Massachusetts's 13th congressional district
Massachusetts's thirteenth congressional district is an obsolete district. It was also for a short time in the early 19th century a Massachusetts District of Maine. It was eliminated in 1963 after the 1960 U.S. Census. Its last location was in eastern Massachusetts. Its last Congressman was James A. Burke, who was redistricted into the eleventh district.
Massachusetts's current districts, since 2013
List of members representing the district
| Representative | Party | Years | Cong ress |
Electoral history | District location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| District created | March 4, 1795 | ||||
 Peleg Wadsworth |
Federalist | March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1803 |
4th 5th 6th 7th |
Redistricted from the 4th district and re-elected in 1795 on the second ballot. Re-elected in 1796. Re-elected in 1798. Re-elected in 1800. Redistricted to the 15th district. |
1795 – 1803 "2nd eastern district," District of Maine |
 Ebenezer Seaver |
Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1813 |
8th 9th 10th 11th 12th |
Elected in 1802. Re-elected in 1804. Re-elected in 1806. Re-elected in 1808. Re-elected in 1810. Lost re-election. |
1803 – 1823 "Norfolk district" |
| Nathaniel Ruggles | Federalist | March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1819 |
13th 14th 15th |
Elected in 1812. Re-elected in 1814. Re-elected in 1816. Lost re-election. | |
| Edward Dowse | Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1819 – May 26, 1820 |
16th | Elected in 1818. Resigned. | |
| Vacant | May 26, 1820 – August 21, 1820 | ||||
 William Eustis |
Democratic-Republican | August 21, 1820 – March 3, 1823 |
16th 17th |
Elected May 26, 1820 to finish Dowse's term. Re-elected later in 1820. Seated November 13, 1820. Redistricted to the 10th district and re-elected in 1822 but declined the seat when elected Governor of Massachusetts. | |
| John Reed Jr. | Adams-Clay Federalist | March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825 |
18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd |
Redistricted from the 9th district and re-elected in 1822. Re-elected in 1824. Re-elected in 1826. Re-elected in 1828. Redistricted to the 11th district. |
1823 – 1833 "Barnstable district" |
| Anti-Jacksonian | March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1833 | ||||
| District not in use | March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1893 | ||||
 Charles S. Randall |
Republican | March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895 |
53rd | Redistricted from the 1st district and re-elected in 1892. Lost renomination. |
1893–1903 [data unknown/missing] |
 John Simpkins |
Republican | March 4, 1895 – March 27, 1898 |
54th 55th[1] |
[data unknown/missing] Died. | |
| Vacant | March 27, 1898 – May 31, 1898 |
55th | |||
 William S. Greene |
Republican | May 31, 1898 – March 3, 1913 |
55th 56th 57th 58th 59th 60th 61st 62nd |
[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 15th district. | |
| 1903–1913 [data unknown/missing] | |||||
 John W. Weeks |
Republican | March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1913 |
63rd | Redistricted from the 12th district and re-elected in 1912, but resigned on the same day to become U.S. Senator. | 1913 – 1933 Suffolk County: Boston (Ward 25). "Norfolk County: Towns of Bellingham, Brookline, Dover, Franklin, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Needham, Norfolk, Plainville, Walpole, Wellesley, and Wrentham. Middlesex County: Cities of Marlboro, Newton, and Waltham; towns of Ashland, Framingham, Holliston, Natick, Sherborn, Sudbury, Wayland and Weston. Worcester County: Town of Southboro."[2] |
| Vacant | March 4, 1913 – April 14, 1913 | ||||
.jpg) John J. Mitchell |
Democratic | April 15, 1913 – March 3, 1915 |
Elected to finish Weeks's term. Lost re-election. | ||
 William Henry Carter |
Republican | March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1919 |
64th 65th |
[data unknown/missing] Retired. | |
 Robert Luce |
Republican | March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1933 |
66th 67th 68th 69th 70th 71st 72nd |
[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 9th district. | |
 Richard B. Wigglesworth |
Republican | March 4, 1933 – November 13, 1958 |
73rd 74th 75th 76th 77th 78th 79th 80th 81st 82nd 83rd 84th 85th |
Redistricted from the 14th district. Resigned to become U.S. Ambassador to Canada. |
1933 – 1943 [data unknown/missing] |
| 1943 – 1953 [data unknown/missing] | |||||
| 1953 – 1963 [data unknown/missing] | |||||
| Vacant | November 14, 1958 – January 3, 1959 |
85th | |||
 James A. Burke |
Democratic | January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1963 |
86th 87th |
[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 11th district. | |
| District eliminated | 1963 | ||||
References
- L.A. Coolidge (1897). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Fifth Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
- "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 64th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1916.
- 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
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