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Melrose Legislators
Who Represents Melrose
Melrose is small enough to sit entirely inside a single state House district, which makes your delegation unusually easy to name. One state representative covers every street in the city. One state senator covers the whole city too. In Washington, all of Melrose is represented by one member of Congress and by the Commonwealth’s two U.S. senators. Five people. That is the entire list, and each of them has a public office and a phone number.
State Senator
Senator Lewis represents the Fifth Middlesex District, which takes in Melrose and several neighboring communities. In February 2026 he announced that he will not seek reelection, which opens the seat for the first time in more than a decade. Melrose’s own state representative, Kate Lipper-Garabedian, is running for it. If you want to watch a competitive election up close, this is the one on your doorstep.
State Representative
32nd Middlesex District · Democrat
Kate Lipper-Garabedian
Kate Lipper-Garabedian has held the 32nd Middlesex seat since a special election in March 2020. Before that she was a Melrose city councilor at large, first elected in 2017, and she worked as an education attorney and a teacher. She filed the home rule legislation that reauthorized the city’s property tax exemption for qualifying senior residents, which Governor Healey signed into law. She is running for the open Fifth Middlesex Senate seat in 2026.
In Washington
All of Melrose sits in the Fifth Congressional District, represented by Katherine Clark, who serves as the Democratic Whip, the second-ranking Democrat in the U.S. House. She swore Jen Grigoraitis in as Melrose’s first woman mayor in January 2024. Massachusetts is represented in the U.S. Senate by Elizabeth Warren, the senior senator, and Edward J. Markey, the junior senator. Both were first elected to the Senate in 2013.
Find Your Exact Legislator
Melrose is not split, so every address in the city shares the same delegation. If you move, or if you want to check a neighboring town, use these:
Sources
Massachusetts Legislature (malegislature.gov). Verified July 2026.
Open States (Plural). Verified July 2026.
What this seat decides
The state and federal seats
Your State Representative and your State Senator. State law: the driving age, the minimum wage, the bottle deposit, and Chapter 70, the formula that decides how much state money your schools get. They also carry a home rule petition to the State House when your town votes for something state law does not yet allow it to do.
Your member of Congress and your two US Senators. Federal law and federal money, and help with a federal agency like Social Security, the VA, or immigration when someone in your family needs it. They also nominate candidates to the US service academies.
Knowing who represents you is the first step. Learn how to write to them so it lands.