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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Bristol 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 parts of
Bristol County and
Norfolk County.
Republican
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Political ideology
* An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law.
** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
F. Jay Barrows of Mansfield has represented the district since 2009.
Candidates running for this district seat in the
2020 Massachusetts general election include Brendan Roche.
Towns represented
The district includes the following localities:
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Foxborough
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Mansfield
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Norton Norton may refer to:
Places
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* Rural Municipality of Norton No. 69, Saskatchewan
*Norton Parish, New Brunswick
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The current district geographic boundary overlaps with that of the Massachusetts Senate's
Bristol and Norfolk district.
Former locales
The district previously covered:
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Attleboro, circa 1872, 1927
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North Attleborough
North Attleborough, alternatively spelled North Attleboro, is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 30,834 at the 2020 United States Census.
The villages of Attleboro Falls and North Attleborough Center are ...
, circa 1927
Representatives
* William W. Blodgett, circa 1858-1859
* Horatio N. Richardson, circa 1858
* William D. Earl, circa 1859
* George R. Perry, circa 1888
* Abijah T. Wales, circa 1888
* Frank Coombs, circa 1908
* Samuel Holman, circa 1908
* William Bartlett, circa 1918
* William Plattner, circa 1920
* George M. Worrall, circa 1920
* Charles Sumner Holden, circa 1923
* Harry Kent, circa 1923
* Francis Kelley, circa 1935
* Fred Briggs, circa 1935
* Arthur Eaton Young, circa 1951
* Carlton Bliss, circa 1953
* George Spatcher, circa 1967
* Donald R. Gaudette, circa 1975
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Roger R. Goyette, 1977-1978
* William B. Vernon, circa 1991
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Barbara Hyland, 1992–2001
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Michael J. Coppola, 2001–2005
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Ginny Coppola, 2006–2007
* Fred Jay Barrows, 2009-current
See also
*
List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
* Other Bristol County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives:
2nd,
3rd
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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
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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
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It is the number of years required for an orbital period of Jupiter. It is central to many systems ...
,
13th,
14th
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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 Frank Coombs Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Frank Coombs
1908 Samuel Holman Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Samuel Holman
1918 George Worrall Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, George Worrall
1918 William Bartlett Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Bartlett
1923 Charles Sumner Holden Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Charles Sumner Holden
1923 Harry Kent Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Harry Kent
1935 Francis Kelley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Francis Kelley
1935 Fred Briggs Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Fred Briggs
1945 Arthur Young Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Arthur Young
1953 Carlton Bliss Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Carlton Bliss
1967 George Spatcher Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, George Spatcher
1975 Donald Gaudette Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Donald Gaudette
1983 William Vernon Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Vernon
1995 Barbara Hyland Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Barbara Hyland
2005 Michael Coppola Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Michael Coppola
References
External links
Ballotpedia* (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's
American Community Survey
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).
{{Massachusetts government
House
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Government of Bristol County, Massachusetts
Government of Norfolk County, Massachusetts