Word: districters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Historically, the representative from the eighth district has always had an easy time getting re-elected...
When Kennedy relinquished the seat in 1956 to run for the U.S. Senate, O'Neill and Michael LoPresti, a Massachusetts State Senator, squared off in what was then the 11th district of the Commonwealth...
...majority of Boston was included in the district in those days, and LoPresti had expected to carry the city, Kenney said...
...next 34 years, O'Neill dominated the district's--and eventually the nation's--political agenda...
...Neill's tenure in the office saw the district weather the civil rights movement, the expansion of national social programs, the extension of urban sprawl, the Vietnam War and increasing gentrification in Cambridge...