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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 2nd Suffolk district in the United States is one of 160
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included in the
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of the
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. It covers part of the city of
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and part of the city of Chelsea in Suffolk County.
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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. Partisan primary, Primary elections were held on September 1, 2020. At the federal level, all nine seats in the United States House of Representat ...
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 Januar ...
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Daniel Joseph Ryan Daniel Joseph Ryan is an American politician to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He is a Democrat from Boston, Massachusetts who was sworn on April 16, 2014 to represent the 2nd Suffolk seat. He won the March 4 primary and the April ...
, 2015-current


See also

* List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections * Other Suffolk County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives:
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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


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