Massachusetts's 10th congressional district

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The 10th District includes parts of the South Shore of Massachusetts,and includes all of Cape Cod and the islands. The tenth district has been around since 1795. It is currently represented in the United States House of Representatives by Bill Delahunt.

[edit] Cities and Towns in the District

The district includes:

• all of Barnstable County, Dukes County, Nantucket County,

• the following municipalities in Plymouth County:
  

Abington, Carver, Duxbury, Hanover, Hanson, Pct. 1, Hingham, Hull, Kingston, Marshfield, Norwell, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Rockland, Scituate, and

• the following municipalities in Norfolk County:
  

Cohasset, Quincy, Weymouth

[edit] Demographics

• Land Area: 934.25 square miles (54.22% Urban, 45.78% Rural)
• Population Distribution: 92.18% Urban, 7.82% Rural
• Population (2000): 635,901
• Median Income: $51,928
• Ethnic Composition: 92.2% White, 1.6% Black, 2.7% Asian, 0.3% Native American, 1.3% Hispanic, 1.9% Other
• Ancestry: 33.4% Irish, 16.6% English, 13.9% Italian
• Occupation: Blue Collar 18.1%, White Collar 66.7%, Gray Collar 15.3%
• Party Registration: Democrat , Republican , Unenrolled , Minor Parties
• Cook Partisan Voting Index: D + 8

[edit] Representatives

Representative	Party	Years	District home	Notes
District created		1795
Benjamin Goodhue	Federalist	1795 – 1796		Redistricted from the 1st district
Samuel Sewall	Federalist	1796 – 1799
Nathan Reed	Federalist	1799 – 1803
Seth Hastings	Federalist	1803 – 1807
Jabez Upham	Federalist	1807 – 1810
Joseph Allen	Federalist	1810 – 1811
Elijah Brigham	Federalist	1811 – 1815
Laban Wheaton	Federalist	1815 – 1817
Marcus Morton	Democratic-Republican	1817 – 1821
Francis Baylies	Federalist	1821 – 1823
John Bailey	Adams–Clay Democratic-Republican	1823 – 1825
	Adams	1825 – 1829
	Anti-Jackson	1829 – 1831
Henry A. S. Dearborn	Anti-Jackson	1831 – 1833
William Baylies	Anti-Jackson	1833 – 1835
Nathaniel B. Borden	Jacksonian	1835 – 1837
	Democratic	1837 – 1839
Henry Williams	Democratic	1839 – 1841
Nathaniel B. Borden	Democratic	1841 – 1843
Barker Burnell	Whig	1843 – 1845		Redistricted from the 11th district
Joseph Grinnell	Whig	1845 – 1851
Zeno Scudder	Whig	March 4, 1851 – March 4, 1853		Redistricted to the 1st district
Edward Dickinson	Whig	March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1855	Amherst
Henry Morris	Know Nothing	1855 – 1856
Calvin C. Chaffee	Know Nothing	1856 – 1857
	Republican	1857 – 1859
Charles Delano	Republican	1859 – 1863
Henry L. Dawes	Republican	1863 – 1873
Alvah Crocker	Republican	March 4, 1873 - December 26, 1874	Fitchburg	Redistricted from the 9th district Died
Vacant		December 27, 1874 - January 26, 1875
Charles Stevens	Republican	January 27, 1875 - March 3, 1875
Julius H. Seelye	Independent	1875 – 1877
Amasa Norcross	Republican	1877 – 1879
William W. Rice	Republican	1883 – 1887
John E. Russell	Democratic	1887 – 1889
Joseph H. Walker	Republican	1889 - March 3, 1893		Redistricted to the 3rd district
Michael J. McEttrick	Independent – Democratic	1893 – 1895
Harrison H. Atwood	Republican	1895 – 1897
Samuel J. Barrows	Republican	1897 – 1899
Henry F. Naphen	Democratic	1899 – 1903
William S. McNary	Democratic	1921 – 1925
Joseph F. O'Connell	Democratic	1907 – 1913
William Francis Murray	Democratic	1913 – 1915		Redistricted from the 9th district
Peter Tague	Democratic	March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1919
John F. Fitzgerald	Democratic	March 4, 1919 – October 23, 1919		Tague successfully contested Fitzgerald's election
Peter Tague	Democratic	October 23, 1919 – March 3, 1925
John J. Douglass	Democratic	March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1933		Redistricted to the 11th district
George H. Tinkham	Republican	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1943		Redistricted from the 11th district
Christian Herter	Republican	January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1953
Laurence Curtis	Republican	January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1963
Joseph William Martin, Jr.	Republican	January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1967		Redistricted from the 14th district
Margaret M. Heckler	Republican	January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1983
Gerry E. Studds	Democratic	January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1997		Redistricted from the 12th district Retired
Bill Delahunt	Democratic	January 3, 1997 – present	Quincy	Incumbent

Prior to the 1992 remapping, the district covered areas southwest of Boston which are now in the 3rd and 4th districts.

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