Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Barnstable district explained
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Barnstable district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of Barnstable County.[1] The district is currently represented by Democrat Chris Flanagan of Dennis.[2]
Towns represented
The district includes the following localities:
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with that of the Massachusetts Senate's Cape and Islands district.
Former locales
The district previously covered:
Representatives
- Zenas D. Basset, circa 1858 [5]
- John A. Baxter, circa 1858
- Paul Wing, circa 1858
- John S. Fish, circa 1859 [6]
- Nathaniel Hinckley, circa 1859
- William Nye, Jr., circa 1859
- Joshua Crowell, circa 1888 [7]
- Albert R. Eldridge, circa 1888
- Thomas Pattison, circa 1908
- George Dennis, circa 1918
- Edward Carroll Hinckley, circa 1923
- William Jones, circa 1935
- Henry Ellis, circa 1945
- Allan Francis Jones, circa 1951 [8]
- John Bowes, circa 1967
- Bernard Wilber, circa 1975 [9]
- Haden Greenhalgh, circa 1984
- Henri S. Rauschenbach, 1985–1988
- Edward B. Teague III, 1989–1997
- Thomas N. George, 1997–2005
- Cleon Turner, 2005 – January 6, 2015
- Timothy R. Whelan, 2015-2023[10]
- Chris Flanagan, 2023–present
See also
Images
- Portraits of legislators
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Massachusetts Representative Districts . April 30, 2020 . Sec.state.ma.us .
- Web site: Representative Christopher Richard Flanagan . The General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- Book: Representative Districts . https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge192728mass/page/196/mode/1up . Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A Manual for the Use of the General Court for 1927-1928 . October 17, 2023 . Boston . 196–206 .
- Book: Representative Districts . https://archive.org/details/massachusettsreg1872bost/page/27/mode/1up . Massachusetts Register . 1872 . Sampson, Davenport, & Company . Boston .
- Book: https://archive.org/details/massachusettsreg1858bost/page/n21/mode/1up . Massachusetts Register . Adams, Sampson & Co. . Boston . 1858 . Massachusetts House of Representatives . 10–12 .
- Book: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court . 1859 . Boston . Internet Archive .
- Book: Official Gazette, Commonwealth of Massachusetts . 1888 State House Directory . Geo. F. Andrews . Lakeview Press . Representatives: Barnstable County . October 17, 1888 . https://archive.org/details/officialgazette1888andr/page/56/mode/2up .
- Book: 1951–1952 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Boston .
- Book: 1975–1976 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Boston .
- Web site: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division . State Representative elections: 1st Barnstable district . April 30, 2020 . PD43+.