List of members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts

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Richard Neal, current representative of the Massachusetts First Congressional District
Jim McGovern, current representative of Massachusetts Second Congressional Constituency
Lori Trahan, current representative of the Massachusetts Third Congressional Constituency
Joseph Patrick Kennedy, current Representative of the Massachusetts Fourth Congressional Constituency
Katherine Clark, current Massachusetts Fifth Congressional District Representative
Seth Moulton, current representative of the Sixth Massachusetts Congressional Constituency
Ayanna Pressley, current representative of the Seventh Congressional Constituency of Massachusetts
Stephen Lynch, current representative of Massachusetts Eighth Congressional Constituency
William R. Keating, current Representative for Massachusetts Ninth Congressional Constituency

This list shows all politicians who since 1789 for Massachusetts to the United States House of Representatives have listened. The New England state was represented in the first and second Congress with eight members each in the Chamber of Parliament, which was still in session in Philadelphia at the time . After various adjustments, caused by censuses , their number rose to 20 by 1820, part of which was assigned to the District of Maine . When Maine became an independent state on March 15, 1820 as a result of the Missouri Compromise , the number of MPs from Massachusetts decreased to 13 from the following legislative period. After that, it was always between ten and 16, before a steady decline occurred since 1933, which is why today - besides the two senators - only nine state politicians are active in Congress in Washington . Since 1794 the state has been divided into electoral districts; this also applied to the first two elections. Only in 1792 was another procedure used: At that time there was a division into only four districts, with the first and second district elected four, the third two and the fourth four; a further mandate was awarded for the only time nationwide (“at large”).

With John Quincy Adams and John F. Kennedy , two US presidents for Massachusetts were also temporarily members of the House of Representatives. Adams was the only president who was only elected to this chamber of parliament after his time in the highest office of the state.

1st seat (since 1789)

Surname Term of office Political party
Fisher Ames March 4, 1789 - March 3, 1795 independent
Theodore Sedgwick March 4, 1795 - June 1796 federalist
Thomson Joseph Skinner January 27, 1797 - March 3, 1799 Democratic Republican
Theodore Sedgwick March 4, 1799 - March 3, 1801 federalist
John Bacon March 4, 1801 - March 3, 1803 Democratic Republican
William Eustis March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1805 Democratic Republican
Josiah Quincy March 4, 1805 - March 3, 1813 federalist
Artemas Ward Jr. March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1817 federalist
Jonathan Mason March 4, 1817 - May 15, 1820 federalist
Benjamin Gorham November 6, 1820 - March 3, 1823 Democratic Republican
Daniel Webster March 4, 1823 - May 30, 1827 federalist
Benjamin Gorham July 23, 1827 - March 3, 1831 National Republicans
Nathan Appleton March 4, 1831 - March 3, 1833 National Republicans
Benjamin Gorham March 4, 1833 - March 3, 1835 National Republicans
Abbott Lawrence March 4, 1835 - March 3, 1837 National Republicans
Richard Fletcher March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1839 Whig
Abbott Lawrence March 4, 1839 - September 18, 1840 Whig
Robert Charles Winthrop November 9, 1840 - May 25, 1842 Whig
Nathan Appleton June 9, 1842 - September 28, 1842 Whig
Robert Charles Winthrop November 29, 1842 - July 30, 1850 Whig
Samuel Atkins Eliot August 22, 1850 - March 3, 1851 Whig
William Appleton March 4, 1851 - March 3, 1853 Whig
Zeno Scudder March 4, 1853 - March 4, 1854 Whig
Thomas Dawes Eliot April 17, 1854 - March 3, 1855 Whig
Robert Bernard Hall March 4, 1855 - March 3, 1859 American party
Thomas Dawes Eliot March 4, 1859 - March 3, 1869 republican
James Buffinton March 4, 1869 - March 7, 1875 republican
William Wallace Crapo November 2, 1875 - March 3, 1883 republican
Robert Thompson Davis March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1889 republican
Charles Sturtevant Randall March 4, 1889 - March 3, 1893 republican
Ashley Bascom Wright March 4, 1893 - August 14, 1897 republican
George Pelton Lawrence November 2, 1897 - March 3, 1913 republican
Allen Towner Treadway March 4, 1913 - January 3, 1945 republican
John Walter Heselton January 3, 1945 - January 3, 1959 republican
Silvio Ottavio Conte January 3, 1959 - February 8, 1991 republican
John Walter Olver June 4, 1991 - January 3, 2013 democrat
Richard Edmund Neal January 3, 2013 - democrat

2nd seat (since 1789)

