These are tables of congressional delegations from Massachusetts to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
Massachusetts is currently represented by two senators and nine representatives, all of whom are Democrats. The current dean of the Massachusetts delegation is Senator Ed Markey, having served as a Senator since 2013 and in Congress since 1976.
| Current U.S. senators from Massachusetts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Class I senator | Class II senator | ||
Elizabeth Warren | Ed Markey | ||
| Party | |||
| Incumbent since | January 3, 2013 | July 16, 2013 | |
See main article: List of United States senators from Massachusetts.
| Class I senator | Congress | Class II senator | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tristram Dalton (PA) | bgcolor=#CCCCCC | (1789–1791) | Caleb Strong (PA) | |||
| George Cabot (PA) | (1791–1793) | |||||
| (1793–1795) | ||||||
| (1795–1797) | ||||||
| Benjamin Goodhue (F) | Theodore Sedgwick (F) | |||||
| (1797–1799) | ||||||
| (1799–1801) | Samuel Dexter (F) | |||||
| Jonathan Mason (F) | Dwight Foster (F) | |||||
| (1801–1803) | ||||||
| John Quincy Adams (F) | (1803–1805) | Timothy Pickering (F) | ||||
| (1805–1807) | ||||||
| (1807–1809) | ||||||
| James Lloyd (F) | ||||||
| (1809–1811) | ||||||
| (1811–1813) | Joseph Bradley Varnum (DR) | |||||
| (1813–1815) | ||||||
| Christopher Gore (F) | ||||||
| (1815–1817) | ||||||
| Eli P. Ashmun (F) | ||||||
| (1817–1819) | Harrison Gray Otis (F) | |||||
| Prentiss Mellen (F) | ||||||
| (1819–1821) | ||||||
| Elijah H. Mills (F) | ||||||
| (1821–1823) | ||||||
| James Lloyd (F) | ||||||
| (1823–1825) | ||||||
| Elijah H. Mills (NR) | (1825–1827) | James Lloyd (NR) | ||||
| Nathaniel Silsbee (NR) | ||||||
| Daniel Webster (NR) | (1827–1829) | |||||
| (1829–1831) | ||||||
| (1831–1833) | ||||||
| (1833–1835) | ||||||
| (1835–1837) | John Davis (NR) | |||||
| Daniel Webster (W) | (1837–1839) | John Davis (W) | ||||
| (1839–1841) | ||||||
| Isaac C. Bates (W) | ||||||
| Rufus Choate (W) | (1841–1843) | |||||
| (1843–1845) | ||||||
| Daniel Webster (W) | (1845–1847) | |||||
| John Davis (W) | ||||||
| (1847–1849) | ||||||
| (1849–1851) | ||||||
| Robert C. Winthrop (W) | ||||||
| Robert Rantoul Jr. (D) | ||||||
| Charles Sumner (FS) | (1851–1853) | |||||
| (1853–1855) | Edward Everett (W) | |||||
| Julius Rockwell (W) | ||||||
| Henry Wilson (FS) | ||||||
| (1855–1857) | Henry Wilson (R) | |||||
| Charles Sumner (R) | (1857–1859) | |||||
| (1859–1861) | ||||||
| (1861–1863) | ||||||
| (1863–1865) | ||||||
| (1865–1867) | ||||||
| (1867–1869) | ||||||
| (1869–1871) | ||||||
| (1871–1873) | ||||||
| Charles Sumner (LR) | (1873–1875) | George S. Boutwell (R) | ||||
| William B. Washburn (R) | ||||||
| Henry L. Dawes (R) | (1875–1877) | |||||
| (1877–1879) | George F. Hoar (R) | |||||
| (1879–1881) | ||||||
| (1881–1883) | ||||||
| (1883–1885) | ||||||
| (1885–1887) | ||||||
| (1887–1889) | ||||||
| (1889–1891) | ||||||
| (1891–1893) | ||||||
| Henry Cabot Lodge (R) | (1893–1895) | |||||
| (1895–1897) | ||||||
| (1897–1899) | ||||||
| (1899–1901) | ||||||
| (1901–1903) | ||||||
| (1903–1905) | ||||||
| Winthrop M. Crane (R) | ||||||
| (1905–1907) | ||||||
| (1907–1909) | ||||||
| (1909–1911) | ||||||
| (1911–1913) | ||||||
| (1913–1915) | John W. Weeks (R) | |||||
| (1915–1917) | ||||||
| (1917–1919) | ||||||
| (1919–1921) | David I. Walsh (D) | |||||
| (1921–1923) | ||||||
| (1923–1925) | ||||||
| William M. Butler (R) | ||||||
| (1925–1927) | Frederick H. Gillett (R) | |||||
| David I. Walsh (D) | ||||||
| (1927–1929) | ||||||
| (1929–1931) | ||||||
| (1931–1933) | Marcus A. Coolidge (D) | |||||
| (1933–1935) | ||||||
| (1935–1937) | ||||||
