
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 5th Suffolk district in the United States is one of 160
legislative districts
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provid ...
included in the
lower house
A lower house is the lower chamber of a bicameral legislature, where the other chamber is the upper house. Although styled as "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide, the lower house has come to wield more power or otherwise e ...
of the
Massachusetts General Court
The Massachusetts General Court, formally the General Court of Massachusetts, is the State legislature (United States), state legislature of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts located in the state capital of Boston. Th ...
. It covers part of the city of
Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...
in
Suffolk County.
Democrat
Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to:
Politics
*A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people.
*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (Cyprus) (DCY)
**Democratic Part ...
Christopher Worrell of
Dorchester has represented the district since 2023.
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's
1st Suffolk and
2nd Suffolk districts.
Representatives
* Edward Sands, circa 1858-1859
* Abraham G. Wyman, circa 1858
* Frederick Whiton, circa 1859
[
* Patrick J. Calnan, circa 1888 ]
* Edward Gagan, circa 1888
* John I. Fitzgerald, circa 1920
* Louis Orenberg, circa 1920
* Edward A. Scigliano, circa 1920
* Christian Herter
Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895December 30, 1966) was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 59th governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961. He served as p ...
, circa 1939
* Henry Lee Shattuck, circa 1945
* James C. Bayley, circa 1951
* Sherman Miles
Major General Sherman Miles (December 5, 1882Beer, Siegfried: "Sherman Miles – vor und nach Kärnten 1919. Anmerkungen zu einer hauptsächlich nachrichtendienstlichen Karriere in der US-Armee", pp. 309–317 in Valentin, H.; Haiden, S.; Ma ...
, 1947–1953
* John Yerxa, 1953–1957
* William Bulger
William Michael Bulger (born February 2, 1934) is an American former Democratic politician, lawyer, and educator from South Boston, Massachusetts. His eighteen-year tenure as President of the Massachusetts Senate is the longest in history. After ...
, circa 1967
* Barney Frank
Barnett Frank (born March 31, 1940) is a retired American politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. A Democratic Party (United States), Democrat, Frank served as chairman of th ...
, circa 1975
* Richard J. Rouse
* Nelson Merced, 1989-1993
* Althea Garrison
Althea Garrison (born October 7, 1940) is an American politician from Boston, Massachusetts who has served a single term in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1993–1995) and a partial term as an at-large councilor on the Boston City C ...
, 1993-1995
* Charlotte Golar Richie
Charlotte Golar Richie (born December 11, 1958, in Brooklyn) serves as the senior vice president for public policy, advocacy and government relations for YouthBuild USA. She formerly served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and held ...
, 1995-1999
* Marie St. Fleur, 1999-2011
* Carlos Henriquez
Carlos Tony Henriquez is an American Democratic politician who represented the 5th Suffolk district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives prior to his expulsion from office in 2014. He was the first house member to be expelled from offi ...
, 2011-2014
* Evandro Carvalho
Evandro C. Carvalho (born September 9, 1981) is an American attorney and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2014 to 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party and represe ...
, 2014-2019
* Liz Miranda, 2019-2023
* Christopher Worrell, 2023-current
See also
* List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
* Other Suffolk County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st
First most commonly refers to:
* First, the ordinal form of the number 1
First or 1st may also refer to:
Acronyms
* Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters, an astronomical survey carried out by the Very Large Array
* Far Infrared a ...
, 2nd
A second is the base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI).
Second, Seconds, The Second, or (The) 2nd may also refer to:
Mathematics
* 2 (number), as an ordinal (also written as ''2nd'' or ''2d'')
* Minute and second of arc, ...
, 3rd
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* 1⁄60 of a ''second'', i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system
Places
* 3rd Street (dis ...
, 4th
Fourth or the fourth may refer to:
* the ordinal form of the number 4
* ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971
* Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision
* Fourth (music), a musical interval
* ''The Fourth'', a 1972 Soviet drama
...
, 6th, 7th
Seventh is the ordinal form of the number seven.
Seventh may refer to:
* Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
* A fraction (mathematics), , equal to one of seven equal parts
Film and television
*"The Seventh", a second-season ep ...
, 8th
Eighth is ordinal form of the number eight.
Eighth may refer to:
* One eighth, , a fraction, one of eight equal parts of a whole
* Eighth note (quaver), a musical note played for half the value of a quarter note (crotchet)
* Octave, an interval b ...
, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Twelfth can mean:
*The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution
*The Twelfth, a Protestant celebration originating in Ireland
In mathematics:
* 12th, an ordinal number; as in the item in an order twelve places from the beginning, follo ...
, 13th
In music or music theory, a thirteenth is the Musical note, note thirteen scale degrees from the root (chord), root of a chord (music), chord and also the interval (music), interval between the root and the thirteenth. The thirteenth is m ...
, 14th, 15th, 16th
16 (sixteen) is the natural number following 15 and preceding 17. It is the fourth power of two. In English speech, the numbers 16 and 60 are sometimes confused, as they sound similar.
Mathematics
16 is the ninth composite number, and a sq ...
, 17th, 18th, 19th
19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 and preceding 20. It is a prime number.
Mathematics
Nineteen is the eighth prime number.
Number theory
19 forms a twin prime with 17, a cousin prime with 23, and a sexy prime with 13. ...
* List of Massachusetts General Courts
The Massachusetts Legislature, legislature of the U.S. state of Massachusetts is known as the Massachusetts General Court, General Court. It has a 40-member upper house (Massachusetts Senate) and a 160-member lower house (Massachusetts House of ...
*
Images
;Portraits of legislators
1908 Ignatius Carleton Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Ignatius Carleton
1918 Edward Scigliano Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Edward Scigliano
1918 John Donovan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Donovan
1918 Philip Feinberg Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Philip Feinberg
1920 Henry Shattuck Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Henry Shattuck
1923 Bernard Finkelstein Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Bernard Finkelstein
1923 John I Fitzgerald Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John I. Fitzgerald
1923 Joseph Langone Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Joseph Langone
1935 Laurence Curtis Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Laurence Curtis
1935 Christian Herter Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Christian Herter
1945 Stuart Rand Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Stuart Rand
1953 James Bayley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, James Bayley
1953 John Eliot Yerxa Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, John Eliot Yerxa
1967 Gerald OLeary Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Gerald O'Leary
1967 Michael Flaherty Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Michael Flaherty
Senate President William M. Bulger (9501946909).jpg, William Bulger
1975 Barney Frank Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Barney Frank
1983 Richard Rouse Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Richard Rouse
1989 Nelson Merced Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Nelson Merced
AltheaGarrison.png, Althea Garrison
1995 Charlotte Golar Richie Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Charlotte Golar Richie
2005 Marie St Fleur Massachusetts House of Representatives.png, Marie St Fleur
Evandro Carvalho.jpg, Evandro Carvalho
Liz Miranda.jpg, Liz Miranda
Christopher Worrell 1670381326014 (expanded) (1).jpg, Christopher Worrell
References
External links
Ballotpedia
* (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey
The American Community Survey (ACS) is an annual demographics survey program conducted by the United States Census Bureau. It regularly gathers information previously contained only in the long form of the United States census, decennial census ...
).
League of Women Voters of Boston
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Barney Frank
House
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Government of Suffolk County, Massachusetts