593840.
  • Ronald Formisano (1983). The Transformation of Political Culture: Massachusetts Parties, 1790s–1840s. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195035094. OCLC 18429354.
  • Cornelius Dalton (1984). Leading the Way: a History of the Massachusetts General Court, 1629-1980. Boston: Massachusetts Secretary of State. ISBN 0961391502.
  • Evan Horowitz (August 1, 2014), "It's August. Why are Mass. legislators done for the year?", Boston Globe

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Massachusetts General Court.
  • "Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, 1715-1922". Sec.state.ma.us. Massachusetts Archives Division.
  • "Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts" – via State Library of Massachusetts. (digitized published directories)
  • "Massachusetts General Court". Ballotpedia.org.
  • "Massachusetts Resources: Statutes & Legislation". Research Guides: U.S. States. Georgetown University Law Library.
  • "Session Laws: Massachusetts". HeinOnline. New York: William S. Hein & Co., Inc. (subscription required)
  • "search: Massachusetts General Court". Digital Commonwealth: Massachusetts Collections Online. (bibliographic catalog of works related to the General Court)
  • Index to reports of the Massachusetts Legislative Research Council: 1900-1988, 1988-1994
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