Pennsylvania Senate, District 17
Pennsylvania's 17th State Senate district | |||
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Population (2021) | 258,156 |
Pennsylvania State Senate District 17 includes parts of Delaware County and Montgomery County. It is currently represented by Democrat Amanda Cappelletti.
District profile
[edit]The district includes the following areas:[1]
Montgomery County(continued)
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Senators
[edit]Representative[2] | Party | Years | District home | Note |
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Joseph Hiester | Jeffersonian Republican | 1791 – 1792 | Pennsylvania State Representative from 1787 to 1790. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1797 to 1803, Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1803 to 1805 and Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1815 to 1820. 5th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1823.[3] | |
Presley Carr Lane | Independent Republican | 1807 – 1814 | Speaker of the Senate from 1807 to 1814[4] | |
William Davidson | Independent Republican | 1817 – 1824 | Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representative from 1814 to 1818 including as Speaker of the House from 1817 to 1818[5] | |
William Rudolph Smith | Federalist | 1821 – 1824 | Attorney General for Wisconsin from 1855 to 1856[6] | |
Christian Garber | Democratic-Republican | 1823 – 1828 | ||
Thomas Jackson | Democratic | 1829 – 1832 | ||
George McCulloch | Democratic | 1835 – 1836 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district from 1839 to 1841[7] | |
Isaac Leet | Democratic | 1837 – 1838 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 20th district from 1833 to 1836. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district from 1839 to 1841.[8] | |
John Hoge Ewing | Republican | 1837 – 1842 | Pennsylvania State Representative from 1835 to 1836. Speaker of the Senate from 1841 to 1842. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 20th congressional district from 1845 to 1847.[9] | |
Walter Craig | Whig | 1843 – 1844 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 23rd district from 1845 to 1846[10] | |
Adam Ebaugh | Democratic | 1843 – 1845 | ||
Philip A. Smyser | Whig | 1847 | ||
Henry Fulton | Democratic | 1849 – 1850 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 12th district from 1851 to 1852[11] | |
George Sanderson | Whig | 1851 – 1853 | 10th mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania[12] | |
William Henry Welsh | Democratic | 1855 – 1859 | ||
Elijah Reed Myer | Republican | 1857 – 1858 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 9th district from 1859 to 1860[13] | |
John M. Dunlap | Republican | 1863 – 1865 | ||
Benjamin Champneys | Democratic | 1865 – 1866 | Pennsylvania State Representative from 1825 to 1826, 1828 to 1829 and 1863. Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1846 to 1848. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district from 1843 to 1844 and the 16th district from 1863 to 1864[14] | |
Joseph W. Fisher | Republican | 1867 – 1868 | Pennsylvania State Representative from 1848 to 1849. Chief justice of the territorial courts in Wyoming Territory from 1871 to 1879.[15] | |
Esaias Billingfelt | Republican | 1867 – 1871 | ||
Andrew Hemphill Dill | Democratic | 1871 – 1877 | ||
Jacob George Heilman | Republican | 1873 – 1875 | ||
George F. Meily | Republican | 1877 – 1880 | ||
Cyrus Ressley Lantz | Republican | 1881 – 1884 | ||
John Peter Shindel Gobin | Republican | 1885 – 1898 | 7th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania[16] | |
Samuel Weiss | Republican | 1899 – 1904 | ||
Daniel P. Gerberich | Republican | 1905 – 1916 | ||
Horace Leander Haldeman | Republican | 1915 – 1916 | ||
Cleon N. Berntheizel | Republican | 1921 – 1924 | ||
William C. Freeman | Republican | 1925 – 1932 | ||
Henry J. Pierson | Republican | 1933 – 1940 | ||
Clarence D. Becker | Republican | 1943 – 1948 | ||
Harold W. Risser | Republican | 1947 – 1948 | ||
G. Graybill Diehm | Republican | 1949 – 1956 | ||
Thomas Alexander Ehrgood | Republican | 1957 – 1964 | ||
Robert P. Johnson | Republican | 1965 – 1966 | ||
Robert Lawrence Coughlin | Republican | 1967 – 1968 | Pennsylvania State Representative for the Montgomery County district from 1965 to 1966. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district from 1969 to 1993[17] | |
Richard A. Tilghman | Republican | 1969 – 2001 | Pennsylvania State Representative for the Montgomery County district from 1967 to 1968[18] | |
Constance H. Williams | Democratic | 2001 – 2008 | Pennsylvania State Representative for the 149th district from 1997 to 2001[19] | |
Daylin Leach | Democratic | 2009 – 2020 | Pennsylvania State Representative for the 149th district from 2003 to 2008[20][21] | |
Amanda Cappelletti | Democratic | 2020 – present |
Recent election results
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Amanda Cappelletti | 104,273 | 65.8 | |
Republican | Ellen Fisher | 54,066 | 34.2 | |
Total votes | 158,339 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Amanda Cappelletti | 33,857 | 65.3% | |
Democratic | Daylin Leach (incumbent) | 17,950 | 34.7% | |
Total votes | 51,807 | 100.0% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Daylin Leach (incumbent) | 88,827 | 64.0 | |
Republican | Brian Gondek | 50,010 | 36.0 | |
Total votes | 138,837 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Daylin Leach (incumbent) | 78,508 | 63.2 | |
Republican | Charles Gehret | 45,707 | 36.8 | |
Total votes | 124,215 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Daylin Leach | 76,350 | 61.5 | |
Republican | Lance Rogers | 47,873 | 38.5 | |
Total votes | 124,223 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold |
References
[edit]- ^ "2021 Final Reapportionment Plan" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
- ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Senate Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
- ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Joseph Hiester Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
- ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Presley Carr Lane Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
- ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - William Davidson Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
- ^ Hoyt, Albert Harrison (1869). The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; Volume 23 1869. New England Historic Geanealogical Society. p. 218. ISBN 9780788400704. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
- ^ "McCULLOCH, George, (1792-1861)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
- ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Issac Leet Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
- ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Hoge Ewing Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
- ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Walter Craig Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
- ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Henry Fulton Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
- ^ Mayors of the City of Lancaster, PA Archived August 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2009-10-25.
- ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Elijah Reed Myer Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
- ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Benjamin Champneys Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
- ^ "Colonel Joseph Washington Fisher". www.antietam.aotw.org. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Peter Shindel Gobin Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- ^ "COUGHLIN, Robert Lawrence (1929-2001)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- ^ "Pennsylvania House of Representatives - RICHARD A. TILGHMAN Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
- ^ "Pennsylvania House of Representatives - CONSTANCE H. WILLIAMS Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- ^ "Our Campaigns – PA State House 149- Special Election Race – Feb 12, 2002". Retrieved February 8, 2017.
- ^ "2002 Special Election for the 149th Legislative District". Commonwealth of PA - Elections Information. Pennsylvania Department of State. 2004. Archived from the original on November 28, 2008.
- Cox, Harold (2004). "Legislatures - 1776-2004". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.