Pennsylvania Senate, District 7
American legislative district
Pennsylvania's 7th State Senate district Senator Population (2021) 263,697
Pennsylvania State Senate District 7 includes parts of Montgomery County and Philadelphia County . It is currently represented by Democrat Vincent Hughes .
District profile
The district includes the following areas:[ 1]
Montgomery County
Philadelphia County
Ward 04
Ward 06
Ward 12 [PART, Divisions 08, 11, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23 and 24]
Ward 21
Ward 24
Ward 27 [PART, Divisions 03, 06, 11, 13 and 18]
Ward 28
Ward 34
Ward 38
Ward 44
Ward 46 [PART, Divisions 07, 19, 22 and 23]
Ward 52
Ward 60 [PART, Divisions 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 08, 09, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 23]
Senators
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
^ "2021 Final Reapportionment Plan" (PDF) . Pennsylvania Department of State . Retrieved November 11, 2022 .
^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Senate Historical Biographies" . www.legis.state.pa.us . Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Philip S Markley Biography" . www.legis.state.pa.us . Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Strohm Biography" . www.legis.state.pa.us . Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Harper Biography" . www.legis.state.pa.us . Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
^ "SMITH, Abraham Herr, (1815-1894)" . www.bioguide.congress.gov . Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Weinland Killinger Biography" . www.legis.state.pa.us . Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Jacob G Shuman" . www.legis.state.pa.us . Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Christian Markle Straub" . www.legis.state.pa.us . Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Jesse W Knight Biography" . www.legis.state.pa.us . Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Cadwalader Grady Biography" . www.legis.state.pa.us . Retrieved March 3, 2019 .
^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - James P McNichol Biography" . www.legis.state.pa.us . Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Harry Shapiro Biography" . www.legis.state.pa.us . Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Charles R Weiner Biography" . www.legis.state.pa.us . Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
^ Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1987-1988" (PDF) . Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . Wilkes University.
^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Chaka Fattah Biography" . www.legis.state.pa.us . Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Vincent J. Hughes" . www.legis.state.pa.us . Retrieved October 4, 2019 .