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(Wilkes-Barre) Democratic: January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1953 81st 82nd: Elected in 1948. Re-elected in 1950. Lost re-election. Edward Bonin : Republican: January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1955 83rd: Elected in 1952. Lost re-election. Daniel Flood (Wilkes-Barre) Democratic: January 3, 1955 – January 31, 1980 84th 85th 86th 87th 88th 89th 90th ...
The Wilkes University Election Statistics Project is a free online resource documenting Pennsylvania political election results dating back to 1796. [ 1 ] Currently, the database documents Pennsylvania's county-level vote totals for President , Governor , United States Senator , and Congressional elections back to 1796.
William H. Davis (1 August 1900 – 5 December 1955) was an American politician. William H. Davis was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on 1 August 1900 to parents John Davis and Janet Owen. Upon graduating from James M. Coughlin High School , Davis enrolled at La Salle Extension University to study accounting.
Lanny Jesse Davis (born December 12, 1945) is an American political operative, lawyer, consultant, lobbyist, author, and television commentator.He is the co-founder and partner of the law firm of Davis Goldberg & Galper PLLC, and co-founder and partner of the public relations firm Trident DMG.
The newspaper was founded in 1978 by striking employees of the Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company, which published the Times Leader.Established on October 9 of that year, The Citizens' Voice was initially a "strike newspaper" published by the local Newspaper Guild, but quickly grew to become a direct competitor to the Times Leader.
Russell Alfred Bufalino [2] (/ ˌ b ʌ f ə ˈ l iː n oʊ /; born Rosario Alfredo Bufalino, [3] Italian: [roˈzaːrjo alˈfreːdo bufaˈliːno]; October 29, 1903 – February 25, 1994) was an Italian-American mobster who became the crime boss of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Italian-American Mafia crime family known as the Bufalino crime family, which he ruled from 1959 to 1994.
The Susquehanna River and Wilkes-Barre Downtown Wilkes-Barre at night The Stegmaier Federal Building Roth Residence Hall McClintock Hall, built in 1841 According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 7.2 square miles (19 km 2 ), of which 6.8 square miles (18 km 2 ) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2 ), or 4.60%, is water.
Today, the township of Wilkes-Barre occupies a 1-by-3-mile (1.6 by 4.8 km) strip of land adjacent to the southeast border of what is now the city of Wilkes-Barre. Coal mining was a prominent industry in and around Wilkes-Barre Township in the late 19th and early 20th century. The Laurel Run mine fire started near the village of Georgetown in ...