Massachusetts House of Representatives' 15th Middlesex district
American legislative district
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 15th Middlesex district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of Middlesex County.[1] Democrat Michelle Ciccolo of Lexington has represented the district since 2019.[2]
Locales represented
The district includes the following localities:[3]
- Lexington
- part of Woburn
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's 3rd Middlesex and 4th Middlesex districts.[4]
Former locales
The district previously covered:
Representatives
- Leander E. Wakefield, circa 1858 [6]
- John Phelps, circa 1859 [7]
- Samuel Walker McCall, circa 1888 [8]
- Henry Achin Jr., circa 1920 [9]
- Adelard Berard, circa 1920 [9]
- Victor Francis Jewett, circa 1920 [9]
- Cornelius Desmond, 1941–1962 [10]
- James J. Bruin, 1949[11]
- James O'Dea Jr., 1949–1957 [10]
- Patrick Francis Plunkett, circa 1951 [10]
- Cornelius T. Finnegan Jr., 1957–1965
- Richard Edward Landry, circa 1975 [12]
- John Janas, 1963–1969[13]
- Lincoln Porteous Cole, Jr.
- Stephen W. Doran, 1981-1995 [14]
- Jay R. Kaufman
- Michelle Ciccolo, 2019-current[2]
See also
- List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
- List of Massachusetts General Courts
- List of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Other Middlesex County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 35th, 36th, 37th
Images
- Portraits of legislators
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John Meehan -
Frank Putnam -
Henry Achin -
Victor Jewett -
Fred Oliver Lewis -
George Ashe -
Thomas Delmore -
Cornelius Desmond -
James Lawrence O'Dea -
Patrick Francis Plunkett -
John Desmond -
John Janas -
Raymond Rourke -
Richard Landry -
Stephen Doran -
Jay Kaufman
References
- ^ "Massachusetts Representative Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- ^ a b Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Representative elections: 15th Middlesex district". PD43+. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- ^ Massachusetts General Court, "Chapter 153. An Act Relative to Establishing Representative Districts in the General Court", Acts (2011)
- ^ 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 House Districts to State Senate Districts
- ^ a b "Representative Districts". Massachusetts Register. Boston: Sampson, Davenport, & Company. 1872.
- ^ "Massachusetts House of Representatives". Massachusetts Register. Boston: Adams, Sampson & Co. 1858. pp. 10–12.
- ^ Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston. 1859 – via Internet Archive.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Geo. F. Andrews, ed. (October 16, 1888). "Representatives: Middlesex County". 1888 State House Directory. Official Gazette, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Lakeview Press.
- ^ a b c Public Officials of Massachusetts: 1920. Boston Review. October 16, 2023.
- ^ a b c 1951–1952 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston.
- ^ Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1949-50. Retrieved July 24, 2016.
- ^ 1975–1976 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston.
- ^ Public Officers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1969-70. Retrieved August 27, 2016.
- ^ State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020
External links
- Ballotpedia
- "15th Middlesex District, MA". Censusreporter.org. (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
- League of Women Voters of Lexington (MA)
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Districts of the Massachusetts General Court
- 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
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| Defunct districts |
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