Massachusetts's 9th congressional district

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Massachusetts's 9th congressional district

Area	313.08 mi²
Distribution	81.58% urban, 18.42% rural
Population (2000)	634,062
Median income	$67,090
Ethnic composition	79.3% White, 8.5% Black, 3.7% Asian, 4.6% Hispanic, 0.2% Native American
Occupation	17.3% blue collar, 69.0% white collar, 13.8% gray collar
Cook Partisan Voting Index	D + 15

Massachusetts's 9th congressional district is in eastern Massachusetts. It is currently represented by Stephen Lynch, who has served the district since 2001. It has subsumed much of the former 11th District in the south suburbs of Boston.

[edit] Cities and Towns in the District

In Bristol County:

Easton.

In Norfolk County:

Avon, Braintree, Canton, Dedham, Holbrook, Medfield, Milton, Needham, Norwood, Randolph, Stoughton, Walpole, Westwood.

In Plymouth County:

Bridgewater, Brockton, East Bridgewater, Hanson, Precincts 1 and 3, West Bridgewater, Whitman.

In Suffolk County:

Boston, Ward 3, Precincts 5 and 6; Ward 5, Precincts 3-5, 11; Ward 6; Ward 7, Precincts 1-9; Ward 13, Precincts 3, 7-10; Ward 15, Precinct 6; Ward 16, Precincts 2, 4-12; Ward 17, Precincts 4, 13, 14; Ward 18, Precincts 9-12, 16-20, 22, 23; Ward 19, Precincts 2, 7, 10-13; Ward 20.

[edit] Representatives

Representative	Party	Years
District created		1795
Joseph B. Varnum	Democratic-Republican	1795-1803
Phanuel Bishop	Democratic-Republican	1803-1807
Josiah Dean	Democratic-Republican	1807-1809
Laban Wheaton	Federalist	1809-1813
John Reed, Jr.	Federalist	1813-1817
Walter Folger, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	1817-1821
John Reed, Jr.	Federalist	1821-1823
Henry W. Dwight	Adams-Clay Federalist	1823-1825
	Adams	1829-1831
	Anti-Jackson	1837-1841
George N. Briggs	Anti-Jackson	1831-1833
William Jackson	Anti-Masonic	1833-1837
William S. Hastings	Whig	1837-1843
Henry Williams	Democratic	1843-1845
Artemas Hale	Whig	1845-1849
Orin Fowler	Whig	1849-1852
Edward P. Little	Democratic	1852-1853
Charles Allen	Free Soil	1853-1855
Alexander Dewitt	Know Nothing	1855-1857
Eli Thayer	Republican	1857-1861
Goldsmith Bailey	Republican	1861-1862
Amasa Walker	Republican	1862-1863
William B. Washburn	Republican	1863-1871
Alvah Crocker	Republican	1871-1873
George Frisbie Hoar	Republican	1873-1877
William W. Rice	Republican	1883-1885
Theodore Lyman	Independent Republican	1877-1883
Frederick D. Ely	Republican	1883-1885
Edward Burnett	Democratic	1887-1889
John W. Chandler	Republican	1889-1891
George F. Williams	Democratic	1891-1893
Joseph H. O'Neil	Democratic	1893-1895
John F. Fitzgerald	Democratic	1895-1901
Joseph A. Conry	Democratic	1901-1903
John A. Kelliher	Democratic	1903-1911
William F. Murray	Democratic	1911-1913
Ernest W. Roberts	Republican	1913 - 1917
Alvan T. Fuller	Republican	1917 - 1921
Charles L. Underhill	Republican	1921 - 1933
Robert Luce	Republican	1933 - 1935
Richard M. Russell	Democratic	1935 - 1937
Robert Luce	Republican	1937 - 1941
Thomas H. Eliot	Democratic	1941 - 1943
Charles L. Gifford	Republican	1943 - 1947
Donald W. Nicholson	Republican	1947 - 1963
Hastings Keith	Republican	1959 - 1963
John McCormack	Democratic	1963 - 1971
Louise Day Hicks	Democratic	1971 - 1973
John Joseph Moakley	Democratic	1973 - May 31, 2001
Vacant		June 1, 2001 - October 15, 2001
Stephen Lynch	Democratic	October 16, 2001 - Present

[edit] External Links

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

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