Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Barnstable district

Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Barnstable district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of Barnstable County.[1] Republican Tim Whelan of Brewster has represented the district since 2015.[2] He will face Democrat Josh Mason in the 2020 Massachusetts general election.[3][4][5]

Map of Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Barnstable district, 2013. Based on 2010 United States Census

Towns represented

The district includes the following localities:[6]

The current district geographic boundary overlaps with that of the Massachusetts Senate's Cape and Islands district.[7]

Former locales

The district previously covered:

Representatives
  • Zenas D. Basset, circa 1858 [10]
  • John A. Baxter, circa 1858 [10]
  • Paul Wing, circa 1858 [10]
  • John S. Fish, circa 1859 [11]
  • Nathaniel Hinckley, circa 1859 [11]
  • William Nye, Jr., circa 1859 [11]
  • Joshua Crowell, circa 1888 [12]
  • Albert R. Eldridge, circa 1888 [12]
  • Thomas Pattison, circa 1908
  • George Dennis, circa 1918
  • Edward Carroll Hinckley, circa 1923
  • William Jones, circa 1935
  • Henry Ellis, circa 1945
  • Allan Francis Jones, circa 1951 [13]
  • John Bowes, circa 1967
  • Bernard Wilber, circa 1975 [14]
  • Haden Greenhalgh, circa 1984
  • Henri S. Rauschenbach, 1985–1988
  • Edward B. Teague III, 1989–1997
  • Thomas N. George, 1997–2005
  • Cleon Turner, 2005 – January 6, 2015
  • Timothy R. Whelan, 2015-current[2][15]

See also

Images
Portraits of legislators
  • Thomas Pattison
  • George Dennis
  • Edward Carroll Hinckley
  • William Jones
  • Henry Ellis
  • Allan Francis Jones
  • John Bowes
  • Bernard Wilber
  • Haden Greenhalgh
  • Henri Rauschenbach
  • Edward Teague

References
  1. "Massachusetts Representative Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  2. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Representative elections: 1st Barnstable district". PD43+. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  3. "2020 State Primary Candidates", Sec.state.ma.us, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, retrieved August 19, 2020
  4. "Directory: Massachusetts 2020", Runforsomething.net, Washington, D.C., retrieved August 27, 2020
  5. Steve Brown (October 29, 2020), "Here Are The Contested Legislative Races In Massachusetts", Wbur.org, archived from the original on November 1, 2020
  6. Massachusetts General Court, "Chapter 153. An Act Relative to Establishing Representative Districts in the General Court", Acts (2011)
  7. David Jarman (July 30, 2019), "Upper legislative district ↔ lower legislative district correspondences: MA", How do counties, House districts, and legislative districts all overlap?, Daily Kos, State House Districts to State Senate Districts
  8. "Representative Districts". Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A Manual for the Use of the General Court for 1927-1928. Boston. pp. 196–206.
  9. "Representative Districts". Massachusetts Register. Boston: Sampson, Davenport, & Company. 1872.
  10. "Massachusetts House of Representatives". Massachusetts Register. Boston: Adams, Sampson & Co. 1858. pp. 10–12.
  11. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston. 1859 – via Internet Archive.
  12. Geo. F. Andrews (ed.). "Representatives: Barnstable County". 1888 State House Directory. Official Gazette, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Lakeview Press.
  13. 1951–1952 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston.
  14. 1975–1976 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston.
  15. "Two-Thirds Of State Legislators Are Unopposed In The General Election", Wbur.org, November 1, 2018, Most of the incumbent Republicans are facing a challenge

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