| (1937–1939) | Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R) | |||||
| (1939–1941) | ||||||
| (1941–1943) | ||||||
| (1943–1945) | ||||||
| Sinclair Weeks (R) | ||||||
| (1945–1947) | Leverett Saltonstall (R) | |||||
| Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R) | (1947–1949) | |||||
| (1949–1951) | ||||||
| (1951–1953) | ||||||
| John F. Kennedy (D) | (1953–1955) | |||||
| (1955–1957) | ||||||
| (1957–1959) | ||||||
| (1959–1961) | ||||||
| Benjamin A. Smith II (D) | ||||||
| (1961–1963) | ||||||
| Ted Kennedy (D) | ||||||
| (1963–1965) | ||||||
| (1965–1967) | ||||||
| (1967–1969) | Edward Brooke (R) | |||||
| (1969–1971) | ||||||
| (1971–1973) | ||||||
| (1973–1975) | ||||||
| (1975–1977) | ||||||
| (1977–1979) | ||||||
| (1979–1981) | Paul Tsongas (D) | |||||
| (1981–1983) | ||||||
| (1983–1985) | ||||||
| John Kerry (D) | ||||||
| (1985–1987) | ||||||
| (1987–1989) | ||||||
| (1989–1991) | ||||||
| (1991–1993) | ||||||
| (1993–1995) | ||||||
| (1995–1997) | ||||||
| (1997–1999) | ||||||
| (1999–2001) | ||||||
| (2001–2003) | ||||||
| (2003–2005) | ||||||
| (2005–2007) | ||||||
| (2007–2009) | ||||||
| (2009–2011) | ||||||
| Paul G. Kirk (D) | ||||||
| Scott Brown (R) | ||||||
| (2011–2013) | ||||||
| Elizabeth Warren (D) | (2013–2015) | |||||
| Mo Cowan (D) | ||||||
| Ed Markey (D) | ||||||
| (2015–2017) | ||||||
| (2017–2019) | ||||||
| (2019–2021) | ||||||
| (2021–2023) | ||||||
| (2023–2025) | ||||||
See main article: List of United States representatives from Massachusetts.
Article I of the United States Constitution allocated 8 seats to Massachusetts.
| Congress | District | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fisher Ames (PA) | Benjamin Goodhue (PA) | Elbridge Gerry (AA) | Theodore Sedgwick (PA) | George Partridge (PA) | George Thatcher (PA) | George Leonard (PA) | Jonathan Grout (AA) | ||
| vacant | |||||||||
| Shearjashub Bourne (PA) | George Leonard (PA) | Artemas Ward (PA) | George Thatcher (PA) | ||||||
After the 1790 census, Massachusetts gained six seats.
In the third Congress only, there were plural districts in which more than one member would be elected from the same district and there was also an at-large seat. After that Congress, however, there would be no at-large seats and no plural seats.
After the 1800 census, Massachusetts gained three seats.
After the 1810 census, Massachusetts gained three seats to grow to its largest apportionment (so far). In 1820/21, however, seven of those seats were lost to the new state of Maine.
Following the 1820 census, Massachusetts kept its remaining 13 seats without change.
| Congress | District | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Webster (F) | Benjamin W. Crowninshield (DR) | Jeremiah Nelson (F) | Timothy Fuller (DR) | Jonas Sibley (DR) | John Locke (DR) | Samuel Clesson Allen (F) | Samuel Lathrop (F) | Henry W. Dwight (F) | John Bailey (DR) | Aaron Hobart (DR) | Francis Baylies (F) | John Reed Jr. (F) | ||||||||||||||
| Daniel Webster (NR) | Benjamin W. Crowninshield (NR) | John Varnum (NR) | Edward Everett (NR) | John Davis (NR) | John Locke (NR) | Samuel Clesson Allen (NR) | Samuel Lathrop (NR) | Henry W. Dwight (NR) | John Bailey (NR) | Aaron Hobart (NR) | Francis Baylies (J) | John Reed Jr. (NR) | ||||||||||||||
| Isaac C. Bates (NR) | Joseph Richardson (NR) | James L. Hodges (NR) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Benjamin Gorham (NR) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Joseph G. Kendall (NR) | George Grennell Jr. (NR) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nathan Appleton (NR) | Rufus Choate (NR) | Jeremiah Nelson (NR) | George N. Briggs (NR) | Henry A. S. Dearborn (NR) | John Quincy Adams (NR) | |||||||||||||||||||||
After the 1830 census, Massachusetts lost one seat.
