United States congressional delegations from Massachusetts
These are tables of congressional delegations from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
Current delegation
Massachusetts is currently represented by two senators and nine representatives, all of whom are Democrats. The current dean of the Massachusetts delegation is Senator Ed Markey, having served as a Senator since 2013 and in Congress since 1976.
Current U.S. senators from Massachusetts | ||||
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Massachusetts
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Class I senator | Class II senator | ||
Elizabeth Warren (Senior senator) |
Ed Markey (Junior senator) | |||
Party | Democratic | Democratic | ||
Incumbent since | January 3, 2013 | July 16, 2013 |
Current U.S. representatives from Massachusetts | |||||
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District | Member (Residence)[2] |
Party | Incumbent since | CPVI (2022)[3] |
District map |
1st | Richard Neal (Springfield) |
Democratic | January 3, 1989 | D+9 | |
2nd | Jim McGovern (Worcester) |
Democratic | January 3, 1997 | D+13 | |
3rd | Lori Trahan (Westford) |
Democratic | January 3, 2019 | D+11 | |
4th | Jake Auchincloss (Newton) |
Democratic | January 3, 2021 | D+12 | |
5th | Katherine Clark (Revere) |
Democratic | December 12, 2013 | D+23 | |
6th | Seth Moulton (Salem) |
Democratic | January 3, 2015 | D+11 | |
7th | Ayanna Pressley (Boston) |
Democratic | January 3, 2019 | D+35 | |
8th | Stephen Lynch (Boston) |
Democratic | October 16, 2001 | D+15 | |
9th | Bill Keating (Bourne) |
Democratic | January 3, 2011 | D+6 |
United States Senate
Class I senator | Congress | Class II senator | ||
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Tristram Dalton (PA) | 1st (1789–1791) | Caleb Strong (PA) | ||
George Cabot (PA) | 2nd (1791–1793) | |||
3rd (1793–1795) | ||||
4th (1795–1797) | ||||
Benjamin Goodhue (F) | Theodore Sedgwick (F) | |||
5th (1797–1799) | ||||
6th (1799–1801) | Samuel Dexter (F) | |||
Jonathan Mason (F) | Dwight Foster (F) | |||
7th (1801–1803) | ||||
John Quincy Adams (F) | 8th (1803–1805) | Timothy Pickering (F) | ||
9th (1805–1807) | ||||
10th (1807–1809) | ||||
James Lloyd (F) | ||||
11th (1809–1811) | ||||
12th (1811–1813) | Joseph Bradley Varnum (DR) | |||
13th (1813–1815) | ||||
Christopher Gore (F) | ||||
14th (1815–1817) | ||||
Eli P. Ashmun (F) | ||||
15th (1817–1819) | Harrison Gray Otis (F) | |||
Prentiss Mellen (F) | ||||
16th (1819–1821) | ||||
Elijah H. Mills (F) | ||||
17th (1821–1823) | ||||
James Lloyd (F) | ||||
18th (1823–1825) | ||||
Elijah H. Mills (NR) | 19th (1825–1827) | James Lloyd (NR) | ||
Nathaniel Silsbee (NR) | ||||
Daniel Webster (NR) | 20th (1827–1829) | |||
21st (1829–1831) | ||||
22nd (1831–1833) | ||||
23rd (1833–1835) | ||||
24th (1835–1837) | John Davis (NR) | |||
Daniel Webster (W) | 25th (1837–1839) | John Davis (W) | ||
26th (1839–1841) | ||||
Isaac C. Bates (W) | ||||
Rufus Choate (W) | 27th (1841–1843) | |||
28th (1843–1845) | ||||
Daniel Webster (W) | 29th (1845–1847) | |||
John Davis (W) | ||||
30th (1847–1849) | ||||
31st (1849–1851) | ||||
Robert Charles Winthrop (W) | ||||
Robert Rantoul Jr. (D) | ||||
Charles Sumner (FS) | 32nd (1851–1853) | |||
33rd (1853–1855) | Edward Everett (W) | |||
Julius Rockwell (W) | ||||
Henry Wilson (FS) | ||||
34th (1855–1857) | Henry Wilson (R) | |||
Charles Sumner (R) | 35th (1857–1859) | |||
