Pennsylvania State Senate District 2 includes parts of Philadelphia County. It is currently represented by Democrat Christine M. Tartaglione.
Pennsylvania's 2nd State Senate district | |||
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Population (2021) | 260,277 |
The district includes the following areas:[1]
Representative[2] | Party | Years | District home | Note |
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Lindsay Coats | Federalist | 1795 – 1797 | ||
Maskell Ewing | Federalist | 1813 – 1819 | ||
Joel Barlow Sutherland | Democratic | 1815 – 1816 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1827 to 1833[3] | |
Abraham Bailey | Federalist | 1815 – 1817 | ||
Samuel Cochran | Federalist | 1817 – 1819 | ||
Daniel Groves | Democratic-Republican | 1821 – 1825 | ||
James Kelton Jr. | Federalist | 1821 – 1825 | ||
Stephen Duncan | Federalist | 1821 – 1829 | ||
Peter Hay | Old School Jefferson | 1827 – 1829 | ||
Samuel Breck | National Republican | 1831 – 1833 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1823 to 1825[4] | |
Joseph Taylor | Democratic | 1831 – 1833 | ||
George N. Baker | Democratic | 1833 – 1835 | ||
Francis Jacob Harper | Democratic | 1833 – 1835 | U.S. Representative-elect for Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district in 1836 but died before taking office[5] | |
James McConkey | Whig | 1837 – 1837 | ||
James Hanna | Whig | 1837 – 1838 | ||
Alexander M. Peltz | Democratic | 1837 – 1838 | ||
Charles Brown | Democratic | 1837 – 1839 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 1st district from 1841 to 1843. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 3rd district from 1847-1849[6] | |
Michael Snyder | Democratic | 1837 – 1839 | ||
Samuel Stevenson | Democratic | 1837 – 1839 | ||
John Benton Sterigere | Buchanan Democratic | 1839 – 1845 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1827 to 1831[7] | |
Thomas McCully | Democratic | 1841 – 1842 | ||
Benjamin Crispin | Democratic | 1841 – 1843 | ||
James Enue Jr. | Democratic | 1843 – 1844 | ||
Edward A. Penniman | Democratic | 1843 – 1844 | ||
John Foulkrod | Democratic | 1843 – 1845 | ||
Oliver Perry Cornman | Democratic | 1845 – 1846 | ||
Henry Lewis Benner | Democratic | 1845 – 1847 | ||
William Franklin Small | Democratic | 1847 – 1848 | ||
Thomas H. Forsythe | Democratic | 1847 – 1851 | ||
Thomas Sargent Fernon | Democratic | 1849 – 1851 | ||
Peleg Bahrows Savery | Democratic | 1849 – 1851 | ||
Levi Foulkrod | Whig | 1853 – 1854 | ||
Samuel G. Hamilton | Native American | 1853 – 1854 | ||
William Goodwin | Democratic | 1853 – 1855 | ||
Henry Charles Pratt II | Republican | 1855 – 1856 | ||
Thomas S. Bell | Democratic | 1857 – 1859 | ||
Jacob S. Serrill | Republican | 1861 – 1862 | ||
Jacob Elwood Ridgway | Republican | 1865 – 1867 | ||
Alexander Wilson Henszey | Republican | 1869 – 1871 | ||
David A. Nagle | Democratic | 1875 – 1877 | ||
John Cochran | Democratic | 1879 – 1881 | ||
Joseph P. Kennedy | Democratic | 1881 – 1885 | ||
William McAleer | Democratic | 1887 – 1889 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1891 to 1895 and from 1897 to 1901[8] | |
Elwood Becker | Republican | 1891 – 1897 | ||
Israel Wilson Durham | Republican | 1897 – 1899 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district from 1897 to 1898.[9] President of the Philadelphia Phillies in 1909[10] | |
George W. Holzwarth | Republican | 1899 – 1900 | ||
Harry Gransback | Republican | 1901 – 1905 | ||
John Morin Scott | Republican | 1907 – 1909 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district from 1899 to 1906[11] | |
Samuel W. Salus | Republican | 1911 – 1937 | ||
A. Evans Kephart | Republican | 1939 – 1953 | ||
Benjamin R. Donolow | Democratic | 1955 – 1972 | Senate minority leader from 1965 to 1970[12] | |
Francis J. Lynch | Democratic | 1973 – 1993 | Pennsylvania Representative for the 195th district from 1967 to 1973[13] | |
William G. Stinson | Democratic | 1993 – 1994 | Removed from office by order of the U.S. District Court on February 18, 1994[14] due to election fraud[15] | |
Bruce Marks | Republican | 1994 | Seated April 28, 1994[16] | |
Christine M. Tartaglione | Democratic | 1995 – present |