Black legislators in the Massachusetts General Court : 1867-present

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BLACK LEGISLAIQRS IN THE MASSACHUSEHS
GENERAL CQURIz 1867-pre5ent
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
COLLECTION
MAY 1 1 1995
University of Massachusetts
Depository Copy
state Library of" Massachtiset
Boston, 199^

List OX Black Legislators Of IM g^ngr^l Cg^rt
HOUSE
Charles Lewis Mitchell (Boston)
1868-1869 John James Smith (Boston) (R)
and 1872
1870-1871 George Lewis Ruffin (Boston) (R)
1873 Lewis Hayden (Boston)
1873-1874 Joshsua Bowen Smith (Cambridge)
1878-1879 George William Lother (Boston) (R)
1883-1886 Julius Caesar Chapelle (Boston) (R)
1887-1888 William Oscar Armstrong (Boston) (R)
1889-1890 Andrew Berkley Lattimore (Boston) (R)
1892-1893 Charles Edward Harris (Boston) (R)
1894-1895 Robert Thomas Teamoh (Boston) (R)
1896-1897 William Louis Reed (Boston) (R)
1902 William Henry Lewis, Sr. (Cambridge) (R)
1947-1948 Laurence H. Banks (Roxbury) (R)
1951-1964 Lincoln G. Pope, Jr. (Roxbury) (D)
1959-1960 Oswald Louis Jordan (Roxbury) (D)
1961-1964 Alfred S. Brothers (Roxbury) (R)

HOUSE
1961-1968 Royal L. Boiling, Sr. (Roxbury) (D)
and 1971 -197^
SENATE
[
1983 - 1987/88
]
1965-1970 Rev. Michael E. Hayne" (Roxbury) (D)
(became member of Parole Board 11/5/69)
1970 (2/18/70) George A. Johnson [Special Election to (R)
replace ReV- Haynes]
1965-1972 Franklin W. Holgate (Poxbury) (D)
1971-1972 Carter D. Kimball (Dorchester) (D)
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SYNOPSIS OF BLACKS ON BEACON HILL: A HISTORY OF BLACKS IN
THE MASSACHUSSETTS LEGISLATURE.
WALKER, EDWIN (1831-1901) CAMBRIDGE REPRESENTATIVE, WARD 3
1867. Lawyer
First Black elected to a United States State
Legislature (see Blacks on Beacon Hill: A History of Blacks
in the Massaciiusetts Legislature).
SMITH, JOSHUA BOWEN (1813-1879) CAMBRIDGE REPRESENTATIVE,
1873, 1874. Caterer
(see Blacks on Beacon Hill: A History of Blacks in the
Massachussetts Legislature).
Lewis, Henry Wi am, Sr. (1868-1949) CAMBRIDGE
REPRESENTATIVE, 1 119i02. Lawyer
Common Council, 1899. U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts
1903-1906. Assistant U. S. Attorney for the six New England
States, (see Blacks on Beacon Hill: A History of Blacks in
the Massachussetts Legislature).
Digitized by the Internet Archive
2014
in
https://archive.org/details/blacklegislatorsOOstat
MASSAaiUSETIS GENE3V\L COURT
:
Black mombers
1973/74
SENATE
none
HOUSE
Royal L. Boiling, Jr. (D)
Poyal L. Boiling, Sr. (D)
Doris Bunte (D)
rielvin H. King (D)
Bill Owens (D)
SENATE none
:
HOUSE : 5