Massachusetts's 10th congressional district

Massachusetts's current districts, since 2013

Massachusetts's 10th congressional district was a former district that last included parts of the South Shore of Massachusetts, and all of Cape Cod and the islands. The District existed since 1795, but became obsolete for the 113th Congress in 2013 as district lines were redrawn to accommodate the loss of the seat due to reapportionment as a result of the 2010 Census.^[1] Effective from the elections of 2012, most of the district falls into the new Massachusetts 9th congressional district, with some northern portions falling in the new 8th district.^[2]

Cities and towns in the district prior to 2013

The district from 2003 to 2013

1840s

1843: "The Counties of Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket, together with the towns of Rochester and Wareham, in the County of Plymouth, and of Dartmouth, Fairhaven, and New Bedford, in the County of Bristol."^[3]

1860s

1869: "Berkshire and Hampden counties."^[4]

1890s-1950s

1893: Boston, Wards 13, 14, 15, 19 (Precincts 1, 5, 7, 8, 9), 20, 22, 24; Milton, Quincy.^[5]

1916: Boston, Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 (Precincts 1, 2).^[6]

1921: Boston, Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.^[7]

1934: Boston, Wards 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 19, 20, 21.^[8]

1941-1953: Boston, Wards 4, 5, 10, 12, 19, 20, 21; Brookline, Newton.^[9][10]

1960s-1970s

1963: "Bristol County: Cities of Attleboro, Fall River, and Taunton. Towns of Berkley, Dighton, Easton, Freetown, Mansfield, North Attleboro, Norton, Raynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Somerset, and Swansea. Middlesex County: City of Newton. Norfolk County: Towns of Dover, Foxborough, Medfield, Needham, Norfolk, Plainville, Walpole, Wellesley, Westwood, and Wrentham."^[11]

1977: "Bristol County: Cities of Attleboro, Fall River, and Taunton. Towns of Berkley, Dighton, Easton, Freetown, Mansfield, North Attleborough, Norton, Raynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Somerset, Swansea, and Westport. Middlesex County: Towns of Natick and Sherborn. Norfolk County: Towns of Foxborough, Medfield, Millis, Norfolk, Plainville, Sharon, Wellesley, and Wrentham. Plymouth County: Towns of Bridgewater, East Bridgewater, Halifax, Hanson, Lakeville, Middleborough, and West Bridgewater."^[12]

1990s

1997: "Counties: Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket, Norfolk (part), and Plymouth (part)."^[13]

2003-2013

• All of Barnstable County, Dukes County, Nantucket County,
• The following municipalities in Plymouth County: Abington, Carver, Duxbury, Hanover, Hanson Pct. 2, Hingham, Hull, Kingston, Marshfield, Norwell, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Rockland, Scituate, and
• The following municipalities in Norfolk County: Cohasset, Quincy, Weymouth

