
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 15th Middlesex district in the United States is one of 160
legislative districts
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included in the
lower house 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
Middlesex County.
Democrat Michelle Ciccolo of Lexington has represented the district since 2019.
Locales represented
The district includes the following localities:
*
Lexington
* part of
Woburn
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's
3rd Middlesex and
4th Middlesex districts.
Former locales
The district previously covered:
*
Ashland, circa 1872
*
Hopkinton, circa 1872
Representatives
* Leander E. Wakefield, circa 1858
* John Phelps, circa 1859
* Samuel Walker McCall, circa 1888
* Henry Achin Jr., circa 1920
* Adelard Berard, circa 1920
* Victor Francis Jewett, circa 1920
* Cornelius Desmond, Jr., circa 1951
* James Lawrence Odea, Jr., circa 1951
* Patrick Francis Plunkett, circa 1951
* Richard Edward Landry, circa 1975
*
Lincoln Porteous Cole, Jr.
*
Stephen W. Doran, 1981-1995
*
Jay R. Kaufman
* Michelle Ciccolo, 2019-current
See also
*
List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
*
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 legislature ...
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* Other Middlesex County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives:
1st
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2nd,
3rd,
4th,
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"
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6th
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7th,
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 ...
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9th
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding .
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10th,
11th,
12th,
13th,
14th,
16th,
17th
17 (seventeen) is the natural number following 16 and preceding 18. It is a prime number.
Seventeen is the sum of the first four prime numbers.
In mathematics
17 is the seventh prime number, which makes seventeen the fourth super-prime, as s ...
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18th,
19th,
20th,
21st
21 (twenty-one) is the natural number following 20 and preceding 22.
The current century is the 21st century AD, under the Gregorian calendar.
In mathematics
21 is:
* a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 3 and 7, and a defici ...
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22nd,
23rd,
24th,
25th,
26th,
27th,
28th
28 (twenty-eight) is the natural number following 27 and preceding 29.
In mathematics
It is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2, 4, 7, and 14.
Twenty-eight is the second perfect number - it is the sum of its proper diviso ...
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29th,
30th,
31st,
32nd,
33rd,
34th,
35th,
36th,
37th
Images
;Portraits of legislators
1908 John Meehan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Meehan
1918 Frank Putnam Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Frank Putnam
1918 Henry Achin Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Henry Achin
1918 Victor Jewett Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Victor Jewett
1923 Fred Oliver Lewis Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Fred Oliver Lewis
1935 George Ashe Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, George Ashe
1935 Thomas Delmore Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Thomas Delmore
1945 Cornelius Desmond Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Cornelius Desmond
1953 James Lawrence ODea Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James Lawrence O'Dea
1953 Patrick Francis Plunkett Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Patrick Francis Plunkett
1967 John Desmond Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Desmond
1967 John Janas Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Janas
1967 Raymond Rourke Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Raymond Rourke
1975 Richard Landry Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Richard Landry
1983 Stephen Doran Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Stephen Doran
1995 Jay Kaufman Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Jay Kaufman
References
External links
Ballotpedia* (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's
American Community Survey).
League of Women Voters of Lexington (MA)
House
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Government of Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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