Pennsylvania Senate, District 1

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]

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

Senators
Representative[2] Party Years District home Note
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[3]
Melchior RahmJeffersonian Republican1805 – 1813
John BarclayFederalist1811 – 1813Mayor of Philadelphia from 1791 to 1793[4]
Nicholas BiddleFederalist1813 – 18153rd president of the Second Bank of the United States from 1813 to 1815[5]
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[6]
Condy RaguetFederalist1817 – 18211st United States Ambassador to Brazil from 1825 to 1827[7]
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[8]
William BoydDemocratic1831 – 1833
David S. HassingerDemocratic1831 – 1833
George W. TolandDemocratic1833 – 1835U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1837 to 1843[9]
Abraham MillerDemocratic1835 – 1837
Frederick FraleyWhig1837 – 1839One of the founders of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia[10]
Henry S. SpackmanWashington1839 – 1843
Jacob GratzDemocratic1841 – 1842
William Bradford ReedWhig1841 – 1842Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1838 to 1839. U.S. Minister to China in 1857[11]
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[12]
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[13]
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[14]
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[15]
William McCandlessDemocratic1867 – 1868Colonel in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War and the first Secretary of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania[16]
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[17]
George Handy SmithRepublican1875 – 1895
William WagnerWhig1883 – 1884Founder of the Wagner Free Institute of Science[18]
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[19]
Flora M. VareRepublican1925 – 1928First woman to serve in the Pennsylvania Senate[20]
Lawrence E. McCrossinDemocratic1929 – 1930
Joseph C. TrainerRepublican1931 – 1935
Anthony DiSilvestroDemocratic1937 – 1965
Henry J. CianfraniDemocratic1967 – 1977Resigned on December 15, 1977[21]
Vincent J. FumoDemocratic1978 – 2008Convicted of 137 federal corruption charges and sentenced to 55 months in federal prison[22]
Lawrence M. Farnese, Jr.Democratic2009 – 2021Elected November 4, 2008. Lost renomination in 2020.[23]
Nikil SavalDemocratic2021 – presentElected November 3, 2020

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