Horace Coolidge, Senate president.

John Sanford, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1872.

The 93rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1872 during the governorship of Republican William B. Washburn.^[5] Horace H. Coolidge served as president of the Senate and John E. Sanford served as speaker of the House.^[6][7]

Image	Name [8]	Date of birth [9]	District	Party
	Frederick Lothrop Ames	June 8, 1835
	Joseph Kelley Baker	1827
	Andrew Jackson Bartholomew	1834
	Alonzo Warren Boardman	1828
	Charles Bradley	1816
	Elisha Huntington Brewster
	Erastus Payson Carpenter	November 23, 1822
	Isaac Henry Coe	1818
	Horace Hopkins Coolidge	February 11, 1832
	Rufus Smith Frost	July 18, 1826
	Robert Oliver Fuller	1829
	Newell Giles	1818
	Samuel Moulton Griggs	1822
	Orrin Hewes	1833
	James Humphrey	1819
	Francis Wayland Jacobs	1837
	Robert Johnson	1823
	William Henry Learnard	1828
	George Walter Lobdell	1823
	William Bennet Long	1827
	Reuben Noble	1820
	Lloyd Parsons	1816
	Josiah Newton Pike	1824
	Joseph Samson Potter	1822
	George Francis Richardson	December 6, 1829
	Daniel Ephraim Safford	1826
	George Sheldon	November 30, 1818
	William Lafayette Smith	1824
	Charles Pickett Stickney	1824
	John Kemble Tarbox	May 6, 1838
	Adin Thayer	1828
	Shepard Thayer	1827
	George Arnold Torrey	1838
	Thomas Lafayette Wakefield	1817
	Levi Wallace	1831
	Baxter Dodridge Whitney	1817
	James Scollay Whitney	May 19, 1811
	Rufus Dodd Woods	1818
	David Titcomb Woodwell	1820
	Carroll D. Wright	July 25, 1840

