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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Barnstable district in the United States is one of 160
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included in the
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of the
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. It covers part of
Barnstable County Barnstable County is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the population was 228,996. Its shire town is Barnstable. The county consists of Cape Cod and associated islands (some adjacent islands are in Duk ...
. The district is currently represented by Democrat
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.


Towns represented

The district includes the following localities: * part of Barnstable * part of Brewster *
Dennis Dennis or Denis is a first or last name from the Greco-Roman name Dionysius, via one of the Christian saints named Dionysius. The name came from Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstatic states, particularly those produced by wine, which is someti ...
* part of
Yarmouth Yarmouth may refer to: Places Canada *Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia **Yarmouth, Nova Scotia **Municipality of the District of Yarmouth **Yarmouth (provincial electoral district) **Yarmouth (electoral district) * Yarmouth Township, Ontario *New ...
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with that of the Massachusetts Senate's
Cape and Islands Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer mont ...
district.


Former locales

The district previously covered: *
Bourne Bourne may refer to: Places UK * Bourne, Lincolnshire, a town ** Bourne Abbey ** Bourne railway station * Bourne (electoral division), West Sussex * Bourne SSSI, Avon, a Site of Special Scientific Interest near Burrington, North Somerset * Bourne ...
, circa 1927 * Falmouth, circa 1872, 1927 * Mashpee, circa 1927 *
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, circa 1872, 1927


Representatives

* Zenas D. Basset, circa 1858 * John A. Baxter, circa 1858 * Paul Wing, circa 1858 * John S. Fish, circa 1859 * Nathaniel Hinckley, circa 1859 * William Nye, Jr., circa 1859 * Joshua Crowell, circa 1888 * Albert R. Eldridge, circa 1888 * Thomas Pattison, circa 1908 * George Dennis, circa 1918 * Edward Carroll Hinckley, circa 1923 * William Jones, circa 1935 * Henry Ellis, circa 1945 * Allan Francis Jones, circa 1951 * John Bowes, circa 1967 * Bernard Wilber, circa 1975 * Haden Greenhalgh, circa 1984 * Henri S. Rauschenbach, 1985–1988 * Edward B. Teague III, 1989–1997 * Thomas N. George, 1997–2005 * Cleon Turner, 2005 – January 6, 2015 * Timothy R. Whelan, 2015-2023 * Chris Flanagan, 2023–present


See also

* List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections * Other Barnstable County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives:
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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; Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket *
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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Images

;Portraits of legislators 1908 Thomas Pattison Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Thomas Pattison 1918 George Dennis Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, George Dennis 1923 Edward Carroll Hinckley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Edward Carroll Hinckley 1935 William Jones Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Jones 1945 Henry Ellis Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Henry Ellis 1953 Allan Francis Jones Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Allan Francis Jones 1967 John Bowes Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Bowes 1975 Bernard Wilber Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Bernard Wilber 1983 Haden Greenhalgh Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Haden Greenhalgh 1991 Henri Rauschenbach senator Massachusetts.jpg, Henri Rauschenbach 1995 Edward Teague Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Edward Teague


References


Further reading

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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 the Cape Cod Area
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Government of Barnstable County, Massachusetts