Pennsylvania Senate, District 4

Pennsylvania's 4th State Senate district
Senator	Arthur L. Haywood III D – Cheltenham Township
Population (2021)	268,248

Pennsylvania State Senate District 4 includes parts of Montgomery County and Philadelphia County. It is currently represented by Democrat Arthur L. Haywood III.

District profile

The district includes the following areas: ^[1]

Montgomery County Abington Township Cheltenham Township Jenkintown Rockledge Springfield Township

Philadelphia County Ward 09 Ward 10 Ward 12 [PART, Divisions 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09, 10, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 21] Ward 17 Ward 22 Ward 50 Ward 59

Senators

Representative [2]	Party	Years	District home	Note
John Hopkins	Federalist	1813 – 1817
Charles Smith	Federalist	1815 – 1817
Jacob Grosh	Federalist	1817 – 1821
Molton Cropper Rogers	Democratic-Republican	1819 – 1820
Edward Coleman	Federalist	1821 – 1823
Isaac Dutton Barnard	Democratic-Republican	1821 – 1825		U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania from 1827 to 1831 [3]
Joshua Hunt	Federalist	1827 – 1829
William Jackson	Anti-Masonic	1831 – 1833
William Tennent Rogers	Democratic	1831 – 1839
George C. Smith	Anti-Masonic	1833 – 1835
Francis James	Anti-Masonic	1835 – 1836		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district from 1839 to 1843 [4]
Samuel A. Smith	Republican	1841 – 1842		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1829 to 1833 [5]
William Williamson	Whig	1847 – 1848
Hugh Jones Brooke	Whig	1849 – 1852		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 5th district from 1871 to 1872 [6]
Joseph Bailey	Democratic	1851 – 1853		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 15th district from 1863 to 1865, U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 16th district from 1861 to 1863, Treasurer of Pennsylvania from 1854 to 1855, Pennsylvania State Senator for the 1st district in 1843, Pennsylvania State Representatives in 1840 [7]
Henry S. Evans	Whig	1851 – 1854
James J. Lewis	Whig	1855 – 1856
Mahlon Yardley	Republican	1859 – 1861
William Kinsey	Democratic	1863 – 1864
George C. Connell	Republican	1865 – 1870
Henry Wolf Gray	Republican	1871 – 1872
Alexander Kelly McClure	Republican	1873 – 1874		Pennsylvania State Representative from 1858 to 1859 and 1865 to 1866. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 18th district from 1861 to 1862 [8]
Horatio Gates Jones	Republican	1875 – 1881
John J. MacFarlane	Republican	1883 – 1889
C. Wesley Thomas	Republican	1891 – 1897
J. Bayard Henry	Republican	1899 – 1901
John T. Harrison	Republican	1903 – 1904
Jesse S. Shepard	Republican	1903 – 1905
Ernest Leigh Tustin	Republican	1907 – 1909
John Oscar Sheatz	Republican	1913 – 1914
Edward W. Patton	Republican	1915 – 1925
Bertram G. Frazier	Republican	1929 – 1949
John J. McCreesh	Democratic	1935 – 1958
Thomas McCreesh	Democratic	1958 – 1968		Moved to 8th senatorial district and served from 1969 to 1974 [9]
Joseph J. Scanlon	Democratic	1969 – 1970
Joseph F. Smith	Democratic	1971 – 1980		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 3rd district from 1981 to 1983 [10]
Joseph M. Rocks	Republican	1981 – 1990		Pennsylvania State Representative for the 199th district from 1979 to 1982 [11]
Allyson Y. Schwartz	Democratic	1991 – 2005		Elected to represent Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district on November 2, 2004. [12]
LeAnna M. Washington	Democratic	2005 – 2014		Elected May 17, 2005 to fill vacancy; lost 2014 primary election, resigned after being charged with a felony for using campaign staff and state resources to plan a fundraiser. [13]
Arthur L. Haywood III	Democratic	2015 – present		Incumbent

References

1. "2021 Final Reapportionment Plan" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State . Retrieved 2022-11-11.
2. "Historical Biographies - PA State Senate". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
3. "BARNARD, Isaac Dutton, (1791-1834)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
4. "James". www.politicalgraveyard.com. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
5. "SMITH, Samuel A., (1795-1861)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
6. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Hugh Jones Brooke Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
7. "Joseph Bailey". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
8. "Pennsylvania House of Representatives - ALEXANDER KELLY McCLURE Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
9. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Thomas P McCreesh Biography". ww.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
10. "SMITH, Joseph Francis, (1920-1999)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
11. "Pennsylvania House of Representatives - M. JOSEPH ROCKS Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
12. "2004 General Election - Representative in Congress". Commonwealth of PA - Elections Information. Pennsylvania Department of State. 2004. Archived from the original on 2008-05-22.
13. "2005 Special Election for the 4th Senatorial District". Commonwealth of PA - Elections Information. Pennsylvania Department of State. 2004. Archived from the original on 2008-11-28.

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