Massachusetts's 3rd Congressional District

Massachusetts's 3rd Congressional District elects one member to the U.S. House of Representatives. Below is the district's current representative, the members of Congress who held this seat before, and Massachusetts's two U.S. Senators.

Current Representative

Lori Trahan (Democrat) currently represents Massachusetts's 3rd Congressional District. See Lori Trahan's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

Members of Congress who previously represented Massachusetts's 3rd Congressional District:

• Niki Tsongas — Democrat (until 2019)
• Peter Blute — Republican (until 1997)
• Joseph Early — Democrat (until 1993)
• Harold Donohue — Democrat (until 1975)
• Philip Philbin — Democrat (until 1971)
• Joseph Casey — Democrat (until 1943)
• Frank Foss — Republican (until 1935)
• Calvin Paige — Republican (until 1925)
• William Wilder — Republican (until 1915)
• John Thayer — Democrat (until 1913)

Massachusetts U.S. Senators

• Elizabeth Warren — Democrat Senator
• Edward Markey — Democrat Senator
• William Cowan — Democrat Senator
• John Kerry — Democrat Senator
• Scott Brown — Republican Senator
• Paul Kirk — Democrat Senator
• Edward Kennedy — Democrat Senator
• Paul Tsongas — Democrat Senator
• Edward Brooke — Republican Senator
• Leverett Saltonstall — Republican Senator
• Benjamin Smith — Democrat Senator
• John Kennedy — Democrat Senator
• Henry Lodge — Republican Senator
• David Walsh — Democrat Senator
• Sinclair Weeks — Republican Senator
• Marcus Coolidge — Democrat Senator
• Frederick Gillett — Republican Senator
• William Butler — Republican Senator
• Henry Lodge — Republican Senator
• John Weeks — Republican Senator
• Winthrop Crane — Republican Senator
• George Hoar — Republican Senator
• Henry Dawes — Republican Senator
• George Boutwell — Republican Senator
• Charles Sumner — Liberal Republican Senator
• William Washburn — Republican Senator
• Henry Wilson — Republican Senator
• Julius Rockwell — Whig Senator
• Edward Everett — Whig Senator
• John Davis — Whig Senator
• Robert Winthrop — Whig Senator
• Daniel Webster — Whig Senator
• Isaac Bates — Whig Senator
• Rufus Choate — Whig Senator
• Nathaniel Silsbee — Adams Senator
• Elijah Mills — Adams Senator
• James Lloyd — Adams Senator
• Harrison Otis — Federalist Senator
• Prentiss Mellen — Federalist Senator
• Eli Ashmun — Federalist Senator
• Christopher Gore — Federalist Senator
• Joseph Varnum — Democratic Republican Senator
• Dwight Foster — Federalist Senator
• Samuel Dexter — Federalist Senator
• Benjamin Goodhue — Federalist Senator
• George Cabot — Federalist Senator
• Caleb Strong — Federalist Senator
• Tristram Dalton — Pro-Administration Senator

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