Massachusetts House Of Representatives' 2nd Hampden District
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Massachusetts House of Representatives' 2nd Hampden 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 lower house of the
Massachusetts General Court The Massachusetts General Court (formally styled the General Court of Massachusetts) is the State legislature (United States), state legislature of the Massachusetts, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The name "General Court" is a hold-over from th ...
. It covers part of Hampden 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 ...
Brian Ashe of Longmeadow has represented the district since 2009.


Towns represented

The district includes the following localities: * part of East Longmeadow * Hampden * Longmeadow * Monson The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's 1st Hampden and Hampshire district and Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex district.


Former locales

The district previously covered: *
Palmer Palmer may refer to: People and fictional characters * Palmer (pilgrim), a medieval European pilgrim to the Holy Land * Palmer (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Palmer (surname), including a list of people and ...
, circa 1872 * Wilbraham, circa 1872


Representatives

* Solomon A. Fay, circa 1858 * Henry Scism, circa 1859 * William Provin, circa 1888 * Charles Fay Shepard, circa 1888 * Herbert L. Miller, circa 1920 * Frederick A. Warren, circa 1920 * John Forbes Thompson, circa 1951 * Iris K. Holland, circa 1975 * Mary Rogeness * Brian M. Ashe, 2009-current


See also

* List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections * Other Hampden County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st, 3rd, 4th,
5th Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five. Fifth or The Fifth may refer to: * Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth" * Fifth column, a political term * Fifth disease, a contagious rash tha ...
, 6th, 7th,
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,
10th 10 (ten) is the even natural number following 9 and preceding 11. Ten is the base of the decimal numeral system, by far the most common system of denoting numbers in both spoken and written language. It is the first double-digit number. The re ...
,
11th 11 (eleven) is the natural number following 10 and preceding 12. It is the first repdigit. In English, it is the smallest positive integer whose name has three syllables. Name "Eleven" derives from the Old English ', which is first atteste ...
, 12th * Hampden County districts of the Massachusett Senate: Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden; Hampden; 1st Hampden and Hampshire; 2nd Hampden and Hampshire *
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 ...
*
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 ...


References


External links


Ballotpedia
* (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey). House Government of Hampden County, Massachusetts {{HampdenCountyMA-geo-stub