36th (1859–1861) | ||||
37th (1861–1863) | ||||
38th (1863–1865) | ||||
39th (1865–1867) | ||||
40th (1867–1869) | ||||
41st (1869–1871) | ||||
42nd (1871–1873) | ||||
Charles Sumner (LR) | 43rd (1873–1875) | George S. Boutwell (R) | ||
William B. Washburn (R) | ||||
Henry L. Dawes (R) | 44th (1875–1877) | |||
45th (1877–1879) | George F. Hoar (R) | |||
46th (1879–1881) | ||||
47th (1881–1883) | ||||
48th (1883–1885) | ||||
49th (1885–1887) | ||||
50th (1887–1889) | ||||
51st (1889–1891) | ||||
52nd (1891–1893) | ||||
Henry Cabot Lodge (R) | 53rd (1893–1895) | |||
54th (1895–1897) | ||||
55th (1897–1899) | ||||
56th (1899–1901) | ||||
57th (1901–1903) | ||||
58th (1903–1905) | ||||
Winthrop M. Crane (R) | ||||
59th (1905–1907) | ||||
60th (1907–1909) | ||||
61st (1909–1911) | ||||
62nd (1911–1913) | ||||
63rd (1913–1915) | John W. Weeks (R) | |||
64th (1915–1917) | ||||
65th (1917–1919) | ||||
66th (1919–1921) | David I. Walsh (D) | |||
67th (1921–1923) | ||||
68th (1923–1925) | ||||
William M. Butler (R) | ||||
69th (1925–1927) | Frederick H. Gillett (R) | |||
David I. Walsh (D) | ||||
70th (1927–1929) | ||||
71st (1929–1931) | ||||
72nd (1931–1933) | Marcus A. Coolidge (D) | |||
73rd (1933–1935) | ||||
74th (1935–1937) | ||||
75th (1937–1939) | Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R) | |||
76th (1939–1941) | ||||
77th (1941–1943) | ||||
78th (1943–1945) | ||||
Sinclair Weeks (R) | ||||
79th (1945–1947) | Leverett Saltonstall (R) | |||
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R) | 80th (1947–1949) | |||
81st (1949–1951) | ||||
82nd (1951–1953) | ||||
John F. Kennedy (D) | 83rd (1953–1955) | |||
84th (1955–1957) | ||||
85th (1957–1959) | ||||
86th (1959–1961) | ||||
Benjamin A. Smith II (D) | ||||
87th (1961–1963) | ||||
Ted Kennedy (D) | ||||
88th (1963–1965) | ||||
89th (1965–1967) | ||||
90th (1967–1969) | Edward Brooke (R) | |||
91st (1969–1971) | ||||
92nd (1971–1973) | ||||
93rd (1973–1975) | ||||
94th (1975–1977) | ||||
95th (1977–1979) | ||||
96th (1979–1981) | Paul Tsongas (D) | |||
97th (1981–1983) | ||||
98th (1983–1985) | ||||
John Kerry (D) | ||||
99th (1985–1987) | ||||
100th (1987–1989) | ||||
101st (1989–1991) | ||||
102nd (1991–1993) | ||||
103rd (1993–1995) | ||||
104th (1995–1997) | ||||
105th (1997–1999) | ||||
106th (1999–2001) | ||||
107th (2001–2003) | ||||
108th (2003–2005) | ||||
109th (2005–2007) | ||||
110th (2007–2009) | ||||
111th (2009–2011) | ||||
Paul G. Kirk (D) | ||||
Scott Brown (R) | ||||
112th (2011–2013) | ||||
Elizabeth Warren (D) | 113th (2013–2015) | |||
Mo Cowan (D) | ||||
Ed Markey (D) | ||||
114th (2015–2017) | ||||
115th (2017–2019) | ||||
116th (2019–2021) | ||||
117th (2021–2023) | ||||
118th (2023–2025) | ||||
Class I senator | Congress | Class II senator |
United States House of Representatives
1789 to 1793: 8 seats
Article I of the United States Constitution allocated 8 seats to Massachusetts.
Congress | District | |||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | |
1st (1789–1791) | Fisher Ames (PA) |
Benjamin Goodhue (PA) |
Elbridge Gerry (AA) |
Theodore Sedgwick (PA) |
George Partridge (PA) | George Thatcher (PA) |
George Leonard (PA) |
Jonathan Grout (AA) |
vacant | ||||||||
2nd (1791–1793) | Shearjashub Bourne (PA) | George Leonard (PA) | Artemas Ward (PA) | George Thatcher (PA) |
1793 to 1803: 14 seats
After the 1790 census, Massachusetts gained six seats.
