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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 11th Suffolk district

American legislative district

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Overview

. Massachusetts House of Representatives' 11th Suffolk district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of the city of Boston in Suffolk County. Democrat Liz Malia of Jamaica Plain has represented the district since 1998. The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's Norfolk and Suffolk district and 2nd Suffolk district.

Representatives

* Amos B. Merrill, circa 1859 * Pliny Nickerson, circa 1859 * Joseph F. Paul, circa 1858 * William Fisher Wharton, circa 1888 * James B. Troy, circa 1920 * Louis K. Nathanson, circa 1951 * Eleanor Myerson, 1983-1991 * Marc D. Draisen, 1991-1995 * John E. McDonough * Liz Malia, 1998-2023 * Judith Garcia, 2023–present

See also

* List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections * Other Suffolk County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th * List of Massachusetts General Courts * List of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

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;Portraits of legislators 1908 Grafton Cushing Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Grafton Cushing 1908 Myron Pierce Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Myron Pierce 1918 Patrick Costello Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Patrick Costello 1918 William Holland Massachusetts House of Representatives.png William Holland 1923 Hugh Garrity Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Hugh Garrity 1923 Walter Bernard Grant Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Walter Bernard Grant 1935 Timothy McDonough Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Timothy McDonough 1935 William Higgins Massachusetts House of Representatives.png William Higgins 1945 Frederick Harvey Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Frederick Harvey 1953 George Greene Massachusetts House of Representatives.png George Greene 1953 Leo Sontag Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Leo Sontag 1967 Norton OBrien Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Norton O'Brien 1975 Kevin Fitzgerald Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Kevin Fitzgerald 1983 Eleanor Myerson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Eleanor Myerson 1991 Marc Draisen Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Marc Draisen 1995 John McDonough Massachusetts House of Representatives.png John McDonough 2003 Elizabeth Malia Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Liz Malia

External links

* Ballotpedia * (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey). * League of Women Voters of Boston

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