# 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.

## District profile

The district includes the following areas:

## Senators

| Representative | Party | Years | 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. |
| 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. |
| John Harper | Anti-Masonic | 1837 – 1838 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 8th district from 1835 to 1836 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Christian Markle Straub | Democratic | 1857 – 1858 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district from 1853 to 1855 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| John Parker | Greenback Labor | 1879 – 1882 | |
| James P. McNichol | Democratic | 1905 – 1906 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 3rd district from 1907 to 1916 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Freeman Hankins | Democratic | 1969 – 1988 | Pennsylvania State Representative for the Philadelphia County district from 1961 to 1968. Died on December 31, 1988 |
| 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. |
| Vincent Hughes | Democratic | 1994 – present | Pennsylvania State Representative for the 190th district from 1987-1994 |