Massachusetts House of Representatives' 13th 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
Quincy 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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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 ...
Dan Hunt of
Dorchester has represented the district since 2014.
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's
Norfolk and Plymouth district and
1st Suffolk district.
Representatives
* John Bent, circa 1858-1859
* Mellen Chamberlain, circa 1858-1859
* Edward J. Leary, circa 1888
* Thomas F. Sullivan, circa 1888
* Frank J. Burke, circa 1920
*
Richard D. Gleason, 1923–1925
* Timothy J. Driscoll, circa 1920
* Abraham Herbert Kahalas, circa 1951
* Charles Kaplan, circa 1951
* Wilfred S. Mirsky, circa 1951
*
Daniel W. Carney, 1963-1971
* James J. Craven, Jr., circa 1975
*
Thomas Finneran, 1989–1995
*
James T. Brett, 1995–1996
*
Marty Walsh
Martin Joseph Walsh (born April 10, 1967) is an American politician and former union official. He has been the 29th United States Secretary of Labor since March 23, 2021. A Democrat, he previously served as the 54th mayor of Boston from 2014, ...
, April 12, 1997 – January 3, 2014
* Daniel J. Hunt, 2014-current
Previous locales
The district formerly covered:
* Chelsea, circa 1872
* North Chelsea, circa 1872
* Winthrop, circa 1872
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
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,
10th,
11th,
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.
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,
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 James Powers Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James Powers
1908 Thomas McDavitt Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Thomas McDavitt
1918 Frank James Burke Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Frank James Burke
1918 Timothy Driscoll Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Timothy Driscoll
1923 Edward Wallace Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Edward Wallace
1923 Richard Daniel Gleason Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Richard Daniel Gleason
1935 George Killgoar Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, George Killgoar
1935 Thomas Hannon Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Thomas J. Hannon
1945 Edward Hutchinson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Edward Hutchinson
1945 Gerald Scally Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Gerald Scally
1953 Abraham Herbert Kahalas Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Abraham Herbert Kahalas
1953 Charles Kaplan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Charles Kaplan
1953 Julius Ansel Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Julius Ansel
1967 Gerald Morrissey Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Gerald Morrissey
1967 Joseph Walsh Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Joseph Walsh
1975 James Craven Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James Craven
1983 W Paul White Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, W. Paul White
1995 James Brett Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James Brett
Marty Walsh (1).jpg, Marty Walsh
References
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
House
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Government of Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Government of Norfolk County, Massachusetts
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