Pennsylvania Senate, District 1
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Pennsylvania Senate, District 1 | |
|---|---|
Senate District | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Philadelphia County |
| Government | |
| • Senator | Nikil 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]
- Ward 01
- Ward 02
- Ward 05
- Ward 08
- Ward 14
- Ward 15
- Ward 18
- Ward 25
- Ward 26
- Ward 29 [PART, Division 10]
- Ward 30
- Ward 31 [PART, Division 07]
- Ward 39
- Ward 40 [PART, Divisions 30 (all blocks except 1094, 1095, and 1098), 38 and 40]
- Ward 48 [PART, Divisions 01, 02, 05, 13, 14, 18 and 20])
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 J. 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
- ^ "Composite Listing of State Senate Districts" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
- ^ "Senate Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^ "RODMAN, William, (1757-1824)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "Mayors of Philadelphia". www.phila.gov. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Michael Leib". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
- ^ "Brazil". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2009-06-22.
- ^ Simpson, Henry (1859). The lives of eminent Philadelphians, now deceased. Philadelphia: William Brotherhead. pp. 808–819. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "TOLAND, George Washington, (1796-1869)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ Alumni Register, Volume 5. Philadelphia: General Alumni Society of the University of Pennsylvania. October 1900. p. 131. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
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- ^ "William Bradford Reed". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^ "Joseph Bailey". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^ "Charles O'Neill". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^ "RANDALL, Samuel Jackson, (1828-1890)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "WILSON, Stephen Fowler, (1821-1897)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "William McCandless". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ "ERMENTROUT, Daniel, (1837-1899)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ Glassman, Susan; Bolt, Eugene (1990). "Wagner Free Institute of Science". National Register of Historic Places.
- ^ "U.S. Senate: The Election Case of William B. Wilson vs. William S. Vare of Pennsylvania (1929)". www.senate.gov. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1977-1978" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.
- ^ Lounsberry, Emilie; McCoy, Craig R. (July 15, 2009). "Disgraced Fumo gets 55 months in jail". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on July 19, 2009. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
- ^ "2008 General Election Senator in the General Assembly". Pennsylvania Department of State. 2004. Archived from the original on 2012-02-06.
- Cox, Harold (2004). "Legislatures - 1776-2004". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.
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