Massachusetts House of Representatives' 15th 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
Brookline
Brookline may refer to:
Places in the United States
* Brookline, Massachusetts, a town near Boston
* Brookline, Missouri
* Brookline, New Hampshire
* Brookline (Pittsburgh), a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
* Brookline, Vermont
See ...
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
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 ...
Nika Elugardo
Nika C. Elugardo is an American attorney and politician. She served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing Boston and Brookline for two terms from 2019 to 2023.
Education
Elugardo earned her Bachelor of Scien ...
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 2019.
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's
1st Middlesex and Norfolk district,
Norfolk and Suffolk district, and
2nd Suffolk district.
Representatives
* Michael Garity, circa 1888
* Frank Forrest Woods, circa 1888
* William A. Canty, circa 1920
* James J. Mulvey, circa 1920
* John Joseph Beades, circa 1951
*
Francis Xavier Joyce, circa 1951
*
John P. McMorrow (1953–1957)
*
George V. Kenneally Jr. (1957–1963)
*
Royal L. Bolling, Jr., circa 1975
* Kevin Fitzgerald, circa 2002
*
Jeffrey Sanchez, January 2003 – January 2019
*
Nika Elugardo
Nika C. Elugardo is an American attorney and politician. She served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing Boston and Brookline for two terms from 2019 to 2023.
Education
Elugardo earned her Bachelor of Scien ...
, 2019-2023
*
Sam Montaño
Sam, SAM or variants may refer to:
Places
* Sam, Benin
* Sam, Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso
* Sam, Bourzanga, Burkina Faso
* Sam, Kongoussi, Burkina Faso
* Sam, Iran
* Sam, Teton County, Idaho, United States, a populated place
People and fictional ...
, 2023-present
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
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube (algebra), cube.
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,
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.
It is the number of years required for an orbital period of Jupiter. It is central to many systems ...
,
13th,
14th,
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 Edward Collins Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Edward Collins
1908 Patrick H OConnor Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Patrick H. O'Connor
1918 John Englert Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Englert
1918 Stephen Mealey Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Stephen Mealey
1923 Peter Kelley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Peter Kelley
1923 William Canty Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Canty
1935 Francis Coyne Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Francis Coyne
1935 Timothy Murphy Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Timothy Murphy
1945 John Carroll Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Carroll
1945 Thomas Reilly Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Thomas Reilly
1953 John Joseph Beades Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Joseph Beades
1953 John Philip McMorrow Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Philip McMorrow
1967 Charles Doyle Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Charles Doyle
1967 Robert Cawley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Robert Cawley
1983 Thomas Finneran Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Thomas Finneran
1995 Kevin Fitzgerald Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Kevin Fitzgerald
Jeffrey Sanchez.jpg, Jeffrey Sanchez
Nika C. Elugardo.jpg, Nika Elugardo
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 BrooklineLeague of Women Voters of Boston
House
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Government of Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Government of Norfolk County, Massachusetts
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