Surname Term of office Political party
Benjamin Goodhue March 4, 1789 - March 4, 1793 independent
Samuel Dexter March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1795 independent
William Lyman March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1797 Democratic Republican
William Shepard March 4, 1797 - March 3, 1803 federalist
Jacob Crowninshield March 4, 1803 - April 15, 1808 Democratic Republican
Joseph Story May 23, 1808 - March 3, 1809 Democratic Republican
Benjamin Pickman March 4, 1809 - March 3, 1811 federalist
William Reed March 4, 1811 - March 3, 1815 federalist
Timothy Pickering March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817 federalist
Nathaniel Silsbee March 4, 1817 - March 3, 1821 federalist
Gideon Barstow March 4, 1821 - March 3, 1823 Democratic Republican
Benjamin Williams Crowninshield March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1831 National Republicans
Rufus Choate March 4, 1831 - June 30, 1834 National Republicans
Stephen Clarendon Phillips December 1, 1834 - September 28, 1838 National Republicans
Leverett Saltonstall December 5, 1838 - March 3, 1843 Whig
Daniel Putnam King March 4, 1843 - July 25, 1850 Whig
Robert Rantoul March 4, 1851 - August 7, 1852 democrat
Francis Ball Fay December 13, 1852 - March 3, 1853 Whig
Samuel Leonard Crocker March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1855 Whig
James Buffinton March 4, 1855 - March 3, 1863 American party
Oakes Ames March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1873 republican
Benjamin Winslow Harris March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1883 republican
John Davis Long March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1889 republican
Elijah Adams Morse March 4, 1889 - March 3, 1893 republican
Frederick Huntington Gillett March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1925 republican
George Bosworth Churchill March 4, 1925 - July 1, 1925 republican
Henry Leland Bowles September 29, 1925 - March 3, 1929 republican
Will Kirk Kaynor March 4, 1929 - December 20, 1929 republican
William Joseph Granfield February 11, 1930 - January 3, 1937 democrat
Charles Russell Clason January 3, 1937 - January 3, 1949 republican
John Foster Furcolo January 3, 1949 - September 30, 1952 democrat
Edward Patrick Boland Jan. 3, 1953 - January 3, 1989 democrat
Richard Edmund Neal January 3, 1989 - January 3, 2013 democrat
James P. McGovern January 3, 2013 - democrat

3rd seat (since 1789)

Surname Term of office Political party
Elbridge Thomas Gerry March 4, 1789 - March 3, 1793 independent
Benjamin Goodhue March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1795 independent
Samuel Lyman March 4, 1795 - November 6, 1800 federalist
Ebenezer Mattoon February 2, 1801 - March 3, 1803 federalist
Manasseh Cutler March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1805 federalist
Jeremiah Nelson March 4, 1805 - March 3, 1807 federalist
Edward St. Loe Livermore March 4, 1807 - March 3, 1811 federalist
Leonard White March 4, 1811 - March 3, 1813 federalist
Timothy Pickering March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1815 federalist
Jeremiah Nelson March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1825 federalist
John Varnum March 4, 1825 - March 3, 1831 National Republicans
Jeremiah Nelson March 4, 1831 - March 3, 1833 National Republicans
Gayton Pickman Osgood March 4, 1833 - March 3, 1835 democrat
Caleb Cushing March 4, 1835 - March 3, 1843 National Republicans
Amos Abbott March 4, 1843 - March 3, 1849 Whig
James Henry Duncan March 4, 1849 - March 3, 1853 Whig
John Wiley Edmands March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1855 Whig
William Shapleigh Damrell March 4, 1855 - March 3, 1859 American party
Charles Francis Adams March 4, 1859 - May 1, 1861 republican
Benjamin Franklin Thomas June 11, 1861 - March 3, 1863 unionist
Alexander Hamilton Rice March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1867 republican
Twichell Ginery March 4, 1867 - March 3, 1873 republican
William Whiting I. March 4, 1873 - June 29, 1873 republican
Henry Lillie Pierce December 1, 1873 - March 3, 1877 republican
Walbridge Abner Field March 4, 1877 - March 28, 1878 republican
Benjamin Dean March 28, 1878 - March 3, 1879 democrat
Walbridge Abner Field March 4, 1879 - March 3, 1881 republican
Ambrose Arnold Ranney March 4, 1881 - March 3, 1887 republican
Leopold Morse March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1889 democrat
John Forrester Andrew March 4, 1889 - March 3, 1893 democrat
Joseph Henry Walker March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1899 republican
John Randolph Thayer March 4, 1899 - March 3, 1905 democrat
Rockwood Hoar March 4, 1905 - November 1, 1906 republican
Charles Grenfill Washburn December 18, 1906 - March 3, 1911 republican
John Alden Thayer March 4, 1911 - March 3, 1913 democrat
William Henry Wilder March 4, 1913 - September 11, 1913 republican
Calvin DeWitt Paige November 4, 1913 - March 3, 1925 republican
Frank Herbert Foss March 4, 1925 - January 3, 1935 republican
Joseph Edward Casey January 3, 1935 - January 3, 1943 democrat
Philip Joseph Philbin January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1971 democrat
Robert Frederick Drinan Jan. 3, 1971 - January 3, 1973 democrat
Harold Daniel Donohue Jan. 3, 1973 - December 31, 1974 democrat
Joseph Daniel Early January 3, 1975 - January 3, 1993 democrat
Peter I. Blood January 3, 1993 - January 3, 1997 republican
James P. McGovern January 3, 1997 - January 3, 2013 democrat
Nicola Sauvage Tsongas January 3, 2013 - January 3, 2019 democrat
Lori A. Loureiro Trahan January 3, 2019 - democrat

