Massachusetts was well represented and putting forth a unified face after two days of speeches at an initially fractious Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that ended with the nomination of Hillary Clinton, the first woman selected as the presidential candidate of a major American political party.

The Boston delegation settled in for a six-hour train ride into Pennsylvania on Sunday. Riding along were Mayor Martin Walsh, Senate President Stanley Rosenberg, Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins, state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry, state Rep. Nick Collins, Boston City Councillor At-Large Ayanna Pressley, City Councillor At-Large Annissa Essaibi George, and Councillor Frank Baker.

They arrived ready for a Massachusetts-heavy first day of the convention on Monday. US Senator Elizabeth Warren headlined the night, following Congressman Joseph Kennedy III and, earlier in the evening, Mayor Walsh.

“I know where I stand,” Walsh said. “I stand with the women and the men of every race, creed, and color who built this country. And I stand as a living example of Hillary Clinton’s vision for America: Where everyone gets a fair shot, and a second chance, to achieve their dreams.”

Walsh spoke about his struggles with alcoholism in his speech and said Clinton towers as a champion of workers’ and families’ rights. 

Said George on Tuesday: “Last night, as much as everyone was raving about the first lady, the highlight for me and I’m sure most of the Boston delegation was the mayor’s speech. It’s nice when the local kid gets to go big.”

George said she watched her first national convention from “the nosebleed seats,” leaning against a back wall.

“What was cool is from my perspective you could see the entire arena, and as soon as they introduced the mayor, the whole Mass continent went crazy. That’s how I knew where Massachusetts was sitting.”

Pressley, a Clinton surrogate and delegate who was deployed in Georgia and South Carolina during the primaries, said she wasn’t surprised to see such a swath of Commonwealth representation at the convention.

“It’s just confirmation that we’ve got the best delegation, the best political bench in the country,” she said. “It’s like a fantasy baseball team,” she joked.

Seeing advocates and politicians that she cut her teeth with as a 19- or 20-year old who are still active has been invigorating, Pressley said. And from the convention floor, the somewhat chaotic first day was an exercise in democratic participation, she said.

“There was so much energy and excitement and buzz in the room, such pulse and verve and passion,” she said. “Despite all of that chanting, noisemakers and clapping, I felt incredibly calm. What I feel matters about politics, grassroots organizations, and being a Democrat is the community that you build.”

The push for a unified front was somewhat marred throughout the first two days by vocal objections from a subset of Sen. Bernie Sanders supporters who booed and chanted when Clinton’s name was mentioned, including during the opening prayer. Some walked out after Clinton’s nomination Tuesday night.

The Massachusetts delegation got a surprise visit from Sanders on Wednesday morning when he came to thank the delegates and continued emphasizing the message of unity the morning after his campaign officially ended with Clinton’s nomination in a roll-call vote.

As he has repeatedly emphasized recently, priority one must be to prevent the election of Republican nominee Donald Trump. “The agenda that we brought forth is the agenda of the Democratic Party and the agenda of America,” Sanders told the crowd in the hall, which was smaller than the previous morning’s breakfasts, according to POLITICO Massachusetts. “Our job now is to make sure that agenda is implemented through Democratically controlled House, Democratically controlled Senate, and the Democratically controlled presidency,” Sanders said.

Sen. Forry, a Clinton delegate, said afterward that she felt Sanders’s message was finally connecting with his supporters. “Bernie, again, his message today was about how we have to unite,” Forry said. “This is about getting Hillary Clinton elected, you know, this is what we must do. We cannot allow the other candidate -- the demagogue is what he said -- to be the president, because that would take us backward.”

The speech was “very, very powerful,” Forry said, “and I think his people heard it clearer today, and we’re just going to work hard at bringing everyone together.”