Patricia Lynn Murray is an American politician who has served as president pro tempore of the United States Senate since 2023 and the senior United States Senator from Washington since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party,Murray served in the Washington State Senate from 1989 to 1993. She was Washington's first female U.S. senator and is the first woman in American history to hold the position of president pro tempore. Murray is also the youngest senator to occupy the office of president pro tempore in more than five decades. As president pro tempore,Murray is third in the line of succession to the U.S. presidency.
Patrick Joseph Kennedy II is an American politician and mental health advocate. From 1995 to 2011,he served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Rhode Island's 1st congressional district,and was the first Generation X member of congress when he was elected in 1995. He is a former member of the Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission and a co-founder of One Mind,a mental health nonprofit.
Richard T. Moore is a Democratic politician from Massachusetts and a former member of the Massachusetts State Senate.
Karen Eileen Spilka is an American politician and attorney serving as a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate. She represents the towns of Ashland,Framingham,Holliston,Hopkinton,Medway and Natick in the MetroWest region of Massachusetts. She has served as the 95th President of the Massachusetts Senate since July 2018. Previously she served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2001 to 2005.
Douglas J. J. Peters is an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the Maryland State Senate representing the 23rd district in Prince George's County from January 10,2007 to July 31,2021. In June 2021,Peters announced he wouldn't seek re-election in 2022;in July 2021,he was appointed to the unpaid University System of Maryland's Board of Regents and announced he would resign from the senate.
John H. Rogers is a Democratic member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives,representing the 12th Norfolk District since 1992,which includes all of Norwood and parts of Walpole.
Patricia Deats Jehlen is a former teacher and current Massachusetts State Senator of the Democratic Party. She represents the Second Middlesex District. That includes the cities of Cambridge,wards 9 to 11,inclusive,Medford and Somerville,and the town of Winchester,precincts 4 to 7,inclusive,in the County of Middlesex. She has served the Massachusetts State Senate since 2005. She also served the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1991 to 2003. She resides in Somerville,MA.
Mark James Cusack is an American politician who represents the 5th Norfolk District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party,Cusack's district encompasses all precincts in the town of Braintree and Precinct 1 and 2 in the town of Holbrook.
Michael O. Moore is an American politician from Millbury,Massachusetts,who serves as the Massachusetts state senator for the Second Worcester District. The district comprises the senator's hometown of Millbury,as well as seven other communities including parts of the city of Worcester. He is member of the Democratic Party who has served in the Massachusetts Legislature since January 7,2009.
Harriette L. Chandler is an American politician who was the 94th President of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts State Senator for the 1st Worcester district,which includes parts of the city of Worcester,where she resides,and the towns of Boylston,Holden,Princeton,and West Boylston,and parts of Clinton and Northborough. She is a Democrat who has served since January 2001. From 1995 to 2001 she was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Prior to serving in the Massachusetts legislature,she was a member of the Worcester school committee from 1991 to 1994. She is the first woman from Worcester ever to be elected to the Massachusetts Senate.
John F. Keenan is a member of the Massachusetts State Senate for the Norfolk and Plymouth district.
Geoffrey G. Diehl is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A Republican,he represented the 7th Plymouth district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2011 to 2019.
Nick Collins is an American politician who currently serves as a member of the Massachusetts Senate,representing First Suffolk District. Collins serves as the Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight and the Senate Vice Chair of the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Businesses. Additionally,he serves a member of the Senate Committee on Bills in the Third Reading,and a member on the Joint Committee's on Bonding,Capital Expenditures and State Assets;Mental Health,Substance Use and Recovery;and Public Service. He is a Boston resident and a Democrat. Elected into the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 2010,he served four terms in the House representing the 4th Suffolk District.
Kay Khan is an American politician and a Democratic member serving in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. She has represented the City of Newton in the Massachusetts House of Representatives since 1995.
Natalie M. Higgins is an American politician serving in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Natalie is a lifelong Leominster resident,Boston-educated attorney,and former non-profit director and rape crisis counselor.
Elizabeth Miranda is a Cape Verdean-American community organizer and politician. She is a state senator representing the Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Suffolk district after winning a five-way Democratic Primary Election,and advancing to an uncontested race in the 2022 Massachusetts general election. Prior to that,since January 2019,Miranda had served as the Democratic Massachusetts State Representative for the Fifth Suffolk district. Her district comprises parts of the Dorchester and Roxbury neighborhoods of Boston. She is a member of the Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus.
Jon Santiago is an American physician and Democratic politician who served in the Massachusetts state representative for the 9th Suffolk district from 2019 to March 2023. He ran a campaign for mayor of Boston in 2021,but withdrew from the race before the primary election.
Joanne M. Comerford is an American politician who currently serves in the Massachusetts Senate. She is the first woman to hold the seat. Before being elected senator she had worked for the National Priorities Project,the Center for Human Development,the American Friends Service Committee,The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts and MoveOn.
Victoria Burgess Sawyer is a Republican member of the North Carolina Senate. She represents the Senate's 37th district which includes Iredell and Mecklenburg Counties. Sawyer was previously appointed to serve in the Senate for District 34. Prior to that,she served in Senate District 44 from August 2,2018 to January 2019.
Malcolm L. Augustine is a Democratic member of the Maryland Senate from the 47th district.
