Worcester County is a county in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census,the population was 862,111,making it the second-most populous county in Massachusetts. It is also the largest county in Massachusetts by geographic area. The largest city and traditional shire town is Worcester. Worcester County is part of the Worcester,MA–CT metropolitan statistical area and the Boston-Worcester-Providence combined statistical area.
Worcester State University (WSU) is a public university in Worcester,Massachusetts. The fourth largest of the Commonwealth’s nine Universities,WSU enrolls 4500 undergraduates and nearly 900 graduate students in more than 80 undergraduate majors and minors and 39 graduate programs.
Ginery Twichell was president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad in the 1860s,the Republican Representative for Massachusetts for three consecutive terms and the sixth president of the Atchison,Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
The 1788–89 United States House of Representatives elections were the first U.S. House of Representatives elections following the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. Each state set its own date for its congressional elections,ranging from November 24,1788,to March 5,1789,before or after the first session of the 1st United States Congress convened on March 4,1789. They coincided with the election of George Washington as the first president of the United States.
Dwight Foster was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives,the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
Dwight Foster was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He served as Massachusetts Attorney General and was an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
William Whitney Rice was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Lewis George Evangelidis is the sheriff of Worcester County,Massachusetts and a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
The Massachusetts general election,2010 was held on November 2,2010 throughout Massachusetts. Primary elections took place on September 14,2010.
Karyn Ellen Polito is an American attorney,businesswoman,and politician who served as the 72nd lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 2015 to 2023. Polito was a Republican member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the 11th Worcester district from 2001 to 2011. Polito was first elected lieutenant governor in 2014 with her running mate,Charlie Baker. They were both re-elected in 2018,and declined to seek reelection in 2022.
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.
Peter J. Durant is an American state legislator and member of the Massachusetts State Senate from the Worcester and Hampshire Senate district.
Massachusetts law required a majority vote,necessitating additional votes if no one won a majority. This was necessary in 4 of the districts.
The 2018 United States Senate election in Massachusetts took place on November 6,2018. Incumbent Democratic U.S. senator Elizabeth Warren ran for re-election to a second term. The candidate filing deadline was June 5,2018,and the primary election was held on September 4,2018.
Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Worcester district in the United States is one of 40 legislative districts of the Massachusetts Senate. It covers portions of Worcester county. Democrat Mike Moore of Millbury has represented the district since 2009.
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Worcester 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 Worcester County. Republican Kimberly Ferguson of Holden has represented the district since 2011. She is running unopposed for re-election in the 2020 Massachusetts general election.
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 6th Worcester 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 Worcester County. Republican State Representative John Marsi has represented the district since March 2024.
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 3rd Worcester 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 Worcester County. Democrat Stephan Hay of Fitchburg has represented the district since 2017. He plans to retire after 2020.
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 16th Worcester 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 Worcester in Worcester County. Democrat Dan Donahue of Worcester has represented the district since 2013.
Jeffrey Rosario Turco is an American attorney,politician,and former law enforcement officer serving as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 19th Suffolk district. He was elected in a March 30,2021,special election.
