Map of Massachusetts Senate's 1st Middlesex district, based on the 2010 United States census.
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
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
The district previously covered Charlestown, circa 1860s.[5]
Senators
- 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
- Portraits of legislators
James Vahey
James MacPherson
Abbott Rice
Joseph Montminy
Paul Achin
John Edward Harrington
Bernard Joseph Tully
Philip Shea
See also
- 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
- ↑ "Massachusetts Senatorial Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
- 1 2 "An Act Establishing Executive Councillor and Senatorial Districts", Session Laws: Acts (2011), retrieved April 15, 2020
- 1 2 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
- "Multiple-choice test for voters: Open seats in Mass. House, Senate create wide-open First Middlesex races", Boston Globe, September 2, 2010
External links
- 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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