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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 13th Essex 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 the General Court of Massachusetts, is the State legislature (United States), state legislature of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts located in the state capital of Boston. Th ...
. It covers part of Essex County.
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Sally Kerans of Danvers has represented the district since 2021.


Locales represented

The district includes the following localities: * Danvers * part of Middleton * part of Peabody The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's 1st Essex and Middlesex and 2nd Essex districts.


Former locale

The district previously covered part of
Salem Salem may refer to: Places Canada * Salem, Ontario, various places Germany * Salem, Baden-Württemberg, a municipality in the Bodensee district ** Salem Abbey (Reichskloster Salem), a monastery * Salem, Schleswig-Holstein Israel * Salem (B ...
, circa 1872.


Representatives

* Joseph W. Abbott, circa 1858 * Dean Peabody, circa 1859 * Francis Taylor Berry, circa 1888 * Vernon Wynne Evans, circa 1920 * Tony A. Garofano, circa 1920 * Daniel J. Hayden, circa 1920 *
Harriet Russell Hart Harriet Russell Hart (1878-1958) was an American politician who served on the Lynn, Massachusetts School Committee and the Massachusetts House of Representatives. She was the third woman elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Earl ...
* Frank Edwin Boot, circa 1951 * Michael Joseph Carroll, circa 1951 * Richard James White, Jr., circa 1951 * Henry A. Walker, circa 1975 * John E. Murphy, Jr. *
Peter G. Torkildsen Peter Gerard Torkildsen (born January 28, 1958) is an American Republican Party politician from Massachusetts. He represented the 13th Essex district, including his hometown of Danvers, in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1985 ...
* Sally Kerans * Theodore C. Speliotis * Sally Kerans, 2021–present


See also

* List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections * Other Essex County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives:
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, 3rd; 1st Essex and Middlesex; 2nd Essex and Middlesex *
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Images

1908 John Cormack Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Cormack 1908 John McKenney Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John McKenney 1918 Ernest William Allen Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Ernest William Allen 1918 George Nourse Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, George Nourse 1918 Thomas Baxter Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Thomas Baxter 1923 Ralph Howard Burckes Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Ralph Howard Burckes 1923 Tony Garofano Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Tony Garofano 1923 Vernon Wynne Evans Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Vernon Wynne Evans 1925_Harriet_Russell_Hart_Massachusetts_House_of_Representatives.png, Harriet Russell Hart 1935 Edward Coffey Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Edward Coffey 1945 Eben Parsons Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Eben Parsons 1945 Edmond Talbot Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Edmond Talbot 1945 Lester Morley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Lester Morley 1953 Frank Edwin Boot Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Frank Edwin Boot 1953 Michael Joseph Carroll Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Michael Joseph Carroll 1953 Norman Eugene Folsom Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Norman Eugene Folsom 1967 Gerard Guilmette Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Gerard Guilmette 1967 John Bresnahan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Bresnahan 1975 Henry Walker Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Henry Walker 1983 John Murphy Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Murphy 1995 Sally Kerans Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Sally Kerans Torkildsen.jpg, Peter Torkildsen


References


External links


Ballotpedia
* (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's
American Community Survey The American Community Survey (ACS) is an annual demographics survey program conducted by the United States Census Bureau. It regularly gathers information previously contained only in the long form of the United States census, decennial census ...
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League of Women Voters of Topsfield-Boxford-Middleton
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Government of Essex County, Massachusetts