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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 5th Plymouth district in the United States is one of 160

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included in the

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. It covers part of Plymouth County.

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David DeCoste of Norwell has represented the district since 2015.

Towns represented

The district includes the following localities: *

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

* Norwell * Rockland The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's Norfolk and Plymouth district, 2nd Plymouth and Bristol district, and Plymouth and Norfolk district.

Former locales

The district previously covered: *

Duxbury Duxbury (alternative older spelling: "Duxborough") is a historic seaside town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb located on the South Shore approximately to the southeast of Boston, the population was 16,090 at the 20 ...

, circa 1872 * Kingston, circa 1872

Representatives

* William Ellison, circa 1858 * Job W. Drew, circa 1859 * George Hartford Hunt, circa 1888 * Frank N. Coulson, circa 1920 * Michael J. McCarthy, circa 1951 * Robert W. Gillette, circa 1975 * David F. DeCoste, 2015-current

Images

;Portraits of legislators 1908 Wallace Arnold Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Wallace Arnold 1918 John Crowley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Crowley 1923 Maurice Greaney Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Maurice Greaney 1935 William Brown Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Brown 1953 Michael McCarthy Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Michael McCarthy 1967 John Armstrong Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Armstrong 1975 Robert Gillette Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Robert Gillette 1983 William Flynn Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Flynn 1995 Janet OBrien Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Janet W. O'Brien 2005 Robert Nyman Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Robert Nyman

References

External links

Ballotpedia
* (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's

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