Massachusetts House of Representatives' 25th Middlesex 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 the city of
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...
in
Middlesex 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 ...
Marjorie Decker
Marjorie C. Decker is an American politician serving as the State Representative for the 25th Middlesex district in the Massachusetts General Court.
Early life and education
Decker was born and raised in North Cambridge, Massachusetts. She grew ...
of Cambridge has represented the district since 2013.
The district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's
2nd Middlesex district,
Middlesex and Suffolk district, and
1st Suffolk and Middlesex district.
Representatives
This is a partial list of Representatives:
* Henry Richardson, circa 1858
* Nathan B. Edwards, circa 1859
* Albert G. Thompson, circa 1888
* Richard B. Coolidge, circa 1920
* Arthur W. Robinson, circa 1920
* James R. Doncaster, circa 1951
* James S. Conway, circa 1975
*
Charles Flaherty, 1991–1996
*
Alice Wolf,
1996–2013
*
Marjorie Decker
Marjorie C. Decker is an American politician serving as the State Representative for the 25th Middlesex district in the Massachusetts General Court.
Early life and education
Decker was born and raised in North Cambridge, Massachusetts. She grew ...
, 2013–
Former locales
The district previously covered:
*
Billerica
Billerica (, ) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 42,119 according to the 2020 census. It takes its name from the town of Billericay in Essex, England.
History
In the early 1630s, a Praying India ...
, circa 1872
*
Chelmsford
Chelmsford () is a city in the City of Chelmsford district in the county of Essex, England. It is the county town of Essex and one of three cities in the county, along with Southend-on-Sea and Colchester. It is located north-east of London a ...
, circa 1872
*
Tewksbury, circa 1872
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 legislatur ...
*
* Other Middlesex 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
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,
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,
20th,
21st,
22nd,
23rd,
24th,
26th,
27th,
28th,
29th,
30th,
31st,
32nd,
33rd,
34th,
35th Military units
*35th Fighter Wing, an air combat unit of the United States Air Force
*35th Infantry Division (United States), a formation of the National Guard since World War I
*35th Infantry Regiment (United States), a regiment created on 1 July 1 ...
,
36th,
37th
Images
;Portraits of legislators
1908 Charles Underhill Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Charles Underhill
1908 Robert Luce Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Robert Luce
1908 Sidney Keene Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Sidney Keene
1918 William Kneeland Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Kneeland
1923 Thomas Bateman Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Thomas Bateman
1935 Hiram Dearborn Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Hiram Dearborn
1935 Philip Sherman Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Philip Sherman
1945 John Foster Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Foster
1945 Joseph McEvoy Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Joseph McEvoy
1953 James Doncaster Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James Doncaster
1967 Eleanor Campobasso Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Eleanor Campobasso
1967 William Moran Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Moran
1975 James Conway Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James Conway
1983 John Cusack Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Cusack
1995 J James Marzilli Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, J. James Marzilli
Alice Wolf.jpg, Alice Wolf
References
External links
Ballotpedia* (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's
American Community Survey
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).
House
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Government of Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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