In the third Congress only, there were plural districts in which more than one member would be elected from the same district and there was also an at-large seat. After that Congress, however, there would be no at-large seats and no plural seats.
1803 to 1813: 17 seats
After the 1800 census, Massachusetts gained three seats.
1813 to 1823: 20 seats, then 13
After the 1810 census, Massachusetts gained three seats to grow to its largest apportionment (so far). In 1820/21, however, seven of those seats were lost to the new state of Maine.
1823–1833: 13 seats
Following the 1820 census, Massachusetts kept its remaining 13 seats without change.
1833 to 1843: 12 seats
After the 1830 census, Massachusetts lost one seat.
1843 to 1853: 10 seats
After the 1840 census, Massachusetts lost two seats.
Congress | District | |||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | |
28th (1843–1845) |
Robert Charles Winthrop (W) |
Daniel P. King (W) |
Amos Abbott (W) |
William Parmenter (D) |
Charles Hudson (W) |
Osmyn Baker (W) |
Julius Rockwell (W) |
John Quincy Adams (W) |
Henry Williams (D) |
Barker Burnell (W) |
Joseph Grinnell (W) | ||||||||||
29th (1845–1847) |
Benjamin Thompson (W) |
George Ashmun (W) |
Artemas Hale (W) | |||||||
30th (1847–1849) |
John G. Palfrey (W) | |||||||||
Horace Mann (W) | ||||||||||
31st (1849–1851) |
James H. Duncan (W) |
vacant | Charles Allen (FS) |
Orin Fowler (W) | ||||||
Samuel A. Eliot (W) | ||||||||||
32nd (1851–1853) |
William Appleton (W) |
Robert Rantoul (D) | Benjamin Thompson (W) | George T. Davis (W) |
John Z. Goodrich (W) |
Zeno Scudder (W) | ||||
Francis B. Fay (W) | Lorenzo Sabine (W) | Edward P. Little (D) |
1853 to 1863: 11 seats
After the 1850 census, Massachusetts gained one seat.
1863 to 1873: 10 seats
After the 1860 census, Massachusetts lost one seat.
Congress | District | |||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | |
38th (1863–1865) | Thomas D. Eliot (R) |
Oakes Ames (R) |
Alexander H. Rice (R) |
Samuel Hooper (R) |
John B. Alley (R) |
Daniel W. Gooch (R) |
George S. Boutwell (R) |
John Denison Baldwin (R) |
William B. Washburn (R) |
Henry L. Dawes (R) |
39th (1865–1867) | ||||||||||
Nathaniel P. Banks (R) | ||||||||||
40th (1867–1869) | Ginery Twichell (R) |
Benjamin Butler (R) | ||||||||
41st (1869–1871) | James Buffington (R) |
George F. Hoar (R) | ||||||||
George M. Brooks (R) | ||||||||||
42nd (1871–1873) | ||||||||||
Constantine Esty (R) | Alvah Crocker (R) |
1873 to 1883: 11 seats
After the 1870 census, Massachusetts gained one seat.
Congress | District | ||||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | |
43rd (1873–1875) |
James Buffington (R) |
Benjamin W. Harris (R) |
William Whiting (R) | Samuel Hooper (R) |
Daniel W. Gooch (R) |
Benjamin Butler (R) |
Ebenezer R. Hoar (R) |
John M. S. Williams (R) |
George F. Hoar (R) |
Alvah Crocker (R) | Henry L. Dawes (R) |
Henry L. Pierce (R) |
Charles Stevens (R) | ||||||||||
44th (1875–1877) |
Rufus Frost (R) | Nathaniel P. Banks (I) |
Charles Perkins Thompson (D) |
John K. Tarbox (D) |
William W. Warren (D) |
Julius Hawley Seelye (I) |
Chester W. Chapin (D) | ||||
William W. Crapo (R) |
Josiah Abbott (D) | ||||||||||
45th (1877–1879) |
Walbridge Field (R) | Leopold Morse (D) |
Nathaniel P. Banks (R) |
George B. Loring (R) |
Benjamin Butler (R) |
William Claflin (R) |
William W. Rice (R) |
Amasa Norcross (R) |
George Robinson (R) | ||
Benjamin Dean (D) | |||||||||||
46th (1879–1881) |
Walbridge Field (R) | Selwyn Z. Bowman (R) |
William A. Russell (R) | ||||||||
47th (1881–1883) |
Ambrose Ranney (R) |
Eben F. Stone (R) |
John W. Candler (R) |
1883 to 1893: 12 seats
After the 1880 census, Massachusetts gained one seat.
