Massachusetts's 7th congressional district

Massachusetts's 7th congressional district
Massachusetts's 7th congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
Current Representative		Mike Capuano (D–Somerville)
Cook PVI	D+29[1]

Massachusetts's 7th congressional district is a congressional district located in eastern Massachusetts. It is represented by Democrat Mike Capuano. Massachusetts congressional redistricting after the 2010 census changed the borders of the district starting with the elections of 2012, with most of the old 7th district redistricted to the new 5th district.^[2] Most of the old 8th district now comprise the new 7th district.

Cities and towns in the district

• Boston:
  • Wards 1, 2
  • Ward 3: Precincts 7, 8
  • Ward 4
  • Ward 5: Precincts 1, 2, 2A, 6-10
  • Ward 7: Precinct 10
  • Wards 8-10
  • Ward 11: Precincts 1-8
  • Ward 12
  • Ward 13: Precincts 1, 2, 4-6, 8 and 9
  • Ward 14
  • Ward 15
  • Ward 16: Precincts 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11
  • Ward 17
  • Ward 18
  • Ward 19: Precincts 7, 10-13
  • Ward 20: Precinct 3
  • Wards 21 and 22

(the remainder of Boston will be in the 8th district)

• Cambridge:
  • Wards 1, 2, 3, 5, 11
  • Ward 4: Precinct 1
  • Ward 10: Precinct 3
• Chelsea
• Everett
• Milton:
  • Precincts 1, 5 and 10
• Randolph
• Somerville

Cities and towns in the district prior to 2013

Massachusetts's 7th congressional district, 1891

The district from 2003 to 2013

1840s

1849: "The whole of Berkshire County; Ashfield, Buckland, Charlemont, Coleraine, Conway, Hawley, Heath, Leyden, Monroe, Rowe, and Shelburne, in Franklin County; Chesterfield, Cummington, Goshen, Middlefield, Norwich, Plainfield, Southampton, Westhampton, Williamsburg, and Worthington, in Hampshire County; and Blandford, Chester, Granville, Montgomery, Russell, and Tolland, in the County of Hampden."^[3]

1890s

1893: "Essex County: Towns of Lynn, Nahant, and Saugus. Middlesex County: Towns of Everett, Malden, Melrose, Stoneham, and Wakefield. Suffolk County: 4th and 5th wards of the city of Boston, and the towns of Chelsea and Revere."^[4]

1910s

1916: In Essex County: Boxford, Lawrence, Lynn, Lynnfield, Middleton, Nahant, North Andover, Peabody, Saugus. In Middlesex County: North Reading.^[5][6]

1940s

1941: In Essex County: Lawrence, Lynn (part), Middleton, Nahant, North Andover, Peabody. In Suffolk County: Chelsea, Revere, Winthrop.^[7]

2003-2013

In Middlesex County:

• Arlington
• Belmont
• Everett
• Framingham
• Lexington
• Lincoln
• Malden
• Medford
• Melrose
• Natick
• Stoneham
• Waltham
• Watertown
• Wayland: Precinct 2
• Weston
• Winchester
• Woburn

In Suffolk County:

