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The 38th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1817 and 1818 during the governorship of John Brooks. John Phillips served as president of the Senate and Timothy Bigelow served as speaker of the House. On February 10, 1818, the General Court issued the corporate charter for the Suffolk Bank to a group of the Boston Associates (including Patrick Tracy Jackson and Daniel Pinckney Parker).

Senators

• William B. Bannister
• Israel Bartlett
• Solomon Bates
• Joseph Bemis
• Thomas H. Blood
• Peter Bryant.
• James Campbell
• Nehemiah Cleveland
• Oliver Crosby
• Samuel Dana
• James Ellis
• John Endicott
• Solomon Freeman
• John Hart
• Mark L. Hill
• James Howland 2d
• Elihu Hoyt
• James Humphreys
• Jonathan Hunewell
• Samuel Lathrop
• Archelaus Lewis
• William Moody
• John Moore
• Daniel Noble
• Thomas H. Perkins
• John Phillips
• Dudley L. Pickman
• Samuel Porter
• Josiah Quincy
• Alexander Rice
• Elisha Ruggles
• Leverett Saltonstall
• David Stockbridge
• Richard Sullivan
• Joseph B. Varnum
• Daniel Waldo
• John Welles
• John Whiting
• W. D. Williamson

Representatives

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See also

• 15th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

References

1. ^ "Civil Government in Massachusetts". Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for 1818 – via Archive.org. For the political year commencing May, 1817, and ending May, 1818
2. "Composition of the Massachusetts State Senate", 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. Whitney, David R. (1878), The Suffolk Bank, Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, pp. 2–5

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 1817)
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1817, hdl:2452/103862 – via State Library of Massachusetts
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1818, hdl:2452/103863

v t e Massachusetts General Courts by year convened
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Commons

v t e Districts of the Massachusetts General Court
Senate	Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden Bristol and Norfolk Bristol and Plymouth: 1st, 2nd Cape and Islands Essex: 1st, 2nd, 3rd Essex and Middlesex: 1st, 2nd Hampden Hampden and Hampshire: 1st, 2nd Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester Middlesex: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th Middlesex and Norfolk: 1st, 2nd Middlesex and Suffolk Middlesex and Worcester Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth Norfolk and Plymouth Norfolk and Suffolk Plymouth and Barnstable Plymouth and Bristol: 1st, 2nd Plymouth and Norfolk Suffolk: 1st, 2nd Suffolk and Middlesex: 1st, 2nd Worcester: 1st, 2nd Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex Worcester and Middlesex Worcester and Norfolk Obsolete districts
House	Barnstable 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th Berkshire 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Bristol 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th Cape and Islands Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket Essex   1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th Franklin 1st, 2nd Hampden 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th Hampshire 1st, 2nd, 3rd Middlesex 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 35th, 36th, 37th Norfolk   1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th Plymouth 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th Suffolk 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Worcester 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th Defunct districts   Former districts
Commons

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