Frederick E. Berry is a Democratic politician

Politician

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 from Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, currently serving as Massachusetts Senate

Massachusetts Senate

The Massachusetts Senate is the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Senate comprises 40 elected members from 40 single-member senatorial districts in the state...

 Majority Leader

Majority leader

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.

Berry, representing Essex County

Essex County, Massachusetts

-National protected areas:* Parker River National Wildlife Refuge* Salem Maritime National Historic Site* Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site* Thacher Island National Wildlife Refuge-Demographics:...

 in the State Senate from 1983, was previously Second Assistant Majority Floor Leader (1991–1994) and Assistant Majority Floor Leader (1995–1996), before becoming Majority Leader himself in 2003. The Democratic Party holds a super majority in both House

Massachusetts House of Representatives

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 (141 to 19) and in Senate (35 to 5).

Before his election to the Senate, Berry was a Peabody

Peabody, Massachusetts

Peabody is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population is about 53,000. Peabody is located in Boston's North Shore suburban area.- History :...

 City Council member (1979–1983). He is a graduate of Bishop Fenwick High School

Bishop Fenwick High School (Peabody, Massachusetts)

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, Boston College

Boston College

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 (in 1972) and Antioch College

Antioch College

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, M. Ed. (1974).

Leader Berry is also a member of the Senate Committee on Ethics and Rules.