Melissa Hart (politician)

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Hart announced in July 2007 that she would run against Altmire in 2008. Despite speculation that retired athlete and former gubernatorial candidate Lynn Swann would run for the seat, [18] Hart was unopposed for the Republican nomination. [19] In the general election, she was again defeated by Altmire, this time by a much larger margin.

Later career

Following Hart’s departure from the House in 2007, she rejoined her law firm, Keevican Weiss Bauerle & Hirsch (now Keevican Weiss & Bauerle), where she worked to build and chair the government relations section. She later returned to her original law firm, Hergenroeder Rega Ewing & Kennedy in 2017 to work with a group of attorneys with whom she had begun her legal career. In 2018, Hart was elected to the Board of Directors of Enterprise Bank. Also in 2018, Hart co-founded, with Tim Watkins and her former House colleague, Thaddeus McCotter, a political strategy, creative, and media firm, RPC Strategies, LLC. [20]

Hart sought to retake her state senate seat in a 2012 special election triggered when her successor, Jane Orie, was forced to resign after being convicted of corruption and forgery. However, she lost the Republican primary to state Representative Randy Vulakovich. [21]

In December 2021, Hart announced her intent to run for governor of Pennsylvania in the 2022 Republican primary. [22] [23] She dropped out on May 13, 2022, and endorsed former Congressman Lou Barletta. Her name remained on the ballot and she garnered 54,000 votes. [24] [25]

See also

Notes

  1. Kathryn E. Granahan represented Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives (1956–1963) as a Democrat.

References

  1. "HART, Melissa A." US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives. Retrieved January 24, 2023.
  2. "Melissa Hart drops out of Pa. Governor race, endorses Lou Barletta". May 13, 2022.
  3. "Melissa Hart drops from Pennsylvania Governor race, endorses Lou Barletta". May 13, 2022.
  4. "Order Sons of Italy in America". Archived from the original on May 14, 2006.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Hart, Melissa". Education for a Lifetime. Washington & Jefferson College. Archived from the original on June 18, 2012. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
  6. "W&J: Board of Trustees". W&J College Website. Washington & Jefferson College. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010.
  7. "SESSION OF 1991 175TH OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY No. 1" (PDF). Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Senate Legislative Journal. Pennsylvania General Assembly. January 1, 1991. p. 3. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  8. "SESSION OF 2001 185TH OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY No.1" (PDF). Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Senate Legislative Journal. Pennsylvania General Assembly. January 2, 2001. p. 28. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  9. Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate – 2001-2002" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . Wilkes University.
  10. Remarks by The Honorable Melissa Hart, Co-Chair of the 2004 Platform Committee, as Prepared for Delivery at the 2004 Republican National Convention August 30, 2004.
  11. "Keystone State Yearbook Committee". PoliticsPA. 2001. Archived from the original on August 3, 2002.
  12. Hart GOP's rising star Archived December 10, 2006, at the Wayback Machine Brown, David M. Pittsburgh Tribune Review September 11, 2005
  13. "An Interview with Congresswoman Melissa Hart". Archived from the original on November 17, 2006. Retrieved November 9, 2006.
  14. "kdka.com – New Poll Shows Hart-Altmire Race Is A Dead-Heat". Archived from the original on September 27, 2007.
  15. "CHT's Senate and Election Page - feedback on 'Latest House Polling Chart'". Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved November 6, 2006.
  16. "CNN.com – Elections 2006". CNN.
  17. 1 2 Brown, David M. (June 27, 2007). "Hart returns to Pittsburgh law firm". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review . Retrieved September 17, 2012.
  18. "88 In '08?". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 12, 2007.
  19. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Unofficial List of Candidates
  20. "Keevican Weiss Bauerle and Hirsch - Home". Archived from the original on January 27, 2013. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
  21. McNulty, Timothy (June 17, 2012). "Vulakovich beats Hart for run at Orie's seat". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette .
  22. Terruso, Julia (December 4, 2021). "Former Western Pa. Congresswoman Melissa Hart says she's running for governor". The Philadelphia Inquirer .
  23. "Former Pa. Congresswoman Melissa Hart says she's running for governor". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . December 4, 2021.
  24. "Another Republican candidate for governor drops out of race and endorses Barletta". WGAL News 8. Hearst Television, Inc. May 13, 2022. Retrieved May 13, 2022.
  25. "Here are the key primary election results from Pennsylvania". NPR. May 17, 2022. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
Melissa Hart
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Member of the U.S.HouseofRepresentatives
from Pennsylvania's 4th district
In office
January 3, 2001 January 3, 2007
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district

2001–2007
Succeeded by
U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded byas Former U.S. Representative Order of precedence of the United States
as Former U.S. Representative
Succeeded byas Former U.S. Representative