Massachusetts's 11th congressional district

Massachusetts's 11th congressional district is an obsolete congressional district in eastern Massachusetts. It was eliminated in 1993 after the 1990 U.S. Census. Its last Congressman was Brian Donnelly; its most notable were John Quincy Adams following his term as president, eventual president John F. Kennedy and Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill.

Massachusetts's 11th congressional district, 1901

Massachusetts's current districts, since 2013

Cities and towns in the district

1790s-1880s

1890s

1893: Suffolk County: Boston, Wards 21, 22. 23, 25. "Middlesex County: City of Newton, towns of Belmont, Holliston, Sherborn, and Water- town. Norfolk County: Towns of Bellingham, Brookline, Dedham, Dover, Foxboro, Franklin, Hyde Park, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Needham, Norfolk, Norwood, Sharon, Walpole, and Wrentham. Bristol County: Town of North Attleboro. Worcester County: Towns of Hopedale and Milford."[1]

1910s-1940s

1916: Suffolk County: Boston Wards 10, 11 (Precincts 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), 12, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23.[2]

1921: Boston (Wards 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 22, 23).[3]

1941: Boston (Wards 1, 2, 3, 22), Cambridge, Somerville (Wards 1, 2, 3).[4]

1960s-1980s

1968: "Norfolk County: City of Quincy. Towns of Avon, Braintree, Canton, Dedham, Holbrook, Milton, Norwood, Randolph, Sharon, Stoughton, and Weymouth. Plymouth County: City of Brockton. Suffolk County: City of Boston: Ward 18."[5]

1977: "Norfolk County: City of Quincy. Towns of Avon, Braintree, Holbrook, Milton, Randolph, and Stoughton. Plymouth County: City of Brockton. Towns of Abington and Whitman. Suffolk County: City of Boston: Wards 15, 16, 17, 18."[6]

1985: "Norfolk County: City of Quincy. Towns of Avon, Braintree, Holbrook, Milton, Randolph, and Weymouth. Plymouth County: City of Brockton. Towns of Abington, East Bridgewater, Rockland, West Bridgewater, and Whitman. Suffolk County: City of Boston: Wards 15, 16, 17, and 18."[7]

