
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 9th Norfolk 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
Norfolk County.
Republican Shawn Dooley
Shawn C. Dooley is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 9th Norfolk district, succeeding Dan Winslow. The 9th Norfolk District constitutes all or par ...
of Norfolk represented the district from 2014-2023.
Now Marcus S. Vaughn, a
Wrentham Republican, holds the seat.
Towns represented
The district includes the following localities:
* part of
Medfield
Medfield is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 12,799 according to the 2020 United States Census. It is a community about southwest of Boston, Massachusetts, which is a 40-minute drive to Downtown Bost ...
* part of
Millis
*
Norfolk
Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...
*
Plainville
* part of
Walpole
*
Wrentham
The district geographic boundary overlapped with those of the Massachusetts Senate's
Bristol and Norfolk district and
Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex district.
After the 2022 redistricting much of the district is represented by the newly created Norfolk, Worcester, and Middlesex distric
Former locales
The district previously covered:
*
Avon, Massachusetts, Avon, circa 1927
*
Holbrook, circa 1927
*
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, circa 1872, 1927
Representatives
* Jonathan Wales, circa 1858
* Daniel Howard, circa 1859
* Albert E. Miller, circa 1888
* Elijah Baron Stowe, circa 1888
* Clarence F. Telford, circa 1951
*
Edna Telford, 1955-1960
* M. Joseph Manning, 1975-1979
* Francis H. Woodward, 1979-1991
* Jo Ann Sprague, 1991-1999
*
Scott P. Brown, 1999-2004
*
Richard J. Ross, 2005-2011
*
Daniel Winslow
Daniel B. Winslow (born May 13, 1958) is an American lawyer, Republican Party politician, and former Presiding Justice of the Wrentham District Court. He was the state Representative for the Ninth Norfolk district from January 2011 to Septem ...
, 2011-2013
* Shawn C. Dooley, 2014-2023
* Marcus S. Vaughn, 2023–present
Electoral history
The 9th Norfolk has been represented by the Republican Party since the 1992 General Election.
A special general election was held on January 7, 2014 due to Daniel Winslow's (R) resignation on September 29, 2013, from the state house to join Rimini Street as senior vice president and general counsel.
2022
2020
2018
2016
2014 general
2014 special
2012
2010
2008
2006
2004
2002
See also
*
List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
* Other Norfolk County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives:
1st
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2nd
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3rd,
4th
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5th
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6th,
7th
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8th
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10th,
11th,
12th
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13th
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14th,
15th
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List of Massachusetts General Courts
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Images
;Portraits of legislators
1908 Edward Fuller Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Edward Fuller
1918 William Ollendorff Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Ollendorff
1923 George Peirce Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, George Peirce
1935 Martin Young Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Martin Young
1945 Clarence Telford Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Clarence Telford
1967 David Locke Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, David Locke
1975 M Joseph Manning Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, M. Joseph Manning
1983 Francis Woodward Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Francis Woodward
1995 Jo Ann Sprague Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Jo Ann Sprague
2005 Richard Ross Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Richard Ross
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 Westwood-Walpole-Dedham
{{Massachusetts government
House
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Government of Norfolk County, Massachusetts