Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Essex district in the United States is one of 40
legislative districts
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of the
Massachusetts Senate
The Massachusetts Senate is the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Senate comprises 40 elected members from 40 single-member senatorial districts in the st ...
. It covers portions of
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Grea ...
county.
Democrat
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Politics
*A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people.
*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (United States) (D)
**Democratic ...
Joan Lovely of Salem has represented the district since 2013.
Towns represented
The district includes the following localities:
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Beverly
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Danvers
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Peabody
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Salem
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Topsfield
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts House of Representatives'
4th Essex,
6th Essex,
7th Essex,
12th Essex, and
13th Essex districts.
Former locales
The district previously covered the following:
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Hamilton Hamilton may refer to:
People
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** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland
** Lord Hamilt ...
, circa 1860s
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Middleton, circa 1860s
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South Danvers, circa 1860s
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Wenham, circa 1860s
List of senators
* J.B.F. Osgood, circa 1859
* Francis T. Berry, circa 1894
* E. Howard Perley
* Thomas Walter Creese
* Arthur S. Adams, circa 1911
* Albert Pierce, circa 1935
* J. Elmer Callahan, circa 1945
Images
;Portraits of legislators
1918 E Howard Perley senator Massachusetts.jpg, E. Howard Perley
1923 Thomas Walter Creese senator Massachusetts.jpg, Thomas Walter Creese
1945 J Elmer Callahan senator Massachusetts.jpg, J. Elmer Callahan
See also
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List of Massachusetts Senate elections
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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 ...
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List of former districts of the Massachusetts Senate
The following is a list of former districts of the Massachusetts Senate in the United States. The legislative districts were created to apportion elected representation in the Massachusetts Senate based on voter population. In recent decades, redis ...
* Other Essex County districts of the Massachusett Senate:
1st,
3rd;
1st Essex and Middlesex;
2nd Essex and Middlesex
* Essex County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives:
1st,
2nd
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,
3rd,
4th,
5th
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,
6th,
7th
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,
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
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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
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,
12th
12 (twelve) is the natural number following 11 and preceding 13. Twelve is a superior highly composite number, divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6.
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,
13th
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,
14th,
15th,
16th
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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. ...
References
External links
Ballotpedia* (State Senate district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's
American Community Survey).
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Senate
Government of Essex County, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Senate
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