2017–2018 Massachusetts legislature

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190th
Massachusetts General Court
189th 191st
Overview
Legislative body General Court
TermJanuary 4, 2017 (2017-01-04) [1]  – December 31, 2018 (2018-12-31) [2]
Election 2016 Massachusetts general election
Senate
Members40 [3]
President Harriette L. Chandler
Party control Democrat [3]
House
Members160
Speaker Robert DeLeo
Party control Democrat [4]
Harriette L. Chandler.jpg
Harriette Chandler, Senate president.
2003 Robert DeLeo Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Robert DeLeo, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 2017-2018.

The 190th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 2017 and 2018 during the governorship of Charlie Baker. Harriette L. Chandler served as president of the Senate, and Robert DeLeo served as speaker of the House. [5]

Contents

Senators

portraitname [6] date of birthdistrict [7]
1991 Michael John Barrett senator Massachusetts.jpg
Michael J. Barrett June 27, 1948 3rd Middlesex
Joseph Boncore June 27, 1983
Michael Brady (politician)
William Brownsberger - January 2012.jpg
Will Brownsberger March 21, 1957
Harriette L. Chandler.jpg
Harriette L. Chandler December 20, 1937
Sonya Chang-Diaz.jpg
Sonia Chang-Díaz March 31, 1978
Cynthia S. Creem.jpg
Cynthia Stone Creem September 17, 1942
Julian Cyr.jpg
Julian Cyr January 19, 1986
State Senator Vinny deMacedo.jpg
Vinny deMacedo October 16, 1965
2012 Sal DiDomenico senator Massachusetts.png
Sal DiDomenico June 20, 1971
Eileen Donoghue.jpg
Eileen Donoghue 1954
Jamie Eldridge, 2009.jpg
Jamie Eldridge August 11, 1973
Massachusetts State Senator Ryan Fattman.jpg
Ryan Fattman July 1, 1984
Paul Feeney March 23, 1978
2005 Linda Forry Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Linda Dorcena Forry November 1, 1973
Cindy Friedman
2005 Anne Gobi Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Anne Gobi December 27, 1962
Adam G. Hinds.png
Adam G. Hinds
Donald Humason Jr official portrait.jpg
Donald Humason Jr. July 31, 1967
Kathleen O'Connor Ives July 1, 1977
Patricia Jehlen at Assembly station opening, September 2014.JPG
Patricia D. Jehlen October 14, 1943
John F. Keenan (state senator) 1964
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Barbara L'Italien January 3, 1961
Eric Lesser Solo Photograph.jpg
Eric Lesser February 27, 1985
Jason Lewis (Massachusetts politician) April 19, 1968
Joan Lovely 2013.jpg
Joan Lovely
Thomas M McGee 2011.jpg
Thomas M. McGee December 15, 1955
Mark Montigny - May 2012.jpg
Mark Montigny June 20, 1961
Senator Michael O. Moore.jpg
Michael O. Moore January 17, 1963
Patrick O'Connor (Massachusetts politician) August 13, 1984
Marc Pacheco 2008.jpg
Marc Pacheco October 29, 1952
Michael Rodrigues 2010.jpg
Michael Rodrigues (politician) May 30, 1959
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Stan Rosenberg October 12, 1949
2005 Richard Ross Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Richard J. Ross July 6, 1954
2005 Michael Rush Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Mike Rush November 30, 1973
Karen E. Spilka.jpg
Karen Spilka January 11, 1953
Bruce Tarr 2010.jpg
Bruce Tarr January 2, 1964
2005 Walter Timilty Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Walter Timilty July 19, 1969
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Dean Tran
James T Welch 2009.jpg
James T. Welch December 22, 1975

