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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 2nd Suffolk district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts 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 the city of
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and part of the city of
Chelsea Chelsea or Chelsey may refer to: Places Australia * Chelsea, Victoria Canada * Chelsea, Nova Scotia * Chelsea, Quebec United Kingdom * Chelsea, London, an area of London, bounded to the south by the River Thames ** Chelsea (UK Parliament consti ...
in Suffolk County.
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Dan Ryan of Charlestown has represented the district since 2015. Candidates for this district seat in the
2020 Massachusetts general election The 2020 Massachusetts general election was held on November 3, 2020, throughout Massachusetts. Primary elections were held on September 1, 2020. At the federal level, all nine seats in the United States House of Representatives were conteste ...
include the incumbent Ryan and Damali Vidot. The current district geographic boundary overlaps with that of the Massachusetts Senate's Middlesex and Suffolk district.


Representatives

* Amos A. Dunnels, circa 1858-1859 * Bradbury G. Prescott, circa 1858 * Cyrus Washburn, circa 1858 * Edward F. Porter, circa 1859 * Stephen N. Stockwell, circa 1859 *
Patrick J. Kennedy Patrick Joseph Kennedy II (born July 14, 1967) is an American politician and mental health advocate. From 1995 to 2011, he served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Rhode Island's 1st congressional distr ...
, circa 1888 * Thomas O. McEnany, circa 1888 * John B. Cashman, circa 1920 * Patrick F. Moran, circa 1920 * Jeremiah Francis Brennan, circa 1951 * Dennis Kearney, circa 1975 * Richard A. Voke * Eugene O'Flaherty * Daniel Joseph Ryan, 2015-current


See also

* List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections * Other Suffolk 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 ...
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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,
13th In music or music theory, a thirteenth is the note thirteen scale degrees from the root of a chord and also the interval between the root and the thirteenth. The interval can be also described as a compound sixth, spanning an octave pl ...
, 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, ...
, 17th,
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. ...
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19th 19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 and preceding 20. It is a prime number. Mathematics 19 is the eighth prime number, and forms a sexy prime with 13, a twin prime with 17, and a cousin prime with 23. It is the third full re ...
*
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


Images

;Portraits of legislators 1908 Bernard Hanrahan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Bernard Hanrahan 1908 John F Sullivan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John F. Sullivan 1918 John Cashman Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Cashman 1918 William Hearn Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Hearn 1923 J Frederick Curtin Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, J. Frederick Curtin 1923 Timothy Francis Donovan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Timothy Francis Donovan 1935 James Kiley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James Kiley 1935 Thomas Flaherty Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Thomas Flaherty 1945 David Cleary Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, David Cleary 1945 James McDevitt Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James McDevitt 1953 Jeremiah Francis Brennan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Jeremiah Francis Brennan 1967 Anthony Scalli Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Anthony Scalli 1975 Dennis Kearney Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Dennis Kearney 1995 Richard Voke Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Richard Voke Eugene O'Flaherty.jpg, Eugene O'Flaherty


References


Further reading

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External links


Ballotpedia
* (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
League of Women Voters of Boston
{{Massachusetts government House Government of Suffolk County, Massachusetts