Massachusetts House Of Representatives' 27th Middlesex District
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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 27th Middlesex district in the United States is one of 160
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included in the
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. It covers part of the city of
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in Middlesex County.
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Erika Uyterhoeven is the current representative. The current district geographic boundary overlaps with that of the Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Middlesex district.


Representatives

* Cyrus A. Davis, circa 1858 * Noah Ball, circa 1859 * Dennis J. O'Brien, circa 1888 * Lewis Parkhurst, circa 1908 * Winfield F. Prime, 1913-1914 * Jacob Bitzer, 1915-1919 * Charles C. Warren, circa 1920 * Bert Currier, circa 1923 * Owen McLellan, circa 1935 * Michael Francis Skerry, circa 1951 * Paul Cavanaugh, circa 1967 * Sherman W. Saltmarsh, Jr., circa 1975 * Charles Flaherty, circa 1983 *
Patricia D. Jehlen Patricia Deats Jehlen is a former teacher and current Massachusetts State Senator of the Democratic Party. She represents the Second Middlesex District. That includes the cities of Cambridge, wards 9 to 11, inclusive, Medford and Somerville, a ...
* Denise Provost, 2007-2021 * Erika Uyterhoeven, 2021-present


Former locale

The district previously covered: * part of Lowell, 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 ...
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List of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives The following is a list of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the United States. Legislative districts for elected representation in the Massachusetts House of Representatives are apportioned based on census informat ...
* Other Middlesex County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st,
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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, 6th,
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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, 25th, 26th, 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 ...
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Images

1908 Lewis Parkhurst Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Lewis Parkhurst File:Winfield F. Prime.png, Winfield F. Prime, in office 1913-1914 (photo circa 1901) File:Jacob Bitzer.png, Jacob Bitzer, in office 1915-1919 1923 Bert Currier Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Bert Currier 1935 Owen McLellan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Owen McLellan 1945 Michael Skerry Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Michael Skerry 1967 Paul Cavanaugh Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Paul Cavanaugh 1975 Sherman Saltmarsh Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Sherman Saltmarsh 1983 Charles Flaherty Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Charles Flaherty File:1991 Patricia Jehlen.png, Patricia Jehlen, in office 2003–2005 (photo 1991) Denise Provost at Assembly station opening, September 2014.JPG, Denise Provost


References


Further reading

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External links


Ballotpedia
* (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's
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Government of Middlesex County, Massachusetts {{MiddlesexCountyMA-geo-stub