Massachusetts House of Representatives' 9th Plymouth district

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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 9th Plymouth 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 the city of Brockton in Plymouth 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= May 4, 2020 |work=Sec.state.ma.us }} Democrat Bridget Plouffe has represented the district since 2025.

The current district geographic boundary overlaps with that of the Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Plymouth and Bristol 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

  • Foster Tinkham, 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 }}
  • Everett Robinson, 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 M. Hooper, circa 1888 {{cite book |series= Official Gazette, Commonwealth of Massachusetts |title= 1888 State House Directory |editor=Geo. F. Andrews |publisher=Lakeview Press |chapter= Representatives: Plymouth County |date= October 16, 1888 |chapter-url= https://archive.org/details/officialgazette1888andr/page/54/mode/2up }}
  • Emil K. Steele, circa 1920 {{cite book |title=Public Officials of Massachusetts: 1920 |date=October 16, 2023 |publisher=Boston Review |url= https://archive.org/details/publicofficialso1920bost }}
  • John George Asiaf, circa 1951 {{cite book |title=1951–1952 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |location= Boston |url= https://archive.org/stream/publicofficersof19511952bost }}
  • Robert S. Teahan, circa 1975 {{cite book |title=1975–1976 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |location= Boston |url= https://archive.org/stream/publicofficersof19751976bost }}
  • Gerry Cassidy, 2017–2025{{cite web |access-date= May 4, 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:58851 |title= State Representative elections: 9th Plymouth district }}
  • Bridget Plouffe, 2025-Presenthttps://malegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/BMP1

Former locale

The district previously covered Middleborough, circa 1872.{{cite book |chapter=Representative Districts |chapter-url= https://archive.org/details/massachusettsreg1872bost/page/27/mode/1up |title=Massachusetts Register |year=1872 |publisher=Sampson, Davenport, & Company |location=Boston }}

See also

Images

;Portraits of legislators

1908 Edward Gilmore Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Edward Gilmore

1918 Walter Packard Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Walter Packard

1923 Charles Hillberg Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Charles Hillberg

1935 John Whalen Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|John Whalen

1935 Joseph Downey Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Joseph Downey

1945 John Asiaf Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|John Asiaf

1967 James Downey Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|James Downey

1967 Paul Maurice Murphy Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Paul Maurice Murphy

1975 Robert Teahan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Robert Teahan

1983 Mark Lawton Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Mark Lawton

2005 Thomas P Kennedy Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Thomas P. Kennedy

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