Massachusetts House of Representatives' 8th Suffolk district
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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 8th Suffolk district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of Cambridge in Middlesex County and part of Boston in Suffolk County.{{citation |url=https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2011/Chapter153 |title= Chapter 153. An Act Relative to Establishing Representative Districts in the General Court |work=Acts (2011) |author=Massachusetts General Court }}{{cite web |url=https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/eledist/reps11idx.htm |title=Massachusetts Representative Districts |access-date= April 29, 2020 |work=Sec.state.ma.us }} Democrat Jay Livingstone of Back Bay has represented the district since 2013.{{cite web |access-date= April 29, 2020 |work= PD43+ |author= Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division |url= https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/search/year_from:1970/year_to:2020/office_id:8/district_id:58862 |title= State Representative elections: 8th Suffolk district }}
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's Middlesex and Suffolk district, 1st Suffolk and Middlesex district, and 2nd Suffolk and Middlesex district.{{Citation |url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/30/1848730/-How-do-counties-House-districts-and-legislative-districts-all-overlap-These-new-tools-show-you|author=David Jarman|work= How do counties, House districts, and legislative districts all overlap? |publisher=Daily Kos |date=July 30, 2019 |title= Upper legislative district ↔ lower legislative district correspondences: MA |quote= State House Districts to State Senate Districts }}
Representatives
- Otis Rich, circa 1858 {{cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/massachusettsreg1858bost/page/n21/mode/1up |title=Massachusetts Register |publisher=Adams, Sampson & Co. |location=Boston |year=1858 |chapter=Massachusetts House of Representatives |pages=10–12 }}
- George F. Williams, circa 1858
- Thomas H. Bussell, circa 1859 {{cite book |url= https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge1859mass/page/200/mode/2up |title=Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court |year= 1859 |location=Boston |via=Internet Archive }}
- George A. Shaw, circa 1859
- Harrison H. Atwood, circa 1888 {{cite book |series= Official Gazette, Commonwealth of Massachusetts |title= 1888 State House Directory |editor=Geo. F. Andrews |publisher=Lakeview Press |chapter= Representatives: Suffolk County |chapter-url= https://archive.org/details/officialgazette1888andr/page/32/mode/2up }}
- Edward J. Donovan, circa 1888
- James Melville Hunnewell, circa 1920 {{cite book |title=Public Officials of Massachusetts: 1920 |publisher=Boston Review |url= https://archive.org/details/publicofficialso1920bost }}
- Henry Lee Shattuck, circa 1920 {{cite book |title=Public Officials of Massachusetts: 1920 |publisher=Boston Review |url= https://archive.org/details/publicofficialso1920bost }}
- Charles Iannello, circa 1951 {{cite book |title=1951–1952 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |location= Boston |url= https://archive.org/stream/publicofficersof19511952bost }}
- Michael F. Flaherty Sr., circa 1975 {{cite book |title=1975–1976 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |location= Boston |url= https://archive.org/stream/publicofficersof19751976bost }}
- Paul C. Demakis, 1995-2005 {{citation |url=https://www.mass.gov/lists/massachusetts-state-legislators-papers-collections-at-the-state-library |title= Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library |author= State Library of Massachusetts |work=Mass.gov |access-date= September 3, 2020 }}
- Martha M. Walz, January 2005 – February 2013
- Jay Livingstone, 2013-current
See also
- List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
- Other Suffolk County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th
- List of Massachusetts General Courts
- List of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Images
;Portraits of legislators
1908 David Mancovitz Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|David Mancovitz
1908 Martin Lomasney Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Martin Lomasney
1918 Arthur Burr Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Arthur Burr
1918 Fitz Henry Smith Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Fitz Henry Smith
1920 Henry Shattuck Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Henry Shattuck
1923 James Melville Hunnewell Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|James Melville Hunnewell
1935 Anthony McNulty Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Anthony McNulty
1935 John Aspell Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|John Aspell
1945 Ernest Dullea Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Ernest Dullea
1953 Charles Iannello Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Charles Iannello
1967 Arthur Lewis Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Arthur Lewis
1967 David Tobin Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|David Tobin
1967 James Craven Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|James Craven
1975 Michael Flaherty Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Michael Flaherty
1983 Thomas Vallely Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Thomas Vallely
1995 Paul Demakis Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Paul Demakis
Jay Livingstone 2013.jpg|Jay Livingstone
Martha Walz.jpg|Martha Walz
References
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External links
- [https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_House_of_Representatives Ballotpedia]
- {{cite web |url= https://censusreporter.org/profiles/62000US25191-8th-suffolk-district-ma/ |title= 8th Suffolk District, MA |work= Censusreporter.org }} (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
- [https://my.lwv.org/massachusetts/boston League of Women Voters of Boston]
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