Massachusetts's 11th congressional district
Massachusetts's 11th congressional district, 1901
Massachusetts's current districts, since 2013
Massachusetts Congressional District 11 is an obsolete congressional district in eastern Massachusetts. It was eliminated in 1993 after the 1990 U.S. Census. Its last Congressman was Brian Donnelly; its most notable were former President John Quincy Adams, future president John F. Kennedy and Speaker Tip O'Neill.
Cities and towns in the district
1890s
1893: Suffolk County: Boston, Wards 21, 23, 25. "Middlesex County: City of Newton, towns of Belmont, Holliston, Sherborn, and Water- town. Norfolk County: Towns of Bellingham, Brookline, Dedham, Dover, Foxboro, Franklin, Hyde Park, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Needham, Norfolk, Norwood, Sharon, Walpole, and Wrentham. Bristol County: Town of North Attleboro. Worcester County: Towns of Hopedale and Milford."[1]
1910s-1940s
1916: Suffolk County: Boston Wards 10, 11 (Precincts 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), 12, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23.[2]
1921: Boston (Wards 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 22, 23).[3]
1941: Boston (Wards 1, 2, 3, 22), Cambridge, Somerville (Wards 1, 2, 3).[4]
1960s-1980s
1968: "Norfolk County: City of Quincy. Towns of Avon, Braintree, Canton, Dedham, Holbrook, Milton, Norwood, Randolph, Sharon, Stoughton, and Weymouth. Plymouth County: City of Brockton. Suffolk County: City of Boston: Ward 18."[5]
1977: "Norfolk County: City of Quincy. Towns of Avon, Braintree, Holbrook, Milton, Randolph, and Stoughton. Plymouth County: City of Brockton. Towns of Abington and Whitman. Suffolk County: City of Boston: Wards 15, 16, 17, 18."[6]
1985: "Norfolk County: City of Quincy. Towns of Avon, Braintree, Holbrook, Milton, Randolph, and Weymouth. Plymouth County: City of Brockton. Towns of Abington, East Bridgewater, Rockland, West Bridgewater, and Whitman. Suffolk County: City of Boston: Wards 15, 16, 17, and 18."[7]
List of representatives
| Representative | Party | Years | District home | Electoral history |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Theophilus Bradbury |
Federalist | March 4, 1795 – July 24, 1797 |
Newburyport | Resigned to become a state Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice |
| Vacant | July 25, 1797 – November 26, 1797 | |||
| Bailey Bartlett |
Federalist | November 27, 1797 – March 3, 1801 |
Essex County | Retired |
 Menasseh Cutler |
Federalist | March 4, 1801 – March 3, 1803 |
Hamilton | Redistricted to the 3rd district |
| William Stedman |
Federalist | March 4, 1803 – July 16, 1810 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Resigned to serve as Clerk of Courts for Worcester County |
| Vacant | July 16, 1810 – October 8, 1810 | |||
| Abijah Bigelow |
Federalist | October 8, 1810 – March 3, 1815 |
Leominster | Retired |
 Elijah Brigham |
Federalist | March 4, 1815 – February 22, 1816 |
Westborough (now Northborough) |
Redistricted from the
10th district, Died |
| Vacant | February 22, 1816 – December 1, 1816 | |||
| Benjamin Adams |
Federalist | December 2, 1816 – March 3, 1821 |
Uxbridge | Lost re-election |
| Johnathan Russell |
Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
| Aaron Hobart |
Adams-Clay Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Redistricted from the 8th district |
| Adams | March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1827 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | ||
| Joseph Richardson |
Adams | March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1829 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
| Anti- Jacksonian |
March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | ||
 John Quincy Adams |
Anti- Jacksonian |
March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833 |
Braintree | Redistricted to the 12th district |
| John Reed, Jr. |
Anti- Jacksonian |
March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
| Anti- Masonic |
March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | ||
| Whig | March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1841 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | ||
| Barker Burnell |
Whig | March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Redistricted to the 10th district |
| District eliminated | 1843 | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |
| District recreated | 1853 | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |
 John Z. Goodrich |
Whig | March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Redistricted from the 7th district |
 Mark Trafton |
Know Nothing |
March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
 Henry L. Dawes[8] |
Republican | March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1863 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Redistricted to the 10th district |
| District eliminated | 1863 | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |
| District recreated | 1873 | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |
| Henry L. Dawes |
Republican | March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Redistricted from the 10th district |
 Chester W. Chapin |
Democratic | March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
 George D. Robinson[9][10] |
Republican | March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1883 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | Redistricted to the 12th district |
_picture2.png) William Whiting |
Republican | March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1889 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
_picture.png) Rodney Wallace |
Republican | March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
 Frederick S. Coolidge |
Democratic | March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
.png) William F. Draper |
Republican | March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1897 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
 Charles F. Sprague[11] |
Republican | March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1901 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
 Samuel L. Powers |
Republican | March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1903 |
Newton | Redistricted to the 12th district |
 John Andrew Sullivan |
Democratic | March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1907 |
Boston | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
 Andrew J. Peters[12] |
Democratic | March 4, 1907 – August 15, 1914 |
Boston | Resigned after being appointed Asst. Secretary to the US Treasury Department |
| Vacant | August 15, 1914 – March 4, 1915 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |
 George H. Tinkham |
Republican | March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1933 |
Boston | Redistricted to the 10th district |
 John J. Douglass |
Democratic | March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935 |
Boston | Redistricted from the 10th district |
 John P. Higgins |
Democratic | January 3, 1935 – September 30, 1937 |
Boston | Resigned after being appointed as chief justice of Superior Court of Massachusetts |
| Vacant | September 30, 1937 – December 14, 1937 |
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | |
 Thomas A. Flaherty[13] |
Democratic | December 14, 1937 – January 3, 1943 |
Boston | Retired |
 James Michael Curley |
Democratic | January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1947 |
Boston | Retired |
 John F. Kennedy |
Democratic | January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1953 |
Boston | Elected to US Senate |
 Tip O'Neill |
Democratic | January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1963 |
Cambridge | Redistricted to the 8th district |
 James A. Burke[5] |
Democratic | January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1979 |
Milton | Redistricted from the 13th district |
 Brian J. Donnelly[14] |
Democratic | January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1993 |
Boston | Retired |
| District eliminated | January 3, 1993 | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] | ||
References
- ↑ Francis M. Cox (1893). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Third Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
- ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 64th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1916.
- ↑ Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1921), "Population of Congressional Districts", Population of Massachusetts as determined by the fourteenth census of the United States 1920, Boston: Wright & Potter
- ↑ Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1941), "Population of Congressional Districts", Population of Massachusetts as determined by the sixteenth census of the United States, 1940, Boston: Wright & Potter, OCLC 10056477,
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- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 90th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1968.
- ↑ "Massachusetts", 1977 Official Congressional Directory: 95th Congress, Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977
- ↑ "Massachusetts". 1985-1986 Official Congressional Directory: 99th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1985.
- ↑ "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory for the Second Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress. Washington DC: House of Representatives. 1861.
- ↑ Ben. Perley Poore (1878). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 45th Congress (3rd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
- ↑ Ben. Perley Poore (1882). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 47th Congress (3rd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
- ↑ L.A. Coolidge (1897). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Fifth Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
- ↑ A.J. Halford (1909). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 60th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
- ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 75th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1938.
- ↑ "Massachusetts". 1991-1992 Official Congressional Directory: 102nd Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1991.
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
- Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
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