| Congress | District | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row rowspan=2 | Benjamin Gorham (NR) | Rufus Choate (NR) | Gayton P. Osgood (J) | Edward Everett (NR) | John Davis (NR) | George Grennell Jr. (NR) | George N. Briggs (NR) | Isaac C. Bates (NR) | William Jackson | William Baylies (NR) | John Reed Jr. (NR) | John Quincy Adams | |||
| Stephen Philips (NR) | Levi Lincoln Jr. (NR) | ||||||||||||||
| scope=row | (1835–1837) | Abbott Lawrence (NR) | Caleb Cushing (NR) | Samuel Hoar (NR) | William B. Calhoun (NR) | Nathaniel B. Borden (J) | John Reed Jr. | ||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | (1837–1839) | Richard Fletcher (W) | Stephen Phillips (W) | Caleb Cushing (W) | William Parmenter (D) | Levi Lincoln Jr. (W) | George Grennell Jr. (W) | George N. Briggs (W) | William B. Calhoun (W) | William Soden Hastings (W) | Nathaniel B. Borden (D) | John Reed Jr. (W) | John Quincy Adams (W) | ||
| Leverett Saltonstall I (W) | |||||||||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | (1839–1841) | Abbott Lawrence (W) | James Alvord (W) | Henry Williams (D) | |||||||||||
| Robert C. Winthrop (W) | Osmyn Baker (W) | ||||||||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=3 | (1841–1843) | Nathaniel B. Borden (W) | Barker Burnell (W) | ||||||||||||
| Nathan Appleton (W) | Charles Hudson (W) | ||||||||||||||
| Robert C. Winthrop (W) | |||||||||||||||
After the 1840 census, Massachusetts lost two seats.
| Congress | District | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row rowspan=2 | Robert Charles Winthrop (W) | Daniel P. King (W) | Amos Abbott (W) | William Parmenter (D) | Charles Hudson (W) | Osmyn Baker (W) | Julius Rockwell (W) | John Quincy Adams (W) | Henry Williams (D) | Barker Burnell (W) | ||
| Joseph Grinnell (W) | ||||||||||||
| scope=row | (1845–1847) | Benjamin Thompson (W) | George Ashmun (W) | Artemas Hale (W) | ||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | (1847–1849) | John G. Palfrey (W) | ||||||||||
| Horace Mann (W) | ||||||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | (1849–1851) | James H. Duncan (W) | vacant | Charles Allen (FS) | Orin Fowler (W) | |||||||
| Samuel A. Eliot (W) | ||||||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | (1851–1853) | William Appleton (W) | Robert Rantoul (D) | Benjamin Thompson (W) | George T. Davis (W) | John Z. Goodrich (W) | Zeno Scudder (W) | |||||
| Francis B. Fay (W) | Lorenzo Sabine (W) | Edward P. Little (D) | ||||||||||
After the 1850 census, Massachusetts gained one seat.
After the 1860 census, Massachusetts lost one seat.
| Congress | District | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | Thomas D. Eliot (R) | Oakes Ames (R) | Alexander H. Rice (R) | Samuel Hooper (R) | John B. Alley (R) | Daniel W. Gooch (R) | George S. Boutwell (R) | John D. Baldwin (R) | William B. Washburn (R) | Henry L. Dawes (R) | |
| scope=row rowspan=2 | (1865–1867) | ||||||||||
| Nathaniel P. Banks (R) | |||||||||||
| scope=row | (1867–1869) | Ginery Twichell (R) | Benjamin Butler (R) | ||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | (1869–1871) | James Buffington (R) | George F. Hoar (R) | ||||||||
| George M. Brooks (R) | |||||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | (1871–1873) | ||||||||||
| Constantine Esty (R) | Alvah Crocker (R) | ||||||||||
After the 1870 census, Massachusetts gained one seat.
