Massachusetts House of Representatives' 11th Suffolk district

Map of Massachusetts House of Representatives' 11th Suffolk district, 2013. Based on the 2010 United States census.

Map of Massachusetts House of Representatives districts for Suffolk County, apportioned in 2011

Massachusetts House of Representatives' 11th Suffolk 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 Boston in Suffolk County. ^{[1] [2]} Democrat Liz Malia of Jamaica Plain has represented the district since 1998. ^[3]

The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's Norfolk and Suffolk district and 2nd Suffolk district. ^[4]

Representatives

• Amos B. Merrill, circa 1859 ^[5]
• Pliny Nickerson, circa 1859 ^[5]
• John Farrington, circa 1858 ^[6]
• Joseph F. Paul, circa 1858 ^[6]
• Andreas Blume, circa 1888 ^[7]
• William Fisher Wharton, circa 1888 ^[7]
• John W. McCormack, circa 1920 ^[8]
• James B. Troy, circa 1920 ^[8]
• George Greene, circa 1951 ^[9]
• Louis K. Nathanson, circa 1951 ^[9]
• Kevin W. Fitzgerald, circa 1975 ^[10]
• Eleanor Myerson, 1983-1991 ^[11]
• Marc D. Draisen, 1991-1995 ^[12]
• John E. McDonough
• Liz Malia, 1998-2023 ^{[3] [13]}
• Judith Garcia, 2023–present

See also

• List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
• Other Suffolk County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th
• List of Massachusetts General Courts
• List of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Images

Portraits of legislators

• 
  Grafton Cushing
• 
  Myron Pierce
• 
  Patrick Costello
• 
  William Holland
• 
  Hugh Garrity
• 
  Walter Bernard Grant
• 
  Timothy McDonough
• 
  William Higgins
• 
  Frederick Harvey
• 
  George Greene
• 
  Leo Sontag
• 
  Norton O'Brien
• 
  Kevin Fitzgerald
• 
  Eleanor Myerson
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  Marc Draisen
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  John McDonough
• 
  Elizabeth Malia

References

1. "Massachusetts Representative Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
2. Massachusetts General Court, "Chapter 153. An Act Relative to Establishing Representative Districts in the General Court", Acts (2011)
3. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Representative elections: 11th Suffolk district". PD43+. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
4. David Jarman (July 30, 2019), "Upper legislative district ↔ lower legislative district correspondences: MA", How do counties, House districts, and legislative districts all overlap?, Daily Kos, State House Districts to State Senate Districts
5. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston. 1859 – via Internet Archive.
6. "Massachusetts House of Representatives". Massachusetts Register. Boston: Adams, Sampson & Co. 1858. pp. 10–12.
7. Geo. F. Andrews, ed. (1888). "Representatives: Suffolk County". 1888 State House Directory. Official Gazette, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Lakeview Press.
8. Public Officials of Massachusetts: 1920. Boston Review. 1920.
9. 1951–1952 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston.
10. 1975–1976 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston.
11. "History of Women in the Massachusetts Legislature 1923 – 2015" (PDF). Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators. 2015. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
12. State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020
13. "Who's leaving the Legislature? Mostly women". Politico .

External links

• Ballotpedia
• "11th Suffolk District, MA". Censusreporter.org. (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
• League of Women Voters of Boston