Massachusetts Senate's 1st Middlesex district
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Massachusetts Senate's 1st Middlesex district in the United States is one of 40 legislative districts of the Massachusetts Senate.[1] It covers portions of Middlesex county.[2] Democrat Ed Kennedy of Lowell has represented the district since 2019.[3]
Locales represented
[edit]The district includes the following localities:[2]
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Middlesex, 2nd Middlesex, 16th Middlesex, 17th Middlesex, 18th Middlesex, and 36th Middlesex districts.[4]
Former locale
[edit]The district previously covered Charlestown, circa 1860s.[5]
Senators
[edit]- E.L. Norton, circa 1859 [6]
- Andrew J. Bailey, circa 1874
- James Vahey
- James MacPherson
- Abbott Rice
- Arthur W. Hollis, circa 1935 [7]
- Joseph F. Montminy, circa 1945 [8]
- Paul Achin, circa 1953
- Edward Joseph DeSaulnier, Jr., circa 1957 [9]
- John Edward Harrington, Jr., circa 1969 [10]
- Bernard Joseph Tully, circa 1979 [11]
- Philip Shea, circa 1983
- Paul J. Sheehy, circa 1985 [12]
- Nancy Achin Sullivan, circa 1991
- Daniel P. Leahy, circa 1993 [13]
- Steven C. Panagiotakos, circa 2002 [14]
- Eileen Donoghue[15]
- Edward J. Kennedy, 2019-current[3]
Images
[edit]- Portraits of legislators
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James Vahey -
James MacPherson -
Abbott Rice -
Joseph Montminy -
Paul Achin -
John Edward Harrington -
Bernard Joseph Tully -
Philip Shea -
See also
[edit]- List of Massachusetts Senate elections
- List of Massachusetts General Courts
- List of former districts of the Massachusetts Senate
- Other Middlesex County districts of the Massachusett Senate: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th; 1st Essex and Middlesex; 2nd Essex and Middlesex; 1st Middlesex and Norfolk, 2nd Middlesex and Norfolk; Middlesex and Suffolk; Middlesex and Worcester; Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex; 1st Suffolk and Middlesex; 2nd Suffolk and Middlesex
- Middlesex County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 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
References
[edit]- ^ "Massachusetts Senatorial Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
- ^ a b "An Act Establishing Executive Councillor and Senatorial Districts", Session Laws: Acts (2011), retrieved April 15, 2020
- ^ a b Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Senate elections: 1st Middlesex district". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
- ^ David Jarman (July 30, 2019), "Upper legislative district ↔ lower legislative district correspondences: MA", How do counties, House districts, and legislative districts all overlap?, Daily Kos,
State Senate Districts to State House Districts
- ^ Massachusetts General Court (October 15, 1866), "1866 Chap. 0120. An Act To Divide The Commonwealth Into Forty Districts For The Choice Of Senators", Acts and Resolves, hdl:2452/100042 – via State Library of Massachusetts
- ^ General Court, Massachusetts (1859). Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston – via Google Books.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Public Officials of Massachusetts. 1935.
- ^ Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1945.
- ^ Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1957.
- ^ Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1969.
- ^ Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1979.
- ^ Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1985.
- ^ Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1993.
- ^ Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Senate elections: 2002". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
- ^ "Two-Thirds Of State Legislators Are Unopposed In The General Election", Wbur.org, November 1, 2018,
Open seats in the state Senate
Further reading
[edit]- "Multiple-choice test for voters: Open seats in Mass. House, Senate create wide-open First Middlesex races", Boston Globe, September 2, 2010
External links
[edit]- Ballotpedia
- "First Middlesex District, MA". Censusreporter.org. (State Senate district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
- "First Middlesex District", Senatoredkennedy.com, archived from the original on May 14, 2020
- League of Women Voters of Westford
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