4th seat (since 1789)

Surname Term of office Political party
Theodore Sedgwick March 4, 1789 - March 3, 1793 independent
Samuel Holten March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1795 independent
Dwight Foster March 4, 1795 - June 6, 1800 federalist
Levi Lincoln December 15, 1800 - March 3, 1801 Democratic Republican
Seth Hastings March 4, 1801 - March 3, 1803 federalist
Joseph Bradley Varnum March 4, 1803 - June 29, 1811 Democratic Republican
William Merchant Richardson November 4, 1811 - April 18, 1814 Democratic Republican
Samuel Dana September 22, 1814 - March 3, 1815 Democratic Republican
Asahel Stearns March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817 federalist
Timothy Fuller March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1825 Democratic Republican
Edward Everett March 4, 1825 - March 3, 1835 National Republicans
Samuel Hoar March 4, 1835 - March 3, 1837 National Republicans
William Parmenter March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1845 democrat
Benjamin Thompson March 4, 1845 - March 3, 1847 Whig
John Gorham Palfrey March 4, 1847 - March 3, 1849 Whig
Benjamin Thompson March 4, 1851 - September 24, 1852 Whig
Lorenzo Sabine December 13, 1852 - March 3, 1853 Whig
Samuel Hurd Walley March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1855 Whig
Linus Bacon Comins March 4, 1855 - March 3, 1859 American party
Alexander Hamilton Rice March 4, 1859 - March 3, 1863 republican
Samuel Hooper March 4, 1863 - February 14, 1875 republican
Rufus Smith Frost March 4, 1875 - July 28, 1876 republican
Josiah Gardner Abbott July 28, 1876 - March 3, 1877 democrat
Leopold Morse March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1883 democrat
Patrick Collins March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1889 democrat
Joseph Henry O'Neil March 4, 1889 - March 3, 1893 democrat
Lewis Dewart Apsley March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1897 republican
George Warren Weymouth March 4, 1897 - March 3, 1901 republican
Charles Quincy Tirrell March 4, 1901 - July 31, 1910 republican
John Joseph Mitchell November 8, 1910 - March 3, 1911 democrat
William Henry Wilder March 4, 1911 - March 3, 1913 republican
Samuel Ellsworth Winslow March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1925 republican
George Russell Stobbs March 4, 1925 - March 3, 1931 republican
Pehr Gustaf Holmes March 4, 1931 - January 3, 1947 republican
Harold Daniel Donohue January 3, 1947 - January 3, 1973 democrat
Robert Frederick Drinan Jan. 3, 1973 - January 3, 1981 democrat
Barney Frank January 3, 1981 - January 3, 2013 democrat
Joseph Patrick Kennedy III January 3, 2013 - democrat

5th seat (since 1789)

Surname Term of office Political party
George Partridge March 4, 1789 - August 14, 1790 independent
Shearjashub Bourne March 4, 1791 - March 3, 1793 independent
Dwight Foster March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1795 independent
Nathaniel Freeman Jr. March 4, 1795 - March 3, 1799 federalist
Lemuel Williams March 4, 1799 - March 3, 1803 federalist
Thomas Dwight March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1805 federalist
William Ely March 4, 1805 - March 3, 1815 federalist
Elijah Hunt Mills March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1819 federalist
Samuel Lathrop March 4, 1819 - March 3, 1823 federalist
Jonas Sibley March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1825 Democratic Republican
John Davis March 4, 1825 - January 14, 1834 National Republicans
Levi Lincoln Jr. February 17, 1834 - March 16, 1841 National Republicans
Charles Hudson May 3, 1841 - March 3, 1849 Whig
Charles Allen March 4, 1849 - March 3, 1853 Free Soil Party
William Appleton March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1855 Whig
Anson Burlingame March 4, 1855 - March 3, 1861 American party
William Appleton March 4, 1861 - September 27, 1861 Constitutional Union Party
Samuel Hooper December 2, 1861 - March 3, 1863 republican
John Bassett Alley March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1867 republican
Benjamin Franklin Butler March 4, 1867 - March 3, 1873 republican
Daniel Wheelwright Gooch March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1875 republican
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks March 4, 1875 - March 3, 1879 republican
Selwyn Zadock Bowman March 4, 1879 - March 3, 1883 republican
Leopold Morse March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1885 democrat
Edward Daniel Hayden March 4, 1885 - March 3, 1889 republican
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks March 4, 1889 - March 3, 1891 republican
Sherman Hoar March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1893 democrat
Moses Tyler Stevens March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1895 democrat
William Shadrach Knox March 4, 1895 - March 3, 1903 republican
Butler Ames March 4, 1903 - March 3, 1913 republican
John Jacob Rogers March 4, 1913 - March 28, 1925 republican
Edith Nourse Rogers June 30, 1925 - September 10, 1960 republican
F. Bradford Morse Jan. 3, 1961 - May 1, 1972 republican
Paul William Cronin Jan. 3, 1973 - January 3, 1975 republican
Paul Efthemios Tsongas Jan. 3, 1975 - January 3, 1979 democrat
James Michael Shannon Jan. 3, 1979 - January 3, 1985 democrat
Chester Greenough Atkins January 3, 1985 - January 3, 1993 democrat
Martin Thomas Meehan January 3, 1993 - July 1, 2007 democrat
Nicola Sauvage Tsongas October 18, 2007 - January 3, 2013 democrat
Edward John Markey January 3, 2013 - July 15, 2013 democrat
Katherine M. Clark December 12th 2013 - democrat

