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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 12th Bristol 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 parts of
Bristol County and
Plymouth County.
Republican Norman Orrall
Norman Orrall is a State Representative currently serving in the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing Berkley, East Taunton, Lakeville, and Middleborough as the 12th Bristol District. He has been serving since 2018 and is a membe ...
of Lakeville has represented the district since 2019.
Towns represented
The district includes the following localities:
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Berkley
*
Lakeville
*
Middleborough
Middleborough (frequently written as Middleboro) is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 24,245 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census.
History
The town was first set ...
* part of
Taunton
Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England, with a 2011 population of 69,570. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. The Normans built a castle owned by the ...
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's
1st Bristol and Plymouth and
1st Plymouth and Bristol districts.
Former locales
The district previously covered:
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Acushnet, circa 1872
*
Fairhaven, circa 1872
* part of
Fall River
Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The City of Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the tenth-largest city in the state.
Located along the eastern shore of Mount H ...
, circa 1927
*
Westport, circa 1927
Representatives
* Thomas G. Nichols, circa 1858
* William S. Crane, circa 1859
* Martin L. Eldridge, circa 1858-1859
* Thomas Edward Kitchen, circa 1951
* Matthew J. Kuss, circa 1975
*
Stephen Canessa
Stephen R. Canessa (born 1980) was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, representing the 12th Bristol District. He resigned to accept the position of executive director for government affairs at the Southcoast Health System He ...
, circa 2011
*
Keiko Orrall
Keiko Matsudo Orrall is an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician, formerly a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the 12th Bristol district, which includes Berkley, Massachusetts, Berkley, Ward 3 – ...
, September 22, 2011 – January 5, 2019
* Norman J. Orrall, 2019-current
See also
*
List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
* Other Bristol County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives:
1st,
2nd
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Second, Seconds or 2nd may also refer to:
Mathematics
* 2 (number), as an ordinal (also written as ''2nd'' or ''2d'')
* Second of arc, an angular measurement unit ...
,
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
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* the ordinal form of the number 4
* ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971
* Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision
* Fourth (music), a musical interval
* ''The Fourth'' (1972 film), a Sovie ...
,
5th
Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five.
Fifth or The Fifth may refer to:
* Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth"
* Fifth column, a political term
* Fifth disease, a contagious rash tha ...
,
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
10 (ten) is the even natural number following 9 and preceding 11. Ten is the base of the decimal numeral system, by far the most common system of denoting numbers in both spoken and written language. It is the first double-digit number. The rea ...
,
11th
11 (eleven) is the natural number following 10 and preceding 12. It is the first repdigit. In English, it is the smallest positive integer whose name has three syllables.
Name
"Eleven" derives from the Old English ', which is first attested i ...
,
13th
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,
14th
14 (fourteen) is a natural number following 13 (number), 13 and preceding 15 (number), 15.
In relation to the word "four" (4), 14 is spelled "fourteen".
In mathematics
* 14 is a composite number.
* 14 is a square pyramidal number.
* 14 is a s ...
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List of Massachusetts General Courts
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Images
1935 James Hathaway Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James Hathaway
1935 Joseph Theberge Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Joseph Theberge
1945 Clifton Dwelly Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Clifton Dwelly
1953 Thomas Edward Kitchen Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Thomas Edward Kitchen
1967 Wilfred Driscoll Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Wilfred Driscoll
1975 Matthew Kuss Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Matthew Kuss
1983 David Nelson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, David Nelson
1995 Joseph McIntyre Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Joseph McIntyre
2005 Stephen Canessa Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Stephen Canessa
References
External links
Ballotpedia* (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's
American Community Survey
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).
House
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Government of Bristol County, Massachusetts
Government of Plymouth County, Massachusetts
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