Massachusetts's 7th congressional district

Massachusetts's 7th congressional district
Massachusetts's 7th congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
Current Representative Mike Capuano (D–Somerville)
Ethnicity
Cook PVI D+34[1]

Massachusetts's 7th congressional district is a congressional district located in eastern Massachusetts, including roughly half of the city of Boston and a few of its northern and southern suburbs. Massachusetts congressional redistricting after the 2010 census changed the borders of the district starting with the elections of 2012, with most of the old 7th district redistricted to the new 5th district.[2] Most of the old 8th district now comprise the new 7th district. The seat is currently held by Mike Capuano, former mayor of Somerville. However, Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley was victorious in the 2018 Democratic primary.

Cities and towns in the district

  • Boston:
    • Wards 1, 2
    • Ward 3: Precincts 7, 8
    • Ward 4
    • Ward 5: Precincts 1, 2, 2A, 6-10
    • Ward 7: Precinct 10
    • Wards 8-10
    • Ward 11: Precincts 1-8
    • Ward 12
    • Ward 13: Precincts 1, 2, 4-6, 8 and 9
    • Ward 14
    • Ward 15
    • Ward 16: Precincts 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11
    • Ward 17
    • Ward 18
    • Ward 19: Precincts 7, 10-13
    • Ward 20: Precinct 3
    • Wards 21 and 22

(the remainder of Boston is in the 8th district)

  • Cambridge:
    • Wards 1, 2, 3, 5, 11
    • Ward 4: Precinct 1
    • Ward 10: Precinct 3

(the remainder of Cambridge is in the 5th district)

(the remainder of Milton is in the 8th district)

Cities and towns in the district prior to 2013

1840s

1849: "The whole of Berkshire County; Ashfield, Buckland, Charlemont, Coleraine, Conway, Hawley, Heath, Leyden, Monroe, Rowe, and Shelburne, in Franklin County; Chesterfield, Cummington, Goshen, Middlefield, Norwich, Plainfield, Southampton, Westhampton, Williamsburg, and Worthington, in Hampshire County; and Blandford, Chester, Granville, Montgomery, Russell, and Tolland, in the County of Hampden."[3]

1850s-1880s

An act of the legislature passed April 22, 1852 divided the 7th district of Massachusetts as such: "The towns of Andover, Boxford, Bradford, Danvers, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lynnfield, Methuen, Middleton, Saugus, and Topsfield in the county of Essex; and the city of Charlestown, and the towns of Burlington, Lexington, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Reading, Somerville, South Reading, Stoneham, Waltham, and Woburn, in the county of Middlesex."[4]

1890s

Massachusetts's 7th congressional district, 1891

1893: "Essex County: Towns of Lynn, Nahant, and Saugus. Middlesex County: Towns of Everett, Malden, Melrose, Stoneham, and Wakefield. Suffolk County: 4th and 5th wards of the city of Boston, and the towns of Chelsea and Revere."[5]

1910s

1916: In Essex County: Boxford, Lawrence, Lynn, Lynnfield, Middleton, Nahant, North Andover, Peabody, Saugus. In Middlesex County: North Reading.[6][7]

1940s

1941: In Essex County: Lawrence, Lynn (part), Middleton, Nahant, North Andover, Peabody. In Suffolk County: Chelsea, Revere, Winthrop.[8]

2003-2013

The district from 2003 to 2013

In Middlesex County:

In Suffolk County:

List of representatives

Representative Party Years Note

George Leonard		 Pro-Administration March 4, 1789 –
March 3, 1791		 Redistricted to 6th district.

Artemas Ward		 Pro-Administration March 4, 1791 –
March 3, 1793		 Redistricted to the 2nd district.
District discontinued March 4, 1793 –
March 3, 1795

George Leonard		 Federalist March 4, 1795 –
March 3, 1797		 [Data unknown/missing.]

Stephen Bullock		 Federalist March 4, 1797 –
March 3, 1799		 [Data unknown/missing.]

Phanuel Bishop		 Democratic-Republican March 4, 1799 –
March 3, 1803		 Redistricted to 9th district.

Nahum Mitchell		 Federalist March 4, 1803 –
March 3, 1805		 [Data unknown/missing.]

Joseph Barker		 Democratic-Republican March 4, 1805 –
March 4, 1809		 [Data unknown/missing.]

William Baylies		 Federalist March 4, 1809 –
June 28, 1809		 Lost election challenge

Charles Turner Jr.		 Democratic-Republican June 28, 1809 –
March 3, 1813		 Won election challenge

William Baylies		 Federalist March 4, 1813 –
March 3, 1815		 Redistricted to the 8th district.

John W. Hulbert		 Federalist March 4, 1815 –
March 3, 1817		 Redistricted from the 12th district.

Henry Shaw		 Democratic-Republican March 4, 1817 –
March 3, 1821		 [Data unknown/missing.]

Henry W. Dwight		 Federalist March 4, 1821 –
March 3, 1823		 Redistricted to the 9th district.

Samuel C. Allen		 Adams-Clay Federalist March 4, 1823 –
March 3, 1825		 Redistricted from the 6th district.
Adams March 4, 1825 –
March 3, 1829

George Grennell Jr.		 Anti-Jacksonian March 4, 1829 –
March 3, 1833		 Redistricted to the 6th district.

