Pennsylvania Senate, District 1

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Pennsylvania Senate, District 1
Senate District
CountryUnited States
StatePennsylvania
CountyPhiladelphia County
Government
 • SenatorNikil Saval (D)

Pennsylvania State Senate District 1 is located in Philadelphia County and is represented by Nikil Saval (D). The district broadly encompasses Center City, South Philadelphia, and the lower parts of North Philadelphia, including the neighborhoods of Bella Vista, Chinatown, East Passyunk Crossing, Eastwick, Fairmount, Fishtown, Francisville, Girard Estate, Grays Ferry, Hawthorne, Logan Square, Lower Kensington, Northern Liberties, Old City, Packer Park, Pennsport, Point Breeze, Port Richmond, Queen Village, Rittenhouse Square, Society Hill, Washington West, and Whitman.[2]It is divided into these wards:[1]

Senators[]

Representative[2] Party Years District home Note
Lindsay Coats Federalist 1791 – 1797
Dennis Whelen Federalist 1795 – 1801
Samuel King Federalist 1799 – 1801
William Rodman Jeffersonian Republican 1799 – 1803 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1811 to 1813[3]
Melchior Rahm Jeffersonian Republican 1805 – 1813
John Barclay Federalist 1811 – 1813 Mayor of Philadelphia from 1791 to 1793[4]
Nicholas Biddle Federalist 1813 – 1815 3rd president of the Second Bank of the United States from 1813 to 1815[5]
Jacob Shearer Democratic-Republican 1813 – 1815
William Maghee Federalist 1815 – 1817
John Read Federalist 1817 – 1818
Michael Leib Democratic-Republican 1818 – 1821 U.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[6]
Condy Raguet Federalist 1817 – 1821 1st United States Ambassador to Brazil from 1825 to 1827[7]
Robert McMullin Federalist 1819 – 1820
James Robertson Federalist 1821 – 1823
John Wurtz Federalist 1821 – 1823
George Emlen Federalist 1823 – 1825
John Hare Powel Federalist 1827 – 1829 Colonel in the U.S. Army. Founder of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society in 1823[8]
William Boyd Democratic 1831 – 1833
David S. Hassinger Democratic 1831 – 1833
George W. Toland Democratic 1833 – 1835 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1837 to 1843[9]
Abraham Miller Democratic 1835 – 1837
Frederick Fraley Whig 1837 – 1839 One of the founders of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia[10]
Henry S. Spackman Washington 1839 – 1843
Jacob Gratz Democratic 1841 – 1842
William Bradford Reed Whig 1841 – 1842 Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1838 to 1839. U.S. Minister to China in 1857[11]
William A. Crabb Whig 1843 – 1855
Joseph Bailey Democratic 1843 – 1851 U.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[12]
Charles L. Gibbons Whig 1845 – 1847
Benjamin Matthias Whig 1847 – 1851
Charles O'Neill Whig 1853 – 1854 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1863 to 1871 and from 1873 to 1893[13]
Eli Kirk Price Whig 1853 – 1855
Harlan G. Ingram Democratic 1857 – 1858
Isaac Nathaniel Marselis Democratic 1857 – 1859
Samuel Jackson Randall Democratic 1857 – 1859 U.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[14]
Richardson L. Wright Democratic 1857 – 1859
John H. Parker Republican 1859 – 1860
George Rush Smith Republican 1861 – 1862
Cornelius M. Donovan Democratic 1861 – 1865
Jeremiah Nichols Whig 1861 – 1865
Abraham Heistand Glatz Democratic 1861 – 1867
George C. Connell Republican 1861 – 1869
Jacob Elwood Ridgway Republican 1863 – 1865
Stephen Fowler Wilson Republican 1863 – 1865 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district from 1865 to 1869[15]
William McCandless Democratic 1867 – 1868 Colonel in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War and the first Secretary of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania[16]
William W. Watt Republican 1869 – 1870
John B. Warfel Republican 1869 – 1875
Robert Porter Dechert Democratic 1871 – 1872
James B. Alexander Republican 1873 – 1875
Daniel Ermentrout Democratic 1873 – 1887 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1881 to 1889 and Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1897 to 1899[17]
George Handy Smith Republican 1875 – 1895
William Wagner Whig 1883 – 1884 Founder of the Wagner Free Institute of Science[18]
George Augustus Vare Republican 1897 – 1907
Edwin H. Vare Republican 1909 – 1921
William Scott Vare Republican 1922 – 1923 U.S. Senator-elect for Pennsylvania from 1927 to 1929. Never seated and removed in 1929 due to allegations of corruption and voter fraud[19]
Flora M. Vare Republican 1925 – 1928 First woman to serve in the Pennsylvania Senate[20]
Lawrence E. McCrossin Democratic 1929 – 1930
Joseph C. Trainer Republican 1931 – 1935
Anthony DiSilvestro Democratic 1937 – 1965
Henry J. Cianfrani Democratic 1967 – 1977 Resigned on December 15, 1977[21]
Vincent J. Fumo Democratic 1978 – 2008 Convicted of 137 federal corruption charges and sentenced to 55 months in federal prison[22]
Lawrence M. Farnese, Jr. Democratic 2009 – 2021 Elected November 4, 2008. Lost renomination in 2020.[23]
Nikil Saval Democratic 2021 – present Elected November 3, 2020

References[]

  1. ^ "Composite Listing of State Senate Districts" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
  2. ^ "Senate Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  3. ^ "RODMAN, William, (1757-1824)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Mayors of Philadelphia". www.phila.gov. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  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". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Brazil". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2009-06-22.
  8. ^ Simpson, Henry (1859). The lives of eminent Philadelphians, now deceased. Philadelphia: William Brotherhead. pp. 808–819. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  9. ^ "TOLAND, George Washington, (1796-1869)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  10. ^ Alumni Register, Volume 5. Philadelphia: General Alumni Society of the University of Pennsylvania. October 1900. p. 131. Retrieved 20 January 2019. frederick fraley.
  11. ^ "William Bradford Reed". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  12. ^ "Joseph Bailey". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  13. ^ "Charles O'Neill". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  14. ^ "RANDALL, Samuel Jackson, (1828-1890)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  15. ^ "WILSON, Stephen Fowler, (1821-1897)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  16. ^ "William McCandless". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  17. ^ "ERMENTROUT, Daniel, (1837-1899)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  18. ^ Glassman, Susan; Bolt, Eugene (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)". www.senate.gov. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  20. ^ Martin, Mart (2001). The Almanac of Women and Minorities in Politics 2002. New York: Routledge. p. 1982. ISBN 0-8133-9817-7. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  21. ^ Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1977-1978" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.
  22. ^ Lounsberry, Emilie; McCoy, Craig R. (July 15, 2009). "Disgraced Fumo gets 55 months in jail". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on November 11, 2011. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
  23. ^ "2008 General Election Senator in the General Assembly". Pennsylvania Department of State. 2004. Archived from the original on 2012-02-06.



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