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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 5th Suffolk district in the United States is one of 160
1908 Ignatius Carleton Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Ignatius Carleton
1918 Edward Scigliano Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Edward Scigliano
1918 John Donovan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Donovan
1918 Philip Feinberg Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Philip Feinberg
1920 Henry Shattuck Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Henry Shattuck
1923 Bernard Finkelstein Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Bernard Finkelstein
1923 John I Fitzgerald Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John I. Fitzgerald
1923 Joseph Langone Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Joseph Langone
1935 Laurence Curtis Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Laurence Curtis
1935 Christian Herter Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Christian Herter
1945 Stuart Rand Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Stuart Rand
1953 James Bayley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James Bayley
1953 John Eliot Yerxa Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Eliot Yerxa
1967 Gerald OLeary Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Gerald O'Leary
1967 Michael Flaherty Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Michael Flaherty
Senate President William M. Bulger (9501946909).jpg, William Bulger
1975 Barney Frank Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Barney Frank
1983 Richard Rouse Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Richard Rouse
1989 Nelson Merced Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Nelson Merced
AltheaGarrison.png, Althea Garrison
1995 Charlotte Golar Richie Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Charlotte Golar Richie
2005 Marie St Fleur Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Marie St Fleur
Evandro Carvalho.jpg, Evandro Carvalho
Liz Miranda.jpg, Liz Miranda
Ballotpedia
* (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
League of Women Voters of Boston
House Government of Suffolk County, Massachusetts {{Boston-geo-stub
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 5th Suffolk 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 Boston
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in Suffolk County. Democrat Christopher Worrell of Dorchester has represented the district since 2023.
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's 1st Suffolk and 2nd Suffolk districts.
Representatives
* Edward Sands, circa 1858-1859 * Abraham G. Wyman, circa 1858 * Frederick Whiton, circa 1859 * Patrick J. Calnan, circa 1888 * Edward Gagan, circa 1888 * John I. Fitzgerald, circa 1920 * Louis Orenberg, circa 1920 * Edward A. Scigliano, circa 1920 *Christian Herter
Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895December 30, 1966) was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 59th Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961. His moderate ...
, circa 1939
* Henry Lee Shattuck, circa 1945
* James C. Bayley, circa 1951
* Sherman Miles
Major General Sherman Miles (December 5, 1882Beer, Siegfried: "Sherman Miles – vor und nach Kärnten 1919. Anmerkungen zu einer hauptsächlich nachrichtendienstlichen Karriere in der US-Armee", pp. 309–317 in Valentin, H.; Haiden, S.; Ma ...
, 1947–1953
* John Yerxa, 1953–1957
* William Bulger
William Michael Bulger (born February 2, 1934) is an American former Democratic politician, lawyer, and educator from South Boston, Massachusetts. His eighteen-year tenure as President of the Massachusetts Senate is the longest in history. He t ...
, circa 1967
* Barney Frank
Barnett Frank (born March 31, 1940) is a former American politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. A Democrat, Frank served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committ ...
, circa 1975
* Richard J. Rouse
* Nelson Merced
Nelson Merced (born August 17, 1947 in New York City) is a Massachusetts Latino activist and politician. He was the first Hispanic elected to the Massachusetts General Court, serving from 1989 to 1993 as Democratic representative from the fifth ...
, 1989-1993
* Althea Garrison
Althea Garrison (born October 7, 1940) is an independent American politician from Boston, Massachusetts, who has served on the Boston City Council as an at-large councilor.
Garrison was elected as a Republican to the Massachusetts House of Rep ...
, 1993-1995
* Charlotte Golar Richie, 1995-1999
* Marie St. Fleur, 1999-2011
* Carlos Henriquez
Carlos Tony Henriquez is an American Democratic politician who represented the 5th Suffolk district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives prior to his expulsion from office in 2014. He was the first house member to be expelled from offi ...
, 2011-2014
* Evandro Carvalho, 2014-2019
* Liz Miranda, 2019-2023
* Christopher Worrell, 2023-current
See also
* List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections * Other Suffolk County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives:1st
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, 2nd
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, 3rd
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, 4th, 6th
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, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th
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, 11th
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, 12th, 13th
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, 14th, 15th, 16th
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, 17th, 18th
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, 19th
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* 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
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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
House Government of Suffolk County, Massachusetts {{Boston-geo-stub