Massachusetts's 10th congressional district

Massachusetts's current districts, since 2013

Massachusetts's 10th congressional district was a former district that last included parts of the South Shore of Massachusetts, and all of Cape Cod and the islands. The District existed since 1795, but became obsolete for the 113th Congress in 2013 as district lines were redrawn to accommodate the loss of the seat due to reapportionment as a result of the 2010 Census.[1] Effective from the elections of 2012, most of the district falls into the new Massachusetts 9th congressional district, with some northern portions falling in the new 8th district.[2]

Cities and towns in the district prior to 2013

The district from 2003 to 2013

1840s

1843: "The Counties of Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket, together with the towns of Rochester and Wareham, in the County of Plymouth, and of Dartmouth, Fairhaven, and New Bedford, in the County of Bristol."[3]

1860s

1869: "Berkshire and Hampden counties."[4]

1890s-1950s

1893: Boston, Wards 13, 14, 15, 19 (Precincts 1, 5, 7, 8, 9), 20, 22, 24; Milton, Quincy.[5]

1916: Boston, Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 (Precincts 1, 2).[6]

1921: Boston, Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.[7]

1934: Boston, Wards 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 19, 20, 21.[8]

1941-1953: Boston, Wards 4, 5, 10, 12, 19, 20, 21; Brookline, Newton.[9][10]

1960s-1970s

1963: "Bristol County: Cities of Attleboro, Fall River, and Taunton. Towns of Berkley, Dighton, Easton, Freetown, Mansfield, North Attleboro, Norton, Raynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Somerset, and Swansea. Middlesex County: City of Newton. Norfolk County: Towns of Dover, Foxborough, Medfield, Needham, Norfolk, Plainville, Walpole, Wellesley, Westwood, and Wrentham."[11]

1977: "Bristol County: Cities of Attleboro, Fall River, and Taunton. Towns of Berkley, Dighton, Easton, Freetown, Mansfield, North Attleborough, Norton, Raynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Somerset, Swansea, and Westport. Middlesex County: Towns of Natick and Sherborn. Norfolk County: Towns of Foxborough, Medfield, Millis, Norfolk, Plainville, Sharon, Wellesley, and Wrentham. Plymouth County: Towns of Bridgewater, East Bridgewater, Halifax, Hanson, Lakeville, Middleborough, and West Bridgewater."[12]

1990s

1997: "Counties: Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket, Norfolk (part), and Plymouth (part)."[13]

2003-2013

List of representatives

Representative Party Years Electoral history
Benjamin Goodhue Federalist March 4, 1795 —
June 11, 1796		 Redistricted from the 1st district

Resigned after election to US Senate
Vacant June 11, 1796 —
December 7, 1796
Samuel Sewall Federalist December 7, 1796 —
January 10, 1800		 Resigned
Vacant January 10, 1800 —
November 25, 1800
Nathan Read Federalist November 25, 1800 —
March 3, 1803		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Seth Hastings Federalist March 4, 1803 —
March 3, 1807		 Redistricted from the 4th district
Jabez Upham Federalist March 4, 1807 —
1810		 Resigned
Vacant 1810 —
October 8, 1810
Joseph Allen Federalist October 8, 1810 —
March 3, 1811		 Retired
Elijah Brigham Federalist March 4, 1811 —
March 3, 1815		 Redistricted to the 11th district
Laban Wheaton Federalist March 4, 1815 —
March 3, 1817		 Redistricted from the 9th district
Lost reelection
Marcus Morton Democratic-
Republican		 March 4, 1817 —
March 3, 1821		 Lost reelection
Francis Baylies Federalist March 4, 1821 —
March 3, 1823		 Redistricted to the 12th district
Vacant March 3, 1823 —
December 13, 1824
John Bailey Adams–Clay
Republican		 December 13, 1824 —
March 3, 1825		 Contested election with state, eventually seated
Adams March 4, 1825 —
March 3, 1829
Anti-
Jacksonian		 March 4, 1829 —
March 3, 1831
Henry A. S. Dearborn Anti-
Jacksonian		 March 4, 1831 —
March 3, 1833		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William Baylies Anti-
Jacksonian		 March 4, 1833 —
March 3, 1835		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Nathaniel B. Borden Jacksonian March 4, 1835 —
March 3, 1837		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Democratic March 4, 1837 —
March 3, 1839
Henry Williams Democratic March 4, 1839 —
March 3, 1841		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Nathaniel B. Borden Whig March 4, 1841 —
March 3, 1843		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Barker Burnell Whig March 4, 1843 —
June 15, 1843		 Redistricted from the 11th district