6th seat (since 1789)

Surname Term of office Political party
George Thatcher March 4, 1789 - March 3, 1791 independent
George Leonard March 4, 1791 - March 3, 1793 independent
William Lyman March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1795 independent
John Reed Sr. March 4, 1795 - March 3, 1801 federalist
Josiah Smith March 4, 1801 - March 3, 1803 Democratic Republican
Samuel Taggart March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1817 federalist
Samuel Clesson Allen March 4, 1817 - March 3, 1823 federalist
John Locke March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1829 National Republicans
Joseph Gowing Kendall March 4, 1829 - March 3, 1833 National Republicans
George Grennell March 4, 1833 - March 3, 1839 National Republicans
James Church Alvord May 3, 1839 - September 27, 1839 Whig
Osmyn Baker January 14, 1840 - March 3, 1845 Whig
George Ashmun March 4, 1845 - March 3, 1851 Whig
George Thomas Davis March 4, 1851 - March 3, 1853 Whig
Charles Wentworth Upham March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1855 Whig
Timothy Davis March 4, 1855 - March 3, 1859 American party
John Bassett Alley March 4, 1859 - March 3, 1863 republican
Daniel Wheelwright Gooch March 4, 1863 - September 1, 1865 republican
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks December 4, 1865 - March 3, 1873 republican
Benjamin Franklin Butler March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1875 republican
Charles Perkins Thompson March 4, 1875 - March 3, 1877 democrat
George Bailey Loring March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1881 republican
Francis Stone March 4, 1881 - March 3, 1883 republican
Henry Bacon Lovering March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1887 democrat
Henry Cabot Lodge March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1893 republican
William Cogswell March 4, 1893 - May 22, 1895 republican
William Henry Moody November 5, 1895 - May 1, 1902 republican
Augustus Peabody Gardner November 4, 1902 - May 15, 1917 republican
Willfred Weymouth Lufkin November 6, 1917 - June 30, 1921 republican
Abram Piatt Andrew September 27, 1921 - June 3, 1936 republican
George Joseph Bates January 3, 1937 - November 1, 1949 republican
William Henry Bates February 14, 1950 - June 22, 1969 republican
Michael Joseph Harrington September 30, 1969 - January 3, 1979 democrat
Nicholas James Mavroules Jan. 3, 1979 - January 3, 1993 democrat
Peter Gerard Torkildsen January 3, 1993 - January 3, 1997 republican
John F. Tierney January 3, 1997 - January 3, 2015 democrat
Seth Wilbur Moulton January 3, 2015 - democrat

7th seat (since 1789)

Surname Term of office Political party
George Leonard March 4, 1789 - March 3, 1791 independent
Artemas Ward March 4, 1791 - March 3, 1793 independent
Theodore Sedgwick March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1795 independent
George Leonard March 4, 1795 - March 3, 1797 federalist
Stephen Bullock March 4, 1797 - March 3, 1799 federalist
Phanuel Bishop March 4, 1799 - March 3, 1803 Democratic Republican
Nahum Mitchell March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1805 federalist
Joseph Barker March 4, 1805 - March 3, 1809 Democratic Republican
William Baylies March 4, 1809 - June 28, 1809 federalist
Charles Turner Jr. June 28, 1809 - March 3, 1813 Democratic Republican
William Baylies March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1815 federalist
John Whitefield Hulbert March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817 federalist
Henry Shaw March 4, 1817 - March 3, 1821 Democratic Republican
Henry Williams Dwight March 4, 1821 - March 3, 1823 federalist
Samuel Clesson Allen March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1829 National Republicans
George Grennell March 4, 1829 - March 3, 1833 National Republicans
George Nixon Briggs March 4, 1833 - March 3, 1843 National Republicans
Julius Rockwell March 4, 1843 - March 3, 1851 Whig
John Zacheus Goodrich March 4, 1851 - March 3, 1853 Whig
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks March 4, 1853 - December 24, 1857 democrat
Daniel Wheelwright Gooch January 31, 1858 - March 3, 1863 republican
George Sewall Boutwell March 4, 1863 - March 12, 1869 republican
George Merrick Brooks November 2, 1869 - May 13, 1872 republican
Constantine Canaris Esty December 2, 1872 - March 3, 1873 republican
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1875 republican
John Kemble Tarbox March 4, 1875 - March 3, 1877 democrat
Benjamin Franklin Butler March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1879 republican
William Augustus Russell March 4, 1879 - March 3, 1883 republican
Francis Stone March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1887 republican
William Cogswell March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1893 republican
William Everett April 25, 1893 - March 3, 1895 democrat
William Emerson Barrett March 4, 1895 - March 3, 1899 republican
Ernest William Roberts March 4, 1899 - March 3, 1913 republican
Michael Francis Phelan March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1921 democrat
Robert Sarsfield Maloney March 4, 1921 - March 3, 1923 republican
William Patrick Connery March 4, 1923 - June 15, 1937 democrat
Lawrence Joseph Connery September 28, 1937 - October 19, 1941 democrat
Thomas Joseph Lane December 30, 1941 - January 3, 1963 democrat
Torbert Hart Macdonald Jan. 3, 1963 - May 21, 1976 democrat
Edward John Markey November 2, 1976 - January 3, 2013 democrat
Michael Everett Capuano January 3, 2013 - January 3, 2019 democrat
Ayanna Soyini Pressley January 3, 2019 - democrat

