Massachusetts Senate's 1st Essex district

The district includes the following localities:^[3]

• Amesbury
• Haverhill
• Merrimac
• Methuen
• Newburyport
• North Andover
• Salisbury

The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Essex, 2nd Essex, 3rd Essex, 14th Essex, 15th Essex, and 17th Essex districts.^[5]

The district previously covered the following:

• Lynn, circa 1860s;^[6] circa 1948;^[7] circa 1987 ^[8]
• Lynnfield, circa 1860s;^[6] circa 1987 ^[8]
• Marblehead, circa 1860s;^[6] circa 1987 ^[8]
• Nahant, circa 1860s;^[6] circa 1948;^[7] circa 1987 ^[8]
• Saugus, circa 1860s;^[6] circa 1987 ^[8]
• Swampscott, circa 1860s;^[6] circa 1948;^[7] circa 1987 ^[8]

• William Fabens, circa 1859 ^[9]
• George H. Sweetser (1867, 1869)
• William Schouler (1868)
• Harmon Hall (1876, 1880–1881)
• John R. Baldwin (1882–1884)
• Eugene A. Bessom, circa 1894
• William Salter
• George Jackson
• Charles Benjamin Frothingham

Senator	Party	Years	Legis.	Electoral history	District towns
Albert Cole[10]	Republican	1935 – 1940	149th 150th 151st	Elected in 1934. Re-elected in 1936. Re-elected in 1938. Resigned to become Mayor of Lynn.
Charles V. Hogan[11][12][13]	Democratic	1941 – August 7, 1971	152nd 153rd 154th 155th 156th 157th 158th 159th 160th 161st 162nd 163rd 164th 165th 166th 167th	Elected in 1940. Re-elected in 1942. Re-elected in 1944. Re-elected in 1946. Re-elected in 1948. Re-elected in 1950. Re-elected in 1952. Re-elected in 1954. Re-elected in 1956. Re-elected in 1958. Re-elected in 1960. Re-elected in 1962. Re-elected in 1964. Re-elected in 1966. Re-elected in 1968. Re-elected in 1970. Re-elected in 1972. Died.
James J. Carrigan	Democratic	1972 – 1973	167th	Elected in 1972 special election. Lost Democratic primary in 1972.
Walter J. Boverini[14][15][16]	Democratic	1973 – 1995	168th 169th 170th 171st 172nd 173rd 174th 175th 176th 177th 178th	Elected in 1972. Re-elected in 1974. Re-elected in 1972. Re-elected in 1974. Re-elected in 1976. Re-elected in 1978. Re-elected in 1980. Re-elected in 1982. Re-elected in 1984. Re-elected in 1986. Re-elected in 1988. Re-elected in 1990. Re-elected in 1992. Retired
Edward J. Clancy Jr.	Democratic	1995 – 2002	179th 180th 181st 182nd	Elected in 1994. Re-elected in 1996. Re-elected in 1998. Re-elected in 2000. Resigned in 2002 to become Mayor of Lynn.
Thomas M. McGee	Democratic	2002 – 2003	182nd	Elected in 2002 special election. Redistricted to 3rd Essex and Middlesex district.
Steven Baddour[17]	Democratic	2003– April 2, 2012	183rd 184th 185th 186th 187th	Redistricted from 3rd Essex district. Re-elected in 2002. Re-elected in 2004. Re-elected in 2006. Re-elected in 2008. Re-elected in 2012. Resigned on April 2, 2012.
Kathleen O'Connor Ives[18]	Democratic	January 2013 – January 2, 2019	188th 189th 190th	Elected in 2012. Re-elected in 2014. Re-elected in 2016. Retired.
Diana DiZoglio[4]	Democratic	January 2019– January 2023	191st 192nd	Elected in 2018. Re-elected in 2020. Retired to run for Massachusetts State Auditor.
Pavel Payano[4]	Democratic	January 2023–	193rd	Elected in 2022.

Portraits of legislators

• 
  William Salter
• 
  George Jackson
• 
  Charles Benjamin Frothingham

• List of Massachusetts Senate elections
• List of Massachusetts General Courts
• List of former districts of the Massachusetts Senate
• Other Essex County districts of the Massachusett Senate: 2nd, 3rd; 1st Essex and Middlesex; 2nd Essex and Middlesex
• Essex County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th

• Ballotpedia
• "First Essex District, MA". Censusreporter.org. (State Senate district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
• "1st Essex District", Votedizoglio.com, archived from the original on May 14, 2020