Pennsylvania Senate, District 2

Summary

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

Senator
  Christine M. Tartaglione
DPhiladelphia
Population (2021)260,277

District profile edit

The district includes the following areas:[1]

Philadelphia County:

  • Ward 07
  • Ward 19
  • Ward 23
  • Ward 25 [PART, Divisions 02, 03, 05, 06, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24]
  • Ward 33
  • Ward 35 [PART, Divisions 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 26 and 32]
  • Ward 45
  • Ward 53
  • Ward 54
  • Ward 55
  • Ward 62

Senators edit

Representative[2] Party Years District home Note
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

References edit

  1. ^ "2021 Final Reapportionment Plan" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  2. ^ "Senate Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
  3. ^ "SUTHERLAND, Joel Barlow (1792-1861)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
  4. ^ "BRECK, Samuel, (1771-1862)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
  5. ^ "HARPER, Francis Jacob, (1800-1837)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
  6. ^ "BROWN, Charles, (1797-1883)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
  7. ^ "STERIGERE, John Benton, (1793-1852)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
  8. ^ "McALEER, William, (1838-1912)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
  9. ^ "Israel Wilson Durham". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  10. ^ Sporting Life Magazine, Vol. 52, No. 26, March 6, 1909, Philadelphia.
  11. ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Morin Scott Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  12. ^ "Benjamin Donolow". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  13. ^ "FRANCIS J. LYNCH". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  14. ^ Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1993-1994" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.
  15. ^ "William G. Stinson". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  16. ^ Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1993-1994" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.