Massachusetts Senate's 1st Middlesex district explained

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. Democrat Ed Kennedy of Lowell has represented the district since 2019.^[2]

Locales represented

The district includes the following localities:

• Dunstable
• Groton
• Lowell
• Pepperell
• Tyngsborough
• Westford

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.

Former locale

The district previously covered Charlestown, circa 1860s.

Senators

• E.L. Norton, circa 1859 ^[3]
• Andrew J. Bailey, circa 1874
• James Vahey
• James MacPherson
• Abbott Rice
• Arthur W. Hollis, circa 1935 ^[4]
• Joseph F. Montminy, circa 1945 ^[5]
• Paul Achin, circa 1953
• Edward Joseph DeSaulnier, Jr., circa 1957 ^[6]
• John Edward Harrington, Jr., circa 1969 ^[7]
• Bernard Joseph Tully, circa 1979 ^[8]
• Philip Shea, circa 1983
• Paul J. Sheehy, circa 1985 ^[9]
• Nancy Achin Sullivan, circa 1991
• Daniel P. Leahy, circa 1993 ^[10]
• Steven C. Panagiotakos, circa 2002 ^[11]
• Eileen Donoghue
• Edward J. Kennedy, 2019-current

Images

Portraits of legislators

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

External links

• Ballotpedia
• Web site: First Middlesex District, MA . Censusreporter.org . (State Senate district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
  • League of Women Voters of Westford

Notes and References

1. Web site: Massachusetts Senatorial Districts . April 15, 2020 . Sec.state.ma.us .
2. Web site: April 15, 2020 . Sec.state.ma.us . Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division . State Senate elections: 1st Middlesex district .
3. Book: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court . 1859 . Boston . Google Books . General Court . Massachusetts .
4. Book: 1935 . Public Officials of Massachusetts .
5. Book: 1945 . Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts .
6. Book: 1957 . Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts .
7. Book: 1969 . Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts .
8. Book: 1979 . Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts .
9. Book: 1985 . Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts .
10. Book: 1993 . Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts .
11. Web site: April 15, 2020 . Sec.state.ma.us . Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division . State Senate elections: 2002 .