image	Name [8]	Date of birth [9]	District	Party
	Milton Abbey	1819
	John Henry Abbott	1825
	Henry Sewall Adams	1832
	William Augustus Adams	1830
	William Hastings Aldrich	1825
	Ephraim Allen	1806
	Lafayette Anderson	1824
	William Henry Anderson	1836
	William Frederick Arnold	1815
	William Markwick Ashby	1821
	Oliver Ayers	1821
	William Babbitt	1817
	James Prentiss Bacheller	1840
	Horace Clinton Bacon	1824
	Andrew Jackson Bailey	1840
	John Stanton Baldwin	1834
	Edward Dana Bancroft	1821
	Julius Kirkland Banister	1833
	James Madison Barker	1839
	Lewis Barnard	1815
	George Bartholmesz	1821
	George Hubert Bates	1839
	Austin Williams Benton	1818
	Alden Besse	1821
	Edward Lyman Bigelow	1839
	William Rufus Black	August 23, 1830
	George Baylis Blake	1823
	John Williston Blaney	1815
	William Edward Blunt	1840
	James William Bradley	1828
	Bowman Bigelow Breed	1832
	Frederic Perry Brown	1840
	Willard Augustus Brown	1828
	Giles Edwin Brownell	1819
	Henry Oliver Burr	1829
	Seneca Burr	1831
	Samuel Augustus Carlton	1827
	Michael Carney	1827
	Thomas Marshall Carter	July 17, 1832
	Erastus Chase	1826
	John Cummings Choate	1832
	John Henry Church	1836
	Sumner Uriah Church	1810
	George Washington Clark	1836
	Nelson Cochran	1824
	Charles Russell Codman	1829
	John Bear Doane Cogswell	June 6, 1829
	Moses Rich Colman	1806
	Chapin Converse	1811
	Benjamin Hough Corliss	1818
	Joseph Howland Cornell	March 23, 1818
	Joseph Henry Cotton	1833
	Robert Couch	1817
	Roswell P. Crafts	September 17, 1822
	Seth Brockway Crafts	1844
	Freeborn Woodbury Cressy	1839
	William Augustus Cressy	1820
	Michael J. Croak	1843
	Charles Curtis	1836
	William Cushing	1823
	Christopher Columbus Denny	1813
	Elbridge Curtis Donnell	1839
	Simeon Parker Dresser	1845
	James Henry Durgin	1833
	David Eastman	1806
	George Henry Eddy	1829
	Alfred Brewster Ely	1817
	Augustus Bradford Endicott	September 10, 1818
	George Otis Fairbanks	1815
	Henry Hardwick Faxon	1823
	Hawkes Fearing	1826
	Francis Fisher	1811
	Jonathan Philbrick Folsom	October 9, 1820
	Job Gardner
	Robert Folger Gardner	1815
	John Gates	1807
	Benjamin Whitney Gleason	1806
	George Going	1824
	Brownell Granger	1835
	Edward Waldo Griggs	1834
	Isaac Dennis Hall	1807
	John Wilkes Hammond	1837
	Charles Veranus Hanson	1844
	Franklin Powers Harlow	December 8, 1827
	Southworth Harlow	1824
	John Morton Harris	1819
	Thomas Burdett Harris	1825
	George Hatch	1832
	Benjamin Franklin Hayes	July 3, 1835
	Horace Heard	1804
	Horatio Brooks Hersey	1823
	Lot Higgins	1809
	Amos Hill	1830
	Henry Bozyol Hill	1823
	George Webster Hobbs	1839
	Thomas Fry Holder	1839
	Asa Alexander Holton	1818
	Samuel Bugbee Hopkins	1823
	Leverett Hopkinson	1822
	Ezra Coffin Howard	September 1, 1831
	Jonas Elijah Howe	1814
	Joseph Sidney Howe	1832
	Emerson Harris Howland	1846
	George Henry Hoyt	November 25, 1837
	Barney Hull	1830
	George W. Humphrey	1826
	Nathaniel Mayhew Jernegan	1820
	Peter Rogers Johnson	1824
	Henry Jones	1821
	Horace Israel Joslin	1836
	Timothy Keefe	1839
	William Keith	1810
	Albert Francis Kelley	1840
	Jonas Kendall	1804
	George Perry Kendrick	1824
	Asa Keyes	1805
	John White Kimball	February 27, 1828
	Moses Kimball	October 24, 1809
	Charles M. Kingsley	1811
	Daniel Webster Knight	1835
	William Knowlton	1809
	John Augustus Lamson	1831
	Almond Ring Lancaster	1829
	Alvin Lawton	1833
	Frederick Walker Lincoln	1817
	Noah Lincoln	1810
	Edward Payson Loring	1837
	William Hamilton Loughlin	1847
	Henry Bacon Lovering	April 8, 1841
	Alvin Marshall	1815
	John McDuffie	1828
	Anson McLoud
	Christopher Columbus Merritt	September 29, 1830
	Ira Loriston Moore	1824
	Benjamin Lyman Morrison	1828
	Rice Shaw Munn	1814
	John Joseph Murphy	1842
	Patrick Murphy	1837
	William Henry Murray	1826
	John Newell	1816
	Jeremiah Lemuel Newton
	Curtis Coe Nichols	1814
	Lewis Rufus Norton	1821
	William Nutt	August 5, 1836
	Patrick O'Connor	1842
	William Henry Osborne	1840
	Liberty Dodge Packard	1831
	Albert Palmer	January 17, 1831
	George Alanson Parker	1821
	James Parker	1815
	Ezra Parmenter	March 20, 1823
	Daniel Augustus Patch	1832
	George Howe Peabody	1838
	Edward Pearl	1825
	George O. Peck	1817
	Francis Ellis Pedrick	1829
	Jesse Small Pendergrast	1835
	Noah Cushman Perkins	1810
	William Perkins	1824
	Ellis Perry	1809
	Ralph Perry	1811
	Josiah Peterson	1820
	John Wesley Phelps	1844
	Willard Peele Phillips	1825
	Charles Varnum Poor	1817
	George Horace Poor	1841
	Thomas Whittier Porter	1820
	Burton Willis Potter	1843
	Laban Pratt	1829
	Artemus Conant Putnam	1805
	Samuel Bell Quigley	1821
	Samuel Miller Quincy	June 13, 1832
	Edward Benedict Rankin	1846
	Joseph Henry Read	1835
	John Wales Robinson	1826
	John Randolph Rogerson	1812
	Joseph Hubbard Root	1823
	Isaac Newton Ross	1824
	George Sanborn	1816
	John Eliot Sanford	November 22, 1830
	Benjamin Franklin Sargent	1813
	Irving Bertoldo Sayles	1839
	Charles Augustus Sayward	1837
	George Franklin Scribner	1830
	Nathaniel Sears	1825
	Robert Seaver	1812
	George Atwood Shaw	1816
	George Sheldon	1817
	James Stratton Shepard	1815
	Simon Harrison Sibley	1816
	Reuben Sikes	1824
	Albert Gallatin Sinclair	1845
	David Nelson Skillings	1818
	Charles Eber Slater	1830
	George Fayette Slocomb	1823
	Cyrus Burnet Smith	1839
	John James Smith [10][11]	1825
	Zoeth Snow	1825
	Reuben Goodspeed Sparks	1822
	Chauncey Loren Spear	1819
	Henry Splaine	1837
	Charles Stanwood	1816
	Francis Dana Stedman	1801
	William Stone	1827
	Warner Claflin Sturtevant	1809
	Charles H. Taylor	1846
	William Taylor	1831
	Eliphalet Loring Thayer	1824
	Noah Blanchard Thayer	1830
	William Henry Thomas	1829
	Charles Perkins Thompson	July 7, 1827
	John Thomas Zebediah Thompson	1811
	Charles Q. Tirrell	December 10, 1844
	Hugh James Toland	1844
	Joseph Rice Torrey	1828
	Edward Justus Tower	1833
	George Edwin Towne	1829
	Thomas Bush Tripp	1838
	David Warren Tucker	1820
	Obed Chester Turner	1840
	William Upham	1825
	Charles Folsom Walcott	December 22, 1836
	Ansel Hill Ward	1837
	George Washington Ware	1837
	Henry Stevenson Washburn	1813
	Thomas Barstow Waterman	1830
	Nathan Horace Webb	1835
	Tisdale Sanford White	1809
	William Henry Whitfield	November 11, 1804
	Frederick Theodore Whiting	1825
	William Joseph Wightman	1810
	Ludovicus French Wild	1825
	Benjamin Franklin Wing	October 22, 1822
	Ezra Dyer Winslow	1839
	Harding Woods	1822
	Lyman Woodward	1831
	Albert Judd Wright
	Ira Berkeley Wright	1830
	Walter Wyman	1806

• 42nd United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

• "Massachusetts". American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1872. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1873. (includes description of legislature)

• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1872, hdl:2452/619061
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1872, hdl:2452/92954