
Massachusetts Senate's 3rd Essex district in the United States is one of 40
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 ...
of the
Massachusetts Senate
The Massachusetts Senate is the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Senate comprises 40 elected members from 40 single-member senatorial districts in the st ...
. It covers portions of
Essex
Essex ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the ...
county.
Democrat
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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 ...
Brendan Crighton of Lynn has represented the district since 2018.
Locales represented
The district includes the following localities:
*
Lynn
*
Lynnfield
*
Marblehead
*
Nahant
Nahant () is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,334 at the 2020 census, which makes it the smallest municipality by population in Essex County. With just of land area, it is also the smallest municipali ...
*
Saugus
*
Swampscott
Swampscott () is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, located up the coast from Boston in an area known as the North Shore. The population was 15,111 as of the 2020 United States census. A former summer resort on Massachusetts ...
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts House of Representatives'
8th Essex,
9th Essex,
10th Essex,
11th Essex,
20th Middlesex, and
16th Suffolk districts.
Former locales

The district previously covered the following:
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Andover
Andover may refer to:
Places Australia
*Andover, Tasmania
Canada
* Andover Parish, New Brunswick
* Perth-Andover, New Brunswick
United Kingdom
* Andover, Hampshire, England
** RAF Andover, a former Royal Air Force station
United States
* Andov ...
, circa 1860s
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Boxford, circa 1860s
*
Haverhill, circa 1860s
*
Lawrence
Lawrence may refer to:
Education Colleges and universities
* Lawrence Technological University, a university in Southfield, Michigan, United States
* Lawrence University, a liberal arts university in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
Preparator ...
, circa 1860s
*
Methuen, circa 1860s
*
North Andover
North Andover is a New England town, town in Essex County, Massachusetts, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 30,915.
History
Native Americans in the United States, Native ...
, circa 1860s
Senators
* George L. Davis, circa 1859
* Horace C. Bacon, circa 1874
* James Shaw
* Charles Donnell Brown
* John Stoddart
* Cornelius F. Haley, circa 1935-1945
Images
;Portraits of legislators
1908 James Shaw senator Massachusetts.jpg, James Shaw
1918 Charles Donnell Brown senator Massachusetts.jpg, Charles Donnell Brown
1923 John Stoddart senator Massachusetts.jpg, John Stoddart
1945 Cornelius Haley senator Massachusetts.jpg, Cornelius Haley
See also
*
List of Massachusetts Senate elections
*
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 ...
*
List of former districts of the Massachusetts Senate
The following is a list of former districts of the Massachusetts Senate in the United States. The legislative districts were created to apportion elected representation in the Massachusetts Senate based on voter United States Census, population. I ...
* Other Essex County districts of the Massachusett Senate:
1st
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* 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
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* 2 (number), as an ordinal (also written as ''2nd'' or ''2d'')
* Minute and second of arc, ...
;
1st Essex and Middlesex;
2nd Essex and Middlesex
* Essex 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
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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,
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
...
,
5th
Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five.
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* Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth"
* Fifth Avenue
* Fifth column, a political term
* Fifth disease, a cont ...
,
6th,
7th
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* 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
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* 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
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,
14th,
15th,
16th,
17th,
18th
References
External links
Ballotpedia* (State Senate district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's
American Community Survey
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).
League of Women Voters of Marblehead
Senate
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Government of Essex County, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Senate
Long stubs with short prose
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