Artur Genestre Davis is an American politician who has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing Alabama's 7th congressional district, a district created under the Voting Rights Act to be black-majority, and which includes the rural black belt. It encompasses the counties of Choctaw, Sumter, Greene, Perry, Hale, Dallas, Wilcox, and Marengo. It also includes parts of Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Pickens and Clarke Counties.