Pennsylvania Senate, District 17

Pennsylvania's 17th State Senate district
Senator	Amanda Cappelletti D – East Norriton Township
Population (2021)	258,156

Pennsylvania State Senate District 17 includes parts of Delaware County and Montgomery County. It is currently represented by Democrat Amanda Cappelletti.

District profile

The district includes the following areas: ^[1]

Delaware County Haverford Township Radnor Township Montgomery County Bridgeport East Norriton Township Lower Merion Township

Montgomery County (continued) Narberth Norristown Upper Merion Township West Conshohocken West Norriton Township

Senators

Representative [2]	Party	Years	District home	Note
Joseph Hiester	Jeffersonian Republican	1791 – 1792		Pennsylvania State Representative from 1787 to 1790. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1797 to 1803, Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1803 to 1805 and Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1815 to 1820. 5th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1823. [3]
Presley Carr Lane	Independent Republican	1807 – 1814		Speaker of the Senate from 1807 to 1814 [4]
William Davidson	Independent Republican	1817 – 1824		Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representative from 1814 to 1818 including as Speaker of the House from 1817 to 1818 [5]
William Rudolph Smith	Federalist	1821 – 1824		Attorney General for Wisconsin from 1855 to 1856 [6]
Christian Garber	Democratic-Republican	1823 – 1828
Thomas Jackson	Democratic	1829 – 1832
George McCulloch	Democratic	1835 – 1836		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district from 1839 to 1841 [7]
Isaac Leet	Democratic	1837 – 1838		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 20th district from 1833 to 1836. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district from 1839 to 1841. [8]
John Hoge Ewing	Republican	1837 – 1842		Pennsylvania State Representative from 1835 to 1836. Speaker of the Senate from 1841 to 1842. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 20th congressional district from 1845 to 1847. [9]
Walter Craig	Whig	1843 – 1844		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 23rd district from 1845 to 1846 [10]
Adam Ebaugh	Democratic	1843 – 1845
Philip A. Smyser	Whig	1847
Henry Fulton	Democratic	1849 – 1850		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 12th district from 1851 to 1852 [11]
George Sanderson	Whig	1851 – 1853		10th mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania [12]
William Henry Welsh	Democratic	1855 – 1859
Elijah Reed Myer	Republican	1857 – 1858		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 9th district from 1859 to 1860 [13]
John M. Dunlap	Republican	1863 – 1865
Benjamin Champneys	Democratic	1865 – 1866		Pennsylvania State Representative from 1825 to 1826, 1828 to 1829 and 1863. Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1846 to 1848. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district from 1843 to 1844 and the 16th district from 1863 to 1864 [14]
Joseph W. Fisher	Republican	1867 – 1868		Pennsylvania State Representative from 1848 to 1849. Chief justice of the territorial courts in Wyoming Territory from 1871 to 1879. [15]
Esaias Billingfelt	Republican	1867 – 1871
Andrew Hemphill Dill	Democratic	1871 – 1877
Jacob George Heilman	Republican	1873 – 1875
George F. Meily	Republican	1877 – 1880
Cyrus Ressley Lantz	Republican	1881 – 1884
John Peter Shindel Gobin	Republican	1885 – 1898		7th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania [16]
Samuel Weiss	Republican	1899 – 1904
Daniel P. Gerberich	Republican	1905 – 1916
Horace Leander Haldeman	Republican	1915 – 1916
Cleon N. Berntheizel	Republican	1921 – 1924
William C. Freeman	Republican	1925 – 1932
Henry J. Pierson	Republican	1933 – 1940
Clarence D. Becker	Republican	1943 – 1948
Harold W. Risser	Republican	1947 – 1948
G. Graybill Diehm	Republican	1949 – 1956
Thomas Alexander Ehrgood	Republican	1957 – 1964
Robert P. Johnson	Republican	1965 – 1966
Robert Lawrence Coughlin	Republican	1967 – 1968		Pennsylvania State Representative for the Montgomery County district from 1965 to 1966. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district from 1969 to 1993 [17]
Richard A. Tilghman	Republican	1969 – 2001		Pennsylvania State Representative for the Montgomery County district from 1967 to 1968 [18]
Constance H. Williams	Democratic	2001 – 2008		Pennsylvania State Representative for the 149th district from 1997 to 2001 [19]
Daylin Leach	Democratic	2009 – 2020		Pennsylvania State Representative for the 149th district from 2003 to 2008 [20] [21]
Amanda Cappelletti	Democratic	2020 – present

Recent election results

PA Senate election, 2020

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Amanda Cappelletti	104,273	65.8
	Republican	Ellen Fisher	54,066	34.2
Total votes			158,339	100.0
	Democratic hold

Democratic primary, 2020

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Amanda Cappelletti	33,857	65.3%
	Democratic	Daylin Leach (incumbent)	17,950	34.7%
Total votes			51,807	100.0%

PA Senate election, 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Daylin Leach (incumbent)	88,827	64.0
	Republican	Brian Gondek	50,010	36.0
Total votes			138,837	100.0
	Democratic hold

PA Senate election, 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Daylin Leach (incumbent)	78,508	63.2
	Republican	Charles Gehret	45,707	36.8
Total votes			124,215	100.0
	Democratic hold

PA Senate election, 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Daylin Leach	76,350	61.5
	Republican	Lance Rogers	47,873	38.5
Total votes			124,223	100.0
	Democratic hold

References

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4. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Presley Carr Lane Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
5. "Pennsylvania State Senate - William Davidson Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
6. Hoyt, Albert Harrison (1869). The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; Volume 23 1869. New England Historic Geanealogical Society. p. 218. ISBN   9780788400704 . Retrieved November 3, 2019.
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8. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Issac Leet Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
9. "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Hoge Ewing Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
10. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Walter Craig Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
11. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Henry Fulton Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
12. Mayors of the City of Lancaster, PA Archived August 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved on 2009-10-25.
13. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Elijah Reed Myer Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
14. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Benjamin Champneys Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
15. "Colonel Joseph Washington Fisher". www.antietam.aotw.org. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
16. "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Peter Shindel Gobin Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
17. "COUGHLIN, Robert Lawrence (1929-2001)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
18. "Pennsylvania House of Representatives - RICHARD A. TILGHMAN Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
19. "Pennsylvania House of Representatives - CONSTANCE H. WILLIAMS Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
20. "Our Campaigns – PA State House 149- Special Election Race – Feb 12, 2002" . Retrieved February 8, 2017.
21. "2002 Special Election for the 149th Legislative District". Commonwealth of PA - Elections Information. Pennsylvania Department of State. 2004. Archived from the original on November 28, 2008.

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