Massachusetts Senate's 5th Middlesex district

Massachusetts Senate's 5th Middlesex district in the United States is one of 40 legislative districts of the Massachusetts Senate.^[1] It covers portions of Middlesex county.^[2] Democrat Jason Lewis of Winchester has represented the district since 2014.^[3]

Locales represented

The district includes the following localities:^[2]

Former locales

The district previously covered the following:

Acton, circa 1860s–1870s^[4]^[5]
Ashby, circa 1860s–1870s^[4]^[5]
Ayer, circa 1870s^[5]
Boxborough, circa 1860s–1870s^[4]^[5]
Carlisle, circa 1860s–1870s^[4]^[5]
Chelmsford, circa 1870s^[5]
Concord, circa 1860s–1870s^[4]^[5]
Dracut, circa 1870s^[5]
Dunstable, circa 1860s–1870s^[4]^[5]
Groton, circa 1860s–1870s^[4]^[5]
Hudson, circa 1860s–1870s^[4]^[5]
Lincoln, circa 1860s–1870s^[4]^[5]
Littleton, circa 1860s–1870s^[4]^[5]
Marlborough, circa 1860s^[4]
Maynard, circa 1870s^[5]
Pepperell, circa 1860s–1870s^[4]^[5]
Shirley, circa 1860s–1870s^[4]^[5]
Stow, circa 1860s–1870s^[4]^[5]
Sudbury, circa 1860s–1870s^[4]^[5]
Townsend, circa 1860s–1870s^[4]^[5]
Tyngsborough, circa 1860s–1870s^[4]^[5]
Westford, circa 1860s–1870s^[4]^[5]

Senators

Horace Conn, circa 1859 ^[6]
John Mitchell
Charles Sumner Smith
John Gibbs
George G. Moyse, circa 1935 ^[7]
Richard I. Furbush, circa 1945 ^[8]
William E. Hays, circa 1957 ^[9]
James DeNormandie, circa 1969 ^[10]
Carol Campbell Amick, 1978–1989 ^[11]^[12]^[13]
Lucile P. Hicks, 1991–1996^[14]
Katherine Clark
Jason M. Lewis, April 16, 2014 – present^[3]^[15]

Images

Portraits of legislators

John Mitchell
Charles Sumner Smith
John Gibbs
Richard Furbush
James DeNormandie
Carol Campbell Amick
Lucile Hicks

References

^ "Massachusetts Senatorial Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "An Act Establishing Executive Councillor and Senatorial Districts", Session Laws: Acts (2011), retrieved April 16, 2020
^ ^a ^b Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Senate elections: 5th Middlesex district". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Massachusetts General Court (October 16, 1866), "1866 Chap. 0120. An Act To Divide The Commonwealth Into Forty Districts For The Choice Of Senators", Acts and Resolves, hdl:2452/100042 – via State Library of Massachusetts
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u Massachusetts General Court (October 16, 1876), "1876 Chap. 0190. An Act To Divide The Commonwealth Into Forty Districts For The Choice of Senators", Acts and Resolves, hdl:2452/89814 – via State Library of Massachusetts
^ General Court, Massachusetts (1859). Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston – 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.
^ State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020
^ Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1979.
^ Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1985.
^ Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1993.
^ "Two-Thirds Of State Legislators Are Unopposed In The General Election", Wbur.org, November 1, 2018, Seven incumbent Democratic senators face opposition

External links

Ballotpedia
"Fifth Middlesex District, MA". Censusreporter.org. (State Senate district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
"5th Middlesex District", Senatorjasonlewis.com, July 7, 2014, archived from the original on May 14, 2020