Chester is a city in Delaware County,Pennsylvania,United States. It is located in the Philadelphia metropolitan area on the western bank of the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Wilmington,Delaware. The population of Chester was 32,605 at the 2020 census.
Chester High School is an urban,public high school located in Chester,Delaware County,Pennsylvania,United States with a ZIP code of 19013-4288. Chester is a part of the Chester-Upland School District. The school serves the City of Chester,Chester Township,and Upland. In 2018–2019,the school had 994 pupils.
Thomas M. Tigue was a United States Marine Corps Officer and combat veteran,an American politician,a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
Mark B. Cohen is a Democratic politician from Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. He represented District 202 in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from June 10,1974,until his defeat for reelection in the Democratic primary in 2016.
Dominic F. Pileggi is an American politician and judge from Pennsylvania who served as Republican mayor of Chester,Pennsylvania from 1999 to 2002 and as a member of the Pennsylvania 9th Senatorial district from 2002 until January 2016. He was elected judge in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas,Delaware County in 2015.
Michael Coyne Turzai is an American politician and former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives who served as Speaker of the House. He is from Allegheny County and represented the 28th legislative district between 2001 and 2020. His district included the municipalities of Pine Township,Marshall Township,Bradford Woods,Franklin Park,and McCandless. Turzai served as the House Majority Leader from 2011 until 2015,and was elected Speaker in January 2015. He was a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2018 until he suspended his campaign in February 2018. He resigned from his House seat in 2020;after leaving office,he became general counsel for Peoples Gas,a subsidiary of Essential Utilities.
Robert Mensch is an American politician. A Republican,served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate representing the 24th district from 2009 to 2022. He previously served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives,where he represented the 147th legislative district.
Thomas H. Killion is an American politician. A Republican,he was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 9th Senatorial District from 2016 until 2020. He previously served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 168th district from 2003 to 2016.
Harry Scott Conklin is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 77th legislative district. He was first elected in 2006. Conklin is a Rush Township resident and has been married to his wife,Terri,since 1984. They have one son,Spencer,who was born in 1987. He was the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania in 2010,losing by a ten percent margin.
Rick Taylor(born 1969) is a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 151st legislative district. He was elected in 2006. Taylor attended University of Minnesota and interned for Minnesota House of Representatives and with Paul Wellstone. He earned a master's degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and worked as Manager of Compensation for IMS Health. He served as a member of the Ambler,Pennsylvania Borough Council prior to his election in 2006,when he defeated incumbent Eugene McGill. He lost re-election in 2010 to Republican Todd Stephens. His wife Jeanne Sorg is the current mayor of Ambler,Pennsylvania.
Francis X. Tenaglio is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives 159th district from 1977 to 1978.
Robert C. Wright was an American politician from Pennsylvania. He served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives,159th district from 1981 to 1992 and as a judge on the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas from 1992 to 2008.
The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania were held on November 8,2016,to elect the 18 U.S. representatives from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,one from each of the state's 18 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate,and various state and local elections. The primaries were held on April 26.
Joanna E. McClinton is an American politician from Pennsylvania currently serving as the 143rd Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives since February 28,2023. A member of the Democratic Party,she is the first woman to serve as Speaker.
The 2018 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania,concurrently with the election of Pennsylvania's Class I U.S. Senate seat,as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various local elections. Incumbent Governor Tom Wolf won re-election to a second term by a double-digit margin,defeating Republican challenger Scott Wagner and two third-party candidates from the Green Party,Paul Glover and Libertarian Party,Ken Krawchuk. The primary elections were held on May 15. This was the only Democratic-held governorship up for election in a state that Donald Trump won in the 2016 presidential election.
Brian Joseph Kirkland is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 159th district from 2017 to 2022.
Wendell Butler Jr. is a former American politician who served as a Republican mayor of Chester,Pennsylvania,from 2002 to 2012.
Carol Kazeem is an American politician currently serving as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 159th district since January 2023.
Stefan Roots is an American politician currently serving as the Democratic mayor of Chester,Pennsylvania,since January 3,2024. He defeated the incumbent Thaddeus Kirkland in the May 2023 Democratic mayoral primary and Anita J. Littleton in the November 2023 general election. He previously served as a member of the Chester City Council from 2022 to 2024.
