Massachusetts House of Representatives' 12th Norfolk district

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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 12th Norfolk 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 Norfolk County.^[1] Democrat John Rogers of Norwood has represented the district since 1993.^[2] Candidates running for this district seat in the 2020 Massachusetts general election include Mike Dooley.^[3]^[4]

Towns represented

The district includes the following localities:^[5]

Norwood
part of Walpole

The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's Bristol and Norfolk district and Norfolk and Suffolk district.^[6]

Former locales

The district previously covered:

Foxborough, circa 1872 ^[7]
Medway, circa 1872 ^[7]
Wrentham, circa 1872 ^[7]

Representatives

William B. Boyd, circa 1858 ^[8]
Daniels Carpenter, circa 1858 ^[8]
Edward C. Craig, circa 1859 ^[9]
William H. Temple, circa 1859 ^[9]
Maurice E. Ronayne, Jr., circa 1975 ^[10]
Gregory Sullivan
John H. Rogers, 1993-current^[2]

Images

Portraits of legislators

Frederick Lane
Henry McLaren
John St. Cyr
Maurice Ronayne
Gregory Sullivan
John Rogers

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References

↑ "Massachusetts Representative Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
1 2 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Representative elections: 12th Norfolk district". PD43+. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
↑ "2020 State Primary Candidates", Sec.state.ma.us, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, retrieved August 27, 2020
↑ "Directory: Massachusetts 2020", Runforsomething.net , Washington, D.C., retrieved August 27, 2020
↑ Massachusetts General Court, "Chapter 153. An Act Relative to Establishing Representative Districts in the General Court", Acts (2011)
↑ 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
1 2 3 "Representative Districts". Massachusetts Register. Boston: Sampson, Davenport, & Company. 1872.
1 2 "Massachusetts House of Representatives". Massachusetts Register. Boston: Adams, Sampson & Co. 1858. pp. 10–12.
1 2 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston. 1859 – via Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
↑ 1975–1976 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston.

External links

Ballotpedia
"12th Norfolk District, MA". Censusreporter.org. (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
League of Women Voters of Norwood
League of Women Voters of Westwood-Walpole-Dedham

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[1] "Massachusetts Representative Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved May 4, 2020.

[elections-2] 1 2 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Representative elections: 12th Norfolk district". PD43+. Retrieved May 4, 2020.

[3] "2020 State Primary Candidates", Sec.state.ma.us, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, retrieved August 27, 2020

[4] "Directory: Massachusetts 2020", Runforsomething.net , Washington, D.C., retrieved August 27, 2020

[Acts2011-5] Massachusetts General Court, "Chapter 153. An Act Relative to Establishing Representative Districts in the General Court", Acts (2011)

[Upper2019-6] 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

[Register1872-7] 1 2 3 "Representative Districts". Massachusetts Register. Boston: Sampson, Davenport, & Company. 1872.

[1858Register-8] 1 2 "Massachusetts House of Representatives". Massachusetts Register. Boston: Adams, Sampson & Co. 1858. pp. 10–12.

[1859manual-9] 1 2 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston. 1859 – via Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[1975officers-10] 1975–1976 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston.

