Simon Snyder was the third Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,serving three terms from 1808 to 1817. He led the state through the War of 1812.
William Findlay was an American farmer,lawyer,and politician. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party,he served as the fourth Governor of Pennsylvania from 1817 to 1820,and as a United States senator from 1821 to 1827. He was one of three Findlay brothers born and raised in Mercersburg,Pennsylvania on their family farm.
William Freame Johnston was the 11th Governor of Pennsylvania,from 1848 to 1852. A lawyer by training,Johnston became district attorney of Westmoreland County at the age of 21 in 1829. He was elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature and switched from the Democratic Party to the Whig Party in 1847 to run for the Pennsylvania Senate.
Hiester Clymer was an American political leader from the state of Pennsylvania. Clymer was a member of the Hiester family political dynasty and the Democratic Party. He was the nephew of William Muhlenberg Hiester and the cousin of Isaac Ellmaker Hiester. Although Clymer was born in Pennsylvania,he was adamantly opposed to Abraham Lincoln's administration and the Republican Party's prosecution of the American Civil War. Elected Pennsylvania state senator in 1860,Clymer opposed state legislation that supported the state Republican Party's war effort. After the American Civil War ended,Clymer unsuccessfully ran for the Pennsylvania Governor's office in 1866 on a white supremacist platform against Union Major-General John W. Geary. After his election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1872 as a Democrat,Clymer would be primarily known for his investigation of Sec. William W. Belknap's War Department in 1876. Belknap escaped conviction in a Senate trial,since he resigned his cabinet position before being impeached by the House of Representatives. Having retired from the House in 1881,Clymer served as Vice President of the Union Trust Co. of Philadelphia and president of the Clymer Iron Co. until his death in 1884.
William Dunlap Simpson was the 78th governor of South Carolina from February 26,1879,when the previous governor,Wade Hampton,resigned to take his seat in the U.S. Senate,until 1880. That year Simpson resigned to become Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court.
William Piper was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic-Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1811 to 1813 and for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1813 to 1817.
Herbert Joseph McGlinchey was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district from 1945 to 1947 and the Pennsylvania Senate for the 5th district from 1965 to 1972.
Allen Kukovich is a former member of the Pennsylvania State Senate,where he represented the 39th senatorial district from 1996 through 2004. He was also a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1977 through 1996. He served as the Pennsylvania Democratic State Chairman from June 2002 through March 2003.
Henry Chapman was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1857 to 1859.
Thomas Jones Rogers was a Democratic-Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district from 1818 to 1823 and for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1823 to 1824.
Ernest P. "Ernie" Kline was a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate and the 25th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania,serving from 1971-1979.
Pennsylvania State Senate District 1 includes part of Philadelphia County. It is currently represented by Democrat Nikil Saval.
Frank Mazzei is a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate. One of his big accomplishments during his political career was creation of the Pennsylvania Lottery. In 1975 he was arrested for taking kickbacks and was jailed until 1977.
Thomas Martin Nolan was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 34th district from 1969 to 1970 and the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 44th district from 1971 to 1978.
The William B. Dunlap Mansion was a historic house in Bridgewater,Pennsylvania,United States. Erected in 1840 on a bluff over the Beaver River in the northern part of the borough,it has been ranked as the grandest and best-preserved 19th-century house in Bridgewater. As of January 17,2017,the structure was demolished by borough authorities following condemnation.
The 1848–49 United States Senate elections were elections which had the Democratic Party lose seats but maintain control of the United States Senate.
The 1856–57 United States Senate elections were elections which had the young Republican Party assume its position as one of the United States's two main political parties. The Whigs and Free Soilers were gone by the time the next Congress began.
Harry Livingston French was an American architect based in Wilkes-Barre,Pennsylvania. He designed in a variety of styles,including classical architecture and Gothic revival. His built works included numerous banks,schools,and armories.
John Stanley Rice was an American Democratic politician,farmer and businessman from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Rice served in a variety of appointed and elected political roles over the course of a three-decade political career.
