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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

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The district includes the following areas:[1]

Senators

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Representative[2] Party Years District home Notes
George Weaver Democratic-Republican 1815 – 1818
Philip S. Markley Democratic-Republican 1819 – 1821 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1823 to 1827. Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1830.[3]
Matthew Henderson Federalist 1821 – 1825
John Hamilton Jackson Democrat 1825 – 1827
Frederick Hambright Federalist 1827 – 1828
John Robinson Anti-Masonic 1831 – 1834
Henry Hibshman Anti-Masonic 1831 – 1836
John Strohm Anti-Masonic 1835 – 1836 Pennsylvania 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 Harper Anti-Masonic 1837 – 1838 Pennsylvania State Senator for the 8th district from 1835 to 1836[5]
John Killinger Anti-Masonic 1837 – 1840
Levi Kline Republican 1841 – 1844
John Philipp Sanderson Whig 1845 – 1848
A. Herr Smith Whig 1845 – 1848 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1873 to 1885[6]
Joseph Konigmacher Whig 1849 – 1850
Daniel Stine Whig 1849 – 1850
Edward C. Darlington Whig 1851 – 1854
Esaias Kinzer Whig 1853 – 1856
John Weinland Killinger Republican 1855 – 1856 Pennsylvania 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. Shuman Whig and Republican 1855 – 1858 Shuman served as a Whig member of the Pennsylvania from 1855 to 1856 and as a Republican from 1857 to 1858[8]
Christian Markle Straub Democratic 1857 – 1858 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district from 1853 to 1855[9]
Bernard Reilly Democratic 1861 – 1864
George B. Schall Democratic 1865 – 1866
Robert S. Brown Democratic 1867 – 1870
Jesse W. Knight Democratic 1873 – 1874 Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district from 1871 to 1872[10]
Harman Yerkes Democratic 1873 – 1875
Hiram Horter Republican 1875 – 1876
John Cadwalader Grady Republican 1877 – 1904 President pro tempore of the Senate in 1887 and 1889[11]
John Parker Greenback Labor 1879 – 1882
James P. McNichol Democratic 1905 – 1906 Pennsylvania State Senator for the 3rd district from 1907 to 1916[12]
Clarence Wolf Republican 1909 – 1912
Augustus Felix Daix, Jr. Republican 1913 – 1932
Samuel Nelson Houston Democratic 1927 – 1932
Harry Shapiro Democratic and Republican 1933 – 1944 Shapiro served as a Republican from 1933 to 1936 then as a Democrat from 1937 to 1944[13]
Maxwell S. Rosenfeld Democratic 1945 – 1952
Charles R. Weiner Democratic 1953 – 1967 Democratic 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 Hankins Democratic 1969 – 1988 Pennsylvania State Representative for the Philadelphia County district from 1961 to 1968. Died on December 31, 1988[15]
Chaka Fattah Democratic 1989 – 1994 Pennsylvania 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 Hughes Democratic 1994 – present Pennsylvania State Representative for the 190th district from 1987-1994[17]

References

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  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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