List of Presidents of The Massachusetts Senate
| President | Session | Party |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Cushing | 1780-81 | |
| Jeremiah Powell | 1780-81 1781-82 |
|
| Samuel Adams | 1781-82 1782-85 1785-86 1787-88 |
|
| Samuel Phillips | 1785-87 1788-1801 1801-02 |
F |
| David Cobb | 1801-02 1802-05 |
F |
| Harrison Gray Otis | 1805-06 1808-11 |
F |
| John Bacon | 1806-07 | DR |
| Samuel Dana | 1807-08 1811-13 |
DR |
| John Phillips | 1813-23 | |
| Nathaniel Silsbee | 1823-26 | F |
| John Mills | 1826-28 | |
| Sherman Leland | 1828-29 | |
| Samuel Lathrop | 1829-30 1830-31 |
F |
| James Fowler | 1830-31 | |
| Leverett Saltonstall | 1831 | W |
| William Thorndike | 1832 | |
| Benjamin T. Pickman | 1833-35 | |
| George Bliss | 1835 | |
| Horace Mann | 1836-37 | W |
| Myron Lawrence | 1838-39 | W |
| Daniel P. King | 1840-41 | W |
| Josiah Quincy, Jr. | 1842, 44 | W |
| Phineas W. Leland | 1843 | D |
| Frederick Robinson | 1843 | |
| Levi Lincoln, Jr. | 1845 | DR |
| William B. Calhoun | 1846-47 | W |
| Zeno Scudder | 1848 | W |
| Joseph Bell | 1849 | |
| Marshall P. Wilder | 1850 | W |
| Henry Wilson | 1851-52 | FS |
| Charles H. Warren | 1853 | |
| Charles Edward Cook | 1854 | |
| Henry W. Benchley | 1855 | A |
| Elihu C. Baker | 1856 | A |
| Charles W. Upham | 1857-58 | W |
| Charles A. Phelps | 1859-60 | |
| William Claflin | 1861 | R |
| John H. Clifford | 1862 | R |
| Jonathan E. Field | 1863-65 | R |
| Joseph A. Pond | 1866-October 24, 1867 | |
| George O. Brastow | 1868, 69 | |
| Robert Carter Pitman | 1869 | |
| Horace H. Coolidge | 1870-72 | |
| George B. Loring | 1873-76 | R |
| John B. D. Cogswell | 1877-79 | R |
| Robert R. Bishop | 1880-82 | R |
| George G. Crocker | 1883 | R |
| George A. Bruce | 1884 | R |
| Albert E. Pillsbury | 1885-86 | R |
| Halsey J. Boardman | 1887-88 | R |
| Harris C. Hartwell | 1889 | R |
| Henry H. Sprague | 1890-91 | R |
| Alfred S. Pinkerton | 1892-93 | R |
| William M. Butler | 1894-95 | R |
| George P. Lawrence | 1896-97 | R |
| George E. Smith | 1898–1900 | R |
| Rufus A. Soule | 1901-02 | R |
| George R. Jones | 1903-04 | R |
| William F. Dana | 1905-06 | R |
| William D. Chapple | 1907-08 | R |
| Allen T. Treadway | 1909-11 | R |
| Levi H. Greenwood | 1912-13 | R |
| Calvin Coolidge | 1914-15 | R |
| Henry Gordon Wells | 1916-18 | R |
| Edwin T. McKnight | 1919-20 | R |
| Frank G. Allen | 1921-24 | R |
| Wellington Wells | 1925-28 | R |
| Gaspar G. Bacon | 1929-32 | R |
| Erland F. Fish | 1933-34 | R |
| James G. Moran | 1935-36 | R |
| Samuel H. Wragg | 1937-38 | R |
| Joseph R. Cotton | 1939-40 | R |
| Angier L. Goodwin | 1941 | R |
| Jarvis Hunt | 1942-44 | R |
| Arthur W. Coolidge | 1945-46 | R |
| Donald W. Nicholson | 1947 | R |
| Harris S. Richardson | 1948, 50 | R |
| Chester A. Dolan, Jr. | 1949 | D |
| Richard I. Furbush | 1951-56 | R |
| Newland H. Holmes | 1957-58 | R |
| John E. Powers | 1959-64 | D |
| Maurice A. Donahue | 1964-71 | D |
| Kevin B. Harrington | 1971-78 | D |
| William M. Bulger | 1978-96 | D |
| Thomas Birmingham | 1996–2003 | D |
| Robert Travaglini | 2003-07 | D |
| Therese Murray | 2007- | D |
A = American, D = Democratic, R = Republican, W = Whig
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