Editing Essex County, Massachusetts (section)

==Law and government==
From the founding of the Republican Party until the New Deal, Essex County was a Republican stronghold in presidential elections. Since 1936, it has trended Democratic, with [[Dwight Eisenhower]] in 1952 and 1956 and [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1980 and 1984 being the only Republicans to carry the county since.

Like several other [[List of counties in Massachusetts|Massachusetts counties]], Essex County exists today only as a historical geographic region, and has no county government. All former county functions were assumed by state agencies in 1999. The sheriff (currently [[Kevin Coppinger (politician)|Kevin Coppinger]]), district attorney (currently [[Paul Tucker (politician)|Paul Tucker]]), and some other regional officials with specific duties are still elected locally to perform duties within the county region, but there is no county council, commissioner, or county employees. Communities are now granted the right to form their own regional compacts for sharing services.

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! colspan="2" | District attorneys of Essex County<ref>{{cite book |title=Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts |date=1922 |publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company |page=845 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qdENzfZTbuEC |access-date=September 6, 2023}}</ref>
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! District attorney !! Term
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|[[Joseph Story]]
|1807–1809
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|Asa Andrew
|1809–1811
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|David Cummings
|1811–1813
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|Samuel Putnam
|1813–1814
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|[[John Pickering (linguist)|John Pickering]]
|1814–1824
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|Stephen Minot
|1824–1830
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|[[Asahel Huntington]]
|1830–1846
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|[[Albert H. Nelson]]
|1846–1848
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|[[Asahel Huntington]]
|1848–1851
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|[[Stephen Henry Phillips]]
|1851–1853
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|Alfred A. Albert
|1853–1869
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|[[Edgar J. Sherman]]
|1869–1883
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|[[Henry P. Moulton]]
|1883–1884
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|[[Henry F. Hurlburt]]
|1884–1890
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|[[William Henry Moody]]
|1890–1896
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|[[Alden P. White]]
|1896–1899
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|[[W. Scott Peters]]
|1899–1911
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|[[Henry Converse Atwill]]
|1911–1915
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|[[Michael A. Sullivan (judge)|Michael A. Sullivan]]
|1915–1916
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|[[Louis Cox]]
|1916–1918
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|[[Henry Gordon Wells]]
|1918–1920
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|[[S. Howard Donnell]]
|1920–1923
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|[[William G. Clark (Massachusetts lawyer)|William G. Clark]]
|1923–1931
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|[[Hugh Cregg]]
|1931–1959
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|John P. S. Burke
|1959–1979
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|[[Kevin M. Burke]]
|1979–2003
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|[[Jonathan W. Blodgett]]
|2003–2023
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|[[Paul Tucker (politician)|Paul Tucker]]
|2023–present
|}