Massachusetts's 7th congressional district

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Massachusetts's 7th congressional district
Massachusetts's 7th congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
Current Representative Mike Capuano (DSomerville)
Cook PVI D+29[1]

Massachusetts's 7th congressional district is a congressional district located in eastern Massachusetts. It is represented by Mike Capuano. Massachusetts congressional redistricting after the 2010 census changed the borders of the district starting with the elections of 2012, with most of the old 7th district redistricted to the new 5th district.[2] Most of the old 8th district now comprise the new 7th district.

Cities and towns in the district

(the remainder of Boston will be in the 8th district)

Cities and towns in the district prior to 2013

Massachusetts's 7th congressional district, 1891
The district from 2003 to 2013

1840s

1849: "The whole of Berkshire County; Ashfield, Buckland, Charlemont, Coleraine, Conway, Hawley, Heath, Leyden, Monroe, Rowe, and Shelburne, in Franklin County; Chesterfield, Cummington, Goshen, Middlefield, Norwich, Plainfield, Southampton, Westhampton, Williamsburg, and Worthington, in Hampshire County; and Blandford, Chester, Granville, Montgomery, Russell, and Tolland, in the County of Hampden."[3]

1890s

1893: "Essex County: Towns of Lynn, Nahant, and Saugus. Middlesex County: Towns of Everett, Malden, Melrose, Stoneham, and Wakefield. Suffolk County: 4th and 5th wards of the city of Boston, and the towns of Chelsea and Revere."[4]

1910s

1916: In Essex County: Boxford, Lawrence, Lynn, Lynnfield, Middleton, Nahant, North Andover, Peabody, Saugus. In Middlesex County: North Reading.[5][6]

1940s

1941: In Essex County: Lawrence, Lynn (part), Middleton, Nahant, North Andover, Peabody. In Suffolk County: Chelsea, Revere, Winthrop.[7]

2003-2013

In Middlesex County:

In Suffolk County:

List of representatives

Representative Party Years Note
George Leonard Pro-Administration March 4, 1789 –
March 3, 1791
Redistricted to 6th district.
Artemas Ward Pro-Administration March 4, 1791 –
March 3, 1793
Redistricted to the 2nd district.
District discontinued March 4, 1793 –
March 3, 1795
George Leonard Federalist March 4, 1795 –
March 3, 1797
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Stephen Bullock Federalist March 4, 1797 –
March 3, 1799
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Phanuel Bishop Democratic-Republican March 4, 1799 –
March 3, 1803
Redistricted to 9th district.
Nahum Mitchell Federalist March 4, 1803 –
March 3, 1805
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Joseph Barker Democratic-Republican March 4, 1805 –
March 4, 1809
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William Baylies Federalist March 4, 1809 –
June 28, 1809
Lost election challenge
Charles Turner, Jr. Democratic-Republican June 28, 1809 –
March 3, 1813
Won election challenge
William Baylies Federalist March 4, 1813 –
March 3, 1815
Redistricted to the 8th district.
John W. Hulbert Federalist March 4, 1815 –
March 3, 1817
Redistricted from the 12th district.
Henry Shaw Democratic-Republican March 4, 1817 –
March 3, 1821
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Henry W. Dwight Federalist March 4, 1821 –
March 3, 1823
Redistricted to the 9th district.
Samuel C. Allen Adams-Clay Federalist March 4, 1823 –
March 3, 1825
Redistricted from the 6th district.
Adams March 4, 1825 –
March 3, 1829
George Grennell, Jr. Anti-Jacksonian March 4, 1829 –
March 3, 1833
Redistricted to the 6th district.
George N. Briggs Anti-Jacksonian March 4, 1833 –
March 3, 1837
Redistricted from the 9th district