| Congress | District | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row rowspan=2 | James Buffington (R) | Benjamin W. Harris (R) | William Whiting (R) | Samuel Hooper (R) | Daniel W. Gooch (R) | Benjamin Butler (R) | Ebenezer R. Hoar (R) | John M. S. Williams (R) | George F. Hoar (R) | Alvah Crocker (R) | Henry L. Dawes (R) | |||
| Henry L. Pierce (R) | Charles Stevens (R) | |||||||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | (1875–1877) | Rufus Frost (R) | Nathaniel P. Banks (I) | Charles Perkins Thompson (D) | John K. Tarbox (D) | William W. Warren (D) | Julius Hawley Seelye (I) | Chester W. Chapin (D) | ||||||
| William W. Crapo (R) | Josiah Abbott (D) | |||||||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | (1877–1879) | Walbridge Field (R) | Leopold Morse (D) | Nathaniel P. Banks (R) | George B. Loring (R) | Benjamin Butler (R) | William Claflin (R) | William W. Rice (R) | Amasa Norcross (R) | George Robinson (R) | ||||
| Benjamin Dean (D) | ||||||||||||||
| scope=row | (1879–1881) | Walbridge Field (R) | Selwyn Z. Bowman (R) | William A. Russell (R) | ||||||||||
| scope=row | (1881–1883) | Ambrose Ranney (R) | Eben F. Stone (R) | John W. Candler (R) | ||||||||||
After the 1880 census, Massachusetts gained one seat.
| Congress | District | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row rowspan=2 | Robert T. Davis (R) | John Davis Long (R) | Ambrose Ranney (R) | Patrick Collins (D) | Leopold Morse (D) | Henry B. Lovering (D) | Eben F. Stone (R) | William A. Russell (R) | Theodore Lyman III (IR) | William W. Rice (R) | William Whiting II (R) | George Robinson (R) | ||
| Francis W. Rockwell (R) | ||||||||||||||
| scope=row | (1885–1887) | Edward D. Hayden (R) | Charles H. Allen (R) | Frederick D. Ely (R) | ||||||||||
| scope=row | (1887–1889) | Leopold Morse (D) | Henry Cabot Lodge (R) | William Cogswell (R) | Edward Burnett (D) | John E. Russell (D) | ||||||||
| scope=row | (1889–1891) | Charles S. Randall (R) | Elijah A. Morse (R) | John F. Andrew (D) | Joseph H. O'Neil (D) | Nathaniel P. Banks (R) | Frederic T. Greenhalge (R) | John W. Candler (R) | Joseph H. Walker (R) | Rodney Wallace (R) | ||||
| scope=row | (1891–1893) | Sherman Hoar (D) | Moses T. Stevens (D) | George F. Williams (D) | Frederick S. Coolidge (D) | John Crawford Crosby (D) | ||||||||
After the 1890 census, Massachusetts gained one seat.
| Congress | District | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | Ashley B. Wright (R) | Frederick H. Gillett (R) | Joseph H. Walker (R) | Lewis D. Apsley (R) | Moses T. Stevens (D) | William Cogswell (R) | William Everett (D) | Samuel W. McCall (R) | Joseph H. O'Neil (D) | Michael J. McEttrick (ID) | William Franklin Draper (R) | Elijah A. Morse (R) | Charles S. Randall (R) | ||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | (1895–1897) | William S. Knox (R) | William Emerson Barrett (R) | John F. Fitzgerald (D) | Harrison H. Atwood (R) | John Simpkins (R) | |||||||||||||
| William Henry Moody (R) | |||||||||||||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | (1897–1899) | George W. Weymouth (R) | Samuel J. Barrows (R) | Charles F. Sprague (R) | William C. Lovering (R) | ||||||||||||||
| George P. Lawrence (R) | William S. Greene (R) | ||||||||||||||||||
| scope=row | John R. Thayer (D) | Ernest W. Roberts (R) | Henry F. Naphen (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | (1901–1903) | Charles Q. Tirrell (R) | Joseph A. Conry (D) | Samuel Powers (R) | |||||||||||||||
| Augustus P. Gardner (R) | |||||||||||||||||||
After the 1900 census, Massachusetts gained one seat.
