Massachusetts House of Representatives' 11th Suffolk district explained

Massachusetts House of Representatives' 11th Suffolk 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 the city of Boston in Suffolk County.^[1] Democrat Liz Malia of Jamaica Plain has represented the district since 1998.^[2]

The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's Norfolk and Suffolk district and 2nd Suffolk district.

Representatives

• Amos B. Merrill, circa 1859 ^[3]
• Pliny Nickerson, circa 1859
• John Farrington, circa 1858 ^[4]
• Joseph F. Paul, circa 1858
• Andreas Blume, circa 1888 ^[5]
• William Fisher Wharton, circa 1888
• John W. McCormack, circa 1920 ^[6]
• James B. Troy, circa 1920
• George Greene, circa 1951 ^[7]
• Louis K. Nathanson, circa 1951
• Kevin W. Fitzgerald, circa 1975 ^[8]
• Eleanor Myerson, 1983-1991^[9]
• Marc D. Draisen, 1991-1995
• John E. McDonough
• Liz Malia, 1998-2023^[10]
• Judith Garcia, 2023–present

See also

• List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
• Other Suffolk County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th
• List of Massachusetts General Courts
• List of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Images

Portraits of legislators

External links

• Ballotpedia
• Web site: 11th Suffolk District, MA . Censusreporter.org . (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
• League of Women Voters of Boston

Notes and References

1. Web site: Massachusetts Representative Districts . May 5, 2020 . Sec.state.ma.us .
2. Web site: May 5, 2020 . PD43+ . Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division . State Representative elections: 11th Suffolk district .
3. Book: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court . 1859 . Boston . Internet Archive .
4. Book: https://archive.org/details/massachusettsreg1858bost/page/n21/mode/1up . Massachusetts Register . Adams, Sampson & Co. . Boston . 1858 . Massachusetts House of Representatives . 10–12 .
5. Book: Official Gazette, Commonwealth of Massachusetts . 1888 State House Directory . Geo. F. Andrews . Lakeview Press . Representatives: Suffolk County . 1888 . https://archive.org/details/officialgazette1888andr/page/32/mode/2up .
6. Book: Public Officials of Massachusetts: 1920 . 1920 . Boston Review .
7. Book: 1951–1952 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Boston .
8. Book: 1975–1976 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Boston .
9. Web site: History of Women in the Massachusetts Legislature 1923 – 2015 . Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators . 2015 . July 6, 2021 .
10. Web site: Who's leaving the Legislature? Mostly women . .