Pennsylvania Senate, District 7

Pennsylvania State Senate District 7 includes parts of Montgomery County and Philadelphia County. It is currently represented by Democrat Vincent Hughes.

Pennsylvania's 7th
State Senate district
Senator
  Vincent Hughes
D–Philadelphia
Population (2021)263,697

District profile

The district includes the following areas:[1]

Senators
Representative[2] Party Years District home Notes
George WeaverDemocratic-Republican1815 – 1818
Philip S. MarkleyDemocratic-Republican1819 – 1821U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1823 to 1827. Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1830.[3]
Matthew HendersonFederalist1821 – 1825
John HamiltonJackson Democrat1825 – 1827
Frederick HambrightFederalist1827 – 1828
John RobinsonAnti-Masonic1831 – 1834
Henry HibshmanAnti-Masonic1831 – 1836
John StrohmAnti-Masonic1835 – 1836Pennsylvania State Representative from 1832 to 1834. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district from 1839 to 1842. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1845 to 1848.[4]
John HarperAnti-Masonic1837 – 1838Pennsylvania State Senator for the 8th district from 1835 to 1836[5]
John KillingerAnti-Masonic1837 – 1840
Levi KlineRepublican1841 – 1844
John Philipp SandersonWhig1845 – 1848
A. Herr SmithWhig1845 – 1848U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1873 to 1885[6]
Joseph KonigmacherWhig1849 – 1850
Daniel StineWhig1849 – 1850
Edward C. DarlingtonWhig1851 – 1854
Esaias KinzerWhig1853 – 1856
John Weinland KillingerRepublican1855 – 1856Pennsylvania State Representative from 1850 to 1851. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district from 1871 to 1875. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district from 1877 to 1881.[7]
Jacob G. ShumanWhig and Republican1855 – 1858Shuman served as a Whig member of the Pennsylvania from 1855 to 1856 and as a Republican from 1857 to 1858[8]
Christian Markle StraubDemocratic1857 – 1858U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district from 1853 to 1855[9]
Bernard ReillyDemocratic1861 – 1864
George B. SchallDemocratic1865 – 1866
Robert S. BrownDemocratic1867 – 1870
Jesse W. KnightDemocratic1873 – 1874Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district from 1871 to 1872[10]
Harman YerkesDemocratic1873 – 1875
Hiram HorterRepublican1875 – 1876
John Cadwalader GradyRepublican1877 – 1904President pro tempore of the Senate in 1887 and 1889[11]
John ParkerGreenback Labor1879 – 1882
James P. McNicholDemocratic1905 – 1906Pennsylvania State Senator for the 3rd district from 1907 to 1916[12]
Clarence WolfRepublican1909 – 1912
Augustus Felix Daix, Jr.Republican1913 – 1932
Samuel Nelson HoustonDemocratic1927 – 1932
Harry ShapiroDemocratic and Republican1933 – 1944Shapiro served as a Republican from 1933 to 1936 then as a Democrat from 1937 to 1944[13]
Maxwell S. RosenfeldDemocratic1945 – 1952
Charles R. WeinerDemocratic1953 – 1967Democratic leader of the Pennsylvania Senate from 1959 to 1962. Judge of the U.S. District Court of Eastern Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1988. Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court of Eastern Pennsylvania from 1988 to 2005.[14]
Freeman HankinsDemocratic1969 – 1988Pennsylvania State Representative for the Philadelphia County district from 1961 to 1968. Died on December 31, 1988[15]
Chaka FattahDemocratic1989 – 1994Pennsylvania State Representative for the 192 district from 1983 to 1988. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1995 to 2016. Convicted on 23 counts of racketeering, fraud and other corruption charges on June 21, 2016.[16]
Vincent HughesDemocratic1993 – presentPennsylvania State Representative for the 190th district from 1987-1994[17]

References
  1. "2021 Final Reapportionment Plan" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  2. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Senate Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  3. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Philip S Markley Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  4. "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Strohm Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  5. "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Harper Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  6. "SMITH, Abraham Herr, (1815-1894)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  7. "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Weinland Killinger Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  8. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Jacob G Shuman". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  9. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Christian Markle Straub". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  10. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Jesse W Knight Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  11. "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Cadwalader Grady Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  12. "Pennsylvania State Senate - James P McNichol Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  13. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Harry Shapiro Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  14. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Charles R Weiner Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  15. Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1987-1988" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.
  16. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Chaka Fattah Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  17. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Vincent J. Hughes". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 4, 2019.


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