Michigan's 1st Senate district

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Senator
  Erika Geiss
D–Taylor
Demographics41% White
35% Black
20% Hispanic
1% Asian
4% Multiracial
Population(2022)265,219
Notes[1]
Michigan's 1st
State Senate district
Senator
  Erika Geiss
D–Taylor
Demographics41% White
35% Black
20% Hispanic
1% Asian
4% Multiracial
Population (2022)265,219
Notes[1]

Michigan's 1st Senate district is one of 38 districts in the Michigan Senate. It has been represented by Democrat Erika Geiss since 2023, succeeding fellow Democrat Stephanie Chang.[2][3]

2011 Apportionment Plan

District 1 encompasses part of Wayne County.[4]

District 1, as dictated by the 2011 Apportionment Plan, covered parts of Wayne County along the Canadian border, including much of Detroit as well as River Rouge, Ecorse, Wyandotte, Riverview, Trenton, Woodhaven, Gibraltar, Grosse Ile, and parts of Brownstown.[5]

The district was split three ways among Michigan's 12th, 13th, and 14th congressional districts. It overlapped with the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th, 14th, and 23rd districts of the Michigan House of Representatives.[6]

List of senators

Senator Party Dates Residence Notes
Jonathan D. Davis Democratic 1835–1837 Plymouth [7][8]
Conrad Ten Eyck Democratic 1835–1837 Dearborn Resigned.[7][9][10]
John McDonell Democratic 1835–1838 Detroit Resigned.[7][11][12]
Benjamin B. Kercheval Democratic 1837–1839 Detroit Elected in 1837 to fill Conrad Ten Eyck's vacancy.[7][13][14]
William Woodbridge Whig 1838–1839 Detroit [7][15]
De Garmo Jones Whig 1840–1841 Detroit [7][16]
Benjamin F. H. Witherell Democratic 1840–1841 Detroit [7][17]
Dewitt C. Walker Democratic 1842 Romeo [7][18][19]
Lyman Granger Democratic 1842–1843 Columbus [7][20][21]
Jonathan Shearer Democratic 1842–1844 Plymouth [7][22]
Neil Gray Jr. Democratic 1843–1844 Ray [7][23][24]
Lorenzo M. Mason Democratic 1844–1845 Port Huron [7][25]
William Hale Democratic 1845–1846 Detroit [7][26]
Abner C. Smith Democratic 1845–1846 Mount Clemens [7][27]
Oel Rix Democratic 1846–1847 Richmond [7][28]
Andrew T. McReynolds Democratic 1847 Detroit [7][29][30]
Robert P. Eldredge Democratic 1847–1848 Mount Clemens [7][31][32]
John E. Schwarz Democratic 1847–1848 Detroit [7][33]
George Griswold Democratic 1848–1849 Detroit [7][34][35]
Charles A. Loomis Democratic 1848–1849 Saint Clair [7][36][35]
Jacob Summers Democratic 1849–1850 Utica [7][37]
Titus Dort Democratic 1849–1852 Dearborn [7][38]
Joseph T. Copeland Democratic 1850–1851 Saint Clair Resigned, elected circuit judge.[7][39][40]
Andrew Harvie Democratic 1850–1852 Detroit [7][41]
Andrew Harvie Democratic 1850–1852 Detroit [7][42]
Henry C. Kibbee Democratic 1851–1852 Mount Clemens [7][43]
The 1850 Michigan Constitution takes effect, changing the district from a multi-member district to a single-member district.[44][45]
George Griswold Democratic 1853–1854 Detroit [7][34][46]
Buckminster Wight Republican 1855–1856 Detroit [7][47][48]
Alexander H. Redfield Democratic 1857–1858 Detroit [7][49]
Anthony Dudgeon Democratic 1859–1860 Detroit [7][50][51]
William Adair Democratic 1861–1866 Detroit [7][52]
Paul Gies Democratic 1867–1868 Detroit [7][53]
William Adair Democratic 1869–1870 Detroit [7][52]
James W. Romeyn Democratic 1871–1872 Detroit [7][54]
William B. Wesson Republican 1873–1874 Detroit [7][55]
William Adair Democratic 1875–1878 Detroit [7][52]
James D. Weir Democratic 1879–1880 Detroit [7][56]
James Caplis Republican 1881–1882 Detroit [7][57]
James W. Romeyn Democratic 1883–1884 Detroit [7][54]
Michael Greiner Democratic 1885–1886 Wayne County [7][58]
John Rairden Republican 1887–1888 Detroit Also backed by the Labor Party.[7][59][60]
Joseph Nagel Democratic 1889–1890 Detroit [7][61]
Frank Smith Democratic 1891–1892 Detroit [7][62]
Lewis C. Hough Democratic 1893–1894 Plymouth [7][63]
F. Markham Briggs Republican 1895–1896 Plymouth [7][64]
Arthur L. Holmes Republican 1897–1898 Detroit [7][65]
John J. Perren Democratic 1899–1900 Detroit [7][66]
Arthur L. Holmes Republican 1901–1902 Detroit [7][65]
William P. Scullen Democratic 1903–1904 Greenfield [7][67]
Frederick C. Martindale Republican 1905–1908 Greenfield [7][68]
Lawrence W. Snell Republican 1909–1912 Highland Park [7][69]
Clarence E. Gittins Progressive 1913–1914 Highland Park [7][70]
Louis N. Hilsendegen Republican 1915–1916 Grosse Pointe [7][71]
Herman L. Koehler Republican 1917–1918 Detroit [7][72]
Walter J. Hayes Republican 1919–1924 Wayne County [7][73]
Roy Herald Republican 1925–1926 Highland Park [7][74]
George Defer Republican 1927 Detroit Died in office.[7][75]
Fred W. Harding Republican 1929–1932 Grosse Pointe [7][76]
James A. Murphy Democratic 1933–1939 Detroit Died in office.[7][77]
Carl W. Bischoff Democratic 1939–1940 Detroit [7][78]
Ernest G. Nagel Democratic 1941–1942 Detroit [7][79]
Charles N. Youngblood Sr. Democratic 1943–1946 Detroit [7][80][81]
Matthew F. Callahan Republican 1947–1948 Detroit [7][82]
Harold M. Ryan Democratic 1949–1962 Detroit Resigned.[7][83]
Charles N. Youngblood Jr. Democratic 1963–1964 Detroit [7][84]
George S. Fitzgerald Democratic 1965–1974 Grosse Pointe Park [7][85]
William B. Fitzgerald Jr. Democratic 1975–1978 Detroit [7][86]
John F. Kelly Democratic 1979–1994 Detroit [7][87]
Joseph F. Young Jr. Democratic 1995–2002 Detroit [7][88]
Hansen Clarke Democratic 2003–2010 Detroit [7][89]
Coleman Young II Democratic 2011–2018 Detroit [7][90]
Stephanie Chang Democratic 2019–2022 Detroit [7][91]
Erika Geiss Democratic 2023–present Taylor [92]

Recent election results

Historical district boundaries

References

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