The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature. It consists of 150 members who are elected from single-member districts for two-year terms. There are no term limits. The House meets at the State Capitol in Austin.
John Laird,an American politician,is the California State Senator for District 17,since 7 December 2020,and was Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency from 2011 to 2019 and a former legislator who represented the 27th district in the California State Assembly until 2008. The 27th district included parts of Santa Clara County,Santa Cruz County and Monterey County. Laird was one of the first two openly gay men to serve in the California legislature. Laird became one of the United States' first openly gay mayors in 1983 when he took over the mayoralty of the city of Santa Cruz,California.
Ken Jacobsen is an American former politician who served as a Democratic member of the Washington State Senate. He was first elected to the Washington State Legislature in 1982 and he served through 2010.
Richard T. Moore is a Democratic politician from Massachusetts and a former member of the Massachusetts State Senate.
Phillips W. Rockefeller is an American lawyer and politician who served as a Washington State Senator (Democrat) for the 23rd legislative district,which includes Bainbridge Island,Keyport,Poulsbo,Kingston,Hansville,Silverdale,and most of East Bremerton.
Stephen Brewer is an American politician who served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1997 to 2015.
Sheila E. Harsdorf is an American dairy farmer and Republican politician from Pierce County,Wisconsin. She served as the 11th secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture,Trade and Consumer Protection,during the administration of Governor Scott Walker. She previously served ten years in the Wisconsin State Assembly and 17 years in the State Senate. Her brother,James Harsdorf,also served in the state Legislature,and was also secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture,Trade and Consumer Protection.
Todd M. Smola is a Republican member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Smola represents the 1st Hampden District,serving the towns of Brimfield,Holland,Palmer,Sturbridge,Wales,Ware,and Warren.
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.
Michael John Barrett is a Massachusetts politician noted for having been elected to serve in three completely different state legislative districts over the course of his political career. At present he is the state senator for the 3rd Middlesex District of Massachusetts. Barrett served in the State Senate earlier,in 1987–1994,representing another district,before moving to his present home in suburban Lexington in 1996. Even earlier,in 1979–1985,he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from a district comprising Reading,North Reading and a portion of Wilmington.
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.
Arthur E. Chase was an American businessman and politician who represented the Worcester District in the Massachusetts Senate from 1991 to 1995. He co-founded the Central Massachusetts Legislative Caucus. In 1991 he designed the Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI and in 1992 sponsored legislation to create it. He was the Republican nominee for Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1994,but lost in the general election to William F. Galvin.
James Michael "Jim" Cantwell is an American politician and lawyer from Massachusetts. A Democrat,Cantwell is the State Director for United States Senator Ed Markey. Cantwell previously served as the Massachusetts State Representative for the 4th Plymouth district from 2008 to 2018. The district encompassed Marshfield and precincts 1,2,4,5,&6 of Scituate.
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.
Anne M. Gobi is a former American state legislator who served in the Massachusetts Senate from January 2015 to June 2023. She previously served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Gobi currently serves as Governor Maura Healey's Director of Rural Affairs.
Michael Daniels Brady is an American politician from Brockton,Massachusetts,who serves as the state legislator in the Massachusetts Senate representing the Second Plymouth &Norfolk District,which covers Brockton,East Bridgewater,Halifax,Hanson and Whitman in the county of Plymouth;portions of Randolph and Avon in the county of Norfolk. He is a Brockton resident and a member of the Democratic Party.
Cindy F. Friedman is an American politician currently serving as a state senator representing the 4th Middlesex District in the Massachusetts Senate. Friedman's district comprises Arlington,Billerica,Burlington,Lexington,and Woburn. She has been serving since 2017. Prior to becoming a state senator,Friedman worked as a public school teacher and as a senior manager in the high-tech industry and later served for nearly a decade as chief of staff to the late state Senator Ken Donnelly. During her first term,Friedman served as the Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Mental Health,Substance Use and Recovery. For the 191st General Court,Friedman serves as the Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing and is vice chair of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
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.
The One Hundred Sixth Wisconsin Legislature is the current ongoing legislative term in Wisconsin. It was convened on January 3,2023,in regular session,and is scheduled to conclude on January 6,2025, with a scheduled adjournment for legislative activity on May 15,2024. There has been one special session during this term.