8th seat (since 1789)

Surname Term of office Political party
Jonathan Grout March 4, 1789 - March 3, 1791 independent
George Thatcher March 4, 1791 - March 3, 1793 independent
Artemas Ward March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1795 independent
Fisher Ames March 4, 1795 - March 3, 1797 federalist
Harrison Gray Otis March 4, 1797 - March 3, 1801 federalist
William Eustis March 4, 1801 - March 3, 1803 Democratic Republican
Lemuel Williams March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1805 federalist
Isaiah Lewis Green March 4, 1805 - March 3, 1809 Democratic Republican
Gideon Gardner March 4, 1809 - March 3, 1811 Democratic Republican
Isaiah Lewis Green March 4, 1811 - March 3, 1813 Democratic Republican
John Reed Jr. March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1815 federalist
William Baylies March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817 federalist
Zabdiel Sampson March 4, 1817 - July 26, 1820 Democratic Republican
Aaron Hobart November 24, 1820 - March 3, 1823 Democratic Republican
Samuel Lathrop March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1827 National Republicans
Isaac Chapman Bates March 4, 1827 - March 3, 1835 National Republicans
William Barron Calhoun March 4, 1835 - March 3, 1843 Whig
John Quincy Adams March 4, 1843 - February 23, 1848 Whig
Horace Mann April 3, 1848 - March 3, 1853 Whig
Tappan Wentworth March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1855 Whig
Chauncey Langdon Knapp March 4, 1855 - March 3, 1859 American party
Charles Russell Train March 4, 1859 - March 3, 1863 republican
John Denison Baldwin March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1869 republican
George Frisbie Hoar March 4, 1869 - March 3, 1873 republican
John McKeown Snow Williams March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1875 republican
William host Warren March 4, 1875 - March 3, 1877 democrat
William Claflin March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1881 republican
John Wilson Candler March 4, 1881 - March 3, 1883 republican
William Augustus Russell March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1885 republican
Charles Herbert Allen March 4, 1885 - March 3, 1889 republican
Frederic Thomas Greenhalge March 4, 1889 - March 3, 1891 republican
Moses Tyler Stevens March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1893 democrat
Samuel Walker McCall March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1913 republican
Frederick Simpson Deitrick March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1915 democrat
Frederick William Dallinger March 4, 1915 - March 3, 1925 republican
Harry Irving Thayer March 4, 1925 - March 10, 1926 republican
Frederick William Dallinger November 2, 1926 - October 1, 1932 republican
Arthur Daniel Healey March 4, 1933 - August 3, 1942 democrat
Angier Louis Goodwin January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1955 republican
Torbert Hart Macdonald Jan. 3, 1955 - January 3, 1963 democrat
Thomas Phillip O'Neill Jan. 3, 1963 - January 3, 1987 democrat
Joseph Patrick Kennedy II January 3, 1987 - January 3, 1999 democrat
Michael Everett Capuano January 3, 1999 - January 3, 2013 democrat
Stephen F. Lynch January 3, 2013 - democrat

9th seat (since 1793)