Congress | District | |||||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | |
48th (1883–1885) |
Robert T. Davis (R) |
John Davis Long (R) |
Ambrose Ranney (R) |
Patrick Collins (D) |
Leopold Morse (D) |
Henry B. Lovering (D) |
Eben F. Stone (R) |
William A. Russell (R) |
Theodore Lyman III (IR) |
William W. Rice (R) |
William Whiting II (R) |
George Robinson (R) |
Francis W. Rockwell (R) | ||||||||||||
49th (1885–1887) |
Edward D. Hayden (R) |
Charles Herbert Allen (R) |
Frederick D. Ely (R) | |||||||||
50th (1887–1889) |
Leopold Morse (D) |
Henry Cabot Lodge (R) |
William Cogswell (R) |
Edward Burnett (D) |
John E. Russell (D) | |||||||
51st (1889–1891) |
Charles S. Randall (R) |
Elijah A. Morse (R) |
John F. Andrew (D) |
Joseph H. O'Neil (D) |
Nathaniel P. Banks (R) |
Frederic T. Greenhalge (R) |
John W. Candler (R) |
Joseph H. Walker (R) |
Rodney Wallace (R) | |||
52nd (1891–1893) |
Sherman Hoar (D) |
Moses T. Stevens (D) |
George F. Williams (D) |
Frederick S. Coolidge (D) |
John Crawford Crosby (D) |
1893 to 1903: 13 seats
After the 1890 census, Massachusetts gained one seat.
Congress | District | ||||||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | |
53rd (1893–1895) |
Ashley B. Wright (R) |
Frederick H. Gillett (R) |
Joseph H. Walker (R) |
Lewis D. Apsley (R) |
Moses T. Stevens (D) |
William Cogswell (R) |
William Everett (D) |
Samuel W. McCall (R) |
Joseph H. O'Neil (D) |
Michael J. McEttrick (ID) |
William Franklin Draper (R) |
Elijah A. Morse (R) |
Charles S. Randall (R) |
54th (1895–1897) |
William Shadrach Knox (R) |
William Emerson Barrett (R) |
John F. Fitzgerald (D) |
Harrison Henry Atwood (R) |
John Simpkins (R) | ||||||||
William Henry Moody (R) | |||||||||||||
55th (1897–1899) |
George W. Weymouth (R) |
Samuel J. Barrows (R) |
Charles F. Sprague (R) |
William C. Lovering (R) | |||||||||
George P. Lawrence (R) |
William S. Greene (R) | ||||||||||||
56th (1899–1901) |
John R. Thayer (D) |
Ernest W. Roberts (R) |
Henry F. Naphen (D) | ||||||||||
57th (1901–1903) |
Charles Q. Tirrell (R) |
Joseph A. Conry (D) |
Samuel Powers (R) | ||||||||||
Augustus Peabody Gardner (R) |
1903 to 1913: 14 seats
After the 1900 census, Massachusetts gained one seat.
Congress | District | |||||||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | |
58th (1903–1905) | George P. Lawrence (R) |
Frederick H. Gillett (R) |
John Thayer (D) | Charles Q. Tirrell (R) |
Butler Ames (R) |
Augustus Peabody Gardner (R) |
Ernest W. Roberts (R) |
Samuel W. McCall (R) |
John A. Keliher (D) |
William S. McNary (D) |
John Andrew Sullivan (D) |
Samuel Powers (R) | William S. Greene (R) |
William C. Lovering (R) |
59th (1905–1907) | Rockwood Hoar (R) | John W. Weeks (R) | ||||||||||||
Charles G. Washburn (R) | ||||||||||||||
60th (1907–1909) | Joseph F. O'Connell (D) |
Andrew James Peters (D) | ||||||||||||
61st (1909–1911) | ||||||||||||||
John Mitchell (D) | Eugene Foss (D) | |||||||||||||
62nd (1911–1913) | John A. Thayer (D) | William Wilder (R) | Wm. F. Murray (D) | James Curley (D) | Robert Harris (R) |
1913 to 1933: 16 seats
After the 1910 census, Massachusetts gained two seats. There was no reapportionment after the 1920 census.
1933 to 1963: 15, then 14 seats
After the 1930 census, Massachusetts lost one seat. After the 1940 census, Massachusetts lost another seat. Massachusetts kept its apportionment following the 1950 census.
1963 to 1983: 12 seats
After the 1960 census, Massachusetts lost two seats. Massachusetts kept its apportionment after the 1970 census.
