Massachusetts House Of Representatives' 9th Norfolk District
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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 9th Norfolk district in the United States is one of 160
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included in the
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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 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.


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See also

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


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Ballotpedia
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Government of Norfolk County, Massachusetts