Massachusetts House of Representatives' 2nd 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 part of
Attleboro in
Bristol 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 ...
Jim Hawkins of Attleboro has represented the district since 2018.
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's
Bristol and Norfolk and
Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex districts.
Representatives
* John Crane, circa 1858
* Daniel S. Cobb, circa 1859
* William Blanding Rogerson, circa 1888
* Kenneth W. Keith, circa 1920
* Albert E. Wood, circa 1951
* Edward Paul Coury, circa 1975
* Stephen Karol, circa 1994
*
John Lepper
John A. Lepper (born December 22, 1934, in Attleboro, Massachusetts) is an American politician who represented the 2nd Bristol District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1995 to 2009. He had previously served as a member of the A ...
, 1995–2009
*
Bill Bowles, 2009–2011
*
George T. Ross, 2011–2013
*
Paul Heroux
Paul Heroux (born 1976) is an American politician who is the Sheriff of Bristol County, Massachusetts. He previously served as Mayor of Attleboro, and a State Representative from the Second Bristol District, elected in 2012.
Career
State Represe ...
, January 5, 2013 – January 2, 2018
*
Jim Hawkins, 2018-current
Former locales
The district previously covered:
*
Easton, circa 1927
*
Mansfield
Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market tow ...
, circa 1872
*
Norton Norton may refer to:
Places
Norton, meaning 'north settlement' in Old English, is a common place name. Places named Norton include: Canada
* Rural Municipality of Norton No. 69, Saskatchewan
*Norton Parish, New Brunswick
**Norton, New Brunswick, a ...
, circa 1872
See also
*
List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
* Other Bristol County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives:
1st,
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
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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 William L Robinson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William L. Robinson
1918 James Moran Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James Moran
1923 Everett William Robinson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Everett William
1935 Roger McNamara Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Roger McNamara
1953 Albert Wood Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Albert Wood
1967 Walter OBrien Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Walter O'Brien
1975 Edward Coury Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Edward Coury
1983 Stephen Karol Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Stephen Karol
1995 John Lepper Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Lepper
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 ...
).
House
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Government of Bristol County, Massachusetts
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