Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Franklin district
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Franklin district in the United States is one of 160
Towns represented
The district includes the following localities:[5]
- Ashfield
- Buckland
- Chester
- Chesterfield
- Conway
- Cummington
- Deerfield
- Goshen
- Huntington
- Leverett
- Middlefield
- Montague
- Plainfield
- Shelburne
- Shutesbury
- Sunderland
- Whately
- Williamsburg
- Worthington
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden and Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester districts.[6]
Former locales
The district previously covered:
- Bernardston, circa 1927 [7]
- Charlemont, circa 1927 [7]
- Colrain, circa 1927 [7]
- Hawley, circa 1927 [7]
- Heath, circa 1927 [7]
- Leyden, circa 1927 [7]
- Monroe, circa 1927 [7]
- New Salem, circa 1872 [8]
- Northfield, circa 1927 [7]
- Orange, circa 1872 [8]
- Rowe, circa 1927 [7]
- Warwick, circa 1872 [8]
Representatives
- Pliny Fisk, circa 1858 [9]
- Hugh B. Miller, circa 1859 [10]
- George D. Wells, circa 1858-1859 [9][10]
- Freeman C. Griswold, circa 1888 [11]
- Charles Elmer, circa 1908
- Albert Bray, circa 1918
- Walter H. Kemp, circa 1920 [12]
- Elisha Hooper, circa 1923
- Fred Dole, circa 1935
- George Fuller, circa 1945
- Philip F. Whitmore, circa 1951 [13]
- Winston Healy, circa 1970
- Jonathan L. Healy, 1971–1993 [14]
- Stephen Kulik, 1993–2019
- Natalie M. Blais, 2019-current[2]
See also
- Massachusetts House of Representatives' 2nd Franklin district
- List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
- List of Massachusetts General Courts
- List of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Images
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Charles Elmer
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Albert Bray
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Elisha Hooper
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Fred Dole
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George Fuller
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Philip Whitmore
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Winston Healy
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Jonathan Healy
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Stephen Kulik
References
- ^ "Massachusetts Representative Districts". Sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
- ^ a b Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "State Representative elections: 1st Franklin district". PD43+. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
- ^ "2020 State Primary Candidates", Sec.state.ma.us, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, retrieved August 28, 2020
- Recorder.com
- ^ Massachusetts General Court, "Chapter 153. An Act Relative to Establishing Representative Districts in the General Court", Acts (2011)
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Representative Districts". Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A Manual for the Use of the General Court for 1927-1928. Boston. October 17, 2023. pp. 196–206.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b c "Representative Districts". Massachusetts Register. Boston: Sampson, Davenport, & Company. 1872.
- ^ a b "Massachusetts House of Representatives". Massachusetts Register. Boston: Adams, Sampson & Co. 1858. pp. 10–12.
- ^ a b Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston. 1859 – via Internet Archive.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Geo. F. Andrews, ed. (October 17, 1888). "Representatives: Franklin County". 1888 State House Directory. Official Gazette, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Lakeview Press.
- ^ Public Officials of Massachusetts: 1920. Boston Review. October 17, 2023.
- ^ 1951–1952 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston.
- ^ 1975–1976 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Franklin district.
- Ballotpedia
- "1st Franklin District, MA". Censusreporter.org. (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
- League of Women Voters of Franklin County
- Amherst League of Women Voters