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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 2nd Bristol district in the United States is one of 160
legislative districts An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other poli ...
included in the
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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 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube (algebra), cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion ...
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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 *
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 ...


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 ...
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House A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condi ...
Government of Bristol County, Massachusetts {{BristolCountyMA-geo-stub