Massachusetts's 8th Congressional District

Massachusetts's 8th 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

Stephen Lynch (Democrat) currently represents Massachusetts's 8th Congressional District. See Stephen Lynch's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

Members of Congress who previously represented Massachusetts's 8th Congressional District:

• Joseph Kennedy — Democrat (until 1999)
• Thomas O’Neill — Democrat (until 1987)
• Angier Goodwin — Republican (until 1955)
• Arthur Healey — Democrat (until 1943)
• Frederick Dallinger — Republican (until 1933)
• Harry Thayer — Republican (until 1927)
• Frederick Deitrick — Democrat (until 1915)
• Samuel McCall — Republican (until 1913)
• Frederic Greenhalge — Republican (until 1891)
• Charles Allen — Republican (until 1889)

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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