Massachusetts Senate's 1st Suffolk district
Massachusetts Senate's 1st Suffolk district in the United States is one of 40 legislative districts of the Massachusetts Senate.[1] It covers portions of Suffolk county.[2] Democrat Nick Collins of South Boston has represented the district since 2019.[3]
As of 2013, the district's seat had "long been regarded as the 'Southie Seat,'...held by a white, Irish-American, South Boston man."[4]
Locales represented
The district includes parts of the city of Boston.[2][5]
Former locales
The district previously covered the following:
Senators
- Nehemiah Boynton, circa 1859 [6]
- Alfred Hall
- John Edward Beck
- Edward Cox
- John F. Donovan, circa 1935 [7]
- William R. Conley, circa 1945 [8]
- Harold Wilson Canavan, circa 1957 [9]
- Joseph J. C. DiCarlo, circa 1969 [10]
- Bill Bulger, circa 1979-1993 [11][12][13]
- John A. Hart, Jr., circa 2002 [14]
- Nick Collins, 2019-current[3]
Images
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Alfred Hall -
John Edward Beck -
Edward Cox -
William Conley -
Andrew Patrick Quigley -
Harry Della Russo -
Nick Collins
See also
- List of Massachusetts Senate elections
- List of Massachusetts General Courts
- List of former districts of the Massachusetts Senate
- Suffolk 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
References
- ^ "Massachusetts Senatorial Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
- ^ a b "An Act Establishing Executive Councillor and Senatorial Districts", Session Laws: Acts (2011), retrieved April 15, 2020
- ^ a b Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Senate elections: 1st Suffolk district". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
- ^ "A Political Shift In The First Suffolk District", Wbur.org, May 8, 2013
- ^ a b c d Massachusetts General Court, "1866 Chap. 0120. An Act To Divide The Commonwealth Into Forty Districts For The Choice Of Senators", Acts and Resolves – via State Library of Massachusetts
- ^ Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston. 1859 – via Google Books.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Public Officials of Massachusetts. 1935.
- ^ Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1945.
- ^ Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1957.
- ^ Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1969.
- ^ Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1979.
- ^ Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1985.
- ^ Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1993.
- ^ Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Senate elections: 2002". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
External links
- Ballotpedia
- "First Suffolk District, MA". Censusreporter.org. (State Senate district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
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