Massachusetts House of Representatives' 12th 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
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. It covers part of
Milton
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in
Norfolk County and part 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
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Brandy Fluker Oakley of
Dorchester has represented the district since 2020.
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's
Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth district,
1st Suffolk district, and
2nd Suffolk district.
Representatives
* Thomas Leavitt, circa 1858
* Benjamin Lewis, circa 1858-1859
* Edward Young, circa 1858
* Daniel Hall, circa 1859
* Judah Sears, circa 1859
* Denis J. Quinn, circa 1888
* Philip Henry Quinn, circa 1888
* Daniel J. Gillen, circa 1920
*
Florence Cook, 1943-1946
* Thomas Martin Joyce, circa 1920
* Philip Aloysius Chapman, circa 1951
*
Thomas J. Hannon, 1955–1957
*
Robert H. Quinn, 1957–1965
* John G. Kelleher, circa 1975
*
Thomas Finneran, 1995–2004
*
Linda Dorcena Forry, 2005 - June 14, 2013
*
Dan Cullinane
Daniel R. Cullinane is an American politician formerly serving in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from September 2013 to December 2020. He is a Boston resident from the neighborhood of Dorchester and a member of the Massachusetts Demo ...
, 2013-2020
*
Brandy Fluker Oakley, 2021–present
See also
*
List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
* Other Suffolk County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives:
1st,
2nd,
3rd
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Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
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Places
* 3rd Street (d ...
,
4th,
5th,
6th,
7th
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,
8th
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.
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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
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,
10th,
11th,
13th,
14th,
15th,
16th
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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
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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 ...
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Images
1908 George Lovett Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, George Lovett
1908 William Chester Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Chester
1918 Daniel Gillen Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Daniel Gillen
1918 Thomas Joyce Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Thomas Joyce
1923 John Drew Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Drew
1935 Abraham Zimon Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Abraham Zimon
1935 Samuel Cohen Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Samuel Cohen
1945 Florence Cook Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Florence Cook
1945 George Greene Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, George Greene
1953 Philip Aloysius Chapman Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Philip Aloysius Chapman
1967 John Finnegan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Finnegan
1967 Paul Murphy Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Paul Murphy
1975 John Kelleher Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Kelleher
1983 James Craven Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James Craven
1995 Thomas Finneran Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Thomas Finneran
Linda Dorcena Forry.jpg, Linda Dorcena Forry
Dan Cullinane.jpg, Dan Cullinane
Brandy Fluker Oakley.jpg, Brandy Fluker Oakley
References
Further reading
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External links
Ballotpedia* (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's
American Community Survey
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).
League of Women Voters of Boston
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Government of Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Government of Norfolk County, Massachusetts