Northampton County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,United States. As of the 2020 census,the population was 312,951. Its county seat is Easton. The county was formed in 1752 from parts of Bucks County. Its namesake was the county of Northamptonshire in England,and the county seat of Easton was named for Easton Neston,a country house in Northamptonshire.
Easton is a city in and the county seat of Northampton County,Pennsylvania,United States. The city's population was 28,127 as of the 2020 census. Easton is located at the confluence of the Lehigh River,a 109-mile-long (175 km) river that joins the Delaware River in Easton and serves as the city's eastern geographic boundary with Phillipsburg,New Jersey.
George Wolf was the seventh governor of Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1835. On June 29,1888,he was recognized as the "father of the public-school system" in Pennsylvania by the erection of a memorial gateway at Easton.
Richard Brodhead was an American lawyer and politician from Easton,Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in both the U.S. House and Senate.
Benjamin Franklin Shively was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States Representative and Senator from Indiana.
Everett Kent was an American lawyer and Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
John Ross,was a Representative to the U.S. Congress from Pennsylvania.
Arthur Granville Dewalt was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district from 1915 to 1921.
George Howell was an American lawyer,educator and politician who served for part of one term as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania in 1903 and 1904,when he was replaced in office after a successful challenge to his election.
William Mutchler was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
William Sebring Kirkpatrick was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
William Walter Wedemeyer was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Pennsylvania State Senate District 18 includes parts of Lehigh and Northampton counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It is currently represented by Democrat Lisa Boscola.
Jeanette F. Reibman was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 18th district from 1969 to 1994. She also served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the Northampton County district from 1955 to 1966.
William Lincoln Hart was a lawyer in the U.S. State of Ohio who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. He taught law at university,and was president of the Ohio State Bar Association.
William Thackara Read was an American lawyer and politician from New Jersey.
Thomas J. Hillery was an American lawyer and politician from New Jersey.
William Beidelman (1840-1903) was an American politician from the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and saw combat at the Battle of Gettysburg,which was the war's turning point in the Union's favor but also its bloodiest battle.
Carleton T. Woodring was an American politician who represented the Lehigh Valley in the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 18th district as a Democrat from 1943 until 1948 when he resigned to run for Northampton County Judge,an office he would hold for 33 years from 1948 to 1981.
Jacob B. Kemerer (1844-1901) was an American politician who served in the Pennsylvania State Senate as a Democrat,representing Northampton County for one term from 1899 to 1901.
