US Midterms 2026
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Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 2013 and House member from 1976 to 2013, running for a third full Senate term against Republican John Deaton in 2026.
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Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley: a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: and Massachusetts’ U.S. Senator Edward J.
One could probably call it “Mass. Senate Debate Light”: plenty of probing criticisms from both participants: but minus the heavy dose of acrimony which colored the partisan primary debate square offs. U.S.
DeatonIn the Massachusetts race for U.S. Senate, Sen. Ed Markey is running for what he says will be his last term, while Republican John Deaton is once again challenging a democratic incumbent.
Four Democratic lawmakers urged the Federal Aviation Administration on October 14 to conduct a site-specific environmental review of Amazon ($AMZN)'s proposed Prime Air drone delivery hub in Westborough, Massachusetts.
A Democratic senator is facing accusations of racial and sexual discrimination over a controversial social media post encouraging members of minority groups to apply for a role in his office.
Sen. Ed Markey, right, and moderator Jon Keller, left, listen to U.S. Senate candidate John Deaton at Tuesday night's debate at WBZ-TV's studio in Boston. Credit: WBZ-TV
If Deaton wins, Markey said the Massachusetts Republican would be a vote to continue the GOP majority in the Senate and the Trump agenda.
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Edward John Markey, born in Malden, Massachusetts, on July 11, 1946, grew up in an Irish Catholic family; his father, John E. Markey, worked as a milkman.
He went to Immaculate Conception School, then Malden Catholic High School, and from 1965 he paid his Boston College tuition by driving and selling from an ice cream truck around Lexington.
He earned a bachelor's degree from Boston College in 1968 and in 1972 a law degree from Boston College Law School, then practiced law privately. From 1968 to 1973 he was enlisted in the Army Reserve, reaching the rank of Specialist 4.
Between 1973 and 1976 Markey sat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for Middlesex County districts.
After Congressman Torbert Macdonald died in May 1976, Markey won a twelve-way Democratic primary for the 7th congressional district with 22% and the November election with 77%, taking his seat that night.
He served in the House from 1976 to 2013, and from 2007 to 2011 he chaired the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
When John Kerry became Secretary of State, Markey won the 2013 special Senate election, beating Stephen Lynch in the April 30 primary and, on June 25, Republican Gabriel E. Gomez; he entered the Senate on July 16, 2013.
He won a full term in 2014 with 62% over Brian Herr, then defeated Joe Kennedy III with 55.6% in the 2020 primary before beating Republican Kevin O'Connor. He wrote the Senate version of the Green New Deal and has led the Massachusetts congressional delegation as dean since 2009.
Markey is running for a third full term in the November 3, 2026, election. In the September 1 Democratic primary he defeated Representative Seth Moulton with 64.9% after three debates between the two. His Republican opponent is attorney John Deaton, the party's 2024 nominee, who was unopposed for the nomination.
