Alphabetical list of Massachusetts senators from 1780-1904, 1904.

State Library of Massachusetts

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St 1825, c 123 (1826) provided for a library for the General Court to be kept under the care of the land agent. St 1849, c 155 provided that the librarian of the State Library be the secretary to the Board of Education; St 1850, c 182 provided for a board of trustees to be appointed by the governor; and St 1893, c 86 provided that the librarian be appointed by the governor. St 1960, c 380 officially designated the State Library as the George Fingold Library. The trustees were placed...

Tillinghast, Caleb Beniamin, 1843-1909.

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Massachusetts. General Court. Senate

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The upper house of the General Court consisted in the colonial period (1629-1686) of assistants sitting with the governor and deputy governor and originally called the Court of Assistants--though in 1634 the court's legislative powers were ceded to the General Court as a whole and by 1644 that term was reserved for the assistants serving solely in their judicial capacity only; during the intercharter period under a revival of colonial government (1689-1692) and in the provincial and...