Pennsylvania Senate, District 2

Pennsylvania's 2nd State Senate district
Senator	Christine M. Tartaglione D – Philadelphia
Population (2021)	260,277

Pennsylvania State Senate District 2 includes parts of Philadelphia County. It is currently represented by Democrat Christine M. Tartaglione.

District profile

The district includes the following areas: ^[1]

Philadelphia County:

• Ward 07
• Ward 19
• Ward 23
• Ward 25 [PART, Divisions 02, 03, 05, 06, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24]
• Ward 33
• Ward 35 [PART, Divisions 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 26 and 32]
• Ward 45
• Ward 53
• Ward 54
• Ward 55
• Ward 62

Senators

Representative [2]	Party	Years	District home	Note
Lindsay Coats	Federalist	1795 – 1797
Maskell Ewing	Federalist	1813 – 1819
Joel Barlow Sutherland	Democratic	1815 – 1816		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1827 to 1833 [3]
Abraham Bailey	Federalist	1815 – 1817
Samuel Cochran	Federalist	1817 – 1819
Daniel Groves	Democratic-Republican	1821 – 1825
James Kelton Jr.	Federalist	1821 – 1825
Stephen Duncan	Federalist	1821 – 1829
Peter Hay	Old School Jefferson	1827 – 1829
Samuel Breck	National Republican	1831 – 1833		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1823 to 1825 [4]
Joseph Taylor	Democratic	1831 – 1833
George N. Baker	Democratic	1833 – 1835
Francis Jacob Harper	Democratic	1833 – 1835		U.S. Representative-elect for Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district in 1836 but died before taking office [5]
James McConkey	Whig	1837 – 1837
James Hanna	Whig	1837 – 1838
Alexander M. Peltz	Democratic	1837 – 1838
Charles Brown	Democratic	1837 – 1839		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 1st district from 1841 to 1843. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 3rd district from 1847-1849 [6]
Michael Snyder	Democratic	1837 – 1839
Samuel Stevenson	Democratic	1837 – 1839
John Benton Sterigere	Buchanan Democratic	1839 – 1845		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1827 to 1831 [7]
Thomas McCully	Democratic	1841 – 1842
Benjamin Crispin	Democratic	1841 – 1843
James Enue Jr.	Democratic	1843 – 1844
Edward A. Penniman	Democratic	1843 – 1844
John Foulkrod	Democratic	1843 – 1845
Oliver Perry Cornman	Democratic	1845 – 1846
Henry Lewis Benner	Democratic	1845 – 1847
William Franklin Small	Democratic	1847 – 1848
Thomas H. Forsythe	Democratic	1847 – 1851
Thomas Sargent Fernon	Democratic	1849 – 1851
Peleg Bahrows Savery	Democratic	1849 – 1851
Levi Foulkrod	Whig	1853 – 1854
Samuel G. Hamilton	Native American	1853 – 1854
William Goodwin	Democratic	1853 – 1855
Henry Charles Pratt II	Republican	1855 – 1856
Thomas S. Bell	Democratic	1857 – 1859
Jacob S. Serrill	Republican	1861 – 1862
Jacob Elwood Ridgway	Republican	1865 – 1867
Alexander Wilson Henszey	Republican	1869 – 1871
David A. Nagle	Democratic	1875 – 1877
John Cochran	Democratic	1879 – 1881
Joseph P. Kennedy	Democratic	1881 – 1885
William McAleer	Democratic	1887 – 1889		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1891 to 1895 and from 1897 to 1901 [8]
Elwood Becker	Republican	1891 – 1897
Israel Wilson Durham	Republican	1897 – 1899		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district from 1897 to 1898. [9] President of the Philadelphia Phillies in 1909 [10]
George W. Holzwarth	Republican	1899 – 1900
Harry Gransback	Republican	1901 – 1905
John Morin Scott	Republican	1907 – 1909		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district from 1899 to 1906 [11]
Samuel W. Salus	Republican	1911 – 1937
A. Evans Kephart	Republican	1939 – 1953
Benjamin R. Donolow	Democratic	1955 – 1972		Senate minority leader from 1965 to 1970 [12]
Francis J. Lynch	Democratic	1973 – 1993		Pennsylvania Representative for the 195th district from 1967 to 1973 [13]
William G. Stinson	Democratic	1993 – 1994		Removed from office by order of the U.S. District Court on February 18, 1994 [14] due to election fraud [15]
Bruce Marks	Republican	1994		Seated April 28, 1994 [16]
Christine M. Tartaglione	Democratic	1995 – present

References

1. "2021 Final Reapportionment Plan" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State . Retrieved 2022-11-11.
2. "Senate Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
3. "SUTHERLAND, Joel Barlow (1792-1861)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
4. "BRECK, Samuel, (1771-1862)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
5. "HARPER, Francis Jacob, (1800-1837)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
6. "BROWN, Charles, (1797-1883)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
7. "STERIGERE, John Benton, (1793-1852)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
8. "McALEER, William, (1838-1912)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
9. "Israel Wilson Durham". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
10. Sporting Life Magazine, Vol. 52, No. 26, March 6, 1909, Philadelphia.
11. "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Morin Scott Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
12. "Benjamin Donolow". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
13. "FRANCIS J. LYNCH". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
14. Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1993-1994" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . Wilkes University.
15. "William G. Stinson". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
16. Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1993-1994" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . Wilkes University.

• Cox, Harold (2004). "Legislatures - 1776-2004". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . Wilkes University.