American legislative district
Pennsylvania's 1st State Senate district Senator Population (2021) 250,243
Pennsylvania State Senate District 1 includes part of Philadelphia County . It is currently represented by Democrat Nikil Saval .
The district includes the following areas:[ 1]
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] 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] Larry Farnese Democratic 2009 – 2021 Elected November 4, 2008. Lost renomination in 2020.[ 23] Nikil Saval Democratic 2021 – present Elected November 3, 2020
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