John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg was an American clergyman and Continental Army soldier during the American Revolutionary War.
William Findlay was an American farmer,lawyer,and politician. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party,he served as the fourth governor of Pennsylvania from 1817 to 1820,and as a United States senator from 1821 to 1827. He was one of three Findlay brothers born and raised in Mercersburg,Pennsylvania on their family farm.
Stephen Russell Reed was the longest-serving mayor of Harrisburg,Pennsylvania. Dubbed "Mayor-for-Life," he was re-elected to seven four-year terms,serving from 1982 to 2010. After leaving office,Reed faced charges on nearly 500 counts of theft,fraud and corruption. He pled guilty to 20 charges and was sentenced to probation. Reed died on January 25,2020,in Harrisburg at the age of 70,after a long battle with prostate cancer.
David Leo Lawrence was an American politician who served as the 37th governor of Pennsylvania from 1959 to 1963. The first Catholic elected as Pennsylvania's governor,Lawrence is the only mayor of Pittsburgh to have also been elected as Governor of Pennsylvania. He served four terms as mayor,from 1946 through 1959. A panel of 69 scholars in 1993 ranked him third among the ten best mayors in American history.
The city of Allentown,Pennsylvania was founded in 1762 as Northampton Town by William Allen,a wealthy shipping merchant. During its first fifty years of existence,Northampton Town was a small unincorporated settlement,consisting of a few homes,stores and taverns.
John Alden Fritchey IV is a former Democratic Cook County Commissioner of the Cook County Board of Commissioners who represented the 12th district in Chicago from 2010 until 2018 and was a Democratic State Representative in the Illinois House of Representatives,representing the 11th District in Chicago from 1997 to 2010. He additionally served as the elected Democratic Committeeman for Chicago's 32nd Ward from 2008-2012. According to the Arab-American Institute,Fritchey was one of the longest-serving Arab-American officials in the United States. He is presently President of F4 Consulting,Ltd. In 1998,he created the John Fritchey Youth Foundation,designed to create educational and recreational opportunities for local children through the sponsorship of academic and sports programs. He has additionally supported the Chicago Special Olympics as a repeated participant in the annual Polar Plunge. He presently serves on the Board of Directors of Chicago Gateway Green,a non-profit,public-private partnership dedicated to the greening and beautification of Chicago’s expressways,gateways and neighborhoods through landscape enhancement,litter and graffiti removal and the installation of public art.
John Alexander Ahl was a surgeon,real estate developer,paper mill and iron furnace operator,railroad executive and United States Congressman from Pennsylvania. He was born in Strasburg,Pennsylvania in 1813.
Mark B. Cohen is a Democratic politician from Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. He represented District 202 in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from June 10,1974,until his defeat for reelection in the Democratic primary in 2016.
Vance Criswell McCormick was an American politician and prominent businessman from Harrisburg,Pennsylvania. He served as mayor of Harrisburg from 1902 to 1905 and as United States Democratic National Committee chairman from 1916 to 1919. He was appointed chair of the American delegation at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919,under President Woodrow Wilson.
Harrisburg Cemetery,sometimes referred to as Mount Kalmia Cemetery,is a prominent rural cemetery and national historic district in Harrisburg,Pennsylvania,located at 13th and Liberty streets in the Allison Hill/East Harrisburg neighborhoods of the city. It was officially founded in 1845,although interments took place for many years before. The cemetery is also the burial ground for American Revolutionary War soldiers. The caretaker's cottage was built in 1850. It was designed by famed 19th Century architect,Andrew Jackson Downing,in the Gothic Revival style.
Louis John Barletta is an American businessman and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he served as mayor of Hazleton,Pennsylvania,from 2000 to 2010.
Thomas J. Foerster was a Democratic politician. Foerster held a variety of political positions in Allegheny County,Pennsylvania,and was seen as one of the last "machine" politicians from the area.
The 2022 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on November 8,2022,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Democratic lieutenant governor John Fetterman won his first term in office,defeating Republican surgeon Mehmet Oz. Fetterman succeeded incumbent Republican senator Pat Toomey,who did not seek re-election after two terms. The election marked the only U.S. Senate seat to flip parties in the 2022 midterms.
The 2017 mayoral election in Harrisburg,Pennsylvania was held on November 7,2017,and resulted in incumbent mayor Eric Papenfuse,a member of the Democratic Party,being re-elected to a second term.
Harrisburg Bureau of Police is a medium-sized city police force in South Central Pennsylvania serving the City of Harrisburg,Pennsylvania. In 2019,Harrisburg had the sixth largest police department in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by total law enforcement employees. Since 2003,the Bureau has achieved and maintained its annual status of an Accredited Agency under the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association Accreditation Program. It is one of only 131 agencies across the state to voluntarily apply for and earn the accreditation.
The 2021 mayoral election in Harrisburg,Pennsylvania was held on November 2,2021. Two-term incumbent mayor Eric Papenfuse,a member of the Democratic Party,ran for a third term,but lost re-nomination to City Council President Wanda Williams. On September 15,2021,Papenfuse formally announced that he would run a write-in campaign in the November General Election. Williams won the general election against Papenfuse by more than a 2–1 margin.
John Augustus Fritchey Hall was an American WWI sailor with the North Bombing Squadron,English teacher,lawyer,judicial appointee,and politician who served as Republican in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Mayor of Harrisburg,Pennsylvania. In 1947,Hall was president of the Dauphin County Bar Association. The Harrisburg Housing Authority,established in 1938,named the public housing complex John A. F. Hall Manor after Hall in 1953.
Wanda R. D. Williams is an American Democratic politician from Harrisburg,Pennsylvania currently serving as 39th Mayor of Harrisburg. Running as a Democrat and President of the Harrisburg City Council,she won the 2021 Harrisburg mayoral election becoming the city's second female and second African-American mayor.