George N. Briggs		 Anti-Jacksonian March 4, 1833 –
March 3, 1837		 Redistricted from the 9th district

Retired.
Whig March 4, 1837 –
March 3, 1843

Julius Rockwell		 Whig March 4, 1843 –
March 3, 1851		 [Data unknown/missing.]

John Z. Goodrich		 Whig March 4, 1851 –
March 3, 1853		 Redistricted to the 11th district.

Nathaniel P. Banks		 Democratic March 4, 1853 –
March 3, 1855		 Resigned to become Governor
Know Nothing March 4, 1855 –
March 3, 1857
Republican March 4, 1857 –
December 24, 1857
Vacant December 24, 1857 –
January 31, 1858

Daniel W. Gooch[9]		 Republican January 31, 1858 –
March 4, 1863		 Redistricted to the 6th district.

George S. Boutwell		 Republican March 4, 1863 –
March 12, 1869		 Resigned to become U.S. Secretary of Treasury
Vacant March 12, 1869 –
November 2, 1869

George M. Brooks		 Republican November 2, 1869 –
May 13, 1872		 Resigned
Vacant May 13, 1872 –
December 2, 1872

Constantine C. Esty		 Republican December 2, 1872 –
March 3, 1873		 [Data unknown/missing.]

Ebenezer R. Hoar		 Republican March 4, 1873 –
March 3, 1875		 [Data unknown/missing.]

John K. Tarbox		 Democratic March 4, 1875 –
March 3, 1877		 [Data unknown/missing.]

Benjamin F. Butler[10]		 Republican March 4, 1877 –
March 3, 1879		 [Data unknown/missing.]

William A. Russell[11]		 Republican March 4, 1879 –
March 3, 1883		 Redistricted to the 8th district.

Eben F. Stone		 Republican March 4, 1883 –
March 3, 1887		 Redistricted from the 6th district.

William Cogswell		 Republican March 4, 1887 –
March 3, 1893		 Redistricted to the 6th district.
Vacant March 4, 1893 –
April 25, 1893		 Representative Henry Cabot Lodge had been redistricted from the 6th district, but resigned before beginning of term to become a U.S. Senator.

William Everett		 Democratic April 25, 1893 –
March 3, 1895		 [Data unknown/missing.]

William Emerson Barrett[12]		 Republican March 4, 1895 –
March 3, 1899		 [Data unknown/missing.]

Ernest W. Roberts[13]		 Republican March 4, 1899 –
March 3, 1913		 Redistricted to the 9th district.

Michael Francis Phelan		 Democratic March 4, 1913 –
March 3, 1921		 Lost re-election

Robert S. Maloney		 Republican March 4, 1921 –
March 3, 1923		 [Data unknown/missing.]

William P. Connery Jr.		 Democratic March 4, 1923 –
June 15, 1937		 Died
Vacant June 16, 1937 –
September 27, 1937

Lawrence J. Connery[14]		 Democratic September 28, 1937 –
October 19, 1941		 Died
Vacant October 20, 1941 –
December 29, 1941

Thomas J. Lane		 Democratic December 30, 1941 –
January 3, 1963		 [Data unknown/missing.]

Torbert H. Macdonald[15]		 Democratic January 3, 1963 –
May 21, 1976		 Redistricted from the 8th district

Died.
Vacant May 22, 1976 –
November 1, 1976

Ed Markey[16]		 Democratic November 2, 1976 –
January 3, 2013		 First elected to finish Macdonald's term.

Redistricted to the 5th district.

Michael Capuano		 Democratic January 3, 2013 –
Present		 Redistricted from the 8th district.

Lost renomination.
Representative Party Years Note

References

  1. ↑ "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ http://www.sec.state.ma.us/spr/sprcat/catpdf2010/cong2010/CongressionalDistrict_2011State.pdf Access date: March 21, 2012.
  3. ↑ John Hayward (1849). "Congressional Districts". Gazetteer of Massachusetts. Boston: J.P. Jewett & Co.
  4. ↑ "Congressional Districts". Massachusetts Register (1st ed.). Boston, MA: Sampson Adams & Co. 1862.
  5. ↑ Francis M. Cox (1893). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Third Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  6. ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 64th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1916.
  7. ↑ Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1921), "Population of Congressional Districts", Population of Massachusetts as determined by the fourteenth census of the United States 1920, Boston: Wright & Potter
  8. ↑ Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1941), "Population of Congressional Districts", Population of Massachusetts as determined by the sixteenth census of the United States, 1940, Boston: Wright & Potter, OCLC 10056477, House No. 2849
  9. ↑ "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory for the Second Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress. Washington DC: House of Representatives. 1861.
  10. ↑ Ben. Perley Poore (1878). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 45th Congress (3rd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  11. ↑ Ben. Perley Poore (1882). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 47th Congress (3rd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  12. ↑ L.A. Coolidge (1897). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Fifth Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  13. ↑ A.J. Halford (1909). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 60th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
  14. ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 75th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1938.
  15. ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 90th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1968.
  16. ↑ "Massachusetts". 1991-1992 Official Congressional Directory: 102nd Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1991.
  • Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
  • Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
  • Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
  • "Geographical History of the 7th District". U.S. Congressman Michael E. Capuano. Washington DC: U.S. House of Representatives. (Includes geographical history of Massachusetts's 8th congressional district, pre-2013)

Maps

Election results

Coordinates: 42°19′00″N 71°00′34″W / 42.31667°N 71.00944°W / 42.31667; -71.00944

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