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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 8th Middlesex 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 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 parts of Middlesex County and Worcester County.
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Carolyn Dykema of Holliston represented the district from 2009 until her resignation to take a private sector job in 2022.


Towns represented

The district as drawn with 2010 census data includes the following localities: *
Holliston Holliston may refer to: * Holliston, Saskatoon, Canada *Holliston, Massachusetts, USA **Holliston High School, a secondary school in Holliston, Massachusetts * ''Holliston'' (TV series), a television show on Fearnet, set in Holliston, Massachusetts ...
* Hopkinton * Southborough * one precinct 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 ...
This district boundary overlaps those of the Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Middlesex and Norfolk district and its Middlesex and Worcester district. The new boundaries, drawn from 2020 census data, include: * Holliston * Hopkinton * part of Millis * Sherborn


Former locale

The district previously covered part of
Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...
, circa 1872.


Representatives

* Sedgwick L. Plumer, circa 1858 * Edward J. Collins, circa 1858-1859 * Thomas Rice, Jr, circa 1859 * Theodore P. Dresser, circa 1888 * James F. Leland, circa 1920 * James Alan Hodder, circa 1951 * William I. Randall, circa 1951 * Mary Fantasia, circa 1975 *
Andrew Natsios Andrew S. Natsios (born September 22, 1949) is an American public servant and Republican politician from Massachusetts, who served in a number of positions in the administrations of Governor Paul Cellucci and President of the United States Geo ...
, 1975-1987 * Barbara A. Gardner, 1987-2001 * Paul Loscocco, 2001–2009 * Carolyn Dykema, 2009-2022


See also

* List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections *
List of Massachusetts General Courts The legislature of the U.S. state of Massachusetts is known as the General Court. It has a 40-member upper house (Massachusetts Senate) and a 160-member lower house (Massachusetts House of Representatives). Descended from the colonial legislatur ...
*
List of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives The following is a list of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the United States. Legislative districts for elected representation in the Massachusetts House of Representatives are apportioned based on census informat ...
* Other Middlesex County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st,
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3rd Third or 3rd may refer to: Numbers * 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3 * , a fraction of one third * Second#Sexagesimal divisions of calendar time and day, 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute'' Places * 3rd Street (d ...
, 4th, 5th, 6th,
7th 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube (algebra), cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion ...
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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 ...
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10th 10 (ten) is the even natural number following 9 and preceding 11. Ten is the base of the decimal numeral system, by far the most common system of denoting numbers in both spoken and written language. It is the first double-digit number. The rea ...
, 11th,
12th 12 (twelve) is the natural number following 11 and preceding 13. Twelve is a superior highly composite number, divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. It is the number of years required for an orbital period of Jupiter. It is central to many systems ...
, 13th, 14th, 15th,
16th 16 (sixteen) is the natural number following 15 and preceding 17. 16 is a composite number, and a square number, being 42 = 4 × 4. It is the smallest number with exactly five divisors, its proper divisors being , , and . In English speech, ...
, 17th,
18th 18 (eighteen) is the natural number following 17 and preceding 19. In mathematics * Eighteen is a composite number, its divisors being 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9. Three of these divisors (3, 6 and 9) add up to 18, hence 18 is a semiperfect number. ...
, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 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


Images

;Portraits of legislators 1908 Charles Flagg Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Charles Flagg 1918 Wilbur Wood Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Wilbur Wood 1923 James Stewart Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James Stewart 1935 Charles Olson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Charles Olson 1935 Joseph Tuttle Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Joseph Tuttle 1945 Carl Sheridan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Carl Sheridan 1945 Clarence Wood Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Clarence Wood 1953 James Alan Hodder Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James Alan Hodder 1953 William Randall Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, William Randall 1967 Elbert Tuttle Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Elbert Tuttle 1967 Robert Belmonte Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Robert Belmonte 1975 Mary Fantasia Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Mary Fantasia 1983 Andrew Natsios Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Andrew Natsios 1995 Barbara Gardner Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Barbara Gardner 2005 Paul Loscocco Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Paul Loscocco


References


External links


Ballotpedia
* (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's
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Government of Middlesex County, Massachusetts Government in Worcester County, Massachusetts {{WorcesterCountyMA-geo-stub