Massachusetts's 16th congressional district
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Massachusetts's sixteenth congressional district is an obsolete district. It was also for a short time in the early 19th century a Massachusetts District of Maine. It was eliminated in 1933 after the 1930 Census. Its last location was in eastern Massachusetts at Cape Cod. Its last Congressman was Charles L. Gifford, who was redistricted into the fifteenth district.
Cities and towns in the district
1910s
"Barnstable County: Towns of Barnstable, Bourne, Brewster, Chatham, Dennis, Eastham, Falmonth, Harwich, Mashpee, Orleans, Provincetown, Sandwich, Truro, Wellfleet, and Yarmouth. Bristol County: City of New Bedford; towns of Acushnet, Dartmouth, and Fairhaven. Plymouth County: Towns of Bridgewater, Carver, Duxbury, Halifax, Hanover, Hanson, Hingham, Hull, Kingston, Marion, Marshfield, Mattapoisett, Middleboro, Norwell, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Rochester, Scituate, and Wareham. Norfolk County: Town of Cohasset. Dukes and Nantucket Counties."[1]
List of representatives
| Representative | Party | Years | Cong ress |
Electoral history |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District created | March 3, 1803 | |||
| 75px Samuel Thatcher | Federalist | March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1805 |
8 | Redistricted from the 12th district Lost re-election |
 Orchard Cook |
Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1805 – March 3, 1811 |
9 10 11 |
Retired. |
| Peleg Tallman |
Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1813 |
12 | Retired. |
| Samuel Davis |
Federalist | March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815 |
13 | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
| Benjamin Brown |
Federalist | March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817 |
14 | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
| Benjamin Orr |
Federalist | March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819 |
15 | Retired. |
| Mark Langdon Hill |
Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821 |
16 | District moved to Maine. |
| District moved to Maine | March 3, 1821 | |||
| District restored in Massachusetts | March 3, 1913 | |||
 Thomas Chandler Thacher |
Democratic | March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1915 |
63 | Lost re-election. |
.jpg) Joseph Walsh |
Republican | March 4, 1915 – August 21, 1922 |
64 65 66 |
Resigned to become a justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. |
| 67 | ||||
| Vacant | August 21, 1922 – November 7, 1922 |
67 | ||
| 75px Charles L. Gifford | Republican | November 7, 1922 – March 3, 1933 |
67 | Redistricted to the 15th district. |
| 68 69 70 71 72 |
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| District eliminated | March 3, 1933 | |||
References
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- Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
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