
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 13th Essex 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
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. It covers part of
Essex County.
Democrat
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Politics
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*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (Cyprus) (DCY)
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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:
1st
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* First, the ordinal form of the number 1
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Acronyms
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,
2nd
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* 2 (number), as an ordinal (also written as ''2nd'' or ''2d'')
* Minute and second of arc, ...
,
3rd,
4th
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* the ordinal form of the number 4
* ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971
* Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision
* Fourth (music), a musical interval
* ''The Fourth'', a 1972 Soviet drama
...
,
5th
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Fifth or The Fifth may refer to:
* Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth"
* Fifth Avenue
* Fifth column, a political term
* Fifth disease, a cont ...
,
6th,
7th
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* A fraction (mathematics), , equal to one of seven equal parts
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*"The Seventh", a second-season ep ...
,
8th
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* Eighth note (quaver), a musical note played for half the value of a quarter note (crotchet)
* Octave, an interval b ...
,
9th,
10th,
11th,
12th
Twelfth can mean:
*The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution
*The Twelfth, a Protestant celebration originating in Ireland
In mathematics:
* 12th, an ordinal number; as in the item in an order twelve places from the beginning, follo ...
,
14th,
15th,
16th,
17th,
18th
* Essex County districts of the Massachusett Senate:
1st
First most commonly refers to:
* First, the ordinal form of the number 1
First or 1st may also refer to:
Acronyms
* Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters, an astronomical survey carried out by the Very Large Array
* Far Infrared a ...
,
2nd
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Second, Seconds, The Second, or (The) 2nd may also refer to:
Mathematics
* 2 (number), as an ordinal (also written as ''2nd'' or ''2d'')
* Minute and second of arc, ...
,
3rd;
1st Essex and Middlesex;
2nd Essex and Middlesex
*
List of Massachusetts General Courts
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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
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).
League of Women Voters of Topsfield-Boxford-Middleton
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House
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Government of Essex County, Massachusetts