• Revere
• Winthrop

List of representatives

Representative	Party	Years	Note
George Leonard	Pro-Administration	March 4, 1789 – March 3, 1791	Redistricted to 6th district.
Artemas Ward	Pro-Administration	March 4, 1791 – March 3, 1793	Redistricted to the 2nd district.
District discontinued		March 4, 1793 – March 3, 1795
George Leonard	Federalist	March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1797	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Stephen Bullock	Federalist	March 4, 1797 – March 3, 1799	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Phanuel Bishop	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1799 – March 3, 1803	Redistricted to 9th district.
Nahum Mitchell	Federalist	March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1805	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Joseph Barker	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1805 – March 4, 1809	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William Baylies	Federalist	March 4, 1809 – June 28, 1809	Lost election challenge
Charles Turner, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	June 28, 1809 – March 3, 1813	Won election challenge
William Baylies	Federalist	March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815	Redistricted to the 8th district.
John W. Hulbert	Federalist	March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817	Redistricted from the 12th district.
Henry Shaw	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1821	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Henry W. Dwight	Federalist	March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823	Redistricted to the 9th district.
Samuel C. Allen	Adams-Clay Federalist	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825	Redistricted from the 6th district.
	Adams	March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1829
George Grennell, Jr.	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1833	Redistricted to the 6th district.
George N. Briggs	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837	Redistricted from the 9th district Retired.
	Whig	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1843
Julius Rockwell	Whig	March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1851	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John Z. Goodrich	Whig	March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853	Redistricted to the 11th district.
Nathaniel P. Banks	Democratic	March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855	Resigned to become Governor
	Know Nothing	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857
	Republican	March 4, 1857 – December 24, 1857
Vacant		December 24, 1857 – January 31, 1858
Daniel W. Gooch[8]	Republican	January 31, 1858 – March 4, 1863	Redistricted to the 6th district.
George S. Boutwell	Republican	March 4, 1863 – March 12, 1869	Resigned to become U.S. Secretary of Treasury
Vacant		March 12, 1869 – November 2, 1869
George M. Brooks	Republican	November 2, 1869 – May 13, 1872	Resigned
Vacant		May 13, 1872 – December 2, 1872
Constantine C. Esty	Republican	December 2, 1872 – March 3, 1873	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Ebenezer R. Hoar	Republican	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John K. Tarbox	Democratic	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Benjamin F. Butler[9]	Republican	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William A. Russell[10]	Republican	March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883	Redistricted to the 8th district.
Eben F. Stone	Republican	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887	Redistricted from the 6th district.
William Cogswell	Republican	March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1893	Redistricted from the 6th district.
Vacant		March 4, 1893 – April 25, 1893	Representative Henry Cabot Lodge had been redistricted from the 6th district, but resigned before beginning of term to become a U.S. Senator.
William Everett	Democratic	April 25, 1893 – March 3, 1895	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William Emerson Barrett[11]	Republican	March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1899	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Ernest W. Roberts[12]	Republican	March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1913	Redistricted to the 9th district.
Michael Francis Phelan	Democratic	March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1921	Lost re-election
Robert S. Maloney	Republican	March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1923	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William P. Connery, Jr.	Democratic	March 4, 1923 – June 15, 1937	Died
Vacant		June 16, 1937 – September 27, 1937
Lawrence J. Connery[13]	Democratic	September 28, 1937 – October 19, 1941	Died
Vacant		October 20, 1941 – December 29, 1941
Thomas J. Lane	Democratic	December 30, 1941 – January 3, 1963	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Torbert H. Macdonald[14]	Democratic	January 3, 1963 – May 21, 1976	Redistricted from the 8th district Died.
Vacant		May 22, 1976 – November 1, 1976
Ed Markey[15]	Democratic	November 2, 1976 – January 3, 2013	First elected to finish Macdonald's term. Redistricted to the 5th district.
Michael Capuano	Democratic	January 3, 2013 – Present	Redistricted from the 8th district.
Representative	Party	Years	Note

References

1. "Partisan Voting Index Districts of the 113th Congress: 2004 & 2008" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
2. http://www.sec.state.ma.us/spr/sprcat/catpdf2010/cong2010/CongressionalDistrict_2011State.pdf Access date: March 21, 2012.
3. John Hayward (1849). "Congressional Districts". Gazetteer of Massachusetts. Boston: J.P. Jewett & Co.
4. Francis M. Cox (1893). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Third Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
5. "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 64th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1916.
6. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1921), "Population of Congressional Districts", Population of Massachusetts as determined by the fourteenth census of the United States 1920, Boston: Wright & Potter
7. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1941), "Population of Congressional Districts", Population of Massachusetts as determined by the sixteenth census of the United States, 1940, Boston: Wright & Potter, OCLC 10056477, House No. 2849
8. "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory for the Second Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress. Washington DC: House of Representatives. 1861.
9. Ben. Perley Poore (1878). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 45th Congress (3rd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
10. Ben. Perley Poore (1882). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 47th Congress (3rd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
11. L.A. Coolidge (1897). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Fifth Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
12. A.J. Halford (1909). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 60th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
13. "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 75th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1938.
14. "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 90th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1968.
15. "Massachusetts". 1991-1992 Official Congressional Directory: 102nd Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1991.

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

External links

• "Geographical History of the 7th District". U.S. Congressman Michael E. Capuano. Washington DC: U.S. House of Representatives. (Includes geographical history of Massachusetts's 8th congressional district, pre-2013)

Maps

• Map of Massachusetts's 7th Congressional District, via Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth

Election results

• CNN.com 2004 election results
• CNN.com 2006 election results

Coordinates: 42°19′00″N 71°00′34″W / 42.31667°N 71.00944°W