Williamsport is a city in,and the county seat of,Lycoming County,Pennsylvania,United States. As of the 2020 census,it had a population of 27,754. It is the principal city of the Williamsport Metropolitan Statistical Area,which has a population of about 114,000. Williamsport is the larger principal city of the Williamsport-Lock Haven Combined Statistical Area,which includes Lycoming and Clinton counties.
Edward Gene Rendell is an American lawyer,prosecutor,politician,and author who served as the 45th governor of Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2011. He previously served as chair of the national Democratic Party from 1999 to 2001,as the 96th mayor of Philadelphia from 1992 to 2000,and as district attorney of Philadelphia from 1978 to 1986.
William Fisher Packer was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as the 14th governor of Pennsylvania from 1858 to 1861.
Journey Bank Ballpark at Historic Bowman Field is a minor league baseball stadium in Williamsport,Pennsylvania,in the United States. It is home to the Williamsport Crosscutters,a collegiate summer baseball team of the MLB Draft League. The official seating capacity is 2,366. Opened in 1926,Bowman Field is the second-oldest ballpark in minor league baseball. Bowman Field is also the home field for the Wildcats of the Pennsylvania College of Technology for more than a decade. A new field project for the Penn College Wildcats was planned to be completed by 2022,but has since been delayed.
Mary B. Wolf was the second female mayor of City of Williamsport,Pennsylvania in the United States,serving from 2004 to 2008.
John Karl Fetterman is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Pennsylvania since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the mayor of Braddock,Pennsylvania,from 2006 to 2019 and as the 34th lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania from 2019 to 2023. Generally described as a progressive and a populist,Fetterman advocates healthcare as a right,criminal justice reform,abolishing capital punishment,raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour,and legalizing cannabis.
Thomas Wingett Corbett Jr. is an American politician,lobbyist,and former prosecutor who served as the 46th governor of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as the attorney general of Pennsylvania on two occasions.
Keiffer Jackson Mitchell Jr. is an American politician from Baltimore,Maryland,who once served in the Maryland House of Delegates and the Baltimore City Council and was a candidate in the 2007 mayoral election.
Peter Herdic (1824–1888) was a lumber baron,entrepreneur,inventor,politician,and philanthropist in Victorian era Williamsport,Lycoming County,Pennsylvania,in the United States. He was the youngest of seven children born to Henry and Elizabeth Herdic on December 14,1824,in Fort Plain,New York. Herdic's father died in 1826 and Elizabeth Herdic remarried shortly thereafter. She was widowed again prior to 1837 when she moved her family to Pipe Creek,New York,near Ithaca. Herdic attended school for just a few years while he worked on his mother's 50-acre (200,000 m2) farm. Herdic left his mother's farm in 1846 and arrived in Lycoming County later that same year,where he settled in Cogan House Township.
Williamsport was incorporated as a borough on March 1,1806,and as a city on January 15,1866. The city is the original home of Little League Baseball,founded in 1939 as a three-team league.
Miles Brown Kitts was a Republican mayor of Erie,Pennsylvania who served as mayor during World War I and the Roaring Twenties. He is considered to have been one of the "most colorful" mayors because he brought about great changes to Erie but,was also investigated by a grand jury in 1921 and almost was indicted.
On November 2,1999,the city of Baltimore,Maryland,elected a new mayor,the 47th in the city's history. Primary elections were held to determine the nominees for the Democratic Party and Republican Party on September 14. Incumbent mayor Kurt Schmoke,a Democrat,opted not to run for reelection. Martin O'Malley,a member of the Baltimore City Council,won the election to succeed Schmoke.
The 1982 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election was held on November 2,1982,between incumbent Republican Dick Thornburgh and Democratic U.S. Congressman Allen E. Ertel. Thornburgh was a popular incumbent,who largely was the favorite throughout the race. However,owing to a nationwide recession which hit the state particularly hard,and a backlash to Reaganomics,the final result ended up becoming much closer than what was initially anticipated.
The 2013 Pittsburgh mayoral election took place on November 5,2013. Democrat Bill Peduto was elected the 60th Mayor of Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. The primary election was held on May 21,2013. Incumbent Democratic Mayor Luke Ravenstahl,although eligible for a second full term,did not seek reelection as Mayor of Pittsburgh.
The 2016 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania took place on November 8,2016,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in numerous other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The primaries were held on April 26. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Pat Toomey was reelected to a second term in a close race,defeating Democratic nominee Katie McGinty and Libertarian Party nominee Edward Clifford. With a margin of 1.43%,this election was the second-closest race of the 2016 Senate election cycle,behind only the election in New Hampshire.
Scott R. Wagner is an American businessman and politician from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He represented the 28th district in the Pennsylvania State Senate. He was the Republican nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania in the 2018 election,losing by more than 800,000 votes to incumbent Democrat Tom Wolf.
The 2016 Baltimore mayoral election was held November 8,2016 concurrent with the General Election. Stephanie Rawlings-Blake,the incumbent mayor,did not run for reelection. Catherine Pugh won the election on November 8,2016,with 57% of the popular vote,and took office on December 6,2016.
Sara G. Innamorato is an American politician who was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2018 and was the Representative for the 21st district until 2023,which includes parts of Pittsburgh and the surrounding areas. She was elected Allegheny County Executive in 2023. She is the first woman to hold the position.
Derek Slaughter is an American politician who is the mayor of Williamsport,Pennsylvania,the first African-American to hold the position. Prior to mayor Slaughter served as city councilman and taught mathematics at Pennsylvania College of Technology.
The 2021 Pittsburgh mayoral election took place on November 2,2021. The primary election was held on May 18,2021. The Democratic nominee,State Representative Ed Gainey,defeated the Republican nominee,retired police officer Tony Moreno.
