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- 1 2 "Christian Kieffer". archive.house.state.pa.us. Pennsylvania House of Representatives . Retrieved December 11, 2024.
- ↑ Mayors of the City of Lancaster, PA Archived 2010-08-25 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved on 2009-10-25.
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