Massachusetts Senate's 1st Middlesex district
American legislative district
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Massachusetts Senate's 1st Middlesex district in the United States is one of 40 legislative districts of the Massachusetts Senate.[1] It covers portions of Middlesex county.[2] State Representative Vanna Howard was elected to this seat on March 3, 2026 to fill the vacancy left by the death of previous Senator Ed Kennedy.[3]
Locales represented
(As of the 2020 census.)[update] The district includes the following localities:[2]
Dracut
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Middlesex, 16th Middlesex, 17th Middlesex, 18th Middlesex, and 36th Middlesex districts.[4]
Former locale
The district previously covered Charlestown, circa 1860s.[5]
Senators
- E.L. Norton, circa 1859 [6]
- Andrew J. Bailey, circa 1874
- James Vahey
- James MacPherson
- Abbott Rice
- Arthur W. Hollis, circa 1935 [7]
- Joseph F. Montminy, circa 1945 [8]
- Paul Achin, circa 1953
- Edward Joseph DeSaulnier, Jr., circa 1957 [9]
- John Edward Harrington, Jr., circa 1969 [10]
- Bernard Joseph Tully, circa 1979 [11]
- Philip Shea, circa 1983
- Paul J. Sheehy, circa 1985 [12]
- Nancy Achin Sullivan, circa 1991
- Daniel P. Leahy, circa 1993 [13]
- Steven C. Panagiotakos, circa 2002 [14]
- Eileen Donoghue[15]
- Edward J. Kennedy, 2019–2025[16]
- Vanna Howard, March 18, 2026–present[17][3]
Images
- Portraits of legislators
James Vahey
James MacPherson
Abbott Rice
Joseph Montminy
Paul Achin
John Edward Harrington
Bernard Joseph Tully
Philip Shea
See also
- List of Massachusetts Senate elections
- List of Massachusetts General Courts
- List of former districts of the Massachusetts Senate
- Other Middlesex County districts of the Massachusett Senate: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th; 1st Essex and Middlesex; 2nd Essex and Middlesex; 1st Middlesex and Norfolk, 2nd Middlesex and Norfolk; Middlesex and Suffolk; Middlesex and Worcester; Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex; 1st Suffolk and Middlesex; 2nd Suffolk and Middlesex
- Middlesex 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, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 35th, 36th, 37th