List of representatives

Representative	Party	Years	Electoral history
Benjamin Goodhue	Federalist	March 4, 1795 — June 11, 1796	Redistricted from the 1st district Resigned after election to US Senate
Vacant		June 11, 1796 — December 7, 1796
Samuel Sewall	Federalist	December 7, 1796 — January 10, 1800	Resigned
Vacant		January 10, 1800 — November 25, 1800
Nathan Read	Federalist	November 25, 1800 — March 3, 1803	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Seth Hastings	Federalist	March 4, 1803 — March 3, 1807	Redistricted from the 4th district
Jabez Upham	Federalist	March 4, 1807 — 1810	Resigned
Vacant		1810 — October 8, 1810
Joseph Allen	Federalist	October 8, 1810 — March 3, 1811	Retired
Elijah Brigham	Federalist	March 4, 1811 — March 3, 1815	Redistricted to the 11th district
Laban Wheaton	Federalist	March 4, 1815 — March 3, 1817	Redistricted from the 9th district Lost reelection
Marcus Morton	Democratic- Republican	March 4, 1817 — March 3, 1821	Lost reelection
Francis Baylies	Federalist	March 4, 1821 — March 3, 1823	Redistricted to the 12th district
Vacant		March 3, 1823 — December 13, 1824
John Bailey	Adams–Clay Republican	December 13, 1824 — March 3, 1825	Contested election with state, eventually seated
	Adams	March 4, 1825 — March 3, 1829
	Anti- Jacksonian	March 4, 1829 — March 3, 1831
Henry A. S. Dearborn	Anti- Jacksonian	March 4, 1831 — March 3, 1833	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William Baylies	Anti- Jacksonian	March 4, 1833 — March 3, 1835	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Nathaniel B. Borden	Jacksonian	March 4, 1835 — March 3, 1837	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
	Democratic	March 4, 1837 — March 3, 1839
Henry Williams	Democratic	March 4, 1839 — March 3, 1841	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Nathaniel B. Borden	Whig	March 4, 1841 — March 3, 1843	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Barker Burnell	Whig	March 4, 1843 — June 15, 1843	Redistricted from the 11th district Died
Vacant		June 15, 1843 — December 7, 1843
Joseph Grinnell	Whig	December 7, 1843 — March 3, 1851	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Zeno Scudder	Whig	March 4, 1851 — March 3, 1853	Redistricted to the 1st district
Edward Dickinson	Whig	March 4, 1853 — March 3, 1855
Calvin C. Chaffee	Know Nothing	March 4, 1855 — March 3, 1857	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
	Republican	March 4, 1857 — March 3, 1859
Charles Delano[14]	Republican	March 4, 1859 — March 3, 1863	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Henry L. Dawes[4]	Republican	March 3, 1863 — March 3, 1873	Redistricted from the 11th district Redistricted to the 11th district
Alvah Crocker	Republican	March 4, 1873 — December 26, 1874	Redistricted from the 9th district Died
Vacant		December 26, 1874 — January 27, 1875
Charles A. Stevens	Republican	January 27, 1875 — March 3, 1875	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Julius H. Seelye	Independent	March 4, 1875 — March 3, 1877	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Amasa Norcross[15][16]	Republican	March 4, 1877 — March 3, 1883	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William W. Rice	Republican	March 4, 1883 — March 3, 1887	Redistricted from the 9th district
John E. Russell	Democratic	March 4, 1887 — March 3, 1889	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Joseph H. Walker	Republican	March 4, 1889 — March 3, 1893	Redistricted to the 3rd district
Michael J. McEttrick	Independent Democrat	March 4, 1893 — March 3, 1895	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Harrison H. Atwood	Republican	March 4, 1895 — March 3, 1897	Lost renomination
Samuel J. Barrows[17]	Republican	March 4, 1897 — March 3, 1899	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Henry F. Naphen	Democratic	March 4, 1899 — March 3, 1903	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William S. McNary	Democratic	March 4, 1903 — March 3, 1907	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Joseph F. O'Connell[18]	Democratic	March 4, 1907 — March 3, 1911	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
James Michael Curley	Democratic	March 4, 1911 — March 3, 1913	Redistricted to the 12th district
William Francis Murray	Democratic	March 4, 1913 — September 28, 1914	Redistricted from the 9th district Resigned to become Postmaster of Boston
Vacant		September 28, 1914 — March 3, 1915
Peter Tague	Democratic	March 4, 1915 — March 3, 1919	Initially lost to John F. Fitzgerald in the 1918 election, but regained seat on appeal citing voting irregularities.
John F. Fitzgerald	Democratic	March 4, 1919 — October 23, 1919	Lost seat to Peter F. Tague on appeal due to voting irregularities.
Peter Tague	Democratic	October 23, 1919 — March 3, 1925	Successfully contested Fitzgerald's election. Lost re-election
John J. Douglass	Democratic	March 4, 1925 — March 3, 1933	Redistricted to the 11th district
George H. Tinkham[19]	Republican	March 4, 1933 — January 3, 1943	Redistricted from the 11th district
Christian Herter	Republican	January 3, 1943 — January 3, 1953	Retired to become Governor
Laurence Curtis	Republican	January 3, 1953 — January 3, 1963	Retired to run (unsuccessfully) for U.S. Senate
Joseph William Martin, Jr.	Republican	January 3, 1963 — January 3, 1967	Redistricted from the 14th district Lost renomination
Margaret M. Heckler[20]	Republican	January 3, 1967 — January 3, 1983	Redistricted to the 4th district and lost re-election
Gerry E. Studds[21]	Democratic	January 3, 1983 — January 3, 1997	Redistricted from the 12th district Retired
Bill Delahunt	Democratic	January 3, 1997 — January 3, 2011	Retired
William R. Keating	Democratic	January 3, 2011 — January 3, 2013	Elected in 2010 Keating moved into the redistricted 9th district for the 2012 election, and was re-elected there
District eliminated[1]		January 3, 2013

References

1. "Table 1. APPORTIONMENT POPULATION AND NUMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES, BY STATE: 2010 CENSUS" (PDF). December 21, 2010. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
2. http://www.sec.state.ma.us/spr/sprcat/catpdf2010/cong2010/CongressionalDistrict_2011State.pdf Access date: March 20, 2012.
3. "State Apportionment; districts of the Commonwealth for the choice of one representative to Congress in each district". Massachusetts Register ... for 1843. Boston: Loring.
4. Ben. Perley Poore (1869). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory for the First Session of the Forty-First Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
5. Francis M. Cox (1893). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Third Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
6. "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 64th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1916.
7. 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
8. "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 73rd Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1934.
9. 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
10. "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 83rd Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1953.
11. "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 88th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1963.
12. "Massachusetts", 1977 Official Congressional Directory: 95th Congress, Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977
13. Congressional Directory for the 105th Congress (1997-1998), Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997, retrieved November 26, 2013
14. "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory for the Second Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress. Washington DC: House of Representatives. 1861.
15. Ben. Perley Poore (1878). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 45th Congress (3rd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
16. Ben. Perley Poore (1882). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 47th Congress (3rd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
17. L.A. Coolidge (1897). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Fifth Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
18. A.J. Halford (1909). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 60th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
19. "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 75th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1938.
20. "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 90th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1968.
21. "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

Maps

• Map of Massachusetts's 10th Congressional District, via Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth

Election results

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

Coordinates: 41°43′12″N 70°15′00″W / 41.7200°N 70.2500°W