Northampton County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,United States. As of the 2020 census,the population was 312,951. Its county seat is Easton. The county was formed in 1752 from parts of Bucks County. Its namesake was the county of Northamptonshire in England,and the county seat of Easton was named for Easton Neston,a country house in Northamptonshire.
Bethlehem Township is a township in Northampton County,Pennsylvania,United States. The population of Bethlehem Township was 23,730 at the 2010 census. It is a suburb of Bethlehem and is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan statistical area,which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
Hellertown is a borough in Northampton County,Pennsylvania. Its population was 6,131 at the 2020 census. Hellertown is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area,which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of 2020.
Richard Brodhead was an American lawyer and politician from Easton,Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in both the U.S. House and Senate.
Everett Kent was an American lawyer and Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Arthur Granville Dewalt was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district from 1915 to 1921.
Jefferson Davis Brodhead,also known as J. Davis Brodhead and Joseph Davis Brodhead,was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania for one term from 1907 to 1909.
Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district has been located in western and central Pennsylvania since 2019. Since 2023,the district includes all of Armstrong,Cameron,Centre,Clarion,Clearfield,Clinton,Elk,Forest,Jefferson,McKean,Potter,Snyder,Tioga,Union,and Warren counties and parts of Indiana,Lycoming,and Venango counties.
Northampton Community College is a public community college in Pennsylvania with campuses in Bethlehem in Northampton County and Tannersville in Monroe County. The college,founded in 1967,also has satellite locations in the south side of Bethlehem and Hawley. The college serves more than 34,000 students a year in credit and non-credit programs.
Pennsylvania State Senate District 18 includes parts of Lehigh and Northampton counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It is currently represented by Democrat Lisa Boscola.
Donald Cunningham Jr. is an American politician who is president and CEO of the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (LVEDC). He previously served as executive of Lehigh County,Pennsylvania,secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of General Services,and mayor of Bethlehem,Pennsylvania.
Jeanette F. Reibman was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 18th district from 1969 to 1994. She also served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the Northampton County district from 1955 to 1966.
Joseph Francis Leeson Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Susan Wild is an American attorney and politician from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. A Democrat,she is a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district. The district is in the heart of the Lehigh Valley,and includes Allentown,Bethlehem,Easton,and Bangor. Wild spent the last two months of 2018 as the member for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district after Charlie Dent resigned in 2018. From September 2022 to January 2023,she was chair of the House Ethics Committee. She continues to sit on the committee as ranking member. She also co-chairs the New Democrat Coalition Climate Change Task Force and is vice chair of both the Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus and the Subcommittee on Africa,Global Health,Global Human Rights and International Organizations. Wild is the first woman to represent the Lehigh Valley in Congress.
William Beidelman was an American politician from the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and saw combat at the Battle of Gettysburg,which was the war's turning point in the Union's favor but also its bloodiest battle.
Justin D. Jirolanio was an American politician who acted as the political boss of the Lehigh Valley's Democratic Party,serving in both chambers of the Pennsylvania General Assembly and holding various local offices.
Gus Paul Verona was an American politician who represented the Lehigh Valley as a Democrat for six years from 1959 until his death in 1964,serving in both the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and the Pennsylvania State Senate.
Joseph J. Yosko was an American politician who represented the Lehigh Valley in the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 18th district as a Democrat from 1949 until his death in 1958. He also served in numerous department offices starting in 1934.
William Gregory Barthold was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served in the Pennsylvania State Senate,representing the 18th district from 1937 to 1938 as well as serving as a Judge in Northampton County from 1938 until his death in 1969.
Warren Roscoe Roberts was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as Pennsylvania Auditor General from 1937 to 1941 and previously served in the Pennsylvania State Senate,representing the 18th district from 1927 to 1937.
