Massachusetts House of Representatives' 5th Worcester district
American legislative district
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 5th Worcester district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers parts of Hampshire County and Worcester County.[1] Republican Donnie Berthiaume of Spencer has represented the district since 2015.[2][3]
Towns represented
The district includes the following localities:[4]
- Barre
- Brookfield
- East Brookfield
- Hardwick
- Hubbardston
- New Braintree
- North Brookfield
- Oakham
- part of Spencer
- part of Ware
- West Brookfield
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with that of the Massachusetts Senate's Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex district.[5]
Former locales
The district previously covered:
- Fitchburg, circa 1872 [6]
- Leominster, circa 1872 [6]
- Lunenburg, circa 1872 [6]
- Westminster, circa 1872 [6]
Representatives
- Thomas E. Glazier, circa 1858 [7]
- William Mayo, circa 1859 [8]
- George H. Coolidge, circa 1888 [9]
- Henry D. Haynes, circa 1888 [9]
- Wilfrid J. Lamoureux, circa 1920 [10]
- Leo Joseph Cournoyer, circa 1951 [11]
- John F. Farland, circa 1975 [12]
- Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr, 2015-current[2][13]
See also
- List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
- Other Worcester County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th
- Worcester County districts of the Massachusett Senate: 1st, 2nd; Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester; Middlesex and Worcester; Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex; Worcester and Middlesex; Worcester and Norfolk
- List of Massachusetts General Courts
- List of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Images
- Portraits of legislators
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Alexis Boyer -
Herman Stanley Cheney -
Valmore Tetreault -
Ignatius Cleary -
Joseph O'Kane -
Edward Staves -
Leo Joseph Cournoyer -
Paul Corriveau -
John Farland -
Henry Grenier -
Stephen Brewer -
Anne Gobi
References
- ^ "Massachusetts Representative Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
- ^ a b Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Representative elections: 5th Worcester district". PD43+. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
- ^ Steve Brown (October 29, 2020), "Here Are The Contested Legislative Races In Massachusetts", Wbur.org, archived from the original on November 1, 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 c d "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) - ^ a b Geo. F. Andrews, ed. (October 16, 1888). "Representatives: Worcester County". 1888 State House Directory. Official Gazette, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Lakeview Press.
- ^ Public Officials of Massachusetts: 1920. Boston Review. October 16, 2023.
- ^ 1951–1952 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston.
- ^ 1975–1976 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston.
- ^ "Two-Thirds Of State Legislators Are Unopposed In The General Election", Wbur.org, November 1, 2018,
Most of the incumbent Republicans are facing a challenge
External links
- Ballotpedia
- "5th Worcester District, MA". Censusreporter.org. (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
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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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