Massachusetts's 16th congressional district

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Massachusetts's current districts since 2003
Massachusetts's current districts since 2003

Massachusetts's sixteenth congressional district is an obsolete district. It was also for a short time in the early 1800's a Massachusetts District of Maine. It was eliminated in 1933 after the 1930 Census. Its last location was in eastern Massachusetts at Cape Cod. Its last Congressman was Charles L. Gifford, who was redistricted into the fifteenth district.


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Representative Years Party District home Notes
District created 1803
Samuel Thatcher 1803 – 1805 Federalist District of Maine
Orchard Cook 1805 – 1811 Democratic-Republican District of Maine
Peleg Tallman 1811 – 1813 Democratic-Republican District of Maine
Samuel Davis 1813 – 1815 Federalist District of Maine
Benjamin Brown 1815 – 1817 Federalist District of Maine
Benjamin Orr March 4, 1817March 3, 1819 Federalist Topsham, Maine
Mark Langdon Hill March 4, 1819March 3, 1821 Democratic-Republican Phippsburg, Maine
District moved to Maine 1821
District restored in Massachusetts 1913
Thomas Chandler Thacher 1913 – 1915 Democratic
Joseph Walsh 1915 – 1921 Republican New Bedford
Charles L. Gifford 1921 – 1933 Republican Cotuit Redistricted to the fifteenth district.
District eliminated 1933