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Massachusetts's 9th congressional district
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| Massachusetts's 9th congressional district | |
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| Area | 313.08 mi² |
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| Distribution | 81.58% urban, 18.42% rural |
| Population (2000) | 634,062 |
| Median income | $67,090 |
| Ethnic composition | 79.3% White, 8.5% Black, 3.7% Asian, 4.6% Hispanic, 0.2% Native American |
| Occupation | 17.3% blue collar, 69.0% white collar, 13.8% gray collar |
| Cook Partisan Voting Index | D + 15 |
Massachusetts's 9th congressional district is in eastern Massachusetts. It is currently represented by Stephen Lynch, who has served the district since 2001. It has subsumed much of the former 11th District in the south suburbs of Boston.
In Bristol County:
In Norfolk County:
- Avon, Braintree, Canton, Dedham, Holbrook, Medfield, Milton, Needham, Norwood, Randolph, Stoughton, Walpole, Westwood.
In Plymouth County:
- Bridgewater, Brockton, East Bridgewater, Hanson, Precincts 1 and 3, West Bridgewater, Whitman.
In Suffolk County:
- Boston, Ward 3, Precincts 5 and 6; Ward 5, Precincts 3-5, 11; Ward 6; Ward 7, Precincts 1-9; Ward 13, Precincts 3, 7-10; Ward 15, Precinct 6; Ward 16, Precincts 2, 4-12; Ward 17, Precincts 4, 13, 14; Ward 18, Precincts 9-12, 16-20, 22, 23; Ward 19, Precincts 2, 7, 10-13; Ward 20.
| Representative | Party | Years | District home | Note |
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| District created | 1795 | |||
| Joseph B. Varnum | Democratic-Republican | 1795-1803 | ||
| Phanuel Bishop | Democratic-Republican | 1803-1807 | ||
| Josiah Dean | Democratic-Republican | 1807-1809 | ||
| Laban Wheaton | Federalist | 1809-1813 | ||
| John Reed, Jr. | Federalist | 1813-1817 | ||
| Walter Folger, Jr. | Democratic-Republican | 1817-1821 | ||
| John Reed, Jr. | Federalist | 1821-1823 | ||
| Henry W. Dwight | Adams-Clay Federalist | 1823-1825 | ||
| Adams | 1829-1831 | |||
| Anti-Jackson | 1837-1841 | |||
| George N. Briggs | Anti-Jackson | 1831-1833 | ||
| William Jackson | Anti-Masonic | 1833-1837 | ||
| William S. Hastings | Whig | 1837-1843 | ||
| Henry Williams | Democratic | 1843-1845 | ||
| Artemas Hale | Whig | 1845-1849 | ||
| Orin Fowler | Whig | 1849-1852 | ||
| Edward P. Little | Democratic | 1852-1853 | ||
| Charles Allen | Free Soil | 1853-1855 | ||
| Alexander Dewitt | Know Nothing | 1855-1857 | ||
| Eli Thayer | Republican | 1857-1861 | ||
| Goldsmith Bailey | Republican | 1861-1862 | ||
| Amasa Walker | Republican | 1862-1863 | ||
| William B. Washburn | Republican | 1863-1871 | ||
| Alvah Crocker | Republican | 1871-1873 | ||
| George Frisbie Hoar | Republican | 1873-1877 | ||
| William W. Rice | Republican | 1883-1885 | ||
| Theodore Lyman | Independent Republican | 1877-1883 | ||
| Frederick D. Ely | Republican | 1883-1885 | ||
| Edward Burnett | Democratic | 1887-1889 | ||
| John W. Chandler | Republican | 1889-1891 | ||
| George F. Williams | Democratic | 1891-1893 | ||
| Joseph H. O'Neil | Democratic | 1893-1895 | ||
| John F. Fitzgerald | Democratic | 1895-1901 | ||
| Joseph A. Conry | Democratic | 1901-1903 | ||
| John A. Kelliher | Democratic | 1903-1911 | ||
| William F. Murray | Democratic | 1911-1913 | ||
| Ernest W. Roberts | Republican | 1913 - 1917 | ||
| Alvan T. Fuller | Republican | 1917 - 1921 | ||
| Charles L. Underhill | Republican | 1921 - 1933 | ||
| Robert Luce | Republican | 1933 - 1935 | ||
| Richard M. Russell | Democratic | 1935 - 1937 | ||
| Robert Luce | Republican | 1937 - 1941 | ||
| Thomas H. Eliot | Democratic | 1941 - 1943 | ||
| Charles L. Gifford | Republican | 1943 - 1947 | ||
| Donald W. Nicholson | Republican | 1947 - 1963 | ||
| Hastings Keith | Republican | 1959 - 1963 | ||
| John McCormack | Democratic | 1963 - 1971 | ||
| Louise Day Hicks | Democratic | 1971 - 1973 | ||
| John Joseph Moakley | Democratic | 1973 - May 31, 2001 | ||
| Vacant | June 1, 2001 - October 15, 2001 | |||
| Stephen Lynch | Democratic | October 16, 2001 - Present | ||
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| Massachusetts's congressional districts |
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| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 The 11th–20th districts are obsolete. Some moved to Maine in 1820. See also: Massachusetts's past & present Representatives, Senators, and Delegations All U.S. districts - Apportionment - Redistricting - Gerrymandering - Maps |
| Massachusetts's current delegation to the United States Congress |
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| Senators: Edward Kennedy (D), John Kerry (D)
Representative(s): John Olver (D), Richard Neal (D), Jim McGovern (D), Barney Frank (D), Marty Meehan (D), John F. Tierney (D), Ed Markey (D), Mike Capuano (D), Stephen Lynch (D), Bill Delahunt (D) All delegations: Alabama • Alaska • Arizona • Arkansas • California • Colorado • Connecticut • Delaware • Florida • Georgia • Hawaii • Idaho • Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Kansas • Kentucky • Louisiana • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts • Michigan • Minnesota • Mississippi • Missouri • Montana • Nebraska • Nevada • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New Mexico • New York • North Carolina • North Dakota • Ohio • Oklahoma • Oregon • Pennsylvania • Rhode Island • South Carolina • South Dakota • Tennessee • Texas • Utah • Vermont • Virginia • Washington • West Virginia • Wisconsin • Wyoming — American Samoa • District of Columbia • Guam • Puerto Rico • U.S. Virgin Islands |