Danny K. Davis
Democrat · IL-7 · U.S. House
IL-7 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Danny K. Davis is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. La Shawn Ford vs. Chad Koppie.
Bio
Daniel K. Davis is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 7th congressional district since 1997. The district includes much of western Chicago, as well as the Loop. It also encompasses several of Chicago's inner western suburbs, such as Bellwood, Oak Park, and River Forest. Davis is a Democrat, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and a former member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 29.7 years
- First took office
- 1997 (15 terms)
- Seniority
- 22 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 85
- Chicago, IL · 773-533-7520
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $234k – $664k
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $234k – $664k
- Since 2019
- +$214k
Largest holdings in the 2024 filing · 12 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Danny K. Davis's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Danny K. Davis (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Davissits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 95 members
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Committees
- House Committee on Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Davis's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
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