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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 4th Worcester district in the United States is one of 160
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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 the city of
Leominster Leominster ( ) is a market town in Herefordshire, England, at the confluence of the River Lugg and its tributary the River Kenwater. The town is north of Hereford and south of Ludlow in Shropshire. With a population of 11,700, Leominster is t ...
in Worcester County.
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Natalie Higgins Natalie M. Higgins (born July 24, 1988) is an American politician serving in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Natalie is a lifelong Leominster resident, Boston-educated attorney, and former non ...
of Leominster has represented the district since 2017. The current district geographic boundary overlaps with that of the Massachusetts Senate's Worcester and Middlesex district.


Representatives

* Gerard Bushnell, circa 1858 * Aaron Greenwood, circa 1859 * Samuel Dwight Simonds, circa 1888 * Edgar J. Buck, circa 1920 * Philip Andrew Quinn, circa 1951 * Fredrick W. Schlosstein 1965-1973 * Henry R. Grenier, 1973-1976 * Angelo Picucci 1979-1989 * Robert A. Antonioni 1989-1993 * Mary Jane Simmons, 1993-2004 * Jennifer L. Flanagan 2005-2009 * Dennis A. Rosa 2009-2017 * Natalie Higgins, 2017-current


Former locales

The district previously covered: *
Barre Barre or Barré may refer to: * Barre (name) or Barré, a surname and given name Places United States * Barre, Massachusetts, a New England town ** Barre (CDP), Massachusetts, the central village in the town * Barre, New York, a town * Barre (c ...
, circa 1872 * Dana, circa 1872 * Hardwick, circa 1872 * Hubbardston, circa 1872 *
New Braintree New Braintree is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 996 at the 2020 census. History Before being settled by re-located residents of Braintree, Massachusetts, New Braintree was occupied by various Nat ...
, circa 1872 * Petersham, circa 1872 * Phillipston, circa 1872


See also

* List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections * Other Worcester County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st,
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, 5th, 6th,
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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,
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, 13th, 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,
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* Worcester County districts of the Massachusett Senate: 1st,
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; Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester; Middlesex and Worcester; Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex; Worcester and Middlesex; Worcester and Norfolk *
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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

;Portraits of legislators 1908 Herbert Maynard Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Herbert Maynard 1918 Warren Tarbell Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Warren Tarbell 1923 Herbert King Davidson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Herbert King Davidson 1935 Albert Boyer Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Albert Boyer 1935 Edward Staves Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Edward Staves 1945 Charles Shepard Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Charles Shepard 1953 Philip Andrew Quinn Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Philip Andrew Quinn 1967 Frederic Schlosstein Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Frederic Schlosstein 1975 Henry Grenier Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Henry Grenier 1983 Angelo Picucci Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Angelo Picucci 1995 Mary Jane Simmons Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Mary Jane Simmons 2005 Jennifer Flanagan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Jennifer Flanagan


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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