Pennsylvania Senate, District 7

{{Infobox legislative district

|state= Pennsylvania

|district= 7

|chamber= Senate

|representative= Vincent Hughes

|party= Democratic

|residence= Philadelphia

|population= 263,697

|population_year= 2021

}}

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:{{cite web |title=2021 Final Reapportionment Plan |publisher=Pennsylvania Department of State |url=https://www.redistricting.state.pa.us/Resources/GISData/Districts/Legislative/Senate/2021-Final/PDF/LRC%20Senate%20Final.pdf |accessdate=2022-11-11}}

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

class=wikitable
valign=bottom ! Representative{{cite web \|title=Pennsylvania State Senate - Senate Historical Biographies \|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/serRes.cfm?search&body=S&dist=7&sortBy=Session&sortOrd=ASC \|website=www.legis.state.pa.us \|accessdate=1 March 2019}} ! Party ! Years ! District home ! Notes
{{party shading/Democratic-Republican}} \| George Weaver	Democratic-Republican	1815 – 1818
{{party shading/Democratic-Republican}} \| 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.{{cite web \|title=Pennsylvania State Senate - Philip S Markley Biography \|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=4984&body=S \|website=www.legis.state.pa.us \|accessdate=1 March 2019}}
{{party shading/Federalist}} \| Matthew Henderson	Federalist	1821 – 1825
{{party shading/Jackson Democrat}} \| John Hamilton	Jackson Democrat	1825 – 1827
{{party shading/Federalist}} \| Frederick Hambright	Federalist	1827 – 1828
{{party shading/Anti-Masonic}} \| John Robinson	Anti-Masonic	1831 – 1834
{{party shading/Anti-Masonic}} \| Henry Hibshman	Anti-Masonic	1831 – 1836
{{party shading/Anti-Masonic}} \| 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.{{cite web \|title=Pennsylvania State Senate - John Strohm Biography \|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=5145&body=S \|website=www.legis.state.pa.us \|accessdate=1 March 2019}}
{{party shading/Anti-Masonic}} \| John Harper	Anti-Masonic	1837 – 1838	Pennsylvania State Senator for the 8th district from 1835 to 1836{{cite web \|title=Pennsylvania State Senate - John Harper Biography \|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=5591&body=S \|website=www.legis.state.pa.us \|accessdate=1 March 2019}}
{{party shading/Anti-Masonic}} \| John Killinger	Anti-Masonic	1837 – 1840
{{party shading/Republican}} \| Levi Kline	Republican	1841 – 1844
{{party shading/Whig}} \| John Philipp Sanderson	Whig	1845 – 1848
{{party shading/Whig}} \| A. Herr Smith	Whig	1845 – 1848	U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1873 to 1885{{cite web \|title=SMITH, Abraham Herr, (1815-1894) \|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000509 \|website=www.bioguide.congress.gov \|accessdate=4 October 2019}}
{{party shading/Whig}} \| Joseph Konigmacher	Whig	1849 – 1850
{{party shading/Whig}} \| Daniel Stine	Whig	1849 – 1850
{{party shading/Whig}} \| Edward C. Darlington	Whig	1851 – 1854
{{party shading/Whig}} \| Esaias Kinzer	Whig	1853 – 1856
{{party shading/Republican}} \| 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.{{cite web \|title=Pennsylvania State Senate - John Weinland Killinger Biography \|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=4861&body=S \|website=www.legis.state.pa.us \|accessdate=4 March 2019}}
{{party shading/Republican}} \| 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{{cite web \|title=Pennsylvania State Senate - Jacob G Shuman \|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=5469&body=S \|website=www.legis.state.pa.us \|accessdate=1 March 2019}}
{{party shading/Democratic}} \| Christian Markle Straub	Democratic	1857 – 1858	U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district from 1853 to 1855{{cite web \|title=Pennsylvania State Senate - Christian Markle Straub \|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=5559&body=S \|website=www.legis.state.pa.us \|accessdate=1 March 2019}}
{{party shading/Democratic}} \| Bernard Reilly	Democratic	1861 – 1864
{{party shading/Democratic}} \| George B. Schall	Democratic	1865 – 1866
{{party shading/Democratic}} \| Robert S. Brown	Democratic	1867 – 1870
{{party shading/Democratic}} \| Jesse W. Knight	Democratic	1873 – 1874	Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district from 1871 to 1872{{cite web \|title=Pennsylvania State Senate - Jesse W Knight Biography \|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=4880&body=S \|website=www.legis.state.pa.us \|accessdate=1 March 2019}}
{{party shading/Democratic}} \| Harman Yerkes	Democratic	1873 – 1875
{{party shading/Republican}} \| Hiram Horter	Republican	1875 – 1876
{{party shading/Republican}} \| John Cadwalader Grady	Republican	1877 – 1904	President pro tempore of the Senate in 1887 and 1889{{cite web \|title=Pennsylvania State Senate - John Cadwalader Grady Biography \|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=4305&body=S \|website=www.legis.state.pa.us \|accessdate=3 March 2019}}
style="background:#DDFFDD" \| John Parker	Greenback Labor	1879 – 1882
{{party shading/Democratic}} \| James P. McNichol	Democratic	1905 – 1906	Pennsylvania State Senator for the 3rd district from 1907 to 1916{{cite web \|title=Pennsylvania State Senate - James P McNichol Biography \|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=5204&body=S \|website=www.legis.state.pa.us \|accessdate=1 March 2019}}
{{party shading/Republican}} \| Clarence Wolf	Republican	1909 – 1912
{{party shading/Republican}} \| Augustus Felix Daix, Jr.	Republican	1913 – 1932
{{party shading/Democratic}} \| Samuel Nelson Houston	Democratic	1927 – 1932
{{party shading/Democratic}} \| Harry Shapiro	Democratic and Republican	1933 – 1944	Shapiro served as a Republican from 1933 to 1936 then as a Democrat from 1937 to 1944{{cite web \|title=Pennsylvania State Senate - Harry Shapiro Biography \|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=5452&body=S \|website=www.legis.state.pa.us \|accessdate=1 March 2019}}
{{party shading/Democratic}} \| Maxwell S. Rosenfeld	Democratic	1945 – 1952
{{party shading/Democratic}} \| 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.{{cite web \|title=Pennsylvania State Senate - Charles R Weiner Biography \|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=5031&body=S \|website=www.legis.state.pa.us \|accessdate=1 March 2019}}
{{party shading/Democratic}} \| Freeman Hankins	Democratic	1969 – 1988	Pennsylvania State Representative for the Philadelphia County district from 1961 to 1968. Died on December 31, 1988{{cite web \| last = Cox \| first = Harold \| title = Pennsylvania Senate - 1987-1988\| work = Wilkes University Election Statistics Project\| publisher = Wilkes University \| date =2004 \| url =http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/legis/171S.pdf}}
{{party shading/Democratic}} \| 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.{{cite web \|title=Pennsylvania State Senate - Chaka Fattah Biography \|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=4617&body=S \|website=www.legis.state.pa.us \|accessdate=1 March 2019}}
{{party shading/Democratic}} \| Vincent Hughes	Democratic	1994 – present	Pennsylvania State Representative for the 190th district from 1987-1994{{cite web \|title=Pennsylvania State Senate - Vincent J. Hughes \|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/Senate_bio.cfm?id=152 \|website=www.legis.state.pa.us \|accessdate=4 October 2019}}

References

{{cite web| last = Cox| first = Harold| title = Legislatures - 1776-2004| work = Wilkes University Election Statistics Project| publisher = Wilkes University| date = 2004| url = http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/legis/indexlegis.html}}

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