
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 4th Middlesex 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
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 parts of
Middlesex County and
Worcester County.
Democrat
Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to:
Politics
*A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people.
*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (Cyprus) (DCY)
**Democratic Part ...
Danielle Gregoire of Marlborough has represented the district since 2013.
Towns represented
The district includes the following localities:
* part of
Marlborough
Marlborough or the Marlborough may refer to:
Places Australia
* Marlborough, Queensland
* Principality of Marlborough, a short-lived micronation in 1993
* Marlborough Highway, Tasmania; Malborough was an historic name for the place at the sou ...
* part of
Northborough
* part of
Westborough
Westborough is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 21,567 at the 2020 census, in over 7,000 households. Incorporated in 1717, the town is governed under the New England open town meeting system, headed ...
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's
Middlesex and Worcester district and
1st Worcester district.
Former locales
The district previously covered:
*
Malden, circa 1872
*
Somerville
Somerville may refer to:
Places
Australia
*Somerville, Victoria, a town
**Somerville railway station
* Somerville, Western Australia, a suburb of Kalgoorlie, Australia
New Zealand
* Somerville, New Zealand, a suburb of Manukau City, New Zea ...
, circa 1872
Representatives
* Phineas Sprague, circa 1858
* John Q. A. Griffin, circa 1859
* Moses Davis Church, circa 1888
* Isaac S. Pear, circa 1888
* John C Brimblecom, circa 1920
* Bernard Earley, circa 1920
* Abbott B. Rice, circa 1920
* Christian Archibald Herter, Jr., circa 1951
* George E. Rawson, circa 1951
* John Joseph Toomey, circa 1975
*
Saundra Graham
Saundra Graham (September 5, 1941 – June 23, 2023) was an American independent politician from Cambridge, Massachusetts. She served as a Cambridge City Councilor from 1971 to 1989, and represented the 4th Middlesex district in the Massachus ...
, 1977-1979
* Joseph M. Navin, 1979-1984
*
Robert A. Durand, 1984-1991
*
Daniel J. Valianti, 1991-1997
*
Stephen P. LeDuc, 1997-2008
*
Danielle W. Gregoire, 2009-2011
*
Steven Levy
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, 2011-2013
* Danielle W. Gregoire, 2013-current
See also
*
List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
* Other Middlesex County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives:
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,
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 Avenue
* Fifth column, a political term
* Fifth disease, a cont ...
,
6th,
7th
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Seventh may refer to:
* Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
* A fraction (mathematics), , equal to one of seven equal parts
Film and television
*"The Seventh", a second-season ep ...
,
8th
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Eighth may refer to:
* One eighth, , a fraction, one of eight equal parts of a whole
* 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 ...
,
13th
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,
14th,
15th,
16th,
17th,
18th,
19th
19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 and preceding 20. It is a prime number.
Mathematics
Nineteen is the eighth prime number.
Number theory
19 forms a twin prime with 17, a cousin prime with 23, and a sexy prime with 13. ...
,
20th,
21st,
22nd,
23rd,
24th,
25th,
26th
26 (twenty-six) is the natural number following 25 and preceding 27.
In mathematics
*26 is the seventh discrete semiprime (2 \times 13) and the fifth with 2 as the lowest non-unitary factor thus of the form (2.q), where q is a higher prime.
...
,
27th,
28th,
29th,
30th,
31st,
32nd,
33rd,
34th,
35th Military units
*35th Fighter Wing, an air combat unit of the United States Air Force
*35th Infantry Division (United States), a formation of the National Guard since World War I
*35th Infantry Regiment (United States), a regiment created on 1 July 1 ...
,
36th,
37th
*
List of Massachusetts General Courts
The Massachusetts Legislature, legislature of the U.S. state of Massachusetts is known as the Massachusetts General Court, General Court. It has a 40-member upper house (Massachusetts Senate) and a 160-member lower house (Massachusetts House of ...
*
Images
;Portraits of legislators
File:1908 Elias Bishop Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Elias Bishop
File:1908 John Lothrop Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Lothrop
File:1908 William Garcelon Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Garcelon
File:1918 J Weston Allen Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, J. Weston Allen
File:1918 Leland Powers Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Leland Powers
File:1918 Thomas Weston Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Thomas Weston
File:1923 Bernard Early Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Bernard Early
File:1923 John Brimblecom Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Brimblecom
File:Leverett Saltonstall cph.3b10555.jpg, Leverett Saltonstall
File:1935 Warren Brimblecom Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Warren Brimblecom
File:1935 William Baker Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Baker
File:1945 George Rawson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, George Rawson
File:1945 John Whittemore Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Whittemore
File:1953 Christian Archibald Herter, Jr. Massachusetts House of Representatives (cropped).png, Christian Archibald Herter, Jr.
File:1967 Joseph Bradley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Joseph Bradley
File:1967 Paul Malloy Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Paul Malloy
File:1975 John Toomey Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Toomey
File:1983 Joseph Navin Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Joseph Navin
File:1995 Daniel Valianti Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Daniel Valianti
File:2005 Stephen LeDuc Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Stephen LeDuc
File:Danielle W. Gregoire.jpg, Danielle W. Gregoire
References
External links
Ballotpedia* (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's
American Community Survey
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).
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Government of Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Government in Worcester County, Massachusetts