Jason M. Lewis (born April 19, 1968) is an American

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elected in April 2014 to the

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, representing the 5th Middlesex District. He is a

Winchester Winchester is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs Nation ...

resident and a member of the

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. From January 2009 to April 2014 he represented the 31st Middlesex district in the

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. Born in

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, Lewis moved to the U.S. at the age of 12. He won an April 2014 special election to succeed

Katherine Clark Katherine Marlea Clark (born July 17, 1963) is an American politician who has served as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 5th congressional district since 2013. She has been Assistant House Democratic Leader (officially Assistant Spea ...

in the state Senate, first having won the March 2014 Democratic primary.

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Living people Democratic Party Massachusetts state senators Democratic Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives People from Winchester, Massachusetts South African emigrants to the United States Harvard University alumni 1968 births 21st-century American politicians {{Massachusetts-MASenate-stub

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