Massachusetts's 9th congressional district

Massachusetts's 9th congressional district
Massachusetts' 9th congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
Current Representative William R. Keating (D–Bourne)
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Massachusetts' 9th congressional district is located in eastern Massachusetts. It is represented by Democrat William R. Keating.

Redistricting after the 2010 census eliminated Massachusetts's 10th congressional district and moved many of the district's communities here. The district also added some Plymouth County communities from the old 4th district, and some Bristol County communities from the old 3rd and 4th districts. It eliminated a few easternmost Norfolk County communities and northernmost Plymouth county communities.

Cities and towns in the district

All of Barnstable County, Dukes County, and Nantucket County.

The following municipalities in Bristol County:

Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Fall River: Wards 1-3, Ward 6, Precincts A and B in Ward 4, Precincts A and B in Ward 5, New Bedford, and Westport.

The following municipalities in Plymouth County:

Carver, Duxbury, Halifax, Hanover, Hanson, Kingston, Marion, Marshfield, Mattapoisett, Middleborough, Norwell, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Rochester, Rockland, and Wareham.

Cities and towns in the district prior to 2013

The district from 2003 to 2013

1840s

1849: "The towns in the County of Plymouth, excepting Abington, Hingham, Hull, North Bridgewater, Rochester, and Wareham; and all the towns in the County of Bristol, excepting Dartmouth, Fairhaven, and New Bedford."[1]

1860s

1862: "The towns of Ashburnham, Auburn, Barre, Boylston, Brookfield, Charlton, Clinton, Douglas, Dudley, Fitchburg, Gardner, Grafton, Holden, Hubbardston, Lancaster, Leicester, Leominster, Millbury, New Braintree, North Brookfield, Oakham, Oxford, Paxton, Princeton, Rutland, Shrewsbury, Southbridge, Spencer, Sterling, Sturbridge, Sutton, Templeton, Webster, West Boylston, Westminster, and Winchendon, and the city of Worcester, in the county of Worcester."[2]

1890s

1893: Boston, Wards 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 (Precincts 2, 3, 4, 6); Winthrop.[3]

1910s

1916: In Middlesex County: Everett, Malden, Somerville. In Suffolk County: Chelsea, Revere, Winthrop.[4][5]

1950s

1953: "Counties: Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket. Bristol County: City of Fall River, ward 6, and city of New Bedford; towns of Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, and Westport. Norfolk County: Town of Cohasset. Plymouth County: Towns of Abington, Bridgewater, Carver, Duxbury, East Bridgewater, Halifax, Hanover, Hanson, Hingham, Hull, Kingston, Lakeville, Marion, Marshfield, Mattapoisett, Middleborough, Norwell, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Rochester, Rockland, Scituate, Wareham, West Bridgewater, and Whitman."[6]

1960s

1963: Boston (Wards 4- 17, 19, 20).[7]

1970s

1977: "Norfolk County: Towns of Canton, Dedham, Dover, Needham, Norwood, Walpole, and Westwood. Suffolk County: City of Boston: Wards 3, 4, 6—14, 19, and 20."[8]

1980s

1985: "Bristol County: City of Taunton. Towns of Dighton, Easton, and Raynham. Norfolk County: Towns of Canton, Dedham, Needham, Norwood, Stoughton, and Westwood. Plymouth County: Towns of Bridgewater, Halifax, Lakeville, and Middleborough. Suffolk County: City of Boston: Wards 3, 6-14, 19, and 20."[9]

2003-2013

In Bristol County:

Easton.

In Norfolk County:

Avon, Braintree, Canton, Dedham, Holbrook, Medfield, Milton, Needham, Norwood, Randolph, Stoughton, Walpole, Westwood.

In Plymouth County:

Bridgewater, Brockton, East Bridgewater, Hanson, Precincts 1 and 3, West Bridgewater, Whitman.

In Suffolk County:

Boston, Ward 3, Precincts 5 and 6; Ward 5, Precincts 3-5, 11; Ward 6; Ward 7, Precincts 1-9; Ward 13, Precincts 3, 7-10; Ward 15, Precinct 6; Ward 16, Precincts 2, 4-12; Ward 17, Precincts 4, 13, 14; Ward 18, Precincts 9-12, 16-20, 22, 23; Ward 19, Precincts 2, 7, 10-13; Ward 20.