Representatives

portraitname [8] date of birthdistrict [9]
James Arciero August 27, 1974 2nd Middlesex
Brian Ashe April 23, 1963
2003 Cory Atkins Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Cory Atkins February 10, 1949
2005 Bruce Ayers Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Bruce Ayers April 17, 1962
2005 Ruth Balser Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Ruth Balser October 30, 1948
Christine Barber
F. Jay Barrows April 5, 1956
Jennifer Benson
Donnie Berthiaume
Nicholas Boldyga.jpg
Nicholas Boldyga
PaulBrodeur.jpg
Paul A. Brodeur April 24, 1964
1995 Antonio Cabral Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Antonio Cabral January 26, 1955
Daniel Cahill
Thomas Calter
Kate Campanale
Linda Dean Campbell
Gailanne Cariddi November 1, 1953
Evandro Carvalho.jpg
Evandro Carvalho September 9, 1981
Gerard Cassidy
Tackey Chan August 10, 1973
Edward F. Coppinger
Claire D. Cronin
Dan Cullinane
Mark Cusack 1984
Josh S. Cutler January 22, 1971
Angelo D'Emilia
Marjorie Decker
David DeCoste
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Robert DeLeo (politician) March 27, 1950
1995 Brian Dempsey Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Brian Dempsey (politician) September 30, 1966
Massachusetts State Rep. Geoff Diehl.jpg
Geoff Diehl April 23, 1969
Diana Photo.jpg
Diana DiZoglio June 5, 1983
Dan Donahue May 1, 1987
Paul J. Donato.jpg
Paul Donato October 27, 1941
Shawn Dooley
William Driscoll
Michelle DuBois April 14, 1973
Peter Durant
James J. Dwyer
Carolyn Dykema December 26, 1967
Lori Ehrlich June 9, 1963
Tricia Farley-Bouvier
Kimberly Ferguson
Dylan Fernandes
Ann-Margaret Ferrante June 26, 1972
Michael Finn March 24, 1970
Carole Fiola
1995 Gloria Fox Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Gloria Fox March 18, 1942
2005 Paul Frost Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Paul Frost April 25, 1970
1995 William C Galvin Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William C. Galvin October 18, 1956
Sean Garballey February 22, 1985
Denise Garlick
1995 Colleen Garry Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Colleen Garry July 21, 1962
Carmine Gentile
Susan Gifford.jpg
Susan Williams Gifford November 3, 1959
State Rep Tom Golden (512061811) (cropped).jpg
Thomas Golden Jr. March 5, 1971
Solomon Goldstein-Rose December 5, 1993
Carlos Gonzalez (legislator)
Ken Gordon (American politician) November 4, 1959
Danielle Gregoire
Patricia A. Haddad.jpg
Patricia Haddad May 7, 1950
Sheila Harrington 1960
Jim Hawkins (politician) October 17, 1949
Stephan Hay
Jon Hecht
Natalie Higgins July 24, 1988
Bradford Hill in 2012.jpg
Bradford Hill January 22, 1967
Kate Hogan January 15, 1957
Russell Holmes at Boston Foundation.jpg
Russell Holmes August 17, 1969
1995 Kevin Honan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Kevin Honan June 5, 1958
Steve Howitt
Daniel J. Hunt
Randy Hunt (politician) August 24, 1957
1995 Bradley Jones Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Bradley Jones Jr. January 9, 1965
1995 Louis Kafka Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Louis Kafka November 28, 1945
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Hannah Kane 1971
1995 Jay Kaufman Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Jay R. Kaufman May 4, 1947
Mary Keefe
James Kelcourse
1995 Kay Khan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Kay Khan June 22, 1941
1995 Robert Koczera Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Robert Koczera November 25, 1953
1995 Stephen Kulik Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Stephen Kulik August 3, 1950
Massachusetts State Representative Kevin Kuros.jpg
Kevin Kuros February 7, 1965
John J. Lawn
2014 Susannah Whipps Lee.jpg
Susannah Whipps
Jack Patrick Lewis
David Linsky portrait.jpg
David Linsky October 16, 1957
Jay Livingstone 2013.jpg
Jay Livingstone
Marc Lombardo
Jim Lyons speech.jpg
James J. Lyons Jr.
Adrian Madaro 1988
John J. Mahoney
2003 Elizabeth Malia Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Liz Malia September 30, 1949
Ronald Mariano.jpg
Ronald Mariano October 31, 1946
Paul Mark
Christopher Markey
Juana Matias
Joe McGonagle
Massachusetts State Representative Joseph McKenna.jpg
Joseph D. McKenna
Paul McMurtry.jpg
Paul McMurtry October 28, 1965
Joan Meschino
Aaron Michlewitz 1978
Lenny Mirra Profile.jpg
Lenny Mirra February 23, 1964
Rady Mom.jpg
Rady Mom 1970
Frank A. Moran
2005 Michael Moran Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Michael Moran (Massachusetts politician) February 23, 1971
David Muradian.jpg
David Muradian November 21, 1982
Matt Muratore
2005 James Murphy Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
James M. Murphy November 15, 1969
Brian Murray (politician)
2005 David Nangle Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
David Nangle December 18, 1960
Harold Naughton.jpg
Harold Naughton Jr. July 4, 1960
Shaunna O'Connell March 14, 1970
James ODay Headshot.jpg
Jim O'Day May 23, 1954
Keiko Orrall September 8, 1967
Jerry Parisella
Sarah Peake October 4, 1957
2005 Alice Peisch Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Alice Peisch October 4, 1954
1995 Thomas Petrolati Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Thomas Petrolati March 16, 1957
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William "Smitty" Pignatelli August 31, 1959
2003 Elizabeth Poirier Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Elizabeth Poirier October 27, 1942
Denise Provost at Assembly station opening, September 2014.JPG
Denise Provost March 9, 1951
Angelo Puppolo
Dave Rogers (Massachusetts politician)
John Rogers (2014).jpg
John H. Rogers October 22, 1964
JeffreyRoy.jpg
Jeffrey Roy September 8, 1961
1980s Byron Rushing of Boston USA 9504750450.jpg
Byron Rushing July 29, 1942
Daniel Ryan, August 1, 2014 (14801478474) (cropped).jpg
Daniel Joseph Ryan
Jeffrey Sanchez.jpg
Jeffrey Sanchez (politician) July 18, 1969
1983 Angelo Scaccia Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Angelo Scaccia September 29, 1942
Paul Schmid
2005 John Scibak Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
John Scibak May 4, 1953
Alan Silvia October 19, 1951
2005 Frank Smizik Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Frank Smizik September 4, 1944
2005 Todd Smola Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Todd Smola 1977
TedSpeliotis.jpg
Theodore C. Speliotis August 20, 1953
2003 Thomas Stanley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Thomas M. Stanley March 23, 1964
1995 William Straus Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
William M. Straus June 26, 1956
1995 Benjamin Swan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Benjamin Swan September 18, 1933
Jose Tosado December 18, 1953
Paul Tucker (politician)
Steven Ultrino
Aaron Vega official photo.jpg
Aaron Vega August 25, 1970
John Velis.jpg
John Velis January 26, 1979
David Vieira (politician)
RoseLee Vincent
Joseph F. Wagner.jpg
Joseph Wagner (Massachusetts politician) May 7, 1960
Chris Walsh (politician) May 20, 1951
1987 Thomas P Walsh Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
Thomas Walsh (Massachusetts politician) July 15, 1960
Tim Whelan (politician)
Donald Wong January 15, 1952
Jonathan D Zlotnik.jpg
Jonathan Zlotnik May 7, 1990

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