Died
Vacant June 15, 1843 —
December 7, 1843
Joseph Grinnell Whig December 7, 1843 —
March 3, 1851		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Zeno Scudder Whig March 4, 1851 —
March 3, 1853		 Redistricted to the 1st district
Edward Dickinson Whig March 4, 1853 —
March 3, 1855
Calvin C. Chaffee Know Nothing March 4, 1855 —
March 3, 1857		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Republican March 4, 1857 —
March 3, 1859
Charles Delano[14] Republican March 4, 1859 —
March 3, 1863		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Henry L. Dawes[4] Republican March 3, 1863 —
March 3, 1873		 Redistricted from the 11th district
Redistricted to the 11th district
Alvah Crocker Republican March 4, 1873 —
December 26, 1874		 Redistricted from the 9th district
Died
Vacant December 26, 1874 —
January 27, 1875
Charles A. Stevens Republican January 27, 1875 —
March 3, 1875		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Julius H. Seelye Independent March 4, 1875 —
March 3, 1877		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Amasa Norcross[15][16] Republican March 4, 1877 —
March 3, 1883		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William W. Rice Republican March 4, 1883 —
March 3, 1887		 Redistricted from the 9th district
John E. Russell Democratic March 4, 1887 —
March 3, 1889		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Joseph H. Walker Republican March 4, 1889 —
March 3, 1893		 Redistricted to the 3rd district
Michael J. McEttrick Independent Democrat March 4, 1893 —
March 3, 1895		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Harrison H. Atwood Republican March 4, 1895 —
March 3, 1897		 Lost renomination
Samuel J. Barrows[17] Republican March 4, 1897 —
March 3, 1899		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Henry F. Naphen Democratic March 4, 1899 —
March 3, 1903		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William S. McNary Democratic March 4, 1903 —
March 3, 1907		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Joseph F. O'Connell[18] Democratic March 4, 1907 —
March 3, 1911		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
James Michael Curley Democratic March 4, 1911 —
March 3, 1913		 Redistricted to the 12th district
William Francis Murray Democratic March 4, 1913 —
September 28, 1914		 Redistricted from the 9th district

Resigned to become Postmaster of Boston
Vacant September 28, 1914 —
March 3, 1915
Peter Tague Democratic March 4, 1915 —
March 3, 1919		 Initially lost to John F. Fitzgerald in the 1918 election, but regained seat on appeal citing voting irregularities.
John F. Fitzgerald Democratic March 4, 1919 —
October 23, 1919		 Lost seat to Peter F. Tague on appeal due to voting irregularities.
Peter Tague Democratic October 23, 1919 —
March 3, 1925		 Successfully contested Fitzgerald's election.
Lost re-election
John J. Douglass Democratic March 4, 1925 —
March 3, 1933		 Redistricted to the 11th district
George H. Tinkham[19] Republican March 4, 1933 —
January 3, 1943		 Redistricted from the 11th district
Christian Herter Republican January 3, 1943 —
January 3, 1953		 Retired to become Governor
Laurence Curtis Republican January 3, 1953 —
January 3, 1963		 Retired to run (unsuccessfully) for U.S. Senate
Joseph William Martin, Jr. Republican January 3, 1963 —
January 3, 1967		 Redistricted from the 14th district

Lost renomination
Margaret M. Heckler[20] Republican January 3, 1967 —
January 3, 1983		 Redistricted to the 4th district and lost re-election
Gerry E. Studds[21] Democratic January 3, 1983 —
January 3, 1997		 Redistricted from the 12th district
Retired
Bill Delahunt Democratic January 3, 1997 —
January 3, 2011		 Retired
William R. Keating Democratic January 3, 2011 —
January 3, 2013		 Elected in 2010
Keating moved into the redistricted 9th district for the 2012 election, and was re-elected there
District eliminated[1] January 3, 2013

References

  1. 1 2 "Table 1. APPORTIONMENT POPULATION AND NUMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES, BY STATE: 2010 CENSUS" (PDF). December 21, 2010. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  2. ↑ http://www.sec.state.ma.us/spr/sprcat/catpdf2010/cong2010/CongressionalDistrict_2011State.pdf Access date: March 20, 2012.
  3. ↑ "State Apportionment; districts of the Commonwealth for the choice of one representative to Congress in each district". Massachusetts Register ... for 1843. Boston: Loring.
  4. 1 2 Ben. Perley Poore (1869). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory for the First Session of the Forty-First Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  5. ↑ Francis M. Cox (1893). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Third Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  6. ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 64th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1916.
  7. ↑ 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
  8. ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 73rd Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1934.
  9. ↑ 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
  10. ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 83rd Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1953.
  11. ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 88th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1963.
  12. ↑ "Massachusetts", 1977 Official Congressional Directory: 95th Congress, Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977
  13. ↑ Congressional Directory for the 105th Congress (1997-1998), Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997, retrieved November 26, 2013
  14. ↑ "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory for the Second Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress. Washington DC: House of Representatives. 1861.
  15. ↑ Ben. Perley Poore (1878). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 45th Congress (3rd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  16. ↑ Ben. Perley Poore (1882). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 47th Congress (3rd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  17. ↑ L.A. Coolidge (1897). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Fifth Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  18. ↑ A.J. Halford (1909). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 60th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  19. ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 75th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1938.
  20. ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 90th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1968.
  21. ↑ "Massachusetts". 1991-1992 Official Congressional Directory: 102nd Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1991.
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