Luzerne County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. According to the United States Census Bureau,the county has a total area of 906 square miles (2,350 km2),of which 890 square miles (2,300 km2) is land and 16 square miles (41 km2) is water. It is Northeastern Pennsylvania's second-largest county by total area. As of the 2020 census,the population was 325,594,making it the most populous county in the northeastern part of the state. The county seat and most populous city is Wilkes-Barre. Other populous communities include Hazleton,Kingston,Nanticoke,and Pittston. Luzerne County is included in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton Metropolitan Statistical Area,which has a total population of 555,426 as of 2017. The county is part of the Northeastern Pennsylvania region of the state.
Paul Edmund Kanjorski is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district from 1985 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Mitchell Jenkins was a U.S. Republican Congressional Representative from Pennsylvania.
John Sydney Fine was an American lawyer,judge,and politician. A Republican,he served as the 35th governor of Pennsylvania from 1951 to 1955.
Edward John Bonin was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Thomas Byron Miller was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
John Joseph Casey was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Charles Murray Turpin was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Edmund Nelson Carpenter was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Clarence Dennis Coughlin was an American lawyer,educator,and politician who served one term as a Republican U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1921 to 1923.
Thomas Weir Templeton was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Henry Wilbur Palmer was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Henry Palmer was the father of Bradley Palmer,a Boston lawyer known for his involvement with United Fruit Company,Gillette,and ITT Corporation.
George Washington Shonk was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Hendrick Bradley Wright was a Democratic and Greenback member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Winthrop Welles Ketcham was a United States representative from Pennsylvania and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Chester Pierce Butler was an American politician who served as an Anti-Masonic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Benjamin Alden Bidlack was an American politician,diplomat,and attorney who served as a member of the US House of Representatives and was later appointed chargéd'affaires to New Granada. While serving in New Granada he negotiated an agreement later known as the Mallarino–Bidlack Treaty. This treaty was the only instance in the nineteenth-century where the United States committed to defend the sovereignty of a Latin American state at the request of that state. The pact helped pave the way for the construction of the Panama Canal.
Andrew Beaumont was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
George Denison was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania lieutenant gubernatorial election of 2010 was held on November 2,2010. The winning candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor will serve a four-year term from 2011 to 2015. In Pennsylvania,the Lieutenant Governor is elected on the same ticket as the Governor,so the only campaign for this office was the primary election. As a result of Tom Corbett's election to the position of governor,Jim Cawley became the new Lieutenant Governor.
United States 