Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Middlesex district

Map of Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Middlesex district, based on the 2010 United States census.

Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Middlesex district in the United States is one of 40 legislative districts of the Massachusetts Senate. ^[1] It covers portions of Middlesex county. ^[2] Democrat Pat Jehlen of Somerville has represented the district since 2015. ^[3] She is running for re-election in 2020, and has been endorsed by the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus. ^[4]

Locales represented

The district includes the following localities: ^[2]

• northwest Cambridge
• Medford ^[5]
• Somerville ^[5]
• Winchester

The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts House of Representatives' 23rd Middlesex, 24th Middlesex, 25th Middlesex, 26th Middlesex, 27th Middlesex, 29th Middlesex, 31st Middlesex, 34th Middlesex, and 35th Middlesex districts. ^[6]

Former locales

The district previously covered the following:

• Belmont, circa 1860s ^[5]
• Malden, circa 1860s ^[5]
• Waltham, circa 1860s ^[5]
• Watertown, circa 1860s ^[5]
• West Cambridge (Arlington), circa 1860s ^[5]

Senators

• J.M.S. Williams, circa 1859 ^[7]
• Thorndike Spalding
• William Eustis Russell
• George Carrick
• Charles Thomas Cavanagh, circa 1935 ^[8]
• Edward M. Rowe, circa 1945 ^[9]
• Daniel Francis O'Brien, circa 1953
• Francis X. McCann, circa 1957-1969 ^{[10] [11]}
• Denis L. McKenna, circa 1979 ^[12]
• Salvatore R. "Sal" Albano, 1985-1991 ^{[13] [14]}
• Charles Edward Shannon, Jr., circa 1993-2002 ^{[15] [16]}
• Patricia D. Jehlen, 2015-current ^[3]

Images

Portraits of legislators

• 
  Thorndike Spalding
• 
  William Eustis Russell
• 
  George Carrick
• 
  Edward Rowe
• 
  Daniel Francis O'Brien
• 
  Francis McCann
• 
  Denis McKenna
• 
  Charles Edward Shannon

See also

• List of Massachusetts Senate elections
• List of Massachusetts General Courts
• List of former districts of the Massachusetts Senate
• Other Middlesex County districts of the Massachusett Senate: 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th; 1st Essex and Middlesex; 2nd Essex and Middlesex; 1st Middlesex and Norfolk, 2nd Middlesex and Norfolk; Middlesex and Suffolk; Middlesex and Worcester; Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex; 1st Suffolk and Middlesex; 2nd Suffolk and Middlesex
• Middlesex County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 35th, 36th, 37th

References

1. "Massachusetts Senatorial Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
2. "An Act Establishing Executive Councillor and Senatorial Districts", Session Laws: Acts (2011), retrieved April 15, 2020
3. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Senate elections: 2nd Middlesex district". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
4. "Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus Political Action Committee Endorsed Candidates", Mwpc.org, retrieved August 5, 2020
5. Massachusetts General Court, "1866 Chap. 0120. An Act To Divide The Commonwealth Into Forty Districts For The Choice Of Senators", Acts and Resolves, hdl:2452/100042 – via State Library of Massachusetts
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 Senate Districts to State House Districts
7. General Court, Massachusetts (1859). Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston – via Google Books.
8. Public Officials of Massachusetts. 1935.
9. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1945.
10. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1957.
11. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1969.
12. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1979.
13. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1985.
14. State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020
15. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1993.
16. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Senate elections: 2002". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 15, 2020.

External links

• Ballotpedia
• "Second Middlesex District, MA". Censusreporter.org. (State Senate district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).