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 Terri Sewell.
The district was redrawn in 1992 to create 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
Since 1992
- Terri Sewell (D), 2011–
- Artur Davis (D), 2003–2011
- Earl F. Hilliard (D), 1993–2003
Before 1992
- Claude Harris, Jr (D), 1987–1993
- Richard Shelby (D), 1979–1987
- Walter Flowers (D), 1973–1979
- Tom Bevill (D), 1967–1973
- James Martin, (R), 1965–1967
- Carl Elliott (D), 1949–1965
- Carter Manasco, (D), 1943–1949
- Walter Bankhead (D), 1941–1943
- Zadoc Weatherford (D), 1939–1941
- William Bankhead (D), 1933–1939
- Miles Allgood (D), 1923–1933
- John Burnett (D), 1899–1923
- Milford Howard (Populist), 1895–1899
- William Henry Denson (D), 1893–1895
- William Forney (D), 1877–1893
- Unallocated during Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–1877
- Jabez 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