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. 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.
H. William DeWeese is an American politician who is a former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party,DeWeese served as the 135th Speaker of the Pennsylvania House from 1993 to 1994. After five years of investigation by Republican State Attorney General Tom Corbett,he was indicted in December 2009 on six charges of conflict of interest,theft and criminal conspiracy on accusations that two members of his staff used state resources to campaign for political office. The trial began January 23,2010. He was re-elected in 2010 despite the charges,but was convicted of five of the six felony charges on February 6,2012.
Jeffrey E. Piccola is an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 15th District from 1995 to 2012 including as Republican Whip from 2001 to 2006. He also served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 104th District from 1977 to 1995.
Chelsa L. Wagner is an American politician currently serving as a Judge in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Joan Orie Melvin is a former justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. In 2013,Melvin was convicted of several criminal counts related to her use of legislative and judicial staff to perform campaign work. She is a member of the Republican Party.
In 2007,Pennsylvania Attorney General Republican Tom Corbett began investigating $3.8 million in public bonuses which were paid to state legislative staffers in the Pennsylvania General Assembly to work on party politics and campaigns. While the bonuses themselves are not illegal,state law forbids state employees from performing campaign work while on the job and forbids payment for campaign work out of taxpayer funds.
Pennsylvania State Senate District 40 includes parts of Lackawanna County and Wayne County and all of Monroe County. It is currently represented by Republican Rosemary Brown.
Sean Michael Ramaley was a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 16th District from 2004 to 2008.
Elections for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives were held on November 5,2002,with all districts being contested. State Representatives are elected for two-year terms,with the entire House of Representatives up for a vote every two years. The term of office for those elected in 2002 ran from January 7,2003 until November 30,2004. Necessary primary elections were held on May 21,2002.
Michael R. Veon is a former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives,representing the 14th District from 1985 through 2006.
Randy Vulakovich is an American politician who served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 38th district from January 6,2015,to January 1,2019. He previously served in the 40th legislative district. He was elected in a special election on August 7,2012. Vulakovich was reelected to a full term in 2014 in the newly established 38th district. In May 2018,he lost re-nomination to that seat in the Republican primary to Ross commissioner Jeremy Shaffer.
Statewide primary elections for various state offices were held in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on May 15,2007. Pennsylvania's general elections were then held statewide on November 6,2007.
Pennsylvania held statewide municipal elections on November 3,2009,to fill a number of judicial positions and to allow judicial retention votes. The necessary primary elections were held on May 19,2009.
Jennifer Lee Daugherty was an American woman from Greensburg,Pennsylvania,who was killed by her supposed friends,in an act of revenge,in February 2010. Daugherty,who was intellectually challenged,was humiliated,tortured,sexually assaulted and murdered by a group of individuals she considered to be her new circle of friends,possibly the first true social group in her life. Her body was wrapped in Christmas decorations,put inside a trash can,and left next to the garbage dumpsters at Greensburg-Salem Middle School.
The 1992 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on November 3,1992. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Arlen Specter narrowly won re-election to a third term,garnering just forty-nine percent of the vote in what was described by The Philadelphia Inquirer as a "massive turnout for Bill Clinton."
The Pennsylvania Attorney General election of 2016 took place on November 8,2016,to elect a new Pennsylvania Attorney General. Democratic incumbent Kathleen Kane originally indicated her intention to seek re-election,but dropped out after she was criminally charged with violating grand jury secrecy laws stemming from alleged leaks of grand jury investigation details to embarrass a political enemy.
Pennsylvania held statewide elections on November 3,2015,to fill judicial positions,to fill a vacancy in the Pennsylvania State Senate,to allow judicial retention votes,and to fill numerous county,local and municipal offices.
Conor James Lamb is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district from 2018 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously represented the neighboring 18th district in 2018.
Eliza Kennedy Smith,also known as Mrs. R. Templeton Smith,was a 20th-century American suffragist,civic activist,and government reformer in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. Upon her death in 1964,The Pittsburgh Press described her as "a relentless,tenacious watchdog of the City's purse strings" who "probably attended more budget sessions over the years than anyone else in Pittsburgh either in or out of government".