| Congress | District | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | George P. Lawrence (R) | Frederick H. Gillett (R) | John Thayer (D) | Charles Q. Tirrell (R) | Butler Ames (R) | Augustus P. Gardner (R) | Ernest W. Roberts (R) | Samuel W. McCall (R) | John A. Keliher (D) | William S. McNary (D) | John Andrew Sullivan (D) | Samuel Powers (R) | William S. Greene (R) | William C. Lovering (R) | |||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | Rockwood Hoar (R) | John W. Weeks (R) | |||||||||||||||
| Charles G. Washburn (R) | |||||||||||||||||
| scope=row | Joseph F. O'Connell (D) | Andrew J. Peters (D) | |||||||||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | |||||||||||||||||
| John Mitchell (D) | Eugene Foss (D) | ||||||||||||||||
| scope=row | John A. Thayer (D) | William Wilder (R) | Wm. F. Murray (D) | James Curley (D) | Robert Harris (R) | ||||||||||||
After the 1910 census, Massachusetts gained two seats. There was no reapportionment after the 1920 census.
After the 1930 census, Massachusetts lost one seat. After the 1940 census, Massachusetts lost another seat. Massachusetts kept its apportionment following the 1950 census.
After the 1960 census, Massachusetts lost two seats. Massachusetts kept its apportionment after the 1970 census.
| Congress | District | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | Silvio O. Conte (R) | Ed Boland (D) | Philip J. Philbin (D) | Harold Donohue (D) | F. Bradford Morse (R) | William H. Bates (R) | Torbert Macdonald (D) | Tip O'Neill (D) | John W. McCormack (D) | Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R) | James A. Burke (D) | Hastings Keith (R) | |
| scope=row | (1965–1967) | ||||||||||||
| scope=row | (1967–1969) | Margaret Heckler (R) | |||||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | (1969–1971) | ||||||||||||
| Mike Harrington (D) | |||||||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | (1971–1973) | Robert Drinan (D) | Louise Day Hicks (D) | ||||||||||
| vacant | |||||||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | (1973–1975) | Harold Donohue (D) | Robert Drinan (D) | Paul W. Cronin (R) | Joe Moakley (D) | Gerry Studds (D) | |||||||
| vacant | |||||||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | (1975–1977) | Joseph Early (D) | Paul Tsongas (D) | ||||||||||
| Ed Markey (D) | |||||||||||||
| scope=row | (1977–1979) | ||||||||||||
| scope=row | (1979–1981) | James Shannon (D) | Nicholas Mavroules (D) | Brian J. Donnelly (D) | |||||||||
| scope=row | (1981–1983) | Barney Frank (D) | |||||||||||
After the 1980 census, Massachusetts lost one seat.
| Congress | District | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | Silvio O. Conte (R) | Ed Boland (D) | Joseph Early (D) | Barney Frank (D) | James Shannon (D) | Nicholas Mavroules (D) | Ed Markey (D) | Tip O'Neill (D) | Joe Moakley (D) | Gerry Studds (D) | Brian J. Donnelly (D) | ||
| scope=row | Chester G. Atkins (D) | ||||||||||||
| scope=row | Joseph P. Kennedy II (D) | ||||||||||||
| scope=row | Richard Neal (D) | ||||||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | |||||||||||||
| John Olver (D) | |||||||||||||
After the 1990 census, Massachusetts lost one seat. Massachusetts kept its apportionment after the 2000 census.
| Congress | District | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | John Olver (D) | Richard Neal (D) | Peter Blute (R) | Barney Frank (D) | Marty Meehan (D) | Peter G. Torkildsen (R) | Ed Markey (D) | Joseph P. Kennedy II (D) | Joe Moakley (D) | Gerry Studds (D) | |
| scope=row | |||||||||||
| scope=row | Jim McGovern (D) | John Tierney (D) | Bill Delahunt (D) | ||||||||
| scope=row | Mike Capuano (D) | ||||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | |||||||||||
| Stephen Lynch (D) | |||||||||||
| scope=row | |||||||||||
| scope=row | |||||||||||
| scope=row rowspan=2 | |||||||||||
| Niki Tsongas (D) | |||||||||||
| scope=row | |||||||||||
| scope=row | Bill Keating (D) | ||||||||||
After the 2010 census, Massachusetts lost one seat. Massachusetts kept its apportionment after the 2020 census.
| Congress | District | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Neal (D) | Jim McGovern (D) | Niki Tsongas (D) | Joe Kennedy III (D) | Ed Markey (D) | John Tierney (D) | Mike Capuano (D) | Stephen Lynch (D) | Bill Keating (D) | ||
| Katherine Clark (D) | ||||||||||
| Seth Moulton (D) | ||||||||||
| Lori Trahan (D) | Ayanna Pressley (D) | |||||||||
| Jake Auchincloss (D) | ||||||||||