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Pennsylvania Senate, District 1

American legislative district


American legislative district

FieldValue
statePennsylvania
district1
chamberSenate
representativeNikil Saval
partyDemocratic
residencePhiladelphia
population250,243
population_year2021

Pennsylvania State Senate District 1 includes part of Philadelphia County. It is district currently represented by democratic State Senator Nikil Saval.

District profile

The district includes the following areas:

Philadelphia County:

  • Ward 01
  • Ward 02
  • Ward 05
  • Ward 08
  • Ward 18
  • Ward 25 [PART, Divisions 01, 04 and 07]
  • Ward 26 [PART, Divisions 01, 02, 03, 20 and 23]
  • Ward 30
  • Ward 31
  • Ward 39
  • Ward 40 [PART, Divisions 30, 38 and 40]

Senators

RepresentativePartyYearsDistrict homeNote
Lindsay CoatsFederalist1791 – 1797
Dennis WhelenFederalist1795 – 1801
Samuel KingFederalist1799 – 1801
William RodmanJeffersonian Republican1799 – 1803U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1811 to 1813
Melchior RahmJeffersonian Republican1805 – 1813
John BarclayFederalist1811 – 1813Mayor of Philadelphia from 1791 to 1793
Nicholas BiddleFederalist1813 – 18153rd president of the Second Bank of the United States from 1813 to 1815
Jacob ShearerDemocratic-Republican1813 – 1815
William MagheeFederalist1815 – 1817
John ReadFederalist1817 – 1818
Michael LeibDemocratic-Republican1818 – 1821U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1799 to 1803. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1803 to 1806. U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania from 1809 to 1814
Condy RaguetFederalist1817 – 1821title=Brazilpublisher=United States Department of Stateurl=https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/com/10396.htmaccessdate=2009-06-22}}
Robert McMullinFederalist1819 – 1820
James RobertsonFederalist1821 – 1823
John WurtzFederalist1821 – 1823
George EmlenFederalist1823 – 1825
John Hare PowelFederalist1827 – 1829Colonel in the U.S. Army. Founder of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society in 1823
William BoydDemocratic1831 – 1833
David S. HassingerDemocratic1831 – 1833
George W. TolandDemocratic1833 – 1835U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1837 to 1843
Abraham MillerDemocratic1835 – 1837
Frederick FraleyWhig1837 – 1839title=Alumni Register, Volume 5date=October 1900publisher=General Alumni Society of the University of Pennsylvanialocation=Philadelphiapage=131url=https://archive.org/details/alumniregisteru00penngoogquote=frederick fraley.accessdate=20 January 2019}}
Henry S. SpackmanWashington1839 – 1843
Jacob GratzDemocratic1841 – 1842
William Bradford ReedWhig1841 – 1842Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1838 to 1839. U.S. Minister to China in 1857
William A. CrabbWhig1843 – 1855
Joseph BaileyDemocratic1843 – 1851U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district from 1861 to 1863. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district from 1863 to 1865
Charles L. GibbonsWhig1845 – 1847
Benjamin MatthiasWhig1847 – 1851
Charles O'NeillWhig1853 – 1854U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1863 to 1871 and from 1873 to 1893
Eli Kirk PriceWhig1853 – 1855
Harlan G. IngramDemocratic1857 – 1858
Isaac Nathaniel MarselisDemocratic1857 – 1859
Samuel Jackson RandallDemocratic1857 – 1859U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1863 to 1875 and from Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1875 to 1890. 29th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1876 to 1881
Richardson L. WrightDemocratic1857 – 1859
John H. ParkerRepublican1859 – 1860
George Rush SmithRepublican1861 – 1862
Cornelius M. DonovanDemocratic1861 – 1865
Jeremiah NicholsWhig1861 – 1865
Abraham Heistand GlatzDemocratic1861 – 1867
George C. ConnellRepublican1861 – 1869
Jacob Elwood RidgwayRepublican1863 – 1865
Stephen Fowler WilsonRepublican1863 – 1865U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district from 1865 to 1869
William McCandlessDemocratic1867 – 1868Colonel in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War and the first Secretary of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania
William W. WattRepublican1869 – 1870
John B. WarfelRepublican1869 – 1875
Robert Porter DechertDemocratic1871 – 1872
James B. AlexanderRepublican1873 – 1875
Daniel ErmentroutDemocratic1873 – 1887U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1881 to 1889 and Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1897 to 1899
George Handy SmithRepublican1875 – 1895
William WagnerWhig1883 – 1884Founder of the Wagner Free Institute of Science
George Augustus VareRepublican1897 – 1907
Edwin H. VareRepublican1909 – 1921
William Scott VareRepublican1922 – 1923U.S. Senator-elect for Pennsylvania from 1927 to 1929. Never seated and removed in 1929 due to allegations of corruption and voter fraud
Flora M. VareRepublican1925 – 1928First woman to serve in the Pennsylvania Senate
Lawrence E. McCrossinDemocratic1929 – 1930
Joseph C. TrainerRepublican1931 – 1935
Anthony J. DiSilvestroDemocratic1937 – 1965
Henry J. CianfraniDemocratic1967 – 1977last = Coxfirst = Haroldtitle = Pennsylvania Senate - 1977-1978work = Wilkes University Election Statistics Projectpublisher = Wilkes Universitydate =2004url =http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/legis/161S.pdf}}
Vincent J. FumoDemocratic1978 – 2008Convicted of 137 federal corruption charges and sentenced to 55 months in federal prison{{cite news
Larry FarneseDemocratic2009 – 2021Elected November 4, 2008. Lost renomination in 2020.
Nikil SavalDemocratic2021 – presentElected November 3, 2020

Recent election results

References

References

  1. "2021 Final Reapportionment Plan". [[Pennsylvania Department of State]].
  2. "Senate Historical Biographies".
  3. "RODMAN, William, (1757-1824)".
  4. "Mayors of Philadelphia".
  5. A. B. Hepburn, A History of Currency in the United States (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1903; reprinted, August M. Kelly Publishers, 1967) p. 95
  6. "Michael Leib".
  7. "Brazil". United States Department of State.
  8. (1859). "The lives of eminent Philadelphians, now deceased". William Brotherhead.
  9. "TOLAND, George Washington, (1796-1869)".
  10. (October 1900). "Alumni Register, Volume 5". General Alumni Society of the University of Pennsylvania.
  11. "William Bradford Reed".
  12. "Joseph Bailey".
  13. "Charles O'Neill".
  14. "RANDALL, Samuel Jackson, (1828-1890)".
  15. "WILSON, Stephen Fowler, (1821-1897)".
  16. "William McCandless".
  17. "ERMENTROUT, Daniel, (1837-1899)".
  18. (1990). "Wagner Free Institute of Science". National Register of Historic Places.
  19. "U.S. Senate: The Election Case of William B. Wilson vs. William S. Vare of Pennsylvania (1929)".
  20. (2001). "The Almanac of Women and Minorities in Politics 2002". Routledge.
  21. Cox, Harold. (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1977-1978". Wilkes University.
  22. (2004). "2008 General Election Senator in the General Assembly". Pennsylvania Department of State.
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