Pennsylvania Senate, District 8

Pennsylvania's 8th State Senate district
Senator	Anthony Hardy Williams D – Philadelphia
Population (2021)	256,726

Pennsylvania State Senate District 8 includes parts of Delaware County and Philadelphia County. It is currently represented by Democrat Anthony Hardy Williams.

District profile

The district includes the following areas: ^[1]

Delaware County Collingdale Colwyn Darby Darby Township Folcroft Norwood Sharon Hill Tinicum Township Yeadon

Philadelphia County Ward 03 Ward 26 [PART, Divisions 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21 and 22] Ward 27 [PART, Divisions 01, 02, 04, 05, 07, 08, 09, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23] Ward 36 Ward 40 [PART, Divisions 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 51] Ward 46 [PART, Divisions 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20 and 21] Ward 48 Ward 51 Ward 60 [PART, Divisions 06, 07, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22]

Senators

Representative [2]	Party	Years	District home	Note
Henry Jarrett	Democratic-Republican	1813 – 1816
Thomas Jones Rogers	Democratic-Republican	1815 – 1818		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district from 1818 to 1823 and for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1823 to 1824 [3]
John Erwin	Democratic-Republican	1817 – 1818
Joseph Fry, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	1817 – 1820		Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1816 to 1817. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1827 to 1831 [4]
Henry Winter	Democratic-Republican	1819 – 1822		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 12th district from 1823 to 1826 [5]
John Andrew Schulze	Democratic-Republican	1821 – 1824		6th Governor of Pennsylvania [6]
John Harrison	National Republican	1823 – 1824
Adam Ritscher	Democratic-Republican	1823 – 1826
George Seltzer	Democratic	1827 – 1830
Jacob Stoever	Democratic	1831 – 1834
John Harper	Anti-Masonic	1835 – 1836		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 7th district from 1837 to 1838 [7]
David Rittenhouse Porter	Democratic	1835 – 1837		Pennsylvania State Representative in 1819. 9th Governor of Pennsylvania [8]
Isaac Slenker	Democratic	1837 – 1838
James Martin Bell	Whig	1837 – 1839
Robert Plunket Maclay	Whig	1839 – 1841
James Mathers	Whig	1841 – 1842
Francis Wade Hughes	Democratic	1843 – 1844		Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1852 to 1853. Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1853 to 1855 [9]
Henry C. Eyer	Democratic	1843 – 1844		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 15th district from 1845 to 1846 [10]
George Rahn	Democratic	1845 – 1846
William A. Overfield	Jackson Democrat	1847 – 1848
Charles Frailey	Democratic	1851 – 1852		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 9th district from 1835 to 1840 [11]
David Taggart	Whig	1855 – 1858		Speaker in 1857 [12]
Thomas Craig, Jr.	Democratic	1857 – 1860
Henry Spering Mott	Republican	1861 – 1862
Hiester Clymer	Democratic	1861 – 1866		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1873 to 1881 [13]
Joseph Depuy Davis	Democratic	1867 – 1874
Jacob Crouse	Republican	1875 – 1876 [14]
William Imlay Newell	Republican	1877 – 1882
Benjamin F. Hughes	Republican	1883 – 1886
Henry S. Taylor	Republican	1887 – 1889		Died in office [15]
Jacob Crouse	Republican	1889 – 1898 [14]
David Martin	Republican	1899 – 1902		Pennsylvania Senator for the 5th district from 1917 to 1920 [16]
Horatio Balch Hackett	Republican	1903 – 1905
Vivian Frank Gable	Democratic	1905 – 1906
John T. Murphy	Republican	1907 – 1910
James T. Nulty	Fusion Democrat	1911 – 1914
William Wallace Smith	Republican	1915 – 1918
George Gray	Republican	1919 – 1922
Thaddeus Stevens Krause	Republican	1923 – 1934
Walter S. Pytko	Democratic	1935 – 1938
Louis H. Farrell	Republican	1939 – 1950
John F. Byrne, Sr.	Democratic	1951 – 1952
Francis P. McCusker	Republican	1953 – 1954
William Vincent Mullin	Democratic	1955 – 1966
Thomas McCreesh	Democratic	1967 – 1974		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 4th senatorial district from 1959 to 1966 [17]
Paul McKinney	Democratic	1975 – 1982
Hardy Williams	Democratic	1983 – 1998		Pennsylvania State Representative for the 191st district from 1971 to 1982 [18]
Anthony Hardy Williams	Democratic	1999 – present		Pennsylvania State Representative for the 191st district from 1989 to 1998. Democratic Whip of the Pennsylvania Senate since 2011 [19]

References

1. "2021 Final Reapportionment Plan" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State . Retrieved 2022-11-11.
2. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Senate Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
3. "ROGERS, Thomas Jones, (1781-1832)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
4. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Joseph Fry, Jr Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
5. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Henry Winter Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
6. "Governor John Andrew Shulze". www.phmc.state.pa.us. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
7. "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Harper Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
8. "Governor David Rittenhouse Porter". www.phmc.state.pa.us. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
9. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Francis Wade Hughes Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
10. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Henry C Eyer Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
11. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Charles Frailey Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
12. "Pennsylvania State Senate - David Taggart Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
13. "CLYMER, Hiester (1827-1884)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
14. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Jacob Crouse Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
15. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Henry S Taylor Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
16. "Pennsylvania State Senate - David Martin Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
17. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Thomas P McCreesh Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
18. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Hardy Williams Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
19. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Anthony Hardy Williams". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 4 October 2019.

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