The 1st Norfolk House of Representatives District has long been a launching pad for Quincy politicians.

Among those who have represented the area, which includes the city's fast-growing north and west ends, are Michael W. Morrissey, now a state senator, and Michael G. Bellotti, son of a former Massachusetts attorney general and now a candidate for Norfolk County sheriff.

About half of the current 1st Norfolk was part of a now-defunct district that sent to the State House two of the biggest names ever in Quincy politics -- Mayor James A. Sheets, the longest serving chief executive in the city's ...

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