Maryland's 7th congressional district

Maryland's 7th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives encompasses just over half of the city of Baltimore, some sections of Baltimore County, and the majority of Howard County. The district was created following the census of 1790, which gave Maryland one additional representative in the House. It has been drawn as a majority-African American district since 1973. Kweisi Mfume is the current representative, winning a special election on April 28, 2020 to finish the term of Elijah Cummings, who died in October 2019.[3]

Maryland's 7th congressional district
Maryland's 7th congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
Representative
  Kweisi Mfume
D–Baltimore
Area294.25 sq mi (762.1 km2)
Distribution
  • 95% urban
Population (2000)662,060
Median income$60,929[1]
Ethnicity
Occupation
Cook PVID+26[2]

List of members representing the district

The district was created in 1793.

Member Party Years Con-
gress		 Electoral history District location
1
William Hindman		 Pro-Administration March 4, 1793 –
March 3, 1795		 3rd
4th
5th		 Redistricted from the 2nd district and re-elected in 1792.
Re-elected in 1794.
Re-elected in 1796.
Lost re-election.		 [data unknown/missing]
Federalist March 4, 1795 –
March 3, 1799
2
Joseph H. Nicholson		 Democratic-Republican March 4, 1799 –
March 1, 1806		 6th
7th
8th
9th		 Elected November 29, 1798 to begin member-elect Joshua Seney's term.
Re-elected in 1801.
Re-elected in 1803.
Re-elected in 1804.
Resigned.		 [data unknown/missing]
3
Edward Lloyd		 Democratic-Republican December 3, 1806 –
March 3, 1809		 9th
10th		 Elected September 27 and October 4, 1806 to finish Nicholson's term.
Re-elected October 6, 1806.
Re-elected in 1808.
Retired.		 [data unknown/missing]
4 John Brown Democratic-Republican March 4, 1809 –
??, 1810		 11th Elected in 1808.
Re-elected in 1810.
Resigned to become Clerk of Court of Queen Anne's County.		 [data unknown/missing]
5
Robert Wright		 Democratic-Republican November 29, 1810 –
March 3, 1817		 11th
12th
13th
14th		 Elected to finish Brown's term and to the next term on the same ballot.
Re-elected in 1812.
Re-elected in 1814.
Retired.		 [data unknown/missing]
6 Thomas Culbreth Democratic-Republican March 4, 1817 –
March 3, 1821		 15th
16th		 Elected in 1816.
Re-elected in 1818.
Lost re-election.		 [data unknown/missing]
7
Robert Wright		 Democratic-Republican March 4, 1821 –
March 3, 1823		 17th Elected in 1820.
Retired.		 [data unknown/missing]
8 William Hayward Jr. Democratic-Republican (Crawford) March 4, 1823 –
March 3, 1825		 18th Elected in 1822.
Retired.		 1823–1833
[data unknown/missing]
9
John Leeds Kerr		 Anti-Jacksonian March 4, 1825 –
March 3, 1829		 19th
20th		 Elected in 1824.
Re-elected in 1826.
Lost re-election.
10 Richard Spencer Jacksonian March 4, 1829 –
March 3, 1831		 21st Elected in 1829.
[data unknown/missing]
11
John Leeds Kerr		 Anti-Jacksonian March 4, 1831 –
March 3, 1833		 22nd [data unknown/missing]
12
Francis Thomas		 Jacksonian March 4, 1833 –
March 3, 1835		 23rd Redistricted from the 4th district.
Redistricted to the 6th district.		 1833–1843
[data unknown/missing]
13 Daniel Jenifer Anti-Jacksonian March 4, 1835 –
March 3, 1837		 24th [data unknown/missing]
Whig March 4, 1837 –
March 3, 1841		 25th
26th
14 Augustus R. Sollers Whig March 4, 1841 –
March 3, 1843		 27th [data unknown/missing]
Seat abolished after the 1840 United States Census.
Seat was reinstated after the 1950 United States Census.
15
Samuel Friedel		 Democratic January 3, 1953 –
January 3, 1971		 83rd
84th
85th
86th
87th
88th
89th
90th
91st		 [data unknown/missing] 1953–1973
[data unknown/missing]
16
Parren Mitchell		 Democratic January 3, 1971 –
January 3, 1987		 92nd
93rd
94th
95th
96th
97th
98th
99th
100th		 Retired to run (unsuccessfully) for Lieutenant Governor of Maryland.
1973–1983
[data unknown/missing]
1983–1993
[data unknown/missing]
17
Kweisi Mfume		 Democratic January 3, 1987 –
February 15, 1996		 101st
102nd
103rd
104th		 [data unknown/missing]
Resigned to become CEO of the NAACP.
1993–2003
[data unknown/missing]
Vacant February 15, 1996 –
April 16, 1996		 104th
18
Elijah Cummings		 Democratic April 16, 1996 –
October 17, 2019		 104th
105th
106th
107th
108th
109th
110th
111th
112th
113th
114th
115th
116th		 Elected to finish Mfume's term.
Re-elected in 1996.
Re-elected in 1998.
Re-elected in 2000.
Re-elected in 2002.
Re-elected in 2004.
Re-elected in 2006.
Re-elected in 2008.
Re-elected in 2010.
Re-elected in 2012.
Re-elected in 2014.
Re-elected in 2016.
Re-elected in 2018.
Died.
2003–2013
2013–present
Vacant October 17, 2019 –
April 28, 2020		 116th
19
Kweisi Mfume		 Democratic April 28, 2020 –
present		 116th Elected to finish Cummings's term and seated May 5, 2020.

Recent elections

See also

Sources
  1. Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov.
  2. "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  3. Reed, Kai (2020-04-29). "Election results: Kweisi Mfume declared winner of Maryland's 7th District Congress seat". WBAL. Retrieved 2020-04-29.

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