Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Middlesex district

Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Middlesex district in the United States is one of 40 legislative districts of the Massachusetts Senate. It covers portions of Middlesex county. Democrat Pat Jehlen of Somerville has represented the district since 2015. She is running for re-election in 2020, and has been endorsed by the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus.

Locales represented
The district includes the following localities:
 * northwest Cambridge
 * Medford
 * Somerville
 * Winchester

The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts House of Representatives' 23rd Middlesex, 24th Middlesex, 25th Middlesex, 26th Middlesex, 27th Middlesex, 29th Middlesex, 31st Middlesex, 34th Middlesex, and 35th Middlesex districts.

Former locales
The district previously covered the following:
 * Belmont, circa 1860s
 * Malden, circa 1860s
 * Waltham, circa 1860s
 * Watertown, circa 1860s
 * West Cambridge (Arlington), circa 1860s

Senators

 * J.M.S. Williams, circa 1859
 * Thorndike Spalding
 * William Eustis Russell
 * George Carrick
 * Charles Thomas Cavanagh, circa 1935
 * Edward M. Rowe, circa 1945
 * Daniel Francis O'Brien, circa 1953
 * Francis X. McCann, circa 1957-1969
 * Denis L. McKenna, circa 1979
 * Salvatore R. "Sal" Albano, 1985-1991
 * Charles Edward Shannon, Jr., circa 1993-2002
 * Patricia D. Jehlen, 2015-current

Images

 * Portraits of legislators