Retired.
Whig March 4, 1837 –
March 3, 1843
Julius Rockwell Whig March 4, 1843 –
March 3, 1851
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John Z. Goodrich Whig March 4, 1851 –
March 3, 1853
Redistricted to the 11th district.
Nathaniel P. Banks Democratic March 4, 1853 –
March 3, 1855
Resigned to become Governor
Know Nothing March 4, 1855 –
March 3, 1857
Republican March 4, 1857 –
December 24, 1857
Vacant December 24, 1857 –
January 31, 1858
Daniel W. Gooch[8] Republican January 31, 1858 –
March 4, 1863
Redistricted to the 6th district.
George S. Boutwell Republican March 4, 1863 –
March 12, 1869
Resigned to become U.S. Secretary of Treasury
Vacant March 12, 1869 –
November 2, 1869
George M. Brooks Republican November 2, 1869 –
May 13, 1872
Resigned
Vacant May 13, 1872 –
December 2, 1872
Constantine C. Esty Republican December 2, 1872 –
March 3, 1873
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Ebenezer R. Hoar Republican March 4, 1873 –
March 3, 1875
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John K. Tarbox Democratic March 4, 1875 –
March 3, 1877
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Benjamin F. Butler[9] Republican March 4, 1877 –
March 3, 1879
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William A. Russell[10] Republican March 4, 1879 –
March 3, 1883
Redistricted to the 8th district.
Eben F. Stone Republican March 4, 1883 –
March 3, 1887
Redistricted from the 6th district.
William Cogswell Republican March 4, 1887 –
March 3, 1893
Redistricted from the 6th district.
Vacant March 4, 1893 –
April 25, 1893
Representative Henry Cabot Lodge had been redistricted from the 6th district, but resigned before beginning of term to become a U.S. Senator.
William Everett Democratic April 25, 1893 –
March 3, 1895
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William Emerson Barrett[11] Republican March 4, 1895 –
March 3, 1899
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Ernest W. Roberts[12] Republican March 4, 1899 –
March 3, 1913
Redistricted to the 9th district.
Michael Francis Phelan Democratic March 4, 1913 –
March 3, 1921
Lost re-election
Robert S. Maloney Republican March 4, 1921 –
March 3, 1923
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William P. Connery, Jr. Democratic March 4, 1923 –
June 15, 1937
Died
Vacant June 16, 1937 –
September 27, 1937
Lawrence J. Connery[13] Democratic September 28, 1937 –
October 19, 1941
Died
Vacant October 20, 1941 –
December 29, 1941
Thomas J. Lane Democratic December 30, 1941 –
January 3, 1963
[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Torbert H. Macdonald[14] Democratic January 3, 1963 –
May 21, 1976
Redistricted from the 8th district

Died.
Vacant May 22, 1976 –
November 1, 1976
Ed Markey[15] Democratic November 2, 1976 –
January 3, 2013
First elected to finish Macdonald's term.

Redistricted to the 5th district.
Michael Capuano Democratic January 3, 2013 – Present Redistricted from the 8th district.
Representative Party Years Note

References

  1. "Partisan Voting Index Districts of the 113th Congress: 2004 & 2008" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  2. http://www.sec.state.ma.us/spr/sprcat/catpdf2010/cong2010/CongressionalDistrict_2011State.pdf Access date: March 21, 2012.
  3. John Hayward (1849). "Congressional Districts". Gazetteer of Massachusetts. Boston: J.P. Jewett & Co.
  4. Francis M. Cox (1893). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Third Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  5. "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 64th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1916.
  6. 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
  7. 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, House No. 2849
  8. "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory for the Second Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress. Washington DC: House of Representatives. 1861.
  9. Ben. Perley Poore (1878). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 45th Congress (3rd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  10. Ben. Perley Poore (1882). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 47th Congress (3rd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  11. L.A. Coolidge (1897). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Fifth Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  12. A.J. Halford (1909). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 60th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  13. "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 75th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1938.
  14. "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 90th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1968.
  15. "Massachusetts". 1991-1992 Official Congressional Directory: 102nd Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1991.

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Coordinates: 42°19′00″N 71°00′34″W / 42.31667°N 71.00944°W / 42.31667; -71.00944

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