Congress | District | |||||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | |
88th (1963–1965) | Silvio O. Conte (R) |
Ed Boland (D) |
Philip J. Philbin (D) |
Harold Donohue (D) |
F. Bradford Morse (R) |
William H. Bates (R) |
Torbert Macdonald (D) |
Tip O'Neill (D) |
John W. McCormack (D) |
Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R) |
James A. Burke (D) |
Hastings Keith (R) |
89th (1965–1967) | ||||||||||||
90th (1967–1969) | Margaret Heckler (R) | |||||||||||
91st (1969–1971) | ||||||||||||
Mike Harrington (D) | ||||||||||||
92nd (1971–1973) | Robert Drinan (D) |
Louise Day Hicks (D) | ||||||||||
vacant | ||||||||||||
93rd (1973–1975) | Harold Donohue (D) |
Robert Drinan (D) |
Paul W. Cronin (R) |
Joe Moakley (D) |
Gerry Studds (D) | |||||||
vacant | ||||||||||||
94th (1975–1977) | Joseph Early (D) |
Paul Tsongas (D) | ||||||||||
Ed Markey (D) | ||||||||||||
95th (1977–1979) | ||||||||||||
96th (1979–1981) | James Shannon (D) |
Nicholas Mavroules (D) |
Brian J. Donnelly (D) | |||||||||
97th (1981–1983) | Barney Frank (D) |
1983 to 1993: 11 seats
After the 1980 census, Massachusetts lost one seat.
Congress | District | ||||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | |
98th (1983–1985) | Silvio O. Conte (R) |
Ed Boland (D) |
Joseph Early (D) |
Barney Frank (D) |
James Shannon (D) |
Nicholas Mavroules (D) |
Ed Markey (D) |
Tip O'Neill (D) |
Joe Moakley (D) |
Gerry Studds (D) |
Brian J. Donnelly (D) |
99th (1985–1987) | Chester G. Atkins (D) | ||||||||||
100th (1987–1989) | Joseph P. Kennedy II (D) | ||||||||||
101st (1989–1991) | Richard Neal (D) | ||||||||||
102nd (1991–1993) | |||||||||||
John Olver (D) |
1993 to 2013: 10 seats
After the 1990 census, Massachusetts lost one seat. Massachusetts kept its apportionment after the 2000 census.
Congress | District | |||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | |
103rd (1993–1995) | John Olver (D) |
Richard Neal (D) |
Peter Blute (R) |
Barney Frank (D) |
Marty Meehan (D) |
Peter G. Torkildsen (R) |
Ed Markey (D) |
Joseph P. Kennedy II (D) |
Joe Moakley (D) |
Gerry Studds (D) |
104th (1995–1997) | ||||||||||
105th (1997–1999) | Jim McGovern (D) |
John Tierney (D) |
Bill Delahunt (D) | |||||||
106th (1999–2001) | Mike Capuano (D) | |||||||||
107th (2001–2003) | ||||||||||
Stephen Lynch (D) | ||||||||||
108th (2003–2005) | ||||||||||
109th (2005–2007) | ||||||||||
110th (2007–2009) | ||||||||||
Niki Tsongas (D) | ||||||||||
111th (2009–2011) | ||||||||||
112th (2011–2013) | Bill Keating (D) |
2013 to present: 9 seats
After the 2010 census, Massachusetts lost one seat. Massachusetts kept its apportionment after the 2020 census.
Congress | District | ||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | |
113th (2013–2015) | Richard Neal (D) |
Jim McGovern (D) |
Niki Tsongas (D) |
Joe Kennedy III (D) |
Ed Markey (D) | John Tierney (D) | Mike Capuano (D) |
Stephen Lynch (D) |
Bill Keating (D) |
Katherine Clark (D) | |||||||||
114th (2015–2017) | Seth Moulton (D) | ||||||||
115th (2017–2019) | |||||||||
116th (2019–2021) | Lori Trahan (D) |
Ayanna Pressley (D) | |||||||
117th (2021–2023) | Jake Auchincloss (D) | ||||||||
118th (2023–2025) |
Key
See also
References
- Supported the Adams-Clay faction in the 1824 United States presidential election.
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- "2022 Cook PVI: State Map and List". Cook Political Report. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
- "Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives". clerk.house.gov. Retrieved January 6, 2022.
- "2022 Cook PVI: District Map and List". Cook Political Report. Retrieved January 8, 2023.