Arlen Specter was an American lawyer,author and politician who served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965,then a Republican from 1965 until 2009,when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980,he was the longest-serving senator from Pennsylvania,having represented the state for 30 years.
Thomas Timothy Holden is an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district from 1993 to 2013. Holden was the dean of the Pennsylvania Congressional Delegation during the 112th United States Congress. On April 24,2012,Holden was defeated in the Democratic primary in his attempt to seek re-election after the boundaries of his district were redrawn. He is now chairman of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.
Melissa Ann Hart is an American lawyer and politician. She was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007,representing western Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district. She was the first Republican woman to represent Pennsylvania at the federal level. Prior to her service in Congress,Hart served in the Pennsylvania Senate,where she chaired the finance committee. She was the first Republican woman elected to serve a full term in the Pennsylvania Senate in 1990 when she was 28 years old. In her first run for office,Hart defeated an incumbent in a senate district that included parts of Allegheny,Westmoreland and Armstrong counties. In the 2006 midterm elections,Hart lost her bid for re-election to Democrat Jason Altmire. She challenged Altmire again in the 2008 election,but was defeated again.
James William Gerlach is the former U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district,serving from 2003 to 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party. Gerlach retired from Congress after completing his sixth term.
Allyson Schwartz is an American Democratic Party politician who represented parts of Montgomery County and Northeast Philadelphia in the United States House of Representatives from 2005 to 2015 and Northeast and Northwest Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania Senate from 1991 to 2005. She has finished second in a statewide Democratic Party primary twice:for United States Senate in 2000 and for Governor in 2014.
Robert C. Jubelirer is a Republican political leader in Pennsylvania. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1975 to 2006. He served as President pro tempore of the Pennsylvania State Senate for all but two years from 1984 to 2006,and served as the 29th lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania between 2001 and 2003.
David Lloyd Thomas is a Republican former member of the South Carolina Senate. He represented District 8 from 1984 to 2012,which included part of Greenville.
Joseph B. Scarnati III is an American politician from the U.S. State of Pennsylvania. A member of the Republican Party,he served in the Pennsylvania State Senate as the member from the 25th District from 2001 to 2020,and was the president pro tempore from 2007 to 2020.
Vincent J. Hughes is an American politician who is currently serving as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate,representing the 7th District since 1994. Hughes previously served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the 190th District from 1987 to 1994.
Constance Hess Williams is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 17th District,from 2001 to 2009. She previously represented the 149th district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1997 to 2001. On June 23,2021,President Joe Biden nominated her for member of the National Council on the Arts,an advisory board to the chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Andrew E. Dinniman is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 19th District from June 2006 until 2020.
Jacob Doyle Corman III is an American politician who served as the president pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate from 2020 to 2022.
Elections for the Pennsylvania State Senate were held on November 2,2004,with even-numbered districts being contested. State Senators are elected for four-year terms,with half of the Senate seats up for a vote every two years. The term of office for those elected in 2004 will run from January 4,2005 through November 2008. Necessary primary elections were held on April 27,2004.
Kim Lee Ward is an American politician who served as acting lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania and currently serves as President pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate. She represents the 39th Senatorial District which covers the central portions of Westmoreland County,Pennsylvania. Following the resignation of Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman,Ward became acting lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania on January 3,2023,and served until January 17,2023. She is the first female president pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate. She was succeeded by Austin Davis as Lieutenant Governor.
Redistricting in Pennsylvania refers to the decennial process of redrawing state legislative and federal congressional districts in Pennsylvania.
The 2012 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on November 6,2012,alongside a presidential election,other elections to the United States Senate in other states,as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Bob Casey,Jr. ran for and won re-election to a second term,defeating Republican nominee Tom Smith,and Libertarian nominee Rayburn Smith.
Robert Patrick Casey Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who is the senior United States senator from Pennsylvania,a seat he has held since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
John A. Linder is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Chester City Council from 2010 to 2012 and Mayor of Chester,Pennsylvania from 2012 to 2016.
The 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania were held on Tuesday,November 4,2014,to elect the 18 U.S. representatives from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,one from each of the state's 18 congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the United States Senate and House of Representatives and various state and local elections,including the Governor of Pennsylvania and Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania.
Michael Regan is an American politician and former U.S. Marshal. A Republican,he is the Pennsylvania State Senator from the 31st district. Prior to that,he served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives,representing the 92nd district from 2013 to 2016.
