
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 2nd Suffolk district in the United States is one of 160
legislative districts
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included in the
lower house 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
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the capital city, state capital and List of municipalities in Massachusetts, most populous city of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financ ...
and part of the city of
Chelsea in
Suffolk County.
Democrat Dan Ryan of
Charlestown has represented the district since 2015.
Candidates for this district seat in the
2020 Massachusetts general election
The 2020 Massachusetts general election was held on November 3, 2020, throughout Massachusetts. Primary elections were held on September 1, 2020.
At the federal level, all nine seats in the United States House of Representatives were conteste ...
include the incumbent Ryan and Damali Vidot.
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with that of the Massachusetts Senate's
Middlesex and Suffolk district.
Representatives
* Amos A. Dunnels, circa 1858-1859
* Bradbury G. Prescott, circa 1858
* Cyrus Washburn, circa 1858
* Edward F. Porter, circa 1859
* Stephen N. Stockwell, circa 1859
*
Patrick J. Kennedy, circa 1888
* Thomas O. McEnany, circa 1888
* John B. Cashman, circa 1920
* Patrick F. Moran, circa 1920
* Jeremiah Francis Brennan, circa 1951
* Dennis Kearney, circa 1975
* Richard A. Voke
*
Eugene O'Flaherty
Eugene L. O'Flaherty (born July 20, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as Corporation Counsel of Boston. He was first elected to the House in 1996 He resigned effective January ...
* Daniel Joseph Ryan, 2015-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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First or 1st may also refer to:
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,
3rd,
4th,
5th
Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five.
Fifth or The Fifth may refer to:
* Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth"
* Fifth column, a political term
* Fifth disease, a contagious rash tha ...
,
6th
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number.
In mathematics
Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...
,
7th,
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 ...
,
9th
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding .
Evolution of the Arabic digit
In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and ...
,
10th,
11th,
12th,
13th,
14th,
15th,
16th,
17th
17 (seventeen) is the natural number following 16 and preceding 18. It is a prime number.
Seventeen is the sum of the first four prime numbers.
In mathematics
17 is the seventh prime number, which makes seventeen the fourth super-prime, as s ...
,
18th,
19th
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List of Massachusetts General Courts
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Images
;Portraits of legislators
1908 Bernard Hanrahan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Bernard Hanrahan
1908 John F Sullivan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John F. Sullivan
1918 John Cashman Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Cashman
1918 William Hearn Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Hearn
1923 J Frederick Curtin Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, J. Frederick Curtin
1923 Timothy Francis Donovan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Timothy Francis Donovan
1935 James Kiley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James Kiley
1935 Thomas Flaherty Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Thomas Flaherty
1945 David Cleary Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, David Cleary
1945 James McDevitt Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James McDevitt
1953 Jeremiah Francis Brennan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Jeremiah Francis Brennan
1967 Anthony Scalli Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Anthony Scalli
1975 Dennis Kearney Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Dennis Kearney
1995 Richard Voke Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Richard Voke
Eugene O'Flaherty.jpg, Eugene O'Flaherty
References
Further reading
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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
{{Massachusetts government
House
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Government of Suffolk County, Massachusetts