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Straus (D, 10th Bris.) ▌ Christopher Hendricks (D, 11th Bris.) ▌ Norman Orrall (R, 12th Bris.) ▌ Antonio Cabral (D, 13th Bris.) ▌ Adam Scanlon (D, 14th Bris.) ▌ James Kelcourse (R, 1st Essex) ▌ Lenny Mirra (R, 2nd Ess.) ▌ Andy Vargas (D, 3rd Ess.) ▌Vacant (4th Ess.) ▌ Ann-Margaret Ferrante (D, 5th Ess.) ▌ Jerry Parisella (D, 6th Ess.) ▌ Paul Tucker (D, 7th Ess.) ▌ Lori Ehrlich (D, 8th Ess.) ▌ Donald Wong (R, 9th Ess.) ▌ Daniel Cahill (D, 10th Ess.) ▌ Peter Capano (D, 11th Ess.) ▌ Thomas Walsh (D, 12th Ess.) ▌ Theodore C. Speliotis (D, 13th Ess.) ▌ Christina Minicucci (D, 14th Ess.) ▌ Linda Dean Campbell (D, 15th Ess.) ▌ Marcos Devers (D, 16th Ess.) ▌ Frank A. Moran (D, 17th Ess.) ▌ Tram Nguyen (D, 18th Ess.) ▌ Natalie Blais (D, 1st Frnk.) ▌ Susannah Whipps (I, 2nd Frnk.) ▌ Todd Smola (R, 1st Hpdn.) ▌ Brian Ashe (D, 2nd Hpdn.) ▌ Nicholas Boldyga (R, 3rd Hpdn.) ▌ Kelly Pease (R, 4th Hpdn.) ▌ Aaron Vega (D, 5th Hpdn.) ▌ Michael Finn (D, 6th Hpdn.) ▌ Thomas Petrolati (D, 7th Hpdn.) ▌ Joseph Wagner (D, 8th Hpdn.) ▌ Orlando Ramos (D, 9th Hpdn.) ▌ Carlos Gonzalez (D, 10th Hpdn.) ▌ Bud Williams (D, 11th Hpdn.) ▌ Angelo Puppolo (D, 12th Hpdn.) ▌ Lindsay Sabadosa (D, 1st Hampshire) ▌ Daniel R. Carey (D, 2nd Hpsh.) ▌ Mindy Domb (D, 3rd Hpsh.) ▌ Sheila Harrington (R, 1st Middlesex) ▌ James Arciero (D, 2nd Mid.) ▌ Kate Hogan (D, 3rd Mid.) ▌ Danielle Gregoire (D, 4th Mid.) ▌ David Linsky (D, 5th Mid.) ▌ Maria Robinson (D, 6th Mid.) ▌ Jack Lewis (D, 7th Mid.) ▌ Carolyn Dykema (D, 8th Mid.) ▌ Thomas M. Stanley (D, 9th Mid.) ▌ John J. Lawn (D, 10th Mid.) ▌ Kay Khan (D, 11th Mid.) ▌ Ruth Balser (D, 12th Mid.) ▌ Carmine Gentile (D, 13th Mid.) ▌ Tami Gouveia (D, 14th Mid.) ▌ Michelle Ciccolo (D, 15th Mid.) ▌Vacant (D, 16th Mid.) ▌ Vanna Howard (D, 17th Mid.) ▌ Rady Mom (D, 18th Mid.) ▌ Dave Robertson (D, 19th Mid.) ▌ Bradley Jones Jr. (R, 20th Mid.) ▌ Kenneth Gordon (D, 21st Mid.) ▌ Marc Lombardo (R, 22nd Mid.) ▌ Sean Garballey (D, 23rd Mid.) ▌ Dave Rogers (D, 24th Mid.) ▌ Marjorie Decker (D, 25th Mid.) ▌ Michael Connolly (D, 26th Mid.) ▌ Erika Uyterhoeven (D, 27th Mid.) ▌ Joe McGonagle (D, 28th Mid.) ▌ Jon Hecht (D, 29th Mid.) ▌ Richard Haggerty (D, 30th Mid.) ▌ Michael Day (D, 31st Mid.) ▌ Kate Lipper-Garabedian (D, 32nd Mid.) ▌ Steven Ultrino (D, 33rd Mid.) ▌ Christine Barber (D, 34th Mid.) ▌ Paul Donato (D, 35th Mid.) ▌ Colleen Garry (D, 36th Mid.) ▌ Dan Sena (D, 37th Mid.) ▌ Bruce Ayers (D, 1st Norfolk) ▌ Tackey Chan (D, 2nd Norf.) ▌ Ronald Mariano (D, 3rd Norf.) ▌ James M. Murphy (D, 4th Norf.) ▌ Mark Cusack (D, 5th Norf.) ▌ William C. Galvin (D, 6th Norf.) ▌ William Driscoll (D, 7th Norf.) ▌ Louis Kafka (D, 8th Norf.) ▌ Shawn Dooley (R, 9th Norf.) ▌ Jeffrey Roy (D, 10th Norf.) ▌ Paul McMurtry (D, 11th Norf.) ▌ John H. Rogers (D, 12th Norf.) ▌ Denise Garlick (D, 13th Norf.) ▌ Alice Peisch (D, 14th Norf.) ▌ Tommy Vitolo (D, 15th Norf.) ▌ Matt Muratore (R, 1st Plymouth) ▌ Susan Gifford (R, 2nd Plym.) ▌ Joan Meschino (D, 3rd Plym.) ▌ Patrick J. Kearney (D, 4th Plym.) ▌ David DeCoste (R, 5th Plym.) ▌ Josh Cutler (D, 6th Plym.) ▌ Alyson Sullivan (R, 7th Plym.) ▌ Angelo D'Emilia (R, 8th Plym.) ▌ Gerard Cassidy (D, 9th Plym.) ▌ Michelle DuBois (D, 10th Plym.) ▌ Claire D. Cronin (D, 11th Plym.) ▌ Kathleen LaNatra (D, 12th Plym.) ▌ Adrian Madaro (D, 1st Suffolk) ▌ Daniel Joseph Ryan (D, 2nd Suff.) ▌ Aaron Michlewitz (D, 3rd Suff.) ▌ David Biele (D, 4th Suff.) ▌ Liz Miranda (D, 5th Suff.) ▌ Russell Holmes (D, 6th Suff.) ▌ Chynah Tyler (D, 7th Suff.) ▌ Jay Livingstone (D, 8th Suff.) ▌ Jon Santiago (D, 9th Suff.) ▌ Edward F. Coppinger (D, 10th Suff.) ▌ Liz Malia (D, 11th Suff.) ▌ Dan Cullinane (D, 12th Suff.) ▌ Daniel J. Hunt (D, 13th Suff.) ▌ Angelo Scaccia (D, 14th Suff.) ▌ Nika Elugardo (D, 15th Suff.) ▌ RoseLee Vincent (D, 16th Suff.) ▌ Kevin Honan (D, 17th Suff.) ▌ Michael Moran (D, 18th Suff.) ▌ Jeff Turco (D, 19th Suff.) ▌ Kimberly Ferguson (R, 1st Worcester) ▌ Jonathan Zlotnik (D, 2nd Wor.) ▌ Stephan Hay (D, 3rd Wor.) ▌ Natalie Higgins (D, 4th Wor.) ▌ Donnie Berthiaume (R, 5th Wor.) ▌ Peter Durant (R, 6th Wor.) ▌ Paul Frost (R, 7th Wor.) ▌ Michael Soter (R, 8th Wor.) ▌ David Muradian (R, 9th Wor.) ▌ Brian Murray (D, 10th Wor.) ▌ Hannah Kane (R, 11th Wor.) ▌ Harold Naughton Jr. (D, 12th Wor.) ▌ John J. Mahoney (D, 13th Wor.) ▌ Jim O'Day (D, 14th Wor.) ▌ Mary Keefe (D, 15th Wor.) ▌ Dan Donahue (D, 16th Wor.) ▌ David LeBoeuf (D, 17th Wor.) ▌ Joseph D. McKenna (R, 18th Wor.)
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