A report on Republican Party (United States), Democratic Party (United States), Massachusetts and United States Senate

Graph showing historical party control of the U.S. Senate, House and Presidency since 1855
Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States (1861–1865) and the first Republican to hold the office
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829–1837) and the first Democratic president.
Members of the United States Senate for the 117th Congress
Charles R. Jennison, an anti-slavery militia leader associated with the Jayhawkers from Kansas and an early Republican politician in the region
Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States (1837–1841) and the second Democratic president.
The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882). The Pilgrims founded Plymouth in 1620.
A typical Senate desk
Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869–1877)
Senator Stephen A. Douglas
An illustration of the Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Senate side of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
James G. Blaine, 28th & 31st Secretary of State (1881; 1889–1892)
The 1885 inauguration of Grover Cleveland, the only president with non-consecutive terms
John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (1797–1801)
Committee Room 226 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building is used for hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
William McKinley, 25th president of the United States (1897–1901)
Leaders of the Democratic Party during the first half of the 20th century on 14 June 1913: Secretary of State William J. Bryan, Josephus Daniels, President Woodrow Wilson, Breckinridge Long, William Phillips, and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Textile mills such as the one in Lowell made Massachusetts a leader in the Industrial Revolution.
The Senate has the power to try impeachments; shown above is Theodore R. Davis's drawing of the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, 1868
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States (1901–1909)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 32nd and 33rd presidents of the United States (1933–1945; 1945–1953), featured on a campaign poster for the 1944 presidential election
John F. Kennedy, Massachusetts native and 35th President of the United States (1961–1963)
U.S. Senate chamber c. 1873: two or three spittoons are visible by desks
Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929–1933)
John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 35th and 36th presidents of the United States (1961–1963, 1963–1969)
Boston Marathon bombing
Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States (1981–1989)
Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States (1977–1981), delivering the State of the Union Address in 1979
A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in South Deerfield
Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States (2017–2021)
Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), at The Pentagon in 1998
Köppen climate types in Massachusetts
Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States (1923–1929)
Barack Obama speaking to College Democrats of America in 2007
Massachusetts population density map. The centers of high-density settlement, from east to west, are Boston, Worcester, Springfield, and Pittsfield, respectively.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th governor of California (2003–2011)
President Barack Obama meeting with the Blue Dog Coalition in the State Dining Room of the White House in 2009
Saint Patrick's Day parade in Scituate, the municipality with the highest percentage identifying Irish ancestry in the United States, at 47.5% in 2010. Irish Americans constitute the largest ethnicity in Massachusetts.
John McCain, United States senator from Arizona (1987–2018)
Eleanor Roosevelt at the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Boston's Chinatown, with its paifang gate, is home to many Chinese and also Vietnamese restaurants.
Donald Rumsfeld, 21st United States Secretary of Defense (2001–2006)
President Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law at the White House on March 23, 2010
Boston gay pride march, held annually in June. In 2004 Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.
Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State (2001–2005)
Secretary of State John Kerry addressing delegates at the United Nations before signing the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016
Built in 1681, the Old Ship Church in Hingham is the oldest church in America in continuous ecclesiastical use. Massachusetts has since become one of the most irreligious states in the U.S.
Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives (1995–1999)
Shirley Chisholm was the first major-party African American candidate to run nationwide primary campaigns.
Towns in Massachusetts by combined mean SAT of their public high school district for the 2015–2016 academic year
Annual population growth in the U.S. by county - 2010s
President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Immigration Act of 1965 as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and others look on
Sunset at Brewster, on Cape Cod Bay.
This map shows the vote in the 2020 presidential election by county.
Then-Senator Barack Obama shaking hands with an American soldier in Basra, Iraq in 2008
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, serving Greater Boston
Political Spectrum Libertarian Left Centrist Right Authoritarian
President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978
Logan International Airport in Boston is the largest airport in New England in terms of passenger volume
U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with President Barack Obama at Ben Gurion Airport in 2013
Prominent roads and cities in Massachusetts
Self-identified Democrats (blue) versus self-identified Republicans (red) (January–June 2010 data)
The Massachusetts State House, topped by its golden dome, faces Boston Common on Beacon Hill.
Higher percentages of Democrats than Republicans are members of union households.
Charlie Baker (R), the 72nd Governor of Massachusetts
Elected at age 33, Jon Ossoff is currently the youngest member of the U.S. Senate.
Boston Pride Parade, 2012. From left: Representative Joe Kennedy III, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and former representative Barney Frank.
Hillary Clinton was the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party.
The site of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond in Concord
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg
Massachusetts has the largest population of the New England states. New Englander culture and identity remains strong in Massachusetts (Flag of New England pictured above).
Vice President Kamala Harris
An outdoor dance performance at Jacob's Pillow in Becket
Julián Castro served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
USS Constitution fires a salute during its annual Fourth of July turnaround cruise
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth
Map showing the average medicare reimbursement per enrollee for the counties in Massachusetts.
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland
Gillette Stadium in Foxborough is the home venue for the New England Patriots (NFL) and the New England Revolution (MLS)
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
Koppen climate of Massachusetts
U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema
A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
Koppen climate of Massachusetts
U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey.

Since the mid-1850s, it has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party.

- Republican Party (United States)

Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s.

- Democratic Party (United States)

As of 2022, the party holds a federal government trifecta (the presidency and majorities in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate), as well as 22 state governorships, 17 state legislatures, and 14 state government trifectas.

- Democratic Party (United States)

Former Illinois Representative Abraham Lincoln spent several years building support within the party, campaigning heavily for Frémont in 1856 and making a bid for the Senate in 1858, losing to Democrat Stephen A. Douglas but gaining national attention for the Lincoln–Douglas debates it produced.

- Republican Party (United States)

Grant was a Radical Republican which created some division within the party, some such as Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner and Illinois Senator Lyman Trumbull opposed most of his Reconstructionist policies.

- Republican Party (United States)

In September 2009, Massachusetts changed its law to enable the governor to appoint a temporary replacement for the late senator Edward Kennedy until the special election in January 2010.

- United States Senate

Children of businessman and ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. included John F. Kennedy, who was a senator and U.S. president before his assassination in 1963, and Ted Kennedy, a senator from 1962 until his death in 2009, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a co-founder of the Special Olympics.

- Massachusetts

The Democratic Party traditionally sits to the presiding officer's right, and the Republican Party traditionally sits to the presiding officer's left, regardless of which party has a majority of seats.

- United States Senate

Senators Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, and Ed Markey of Massachusetts were members of the caucus when in the House of Representatives.

- Democratic Party (United States)

Massachusetts politics since the second half of the 20th century have generally been dominated by the Democratic Party, and the state has a reputation for being the most liberal state in the country.

- Massachusetts

Massachusetts has shifted from a previously Republican-leaning state to one largely dominated by Democrats; the 1952 victory of John F. Kennedy over incumbent Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. is seen as a watershed moment in this transformation.

- Massachusetts

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