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List of representatives

Representative Party Years Electoral history
Joseph B. Varnum Democratic-
Republican		 March 4, 1795 –
March 3, 1803		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Phanuel Bishop Democratic-
Republican		 March 4, 1803 –
March 3, 1807		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Josiah Dean Democratic-
Republican		 March 4, 1807 –
March 3, 1809		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Laban Wheaton Federalist March 4, 1809 –
March 3, 1815		 Redistricted into the 10th district.
John Reed, Jr. Federalist March 4, 1815 –
March 3, 1817		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Walter Folger, Jr. Democratic-
Republican		 March 4, 1817 –
March 3, 1821		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John Reed, Jr. Federalist March 4, 1821 –
March 3, 1823		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Henry W. Dwight Adams-Clay
Federalist		 March 4, 1823 –
March 3, 1825
Adams March 4, 1825 –
March 3, 1829		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Anti-Jackson March 4, 1829 –
March 3, 1831		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
George N. Briggs Anti-Jackson March 4, 1831 –
March 3, 1833		 Redistricted to the 7th district.
William Jackson Anti-Masonic March 4, 1833 –
March 3, 1837		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William S. Hastings Whig March 4, 1837 –
June 17, 1842		 Died
Vacant June 17, 1842 –
March 3, 1843
Henry Williams Democratic March 4, 1843 –
March 3, 1845		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Artemas Hale Whig March 4, 1845 –
March 3, 1849		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Orin Fowler Whig March 4, 1849 –
September 3, 1852		 Died
Vacant September 3, 1852 –
December 13, 1852
Edward P. Little Democratic December 13, 1852 –
March 3, 1853		 Retired
Alexander Dewitt Free Soil March 4, 1853 –
March 3, 1855		 Lost re-election.
Know Nothing March 4, 1855 –
March 3, 1857
Eli Thayer Republican March 4, 1857 –
March 3, 1861		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Goldsmith Bailey[10] Republican March 4, 1861 –
May 8, 1862		 Died
Vacant May 8, 1862 –
December 1, 1862
Amasa Walker Republican December 1, 1862 –
March 3, 1863		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William B. Washburn[11] Republican March 4, 1863 –
December 5, 1871		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Vacant December 5, 1871 –
January 2, 1872
Alvah Crocker Republican January 2, 1872 –
March 3, 1873		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
George Frisbie Hoar Republican March 4, 1873 –
March 3, 1877		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William W. Rice[12] Republican March 4, 1877 –
March 3, 1883		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Theodore Lyman Independent
Republican		 March 4, 1883 –
March 3, 1885		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Frederick D. Ely Republican March 4, 1885 –
March 3, 1887		 Lost re-election
Edward Burnett Democratic March 4, 1887 –
March 3, 1889		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John W. Candler Republican March 4, 1889 –
March 3, 1891		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
George F. Williams Democratic March 4, 1891 –
March 3, 1893		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Joseph H. O'Neil Democratic March 4, 1893 –
March 3, 1895		 Lost renomination
John F. Fitzgerald[13] Democratic March 4, 1895 –
March 3, 1901		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Joseph A. Conry Democratic March 4, 1901 –
March 3, 1903		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John A. Keliher[14] Democratic March 4, 1903 –
March 3, 1911		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William F. Murray Democratic March 4, 1911 –
March 3, 1913		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Ernest W. Roberts Republican March 3, 1913 –
March 3, 1917		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Alvan T. Fuller Republican March 4, 1917 –
January 5, 1921		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Vacant January 5, 1921 –
March 3, 1921
Charles L. Underhill Republican March 4, 1921 –
March 3, 1933		 Retired
Robert Luce Republican March 4, 1933 –
January 3, 1935		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Richard M. Russell Democratic January 3, 1935 –
January 3, 1937		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Robert Luce[15] Republican January 3, 1937 –
January 3, 1941		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Thomas H. Eliot Democratic January 3, 1941 –
January 3, 1943		 Lost renomination to James M. Curley (who then lost the general election).
Charles L. Gifford Republican January 3, 1943 –
August 23, 1947		 Died
Vacant August 23, 1947 –
November 18, 1947
Donald W. Nicholson Republican November 18, 1947 –
January 3, 1959		 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Hastings Keith Republican January 3, 1959 –
January 3, 1963		 Redistricted to 12th district
John McCormack[16] Democratic January 3, 1963 –
January 3, 1971		 Redistricted from the 12th District
Retired
Louise Day Hicks Democratic January 3, 1971 –
January 3, 1973		 Elected in 1970
Lost re-election
Joe Moakley[17] Democratic January 3, 1973 –
May 28, 2001		 First elected in 1972 as an Independent, but became a Democrat at beginning of the term
Re-elected in 1974
Re-elected in 1976
Re-elected in 1978
Re-elected in 1980
Re-elected in 1982
Re-elected in 1984
Re-elected in 1986
Re-elected in 1988
Re-elected in 1990
Re-elected in 1992
Re-elected in 1994
Re-elected in 1996
Re-elected in 1998
Re-elected in 2000
Died
Vacant May 28, 2001 –
October 15, 2001
Stephen Lynch Democratic October 16, 2001 –
January 3, 2013		 First elected to finish Moakley's term
Re-elected in 2002
Re-elected in 2004
Re-elected in 2006
Re-elected in 2008
Re-elected in 2010
Redistricted to the 8th district
William R. Keating Democratic January 3, 2013 –
Present		 Redistricted from the 10th district and elected here in 2012
Re-elected in 2014

References

  1. ↑ John Hayward (1849). "Congressional Districts". Gazetteer of Massachusetts. Boston: J.P. Jewett & Co.
  2. ↑ "Congressional Districts". Massachusetts Register 1862. Boston: Adams, Sampson, & Co.
  3. ↑ Francis M. Cox (1893). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Third Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  4. ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 64th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1916.
  5. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 83rd Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1953.
  7. ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 88th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1963.
  8. ↑ "Massachusetts", 1977 Official Congressional Directory: 95th Congress, Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977
  9. ↑ "Massachusetts". 1985-1986 Official Congressional Directory: 99th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1985.
  10. ↑ "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory for the Second Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress. Washington DC: House of Representatives. 1861.
  11. ↑ Ben. Perley Poore (1869). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory for the First Session of the Forty-First Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  12. ↑ Ben. Perley Poore (1878). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 45th Congress (3rd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  13. ↑ L.A. Coolidge (1897). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Fifth Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  14. ↑ A.J. Halford (1909). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 60th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  15. ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 75th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1938.
  16. ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 90th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1968.
  17. ↑ "Massachusetts". 1991-1992 Official Congressional Directory: 102nd Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1991.
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Preceded by
Massachusetts's 12th congressional district		 Home district of the Speaker of the House
January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1971 		Succeeded by
Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district

Coordinates: 41°41′42″N 70°29′07″W / 41.69500°N 70.48528°W / 41.69500; -70.48528

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