Today we’re introducing a new feature: Lowell Lists. Besides our ongoing presentation of new literary content by writers and poets from Lowell and beyond, we also hope to make this site the go-to place for information about Lowell. Since lists are a useful vehicle for presenting a large volume of information, that’s the format we will use. Our lists will range from groups of people like those who have represented us in Congress to a roster of Lowell’s neighborhoods, lists of schools, churches and parks, and anything else that might logically end up on a list. Today, we begin with those who have represented Lowell in the United States Senate and in the United States House of Representatives. The lists don’t go back to the founding of the Commonwealth, but they will eventually.

United States Senate (I)

• Henry Wilson – 1855
• George S. Boutwell – 1873
• George F. Hoar – 1877
• Winthrop M. Crane – 1904
• John H. Weeks – 1913
• David I. Walsh – 1919
• Frederick H. Gillett – 1925
• Marcus A. Coolidge – 1931
• Henry Cabot Lodge Jr – 1937
• Sinclair Weeks – 1944
• Leverett Saltonstall – 1945
• Edward Brooke – 1967
• Paul Tsongas – 1978
• John Kerry – 1984
• Ed Markey – 2013

United States Senate (II)

• Charles Sumner – 1851
• William B. Washburn – 1874
• Henry L. Dawes – 1875
• Henry Cabot Lodge – 1893
• William M. Butler – 1924
• David I. Walsh – 1926
• Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. – 1947
• John F. Kennedy – 1953
• Benjamin A. Smith II – 1960
• Edward M. Kennedy 1962
• Paul G. Kirk – 2009
• Scott Brown – 2010
• Elizabeth Warren – 2013

US House of Representatives

• Charles Herbert Allen – 1885
• Frederic Greenhalge – 1889
• Moses T. Stevens – 1891
• William Shadrach Knox – 1895
• Butler Ames – 1903
• John Jacob Rogers – 1913
• Edith Nourse Rogers – 1925 (June 30)
• F. Bradford Morse – 1961
• Paul Cronin – 1973
• Paul Tsongas – 1975
• James Shannon – 1979
• Chester Atkins – 1985
• Marty Meehan – 1993
• Niki Tsongas – 2007 (Oct 16)
• Lori Trahan – 2019