7th Congressional District of Alabama

The 7th Congressional District of Alabama is a U.S. congressional district in Alabama, which elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives. The 7th District is currently represented by Artur Davis.

The district, which was created in 1992m includes much of the state's "Black Belt" as well as predominantly African-American portions of Jefferson County and Birmingham. The demographics of the district have made it a Democratic Party stronghold while, at the same time, reducing the influence of traditionally Democratic black voters in other districts.

As of the 2000 U. S. Census, the 8,780 square-mile 7th District's population is 635,300, of which 61.7% are African-American. 72.2% live in urban areas (primarily Birmingham, Bessemer, Tuscaloosa, Selma and Demopolis). The district's median per capita income was $26,672.

Representation

• Artur Davis (D), 2003 -
• Earl F. Hilliard (D), 1993 - 2003
• Claude Harris, Jr (D), 1987 - 1993
• Richard C. Shelby (D), 1979 - 1987
• Walter Flowers (D), 1973 - 1979
• Tom Bevill (D), 1967 - 1973
• James D. Martin, (R), 1965 - 1967
• Carl Elliott (D), 1949 - 1965
• Carter Manasco, (D), 1943 - 1949
• Walter W. Bankhead (D), 1941 - 1943
• Zadoc L. Weatherford (D), 1939 - 1941
• William B. Bankhead (D), 1933 - 1939
• Miles C. Allgood (D), 1923 - 1933
• John L. Burnett (D), 1899 - 1923
• Milford W. Howard (Populist), 1895 - 1899
• William Henry Denson (D), 1893 - 1895
• William H. Forney (D), 1877 - 1893
• Unallocated during Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861 - 1877
• Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (D), 1857 - 1861
• Sampson Willis Harris (D) 1855 - 1857
• James Ferguson Dowdell (D), 1853 - 1855
• Alexander White (Whig), 1851 - 1853
• Franklin Welsh Bowdon (D), 1844 - 1851
• Felix Grundy McConnell (D), 1843 - 1844