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 was redrawn in 1992 to create much of the state's first majority African-American district. The boundaries enclose most of the "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
1992 on
- Artur Davis (D), 2003 -
- Earl F. Hilliard (D), 1993 - 2003
Before 1992
- 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