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 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

• 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 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