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class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Newland Holmes</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1953_Newland_Holmes_senator_Massachusetts.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/1953_Newland_Holmes_senator_Massachusetts.jpg/130px-1953_Newland_Holmes_senator_Massachusetts.jpg" decoding="async" width="130" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/1953_Newland_Holmes_senator_Massachusetts.jpg/195px-1953_Newland_Holmes_senator_Massachusetts.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/1953_Newland_Holmes_senator_Massachusetts.jpg 2x" data-file-width="216" data-file-height="301" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Newland Holmes, circa 1953</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">President of the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Senate" title="Massachusetts Senate">Massachusetts Senate</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1957–1958</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Richard_I._Furbush" title="Richard I. Furbush">Richard I. Furbush</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_E._Powers" title="John E. Powers">John E. Powers</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1891-08-30</span>)</span>August 30, 1891<br /><a href="/wiki/Brockton,_Massachusetts" title="Brockton, Massachusetts">Brockton, Massachusetts</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">January 27, 1965<span style="display:none">(1965-01-27)</span> (aged 73)<br /><a href="/wiki/Plymouth,_Massachusetts" title="Plymouth, Massachusetts">Plymouth, Massachusetts</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Weymouth,_Massachusetts" title="Weymouth, Massachusetts">Weymouth, Massachusetts</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data">Deputy Sheriff</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Newland Howard Holmes</b> (August 30, 1891 – January 27, 1965) was a Massachusetts politician who served as President of the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Senate" title="Massachusetts Senate">Massachusetts Senate</a> from 1957 to 1958.<sup id="cite_ref-PublicOfficers_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PublicOfficers-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2022, he is the last Republican to hold this position. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Newland_H._Holmes&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Holmes was born in <a href="/wiki/Brockton,_Massachusetts" title="Brockton, Massachusetts">Brockton, Massachusetts</a> on August 30, 1891.<sup id="cite_ref-PublicOfficers_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PublicOfficers-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a descendant of <a href="/wiki/John_Holmes_(Messenger_of_the_Plymouth_Court)" title="John Holmes (Messenger of the Plymouth Court)">John Holmes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gentleman" title="Gentleman">gentleman</a> of <a href="/wiki/Colchester" title="Colchester">Colchester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a>, <a href="/wiki/Messenger_of_the_Court" title="Messenger of the Court">Messenger</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_General_Court" title="Plymouth General Court">General Court of Plymouth Colony</a> and the executioner of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Granger" title="Thomas Granger">Thomas Granger</a>. He was a cousin of <a href="/wiki/John_Haynes_Holmes" title="John Haynes Holmes">John Haynes Holmes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Obituaries_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Obituaries-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Newland_H._Holmes&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Holmes was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_House_of_Representatives" title="Massachusetts House of Representatives">Massachusetts House of Representatives</a> from five years before moving to the Senate in 1929. He was the Senate Majority Leader from 1955 to 1956.<sup id="cite_ref-PublicOfficers_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PublicOfficers-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1956, <a href="/wiki/Richard_I._Furbush" title="Richard I. Furbush">Richard I. Furbush</a> did not run for re-election and Holmes sought to succeed him as Senate President. At the Republican caucus held before the floor vote, Holmes lost to Senator <a href="/wiki/Philip_A._Graham" title="Philip A. Graham">Philip A. Graham</a> fifteen votes to six.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Holmes chose not to abide by the caucus decision and ran against Graham and Democratic leader <a href="/wiki/John_E._Powers" title="John E. Powers">John E. Powers</a> for the Senate Presidency.<sup id="cite_ref-HistoricalSociety_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HistoricalSociety-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the first ballot, Powers received the vote of all nineteen Democrats while the Republican vote was split between Graham (sixteen votes) and Holmes (five votes). Powers preferred Holmes to Graham and after a lengthy caucus with the Democrats, he was able to convince fifteen Democrats to support Holmes. On the second ballot, Holmes won the Presidency with twenty votes to Graham's sixteen and Powers' four.<sup id="cite_ref-HistoricalSociety_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HistoricalSociety-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Holmes remained President until the Republicans lost their majority following the 1958 election.<sup id="cite_ref-PublicOfficers_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PublicOfficers-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He remained in the Senate until he was defeated by William Weeks, the son of former <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Commerce" title="United States Secretary of Commerce">United States Secretary of Commerce</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senator</a> <a href="/wiki/Sinclair_Weeks" title="Sinclair Weeks">Sinclair Weeks</a>, in 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Holmes' thirty-six year tenure in the Massachusetts Senate is the longest in that body's history.<sup id="cite_ref-Obituaries_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Obituaries-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Freemasonry">Freemasonry</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Newland_H._Holmes&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Freemasonry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Holmes became a <a href="/wiki/Master_Mason" class="mw-redirect" title="Master Mason">Master Mason</a> at Orphan's Hope Lodge in East Weymouth on May 11, 1916. He became a 33° <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Rite" title="Scottish Rite">Scottish Rite</a> mason in 1920 serving as the Thrice Potent Master of the Boston Lafayette Lodge of Perfection from 1938 to 1942.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Newland_H._Holmes&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Massachusetts legislature: <a href="/wiki/1925%E2%80%931926_Massachusetts_legislature" title="1925–1926 Massachusetts legislature">1925–1926</a>, <a href="/wiki/1927%E2%80%931928_Massachusetts_legislature" title="1927–1928 Massachusetts legislature">1927–1928</a>, <a href="/wiki/1929%E2%80%931930_Massachusetts_legislature" title="1929–1930 Massachusetts legislature">1929–1930</a>, <a href="/wiki/1931%E2%80%931932_Massachusetts_legislature" title="1931–1932 Massachusetts legislature">1931–1932</a>, <a href="/wiki/1935%E2%80%931936_Massachusetts_legislature" title="1935–1936 Massachusetts legislature">1935–1936</a>, <a href="/wiki/1937%E2%80%931938_Massachusetts_legislature" title="1937–1938 Massachusetts legislature">1937–1938</a>, <a href="/wiki/1939_Massachusetts_legislature" title="1939 Massachusetts legislature">1939</a>, <a href="/wiki/1941%E2%80%931942_Massachusetts_legislature" title="1941–1942 Massachusetts legislature">1941–1942</a>, <a href="/wiki/1943%E2%80%931944_Massachusetts_legislature" title="1943–1944 Massachusetts legislature">1943–1944</a>, <a href="/wiki/1947%E2%80%931948_Massachusetts_legislature" title="1947–1948 Massachusetts legislature">1947–1948</a>, <a href="/wiki/1949%E2%80%931950_Massachusetts_legislature" title="1949–1950 Massachusetts legislature">1949–1950</a>, <a href="/wiki/1951%E2%80%931952_Massachusetts_legislature" title="1951–1952 Massachusetts legislature">1951–1952</a>, <a href="/wiki/1953%E2%80%931954_Massachusetts_legislature" title="1953–1954 Massachusetts legislature">1953–1954</a>, <a href="/wiki/1955%E2%80%931956_Massachusetts_legislature" title="1955–1956 Massachusetts legislature">1955–1956</a>, <a href="/wiki/1957%E2%80%931958_Massachusetts_legislature" title="1957–1958 Massachusetts legislature">1957–1958</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Senate%27s_Norfolk_and_Plymouth_district" title="Massachusetts Senate's Norfolk and Plymouth district">Massachusetts Senate's Norfolk and Plymouth district</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Newland_H._Holmes&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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