Surname Term of office Political party
Shearjashub Bourne March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1795 independent
Joseph Bradley Varnum March 4, 1795 - March 3, 1803 Democratic Republican
Phanuel Bishop March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1807 Democratic Republican
Josiah Dean March 4, 1807 - March 3, 1809 Democratic Republican
Laban Wheaton March 4, 1809 - March 3, 1815 federalist
John Reed Jr. March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817 federalist
Walter Folger March 4, 1817 - March 3, 1821 Democratic Republican
John Reed Jr. March 4, 1821 - March 3, 1823 federalist
Henry Williams Dwight March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1831 National Republicans
George Nixon Briggs March 4, 1831 - March 3, 1833 National Republicans
William Jackson March 4, 1833 - March 3, 1837 Anti-Masonic Party
William Soden Hastings March 4, 1837 - June 17, 1842 Whig
Henry Williams March 4, 1843 - March 3, 1845 democrat
Artemas Hale March 4, 1845 - March 3, 1849 Whig
Orin Fowler March 4, 1849 - September 3, 1852 Whig
Edward Preble Little December 13, 1852 - March 3, 1853 democrat
Alexander De Witt March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1857 Free Soil Party
Eli Thayer March 4, 1857 - March 3, 1861 republican
Goldsmith Bailey March 4, 1861 - May 8, 1862 republican
Amasa Walker December 1, 1862 - March 3, 1863 republican
William Barrett Washburn March 4, 1863 - December 5, 1871 republican
Alvah Crocker January 2, 1872 - March 3, 1873 republican
George Frisbie Hoar March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1877 republican
William Whitney Rice March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1883 republican
Theodore Lyman March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1885 More independent
Frederick David Ely March 4, 1885 - March 3, 1887 republican
Edward Burnett March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1889 democrat
John Wilson Candler March 4, 1889 - March 3, 1891 republican
George Fred Williams March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1893 democrat
Joseph Henry O'Neil March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1895 democrat
John Francis Fitzgerald March 4, 1895 - March 3, 1901 democrat
Joseph Aloysius Conry March 4, 1901 - March 3, 1903 democrat
John Austin Keliher March 4, 1903 - March 3, 1911 democrat
William Francis Murray March 4, 1911 - March 3, 1913 democrat
Ernest William Roberts March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1917 republican
Alvan Tufts Fuller March 4, 1917 - January 5, 1921 republican
Charles Lee Underhill March 4, 1921 - March 3, 1933 republican
Robert Luce March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1935 republican
Richard Manning Russell January 3, 1935 - January 3, 1937 democrat
Robert Luce January 3, 1937 - January 3, 1941 republican
Thomas Hopkinson Eliot January 3, 1941 - January 3, 1943 democrat
Charles Laceille Gifford January 3, 1943 - August 23, 1947 republican
Donald William Nicholson November 18, 1947 - January 3, 1959 republican
Hastings Keith Jan. 3, 1959 - January 3, 1963 republican
John William McCormack Jan. 3, 1963 - January 3, 1971 democrat
Louise Day Hicks Jan. 3, 1971 - January 3, 1973 democrat
John Joseph Moakley Jan. 3, 1973 - May 28, 2001 democrat
Stephen F. Lynch October 16, 2001 - January 3, 2013 democrat
William Richard Keating January 3, 2013 - democrat

10th seat (1793-2013)

Surname Term of office Political party
Peleg Coffin March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1795 independent
Benjamin Goodhue March 4, 1795 - June 1796 federalist
Samuel Sewall December 7, 1796 - January 10, 1800 federalist
Nathan Read November 25, 1800 - March 3, 1803 federalist
Seth Hastings March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1807 federalist
Jabez Upham March 4, 1807-1810 federalist
Joseph Allen October 8, 1810 - March 3, 1811 federalist
Elijah Brigham March 4, 1811 - March 3, 1815 federalist
Laban Wheaton March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817 federalist
Marcus Morton March 4, 1817 - March 3, 1821 Democratic Republican
Francis Baylies March 4, 1821 - March 3, 1823 federalist
John Bailey March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1831 National Republicans
Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn March 4, 1831 - March 3, 1833 National Republicans
William Baylies March 4, 1833 - March 3, 1835 National Republicans
Nathaniel Briggs Borden March 4, 1835 - March 3, 1839 democrat
Henry Williams March 4, 1839 - March 3, 1841 democrat
Nathaniel Briggs Borden March 4, 1841 - March 3, 1843 Whig
Barker Burnell March 4, 1843 - June 15, 1843 Whig
Joseph Grinnell December 7, 1843 - March 3, 1851 Whig
Zeno Scudder March 4, 1851 - March 3, 1853 Whig
Edward Dickinson March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1855 Whig
Calvin Clifford Chaffee March 4, 1855 - March 3, 1859 American party
Charles Delano March 4, 1859 - March 3, 1863 republican
Henry Laurens Dawes March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1873 republican
Alvah Crocker March 4, 1873 - December 26, 1874 republican
Charles Abbot Stevens January 27, 1875 - March 3, 1875 republican
Julius Hawley Seelye March 4, 1875 - March 3, 1877 More independent
Amasa Norcross March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1883 republican
William Whitney Rice March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1887 republican
John Edwards Russell March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1889 democrat
Joseph Henry Walker March 4, 1889 - March 3, 1893 republican
Michael Joseph McEttrick March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1895 More independent
Harrison Henry Atwood March 4, 1895 - March 3, 1897 republican
Samuel June Barrows March 4, 1897 - March 3, 1899 republican
Henry Francis Naphen March 4, 1899 - March 3, 1903 democrat
William Sarsfield McNary March 4, 1903 - March 3, 1907 democrat
Joseph Francis O'Connell March 4, 1907 - March 3, 1911 democrat
James Michael Curley March 4, 1911 - March 3, 1913 democrat
William Francis Murray March 4, 1913 - September 28, 1914 democrat
Peter Francis Tague March 4, 1915 - March 3, 1919 democrat
John Francis Fitzgerald March 4, 1919 - October 23, 1919 democrat
Peter Francis Tague October 23, 1919 - March 3, 1925 democrat
John Joseph Douglass March 4, 1925 - March 3, 1933 democrat
George Holden Tinkham March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1943 republican
Christian Archibald Herter January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1953 republican
Laurence Curtis Jan. 3, 1953 - January 3, 1963 republican
Joseph William Martin Jan. 3, 1963 - January 3, 1967 republican
Margaret Mary Heckler Jan. 3, 1967 - January 3, 1983 republican
Gerry Eastman Studds January 3, 1983 - January 3, 1997 democrat
William D. Delahunt January 3, 1997 - January 3, 2011 democrat
William Richard Keating January 3, 2011 - January 3, 2013 democrat

