1808–1809 Massachusetts legislature

The 29th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1808 and 1809 during the governorship of Levi Lincoln Sr. Harrison Gray Otis served as president of the Senate and Timothy Bigelow served as speaker of the House.^[3] In 1808, the state legislature elected James Lloyd as the Class 1 United States Senator from Massachusetts to succeed John Quincy Adams following his resignation on June 8, 1808.

29th Massachusetts General Court
← 28th 30th →
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Term	May 1808 (1808-05) – May 1809 (1809-05) ^[1]
Senate
Members	40 ^[2]
President	Harrison Gray Otis
House
Speaker	Timothy Bigelow

Senators

• Eli P. Ashmun^[1]
• Amos Bond
• Elijah Brigham
• Peter C. Brooks
• Joseph S. Buckminster
• Timothy Childs
• Samuel Dana
• Joseph Dimmick
• Azariah Eggleston
• Ebenezer Fisher
• Barzillai Gannett
• William Gray ^[4]
• Thomas Hale ^[5]
• John Heard
• Aaron Hill ^[6]
• John How
• Gorham G. Hussey
• Jonas Kendall
• William King ^[7]
• Samuel Lathrop
• Joseph Leland
• Lothrop Lewis
• Theodore Lincoln
• James Lloyd, Jr.^[8]
• Hugh McLellan
• Ammi R. Mitchell
• Nathaniel Morton Jr.
• Harrison G. Otis
• David Perry ^[9]
• John Phillips^[10]
• John Phillips, Jr.^[11]
• Samuel Putnam
• William Spooner
• Seth Sprague
• Ezra Starkweather
• Nathaniel Thurston
• Enoch Titcomb
• Salem Towne
• J. L. Tuttle
• Nathan Willis
• John Woodman

Representatives

• Christopher Gore ^[1]
• Benjamin Bussey

See also

• 10th United States Congress
• 11th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

References

1. "Civil Government in Massachusetts". Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for 1809 – via HathiTrust. For the political year commencing May, 1808, and ending May, 1809
2. , Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
3. "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 340+.
4. "Gray, William, 1750-1825", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020
5. "Hale, Thomas", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020
6. "Hill, Aaron", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020
7. "King, William, 1768-1852", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020
8. "Lloyd, James, Jr., 1769-1831", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020
9. "Perry, David", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020
10. "Philips, John, 1770-1823", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020
11. "Phillips, John, Jr.", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, retrieved June 22, 2020

External links

• "Massachusetts", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, American Antiquarian Society, 2007 – via Tufts University. (Includes data for state senate and house elections in 1808)
• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1808, hdl:2452/819130 – via State Library of Massachusetts
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1808, hdl:2452/103853
• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1809, hdl:2452/819699
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1809, hdl:2452/103854
• Sedition! Treason!, hdl:loc.pnp/cph.3b10034 – via Library of Congress, Broadside listing the resolutions of the Massachusetts legislature, 2 Feb. 1809, in oposition [sic?] to the Embargo Act of 1808 and the Enforcement Act of Jan. 1809
• United States Congress. "James Lloyd (id: L000378)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.