Robert Havern III

Robert A. Havern III (July 17, 1949 – July 19, 2014), was a Massachusetts politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and who represented the Fourth Middlesex District in the Massachusetts State Senate from 1991 to 2007.

Biography
Havern attended Harvard where he played on the hockey team from 1970 to 1972.

Havern served as an Arlington Selectman from 1978 to 1986, and as a State Representative from 1987 to 1991. He was elected to the Massachusetts Senate in November 1990. He resigned on August 22, 2007 to join the legal strategies lobbying firm Mintz Levin, as the president of its Massachusetts Government Relations Practice.

Fourth Middlesex district
The Fourth Middlesex District includes the towns of Arlington, Billerica, and Burlington. It also contains six of eleven precincts in Lexington, and six of seven wards in the City of Woburn.

Recent election results
State Senate Fourth Middlesex 2004: Senator Havern defeated Douglas M. Lucente (Republican) of Lexington. Havern (D): 50,139; 66% Lucente (R): 25,572; 34%