Pennsylvania Senate, District 3

Pennsylvania's 3rd State Senate district
Senator	Sharif Street D – Philadelphia
Population (2021)	263,993

Pennsylvania State Senate District 3 includes part of Philadelphia County. It is currently represented by Democrat Sharif Street.

District profile

The district includes the following areas: ^[1]

Philadelphia County:

• Ward 11
• Ward 13
• Ward 14
• Ward 15
• Ward 16
• Ward 20
• Ward 29
• Ward 32
• Ward 35 [PART, Divisions 09, 10, 11, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31]
• Ward 37
• Ward 42
• Ward 43
• Ward 47
• Ward 49
• Ward 61

Senators

Representative [2]	Party	Years	District home	Note
Cyrus Cadwallader	Federalist	1817 – 1823
Joel Keith Mann	Jackson Democrat	1823 – 1825		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1831 to 1835 [3]
Benjamin Reiff	National Republican	1827 – 1831
John Matheys	Democratic	1831 – 1833
James Holdsworth Paull	Anti-Mason, Whig	1835 – 1839
Francis James	Anti-Mason	1837 – 1839
Henry Myers	Democratic	1837 – 1839
Thomas S. Bell	Democratic	1837 – 1841
Nathaniel Brooke	Whig	1839 – 1841
John Benton Sterigere	Whig	1839 – 1843		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1827 to 1831 [4]
John T. Huddleston	Whig	1841 – 1842
Abraham Brower	Whig	1841 – 1843
George Richards	Whig	1847 – 1848
Joshua Y. Jones	Democratic	1851 – 1853
Benjamin Wick	Whig	1853 – 1854
Thomas Pope Knox	Democratic	1855 – 1857
John Thompson	Whig	1859 – 1861
John Christman Smith	Democratic	1861 – 1863
Cornelius M. Donovan	Democratic	1865 – 1867
David A. Nagle	Democratic	1869 – 1875
Henry S. Evans	Whig	1871 – 1873
John Lamon	Republican	1873 – 1879
James Gay Gordon	Democratic	1881 – 1883
Francis Augustus Osbourne	Republican	1887 – 1901
Charles P. Devlin	Democratic	1889 – 1890
William H. Keyser	Republican	1901 – 1911
James P. McNichol	Democratic	1907 – 1915 [5]		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 7th district from 1905 to 1906 [6]
William J. McNichol	Republican	1919 – 1925
William Cosgrove Hunsicker	Republican	1927 – 1935
Jerome H. Jaspan	Democratic	1937 – 1947
John R. Meade	Republican	1949 – 1951
Peter J. Camiel	Democratic	1953 – 1964
Louis C. Johanson	Democratic	1965 – 1966		Convicted for bribery and conspiracy as part of the Abscam sting operation. [7] Served three years in prison and fined $20,000. [8]
Herbert Arlene	Democratic	1967 – 1980		First African-American to serve in the Pennsylvania Senate. [9]
T. Milton Street	Republican	1981 – 1984
Roxanne Jones	Democratic	1985 – 1996		First African-American woman to serve in the Pennsylvania Senate. [10]
Shirley M. Kitchen	Democratic	1996 – 2017		Pennsylvania State Representative for the 181st district from 1987 to 1988 [11]
Sharif Street	Democratic	2017 – present

References

1. "2021 Final Reapportionment Plan" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State . Retrieved 2022-11-11.
2. "Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
3. "MANN, Joel Keith, (1780-1857)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
4. "Stephine to Sterlie". www.politicalgraveyard.com. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
5. "Pennsylvania State Senate - James P McNichol Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
6. "James P. McNichol". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
7. Greenhouse, Linda (June 1, 1983). "Court Bars Abscam Appeals". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette .
8. "Louis Carl Johanson". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
9. "Ex-Sen. Herbert Arlene". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . November 11, 1989. Retrieved January 31, 2012.
10. Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1995-1996" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project . Wilkes University.
11. "Pennsylvania House of Representatives Shirley M. Kitchen Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 1 February 2019.

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