Massachusetts Senate's 3rd Essex district

Massachusetts Senate's 3rd Essex district in the United States is one of 40 legislative districts of the Massachusetts Senate.[1] It covers portions of Essex county.[2] Democrat Brendan Crighton of Lynn has represented the district since 2018.[3]

Map of Massachusetts Senate's 3rd Essex district, 2013. Based on 2010 United States Census

Locales represented

The district includes the following localities:[2]

• Lynn
• Lynnfield
• Marblehead
• Nahant
• Saugus
• Swampscott

The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts House of Representatives' 8th Essex, 9th Essex, 10th Essex, 11th Essex, 20th Middlesex, and 16th Suffolk districts.[4]

Former locales

Map of the 1876 apportionment of the 3rd Essex senatorial district

The district previously covered the following:

• Andover, circa 1860s[5]
• Boxford, circa 1860s[5]
• Haverhill, circa 1860s[5]
• Lawrence, circa 1860s[5]
• Methuen, circa 1860s[5]
• North Andover, circa 1860s[5]

Senators

• George L. Davis, circa 1859 [6]
• Horace C. Bacon, circa 1874
• James Shaw
• Charles Donnell Brown
• John Stoddart
• Cornelius F. Haley, circa 1935-1945 [7][8]
• Philip A. Graham, circa 1957 [9]
• William L. Saltonstall, circa 1969 [10]
• Sharon Pollard, circa 1979 [11]
• Sharon Pollard, circa 1983
• Nicholas J. Costello, circa 1985 [12]
• James Paul Jajuga, circa 1993 [13]
• Thomas M. McGee
• Brendan P. Crighton, March 7, 2018-current[3]

Images

Portraits of legislators

• 
  James Shaw
• 
  Charles Donnell Brown
• 
  John Stoddart
• 
  Cornelius Haley
• 
  Philip Graham
• 
  William Saltonstall
• 
  Sharon Pollard
• 
  James Paul Jajuga

See also

• List of Massachusetts Senate elections
• List of Massachusetts General Courts
• List of former districts of the Massachusetts Senate
• Other Essex County districts of the Massachusett Senate: 1st, 2nd; 1st Essex and Middlesex; 2nd Essex and Middlesex
• Essex 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

References

1. "Massachusetts Senatorial Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
2. "An Act Establishing Executive Councillor and Senatorial Districts", Session Laws: Acts (2011), retrieved April 16, 2020
3. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Senate elections: 3rd Essex district". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
4. David Jarman (July 30, 2019), "Upper legislative district ↔ lower legislative district correspondences: MA", How do counties, House districts, and legislative districts all overlap?, Daily Kos, State Senate Districts to State House Districts
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.

External links

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