Massachusetts Senate's 1st Essex district

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Massachusetts Senate's 1st Essex district in the United States is one of 40 legislative districts of the Massachusetts Senate.{{cite web |url=https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/eledist/sen11idx.htm |title=Massachusetts Senatorial Districts |access-date= April 15, 2020 |work=Sec.state.ma.us }} It covers 23.0% of Essex county population.{{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=Counties ↔ legislative district correspondences: MA |quote= Counties to State Senate Districts }}{{citation |url=https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2011/Chapter152 |access-date= April 15, 2020 |work= Session Laws: Acts (2011) |title=An Act Establishing Executive Councillor and Senatorial Districts |author=Massachusetts General Court }} Democrat Pavel Payano of Lawrence has represented the district since 2023.{{cite web |access-date= January 3, 2024 |work= Sec.state.ma.us |author= Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division |url= https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/search/year_from:1970/year_to:2024/office_id:9/district_id:58699 |title= State Senate elections: 1st Essex district }}

Locales represented

The district includes the following localities:

The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Essex, 2nd Essex, 3rd Essex, 14th Essex, 15th Essex, and 17th Essex districts.{{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 Senate Districts to State House Districts }}

=Towns formerly represented=

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The district previously covered the following:

Lynn, circa 1860s;{{citation |work=Acts and Resolves |author=Massachusetts General Court |title= 1866 Chap. 0120. An Act To Divide The Commonwealth Into Forty Districts For The Choice Of Senators |date=October 16, 1866 |hdl=2452/100042 |url= http://hdl.handle.net/2452/100042 |via=State Library of Massachusetts }} circa 1948;{{citation |work=Acts and Resolves |author=Massachusetts General Court |title= 1948 Chap. 0250. An Act To Establish Councillor And Senatorial Districts |date=October 16, 2023 |hdl=2452/57550 |url= http://hdl.handle.net/2452/57550 |via=State Library of Massachusetts }} circa 1987 {{citation |work=Acts and Resolves |author=Massachusetts General Court |title= 1987 Chap. 0305. An Act Establishing Executive Councillor And Senatorial Districts |date=October 16, 1987 |hdl=2452/8462 |url= http://hdl.handle.net/2452/8462 |via=State Library of Massachusetts }}
Lynnfield, circa 1860s; circa 1987
Marblehead, circa 1860s; circa 1987
Nahant, circa 1860s; circa 1948; circa 1987
Saugus, circa 1860s; circa 1987
Swampscott, circa 1860s; circa 1948; circa 1987

List of senators

William Fabens, circa 1859 {{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=pMpDAQAAMAAJ |title=Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court |year= 1859 |location=Boston |via=Google Books |last1=General Court |first1=Massachusetts }}
George H. Sweetser (1867, 1869)
William Schouler (1868)
Harmon Hall (1876, 1880–1881)
John R. Baldwin (1882–1884)
Eugene A. Bessom, circa 1894
William Salter
George Jackson
Charles Benjamin Frothingham

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! Senator

! Party

! Years

! Legis.

! Electoral history

! District towns

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Albert Cole{{cite book |year= 1935 |url= https://archive.org/details/publicofficialso19351936bost/page/36/mode/2up |title= Public Officials of Massachusetts }}

| {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

| 1935 –
1940

| 149th
150th
151st

| Elected in 1934.
Re-elected in 1936.
Re-elected in 1938.
Resigned to become Mayor of Lynn.

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Charles V. Hogan{{cite book |year= 1945 |url= https://archive.org/details/publicofficersof19451946bost/page/36/mode/2up |title= Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts }}{{cite book |year= 1957 |url= https://archive.org/details/publicofficersof19571958bost/page/40/mode/2up |title= Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts }}{{cite book |year= 1969 |url= https://archive.org/stream/publicofficersof19691970bost#page/38/mode/2up |title= Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts }}