Massachusetts House of Representatives' 11th Suffolk district in the United States is one of 160
legislative districts
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included in the
lower house
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of the
Massachusetts General Court
The Massachusetts General Court (formally styled the General Court of Massachusetts) is the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The name "General Court" is a hold-over from the earliest days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, ...
. It covers part of the city of
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
in
Suffolk County.
Democrat
Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to:
Politics
*A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people.
*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (United States) (D)
**Democratic ...
Liz Malia of
Jamaica Plain
Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Settled by Puritans seeking farmland to the south, it was originally part of the former Town of Roxbury, now also a part of the City of Boston. The commun ...
has represented the district since 1998.
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
* Pliny Nickerson, circa 1859
* John Farrington, circa 1858
* Joseph F. Paul, circa 1858
* Andreas Blume, circa 1888
* William Fisher Wharton, circa 1888
* John W. McCormack, circa 1920
* James B. Troy, circa 1920
* George Greene, circa 1951
* Louis K. Nathanson, circa 1951
* Kevin W. Fitzgerald, circa 1975
*
Eleanor Myerson, 1983-1991
*
Marc D. Draisen, 1991-1995
*
John E. McDonough
* Elizabeth A. Malia, 1998-2023
See also
*
List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
* Other Suffolk County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives:
1st,
2nd,
3rd
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* Second#Sexagesimal divisions of calendar time and day, 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute''
Places
* 3rd Street (d ...
,
4th,
5th,
6th,
7th
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As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion ...
,
8th
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.
In mathematics
8 is:
* a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2.
* a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...
,
9th
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding .
Evolution of the Arabic digit
In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and ...
,
10th,
12th
12 (twelve) is the natural number following 11 and preceding 13. Twelve is a superior highly composite number, divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6.
It is the number of years required for an orbital period of Jupiter. It is central to many systems ...
,
13th,
14th,
15th,
16th
16 (sixteen) is the natural number following 15 and preceding 17. 16 is a composite number, and a square number, being 42 = 4 × 4. It is the smallest number with exactly five divisors, its proper divisors being , , and .
In English speech, ...
,
17th,
18th
18 (eighteen) is the natural number following 17 and preceding 19.
In mathematics
* Eighteen is a composite number, its divisors being 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9. Three of these divisors (3, 6 and 9) add up to 18, hence 18 is a semiperfect number. ...
,
19th
*
List of Massachusetts General Courts
The legislature of the U.S. state of Massachusetts is known as the General Court. It has a 40-member upper house (Massachusetts Senate) and a 160-member lower house (Massachusetts House of Representatives). Descended from the colonial legislatur ...
*
Images
;Portraits of legislators
1908 Grafton Cushing Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Grafton Cushing
1908 Myron Pierce Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Myron Pierce
1918 Patrick Costello Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Patrick Costello
1918 William Holland Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Holland
1923 Hugh Garrity Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Hugh Garrity
1923 Walter Bernard Grant Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Walter Bernard Grant
1935 Timothy McDonough Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Timothy McDonough
1935 William Higgins Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Higgins
1945 Frederick Harvey Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Frederick Harvey
1953 George Greene Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, George Greene
1953 Leo Sontag Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Leo Sontag
1967 Norton OBrien Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Norton O'Brien
1975 Kevin Fitzgerald Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Kevin Fitzgerald
1983 Eleanor Myerson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Eleanor Myerson
1991 Marc Draisen Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Marc Draisen
1995 John McDonough Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John McDonough
2003 Elizabeth Malia Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Elizabeth Malia
References
External links
Ballotpedia* (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's
American Community Survey
The American Community Survey (ACS) is a demographics survey program conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. It regularly gathers information previously contained only in the long form of the decennial census, such as ancestry, citizenship, educati ...
).
League of Women Voters of Boston
House
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Government of Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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