What About Bill?

William D. Delahunt represents the Tenth Congressional District of Massachusetts – which includes Cape Cod, the Islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, as well as Boston's economically diverse South Shore. He came to Congress in 1997 with a distinguished career in public service and law enforcement and has since been reelected four times.

As a member of the International Relations Committee, Delahunt serves on the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, where he has worked to promote democracy and economic opportunity throughout Latin American. He is the Ranking Democratic Member on the newly-created Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee and will help create an agenda that includes understanding the impact of US policy on economic interests.

As a member of the Judiciary Committee, Representative Delahunt brings two decades of experience as a prosecutor – and lifelong commitment to safeguarding civil rights – to the federal arena. As a District Attorney, his innovative approach included developing the first prosecutorial unit focused on domestic violence in the United States, and prototype programs to combat violence against women that became models for prosecutors nationally and abroad.

Rep. Delahunt also serves as co-chair of the bipartisan Coast Guard Caucus; House Older Americans Caucus; and the Congressional Working Group on Cuba. Rep Delahunt has championed a diverse range of legislative priorities from streamlining international adoptions to minimizing wrongful convictions. As a representative from a coastal district, he often forges collaboration between interdependent environmental and economic interests – most recently, negotiating an innovative whale-safe gear program for local fisherman. Similarly, he launched a “Cultural Coast” initiative that highlighted the region’s tourism, transportation and natural resources for delegates of the Democratic National Convention in Boston.

A 1963 graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, Mr. Delahunt later went on to earn a law degree from Boston College in 1967. He served from 1963 to 1971 in the Coast Guard Reserve. The Congressman is the son of the late Ruth and Bill Delahunt Sr., a sales manager. He is a lifelong resident of Quincy, and the exceedingly proud father of Kirstin and Kara.