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The Pennsylvania State Senate is the upper house of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the Pennsylvania state legislature. The State Senate meets in the State Capitol building in Harrisburg . Senators are elected for four-year terms, staggered every two years, such that half of the seats are contested at each election. [ 2 ]
Pennsylvania State Senator for the 4th district from 1849 to 1852 [5] William B. Waddell: Republican: 1873 – 1874: Thomas Valentine Cooper: Republican: 1873 – 1874: Pennsylvania State Representative for Delaware County from 1870 to 1871, 1872 to 1873 and 1901 to 1909. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 9th district from 1875 to 1888. [6 ...
First African-American to serve in the Pennsylvania Senate. [9] T. Milton Street: Republican: 1981 – 1984: Roxanne Jones: Democratic: 1985 – 1996: First African-American woman to serve in the Pennsylvania Senate. [10] Shirley M. Kitchen: Democratic: 1996 – 2017: Pennsylvania State Representative for the 181st district from 1987 to 1988 ...
Pennsylvania's 201st State ... D–Philadelphia: The 201st Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in Philadelphia County and includes the following ...
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1816 to 1817. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1827 to 1831 [4] Henry Winter: Democratic-Republican: 1819 – 1822: Pennsylvania State Senator for the 12th district from 1823 to 1826 [5] John Andrew Schulze: Democratic-Republican: 1821 – 1824
U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1863 to 1875 and from Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1875 to 1890. 29th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1876 to 1881 [14] Richardson L. Wright: Democratic: 1857 – 1859: John H. Parker: Republican: 1859 – 1860: George Rush Smith ...
The Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, has convened many times since statehood became effective on December 12, 1787. In earlier colonial times (1682–1776) the legislature was known as the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly .
Representative Party Years District home Note Prior to 1969, seats were apportioned by county. Francis J. Lynch: Democratic: 1969 – 1974: Resigned March 25, 1973 [2] Frank Louis Oliver: Democratic: 1974 – 2011: Elected November 1973 to fill vacancy [3] Michelle Brownlee: Democratic: 2011 – 2015: Resigned June 8, 2015 Donna Bullock ...