11th seat (1793–1843 / 1853–1863 / 1873–1993)

Surname Term of office Political party
Henry Dearborn March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1795 independent
Theophilus Bradbury March 4, 1795 - July 24, 1797 federalist
Bailey Bartlett November 27, 1797 - March 3, 1801 federalist
Manasseh Cutler March 4, 1801 - March 3, 1803 federalist
William Stedman March 4, 1803 - July 16, 1810 federalist
Abijah Bigelow October 8, 1810 - March 3, 1815 federalist
Elijah Brigham March 4, 1815 - February 22, 1816 federalist
Benjamin Adams December 2, 1816 - March 3, 1821 federalist
Jonathan Russell March 4, 1821 - March 3, 1823 Democratic Republican
Aaron Hobart March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1827 Democratic Republican
Joseph Richardson March 4, 1827 - March 3, 1831 National Republicans
John Quincy Adams March 4, 1831 - March 3, 1833 National Republicans
John Reed Jr. March 4, 1833 - March 3, 1841 National Republicans
Barker Burnell March 4, 1841 - March 3, 1843 Whig
John Zacheus Goodrich March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1855 Whig
Mark Trafton March 4, 1855 - March 3, 1857 American party
Henry Laurens Dawes March 4, 1861 - March 3, 1863 republican
Henry Laurens Dawes March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1875 republican
Chester William Chapin March 4, 1875 - March 3, 1877 democrat
George Dexter Robinson March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1883 republican
William Whiting II March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1889 republican
Rodney Wallace March 4, 1889 - March 3, 1891 republican
Frederick Spaulding Coolidge March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1893 democrat
William Franklin Draper March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1897 republican
Charles Franklin Sprague March 4, 1897 - March 3, 1901 republican
Samuel Leland Powers March 4, 1901 - March 3, 1903 republican
John Andrew Sullivan March 4, 1903 - March 3, 1907 democrat
Andrew James Peters March 4, 1907 - August 15, 1914 democrat
George Holden Tinkham March 4, 1915 - March 3, 1933 republican
John Joseph Douglass March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1935 democrat
John Patrick Higgins January 3, 1935 - September 30, 1937 democrat
Thomas Aloysius Flaherty December 14, 1937 - January 3, 1943 democrat
James Michael Curley January 3, 1943 - March 3, 1947 democrat
John Fitzgerald Kennedy January 3, 1947 - January 3, 1953 democrat
Thomas Phillip O'Neill Jan. 3, 1953 - January 3, 1963 democrat
James Anthony Burke Jan. 3, 1963 - January 3, 1979 democrat
Brian Joseph Donnelly Jan. 3, 1979 - January 3, 1993 democrat

12th seat (1793–1843 / 1883–1983)

Surname Term of office Political party
George Thatcher March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1795 independent
Henry Dearborn March 4, 1795 - March 3, 1797 Democratic Republican
Isaac Parker March 4, 1797 - March 3, 1799 federalist
Silas Lee March 4, 1799 - August 20, 1801 federalist
Samuel Thatcher December 6, 1802 - March 3, 1803 federalist
Thomson Joseph Skinner March 4, 1803 - August 10, 1804 Democratic Republican
Simon Larned November 5, 1804 - March 3, 1805 Democratic Republican
Barnabas Bidwell March 4, 1805 - July 13, 1807 Democratic Republican
Ezekiel Bacon November 2, 1807 - March 3, 1813 Democratic Republican
Daniel Dewey March 4, 1813 - February 24, 1814 federalist
John Whitefield Hulbert September 26, 1814 - March 3, 1815 federalist
Solomon Strong March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1819 federalist
Jonas Kendall March 4, 1819 - March 3, 1821 federalist
Lewis Bigelow March 4, 1821 - March 3, 1823 federalist
Francis Baylies March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1827 Democratic Republican
James Leonard Hodges March 4, 1827 - March 3, 1833 National Republicans
John Quincy Adams March 4, 1833 - March 3, 1843 Anti-Masonic Party
George Dexter Robinson March 4, 1883 - January 7, 1884 republican
Francis Williams Rockwell January 17, 1884 - March 3, 1891 republican
John Crawford Crosby March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1893 democrat
Elijah Adams Morse March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1897 republican
William Croad Lovering March 4, 1897 - March 3, 1903 republican
Samuel Leland Powers March 4, 1903 - March 3, 1905 republican
John Wingate Weeks March 4, 1905 - March 3, 1913 republican
James Michael Curley March 4, 1913 - February 4, 1914 democrat
James Ambrose Gallivan April 7, 1914 - April 3, 1928 democrat
John William McCormack November 6, 1928 - January 3, 1963 democrat
Hastings Keith Jan. 3, 1963 - January 3, 1973 republican
Gerry Eastman Studds Jan. 3, 1973 - January 3, 1983 democrat

