Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district
Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district is located in central Massachusetts. It contains the cities of Worcester, which is the second-largest city in New England after Boston, and Northampton in the Pioneer Valley. It is represented by Democrat Jim McGovern.
Image: Benjamin Goodhue, 1748 1814, from painting at Essex Institute by George Southward, photo by Frank Cousins, c. 1865 1914, from the Digital Commonwealth commonwealth 2b 88rh 309
Image: Theodore Sedgwick
Image: Raphaelle Peale Artemas Ward (1727 1800) H835 Harvard Art Museums
Image: Gilbert Stuart Portrait of William Shepard
Jim McGovern (American politician)
James Patrick McGovern has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district since 2013. A Democrat, he is the ranking member of the House Rules Committee, chaired the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and is the co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. His district, numbered as the 3rd district from 1997 to 2013, stretches from Worcester to the Pioneer Valley.
Jim McGovern (American politician)
McGovern chairs a meeting of the Rules Committee during the 116th Congress in 2019.
McGovern in 2013, addressing the Food Policy session of the United States Conference of Mayors in Washington D.C.
(l–r) McGovern campaigning in 2012 on behalf of U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, alongside Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray at an Auburn rally.
