Barrios, Jarrett T.

Jarrett Tomas Barrios was born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, in 1968. He is the product of a blue collar Latino family: his father was a carpenter and his mother was a social worker. He came to Cambridge at the age of 17 to study at Harvard College. In 1998, he was elected as the State Representative for the 28th Middlesex District. He was reelected in 2000 without opposition. In 2002, the voters of his Middlesex, Suffolk and Essex District elected him to the State Senate and he was re-elected without opposition in both 2004 and 2006. He sits as the Senate Chairman of the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security and in the Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure, Transportation, Housing, Public Health, and Municipalities and Regional Government committees. He is an openly gay member of the Massachusetts General Court and lives in Cambridge with his partner, Doug, and their two children, Nathaniel and Javier.

From the description of [Papers], 1999-2005. (State Library of Massachusetts). WorldCat record id: 159940704

Massachusetts State Representative (1999-2002) representing 28th Middlesex District and Massachusetts State Senator (2003-July 5, 2007, effective date of resignation) representing Middlesex, Suffolk, and Essex District.

From the description of [Papers], 1997-2008. (State Library of Massachusetts). WorldCat record id: 707396449