Massachusetts's 6th Congressional District

Massachusetts's 6th 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

Seth Moulton (Democrat) currently represents Massachusetts's 6th Congressional District. See Seth Moulton's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

Members of Congress who previously represented Massachusetts's 6th Congressional District:

• John Tierney — Democrat (until 2015)
• Peter Torkildsen — Republican (until 1997)
• Nicholas Mavroules — Democrat (until 1993)
• Michael Harrington — Democrat (until 1979)
• William Bates — Republican (until 1971)
• George Bates — Republican (until 1951)
• Abram Andrew — Republican (until 1937)
• Willfred Lufkin — Republican (until 1923)
• Augustus Gardner — Republican (until 1919)
• William Moody — Republican (until 1903)

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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