List of members representing the district

Representative	Party	Years	Cong ress	District home	Electoral history	District location
Theophilus Bradbury	Federalist	March 4, 1795 – July 24, 1797	4th 5th	Newburyport	Elected in 1795 on the third ballot. Re-elected in 1796. Resigned to become a Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice.	1795 – 1803 "4th Middle district"
Vacant		July 25, 1797 – November 26, 1797
Bailey Bartlett	Federalist	November 27, 1797 – March 3, 1801	5th 6th	Essex County	Elected August 4, 1797 to finish Bradbury's term and seated November 27, 1797.[8] Re-elected in 1798. Retired.
Manasseh Cutler	Federalist	March 4, 1801 – March 3, 1803	7th	Hamilton	Elected in 1800. Redistricted to the 3rd district.
William Stedman	Federalist	March 4, 1803 – July 16, 1810	8th 9th 10th 11th	[data unknown/missing]	Elected in 1802. Re-elected in 1804. Re-elected in 1806. Re-elected in 1808. Resigned to become Clerk of Courts for Worcester County.	1803 – 1815 "Worcester North district"
Vacant		July 16, 1810 – October 8, 1810
Abijah Bigelow	Federalist	October 8, 1810 – March 3, 1815	11th 12th 13th	Leominster	Elected to finish Stedman's term. Re-elected in 1810. Re-elected in 1812. Redistricted to the 12th district and retired.
Elijah Brigham	Federalist	March 4, 1815 – February 22, 1816	14th	Westborough (now Northborough)	Redistricted from the 10th district and re-elected in 1814. Died.	1815 – 1823 "Worcester South district"
Vacant		February 22, 1816 – December 1, 1816
Benjamin Adams	Federalist	December 2, 1816 – March 3, 1821	14th 15th 16th	Uxbridge	Elected August 26, 1816 to finish Brigham's term and seated December 2, 1816.[9] Re-elected in 1816. Re-elected in 1818. Lost re-election.
Johnathan Russell	Democratic- Republican	March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823	17th	[data unknown/missing]	Elected in 1820. Redistricted to the 5th district and retired.
Aaron Hobart	Adams-Clay Democratic- Republican	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825	18th 19th	[data unknown/missing]	Redistricted from the 8th district and re-elected in 1822. Re-elected in 1824. [data unknown/missing]	1823 – 1833 [data unknown/missing]
	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1827
Joseph Richardson	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1831	20th 21st	[data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]
John Quincy Adams	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833	22nd	Braintree	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 12th district.
John Reed Jr.	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835	23rd 24th 25th 26th	[data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]	1833 – 1843 [data unknown/missing]
	Anti- Masonic	March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837
	Whig	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1841
Barker Burnell	Whig	March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843	27th	[data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 10th district.
District eliminated		March 3, 1843
District recreated		March 4, 1853
John Z. Goodrich	Whig	March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855	33rd	[data unknown/missing]	Redistricted from the 7th district. [data unknown/missing]
Mark Trafton	Know Nothing	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857	34th	[data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]
Henry L. Dawes[10]	Republican	March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1863	35th 36th 37th	[data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 10th district.
District eliminated		1863		[data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]
District recreated		1873		[data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]
Henry L. Dawes	Republican	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875	43rd	[data unknown/missing]	Redistricted from the 10th district. [data unknown/missing]
Chester W. Chapin	Democratic	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877	44th	[data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]
George D. Robinson[11][12]	Republican	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1883	45th 46th 47th	[data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 12th district.
William Whiting	Republican	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1889	48th 49th 50th	[data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]
Rodney Wallace	Republican	March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891	51st	[data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]
Frederick S. Coolidge	Democratic	March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893	52nd	[data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]
William F. Draper	Republican	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1897	53rd 54th	[data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]
Charles F. Sprague[13]	Republican	March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1901	55th 56th	[data unknown/missing]	[data unknown/missing]
Samuel L. Powers	Republican	March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1903	57th	Newton	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 12th district.
John Andrew Sullivan	Democratic	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1907	58th 59th	Boston	[data unknown/missing]
Andrew J. Peters[14]	Democratic	March 4, 1907 – August 15, 1914	60th 61st 62nd 63rd	Boston	[data unknown/missing] Resigned to become Asst. Secretary to the US Treasury Department.
Vacant		August 15, 1914 – March 3, 1915
George H. Tinkham	Republican	March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1933	64th 65th 66th 67th 68th 69th 70th 71st 72nd	Boston	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 10th district.
John J. Douglass	Democratic	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935	73rd	Boston	Redistricted from the 10th district. [data unknown/missing]
John P. Higgins	Democratic	January 3, 1935 – September 30, 1937	74th 75th	Boston	[data unknown/missing] Resigned to become chief justice of Superior Court of Massachusetts.
Vacant		September 30, 1937 – December 14, 1937
Thomas A. Flaherty[15]	Democratic	December 14, 1937 – January 3, 1943	75th 76th 77th	Boston	[data unknown/missing] Retired.
James Michael Curley	Democratic	January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1947	78th 79th	Boston	[data unknown/missing] Retired.
John F. Kennedy	Democratic	January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1953	80th 81st 82nd	Boston	[data unknown/missing] Retired to run for U.S. Senator.
Tip O'Neill	Democratic	January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1963	83rd 84th 85th 86th 87th	Cambridge	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 8th district.
James A. Burke[5]	Democratic	January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1979	88th 89th 90th 91st 92nd 93rd 94th 95th	Milton	Redistricted from the 13th district. [data unknown/missing]
Brian J. Donnelly[16]	Democratic	January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1993	96th 97th 98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd	Boston	[data unknown/missing] Retired.
District eliminated		January 3, 1993

References

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2. "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 64th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1916.
3. 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
4. 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
5. "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 90th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1968.
6. "Massachusetts", 1977 Official Congressional Directory: 95th Congress, Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977
7. "Massachusetts". 1985-1986 Official Congressional Directory: 99th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1985.
8. "Forth Congress March 4, 1797, to March 3, 1799". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved January 11, 2019 – via History.house.gov.
9. "Fourteenth Congress March 4, 1815 to March 3, 1817". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved January 11, 2019 – via History.house.gov.
10. "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory for the Second Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress. Washington DC: House of Representatives. 1861.
11. Ben. Perley Poore (1878). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 45th Congress (3rd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
12. Ben. Perley Poore (1882). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 47th Congress (3rd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
13. L.A. Coolidge (1897). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fifty-Fifth Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
14. A.J. Halford (1909). "Massachusetts". Congressional Directory: 60th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
15. "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 75th Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1938.
16. "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

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