Massachusetts Senate's 1st Suffolk district

Massachusetts Senate's 1st Suffolk district in the United States is one of 40 legislative districts of the Massachusetts Senate.[1] It covers portions of Suffolk county.[2] Democrat Nick Collins of South Boston has represented the district since 2019.[3]

Map of Massachusetts Senate's 1st Suffolk district, 2013. Based on 2010 United States Census

As of 2013, the district's seat had "long been regarded as the 'Southie Seat,'...held by a white, Irish-American, South Boston man."[4]

Locales represented

The district includes parts of the city of Boston.[2][5]

Former locales

The district previously covered the following:

• Chelsea, circa 1860s[5]
• North Chelsea, circa 1860s[5]
• Winthrop, circa 1860s[5]

Senators

• Nehemiah Boynton, circa 1859 [6]
• Alfred Hall
• John Edward Beck
• Edward Cox
• John F. Donovan, circa 1935 [7]
• William R. Conley, circa 1945 [8]
• Harold Wilson Canavan, circa 1957 [9]
• Joseph J. C. DiCarlo, circa 1969 [10]
• Bill Bulger, circa 1979-1993 [11][12][13]
• John A. Hart, Jr., circa 2002 [14]
• Nick Collins, 2019-current[3]

Images

Portraits of legislators

• 
  Alfred Hall
• 
  John Edward Beck
• 
  Edward Cox
• 
  William Conley
• 
  Andrew Patrick Quigley
• 
  Harry Della Russo
• 
  Nick Collins

See also

• List of Massachusetts Senate elections
• List of Massachusetts General Courts
• List of former districts of the Massachusetts Senate
• Suffolk County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th

References

1. "Massachusetts Senatorial Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
2. "An Act Establishing Executive Councillor and Senatorial Districts", Session Laws: Acts (2011), retrieved April 15, 2020
3. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Senate elections: 1st Suffolk district". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
4. "A Political Shift In The First Suffolk District", Wbur.org, May 8, 2013
5. Massachusetts General Court, "1866 Chap. 0120. An Act To Divide The Commonwealth Into Forty Districts For The Choice Of Senators", Acts and Resolves – via State Library of Massachusetts
6. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston. 1859 – via Google Books.
7. Public Officials of Massachusetts. 1935.
8. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1945.
9. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1957.
10. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1969.
11. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1979.
12. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1985.
13. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1993.
14. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Senate elections: 2002". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 15, 2020.

External links

• Ballotpedia
• "First Suffolk District, MA". Censusreporter.org. (State Senate district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
• League of Women Voters of Boston