13th seat (1793–1833 / 1893–1963)

Surname Term of office Political party
Peleg Wadsworth March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1803 federalist
Ebenezer Seaver March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1813 Democratic Republican
Nathaniel Ruggles March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1819 federalist
Edward Dowse March 4, 1819 - May 26, 1820 Democratic Republican
William Eustis August 21, 1820 - March 3, 1823 Democratic Republican
John Reed Jr. March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1833 National Republicans
Charles Sturtevant Randall March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1895 republican
John Simpkins March 4, 1895 - March 27, 1898 republican
William Stedman Greene May 31, 1898 - March 3, 1913 republican
John Wingate Weeks March 4, 1913 republican
John Joseph Mitchell April 15, 1913 - March 3, 1915 democrat
William Henry Carter March 4, 1915 - March 3, 1919 republican
Robert Luce March 4, 1919 - March 3, 1933 republican
Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth March 4, 1933 - November 13, 1958 republican
James Anthony Burke Jan. 3, 1959 - January 3, 1963 democrat

14th seat (1793–1821 / 1903–1963)

Surname Term of office Political party
David Cobb March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1795 independent
George Thatcher March 4, 1795 - March 3, 1801 federalist
Richard Cutts March 4, 1801 - March 3, 1813 Democratic Republican
Cyrus King March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1817 federalist
John Holmes March 4, 1817 - March 15, 1820 Democratic Republican
William Croad Lovering March 4, 1903 - February 4, 1910 republican
Eugene Noble Foss March 22, 1910 - January 4, 1911 democrat
Robert Orr Harris March 4, 1911 - March 3, 1913 republican
Edward Gilmore March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1915 democrat
Richard Olney March 4, 1915 - March 3, 1921 democrat
Louis Adams Frothingham March 4, 1921 - August 23, 1928 republican
Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth November 6, 1928 - March 3, 1933 republican
Joseph William Martin March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1963 republican

15th seat (1803–1821 / 1913–1943)

Surname Term of office Political party
Peleg Wadsworth March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1807 federalist
Daniel Ilsley March 4, 1807 - March 3, 1809 Democratic Republican
Ezekiel Whitman March 4, 1809 - March 3, 1811 federalist
William Widgery March 4, 1811 - March 3, 1813 Democratic Republican
George Bradbury March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1817 federalist
Ezekiel Whitman March 4, 1817 - March 3, 1821 federalist
William Stedman Greene March 4, 1913 - September 22, 1924 republican
Robert Milton Leach November 4, 1924 - March 3, 1925 republican
Joseph William Martin March 4, 1925 - March 3, 1933 republican
Charles Laceille Gifford March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1943 republican

16th seat (1803–1821 / 1913–1933)

Surname Term of office Political party
Samuel Thatcher March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1805 federalist
Orchard Cook March 4, 1805 - March 3, 1811 Democratic Republican
Peleg Tallman March 4, 1811 - March 3, 1813 Democratic Republican
Samuel Davis March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1815 federalist
Benjamin Brown March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817 federalist
Benjamin Orr March 4, 1817 - March 3, 1819 federalist
Mark Langdon Hill March 4, 1819 - March 3, 1821 Democratic Republican
Thomas Chandler Thacher March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1915 democrat
Joseph Walsh March 4, 1915 - August 2, 1922 republican
Charles Laceille Gifford November 7, 1922 - March 3, 1933 republican

17th seat (1803-1821)

Surname Term of office Political party
Phineas Bruce March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1805 federalist
John Chandler March 4, 1805 - March 3, 1809 Democratic Republican
Barzillai Gannett March 4, 1809-1812 Democratic Republican
Francis Carr April 6, 1812 - March 3, 1813 Democratic Republican
Abiel Wood March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1815 Democratic Republican
James Carr March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817 federalist
John Wilson March 4, 1817 - March 3, 1819 federalist
Martin Kinsley March 4, 1819 - March 3, 1821 Democratic Republican

18th seat (1813–1821)

Surname Term of office Political party
John Wilson March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1815 federalist
Thomas Rice March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1819 federalist
James Parker March 4, 1819 - March 3, 1821 Democratic Republican

19th seat (1813–1821)

Surname Term of office Political party
James Parker March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1815 Democratic Republican
Samuel Shepard Conner March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817 Democratic Republican
Joshua Gage March 4, 1817 - March 3, 1819 Democratic Republican
Joshua Cushman March 4, 1819 - March 3, 1821 Democratic Republican

20th seat (1813–1821)

Surname Term of office Political party
Levi Hubbard March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1815 Democratic Republican
Albion Keith Parris March 4, 1815 - February 3, 1818 Democratic Republican
Enoch Lincoln November 4, 1818 - March 3, 1821 Democratic Republican

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