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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 2nd Norfolk 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
Quincy in
Norfolk County.
Democrat
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Politics
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*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (United States) (D)
**Democratic ...
Tackey Chan of Quincy has represented the district since 2011.
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with that of the Massachusetts Senate's
Norfolk and Plymouth district.
Representatives
* Abijah W. Draper, circa 1858
* William McCarty, circa 1859
* George Nathaniel Carpenter, circa 1888
* Erland F. Fish, circa 1920
* Renton Whidden, circa 1920
* William Whittem Jenness, circa 1951
* Thomas F. Brownell, circa 1975
* Arthur S. Tobin
* Tackey Chan, 2011-current
Former locales
The district previously covered:
*
Brookline
Brookline may refer to:
Places in the United States
* Brookline, Massachusetts, a town near Boston
* Brookline, Missouri
* Brookline, New Hampshire
* Brookline (Pittsburgh), a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
* Brookline, Vermont
See ...
, circa 1927
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West Roxbury
West Roxbury is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts bordered by Roslindale and Jamaica Plain to the northeast, the town of Brookline to the north, the cities and towns of Newton and Needham to the northwest and the town of Dedham to the ...
, circa 1872
See also
*
List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
* Other Norfolk 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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,
8th
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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
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Evolution of the Arabic digit
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,
10th,
11th,
12th
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,
13th,
14th,
15th
*
List of Massachusetts General Courts
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*
Images
;Portraits of legislators
1908 Joseph Walker Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Joseph Walker
1908 Norman White Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Norman White
1918 Charles Rowley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Charles Rowley
1918 George Baldwin Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, George Baldwin
1923 Erland Fish Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Erland Fish
1923 Renton Whidden Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Renton Whidden
1935 Albert Bigelow Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Albert Bigelow
1935 John Comerford Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Comerford
1935 Philip Bowker Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Philip Bowker
1953 William Whittem Jenness Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Whittem Jenness
1967 Arthur Tobin Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Arthur H. Tobin
1975 Thomas Brownell Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Thomas Brownell
1995 A Stephen Tobin Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, A. Stephen Tobin
References
External links
Ballotpedia* (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's
American Community Survey
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).
{{Massachusetts government
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Government of Norfolk County, Massachusetts