Pennsylvania Senate, District 9
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Pennsylvania State Senate District 9 includes parts of Chester County and Delaware County. It includes the following areas:[1]
- Aston Township
- Bethel Township
- Brookhaven
- Chadds Ford Township
- Chester Heights
- Chester Township
- Chester
- Concord Township
- Eddystone
- Edgmont Township
- Lower Chichester Township
- Marcus Hook
- Middletown Township
- Nether Providence Township
- Parkside
- Rose Valley
- Thornbury Township
- Trainer
- Upland
- Upper Chichester Township
Senators[edit]
| Representative[2] | Party | Years | District home | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Thomas | Federalist | 1791 – 1793 | U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1795 to 1801[3] | |
| William Ross | Democratic-Republican | 1811 – 1815 | ||
| Charles Fraser | Democratic-Republican | 1815 – 1819 | ||
| Simon Snyder | Democratic-Republican | 1817 – 1819 | 3rd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1808 to 1817[4] | |
| Robert Willets | Democratic | 1819 – 1821 | ||
| Redmond Conyngham | Federalist | 1819 – 1823 | ||
| Andrew Albright | Republican | 1821 – 1822 | ||
| Lewis Dewart | Democratic-Republican | 1821 – 1825 | ||
| John Ray | Jackson Democrat | 1827 – 1829 | ||
| Samuel Jones Packer | Anti-Mason | 1831 – 1833 | ||
| Isaac Slenker | Democratic | 1835 – 1837 | ||
| Charles Frailey | Democratic | 1835 – 1841 | ||
| Samuel Freeman Headley | Democratic | 1841 – 1842 | ||
| Jefferson Kreider Heckman | Democratic | 1843 – 1845 | ||
| Jacob D. Boas | Whig | 1847 – 1849 | ||
| Conrad Schilp Shimer | Democratic | 1851 – 1852 | ||
| William Fry | Democratic | 1853 – 1854 | ||
| Joseph Laubach | Democratic | 1855 – 1857 | ||
| Elijah Reed Myer | Republican | 1859 – 1860 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 17th district from 1857 to 1858[5] | |
| George Landon | Republican | 1859 – 1863 | ||
| William J. Turrell | Republican | 1863 – 1865 | ||
| William M. Randall | Democratic | 1865 – 1873 | ||
| Thomas Valentine Cooper | Republican | 1874 – 1889 | Pennsylvania State Representative for Delaware County from 1870 to 1871, 1872 to 1873 and 1901 to 1909. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 5th district from 1873 to 1874[6] | |
| John Buchanan Robinson | Republican | 1889 – 1892 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 6th district from 1891 to 1897[7] | |
| Jesse Matlack Baker | Republican | 1893 – 1897 | Pennsylvania State Representative for Delaware County from 1889-1892[8] | |
| William Cameron Sproul | Republican | 1897 – 1919 | 27th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1923[9] | |
| Richard J. Baldwin | Republican | 1919 – 1920 | Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1917 to 1918[10] | |
| Albert Dutton MacDade | Republican | 1921 – 1929 | ||
| John J. McClure | Republican | 1929 – 1937 | Found guilty and sentenced to 18 months in prison for vice and rum-running, conviction overturned on appeal[11] | |
| Weldon Brinton Heyburn | Republican | 1937 – 1949 | ||
| George Watkins | Republican | 1949 – 1960 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1965 to 1967. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1967 to 1970[12] | |
| Clarence D. Bell | Republican | 1961 – 2002 | Longest serving state senator in Pennsylvania history[13] | |
| Dominic F. Pileggi | Republican | 2002 – 2016 | Mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania from 1999 to 2002. Republican leader of the Pennsylvania Senate from 2007 to 2014[14] | |
| Tom Killion | Republican | 2016 – 2020 | Pennsylvania State Representative for the 168th district from 2003 to 2016[15] | |
| John I. Kane | Democratic | 2020 – present |
References[edit]
- ^ "Composite Listing of State Senate Districts" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
- ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
- ^ "THOMAS, Richard, (1744-1832)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ^ "Governor Simon Snyder". Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
- ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Elijah Reed Myer Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
- ^ "Pennsylvania House of Representatives - Thomas Valentine Cooper". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
- ^ "ROBINSON, John Buchanan, (1846-1933)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
- ^ "Pennsylvania House of Representatives Jesse M. Baker". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
- ^ "Governor William Cameron Sproul". www.phmc.state.pa.us. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ "Richard Jacobs Baldwin". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
- ^ Beers, Paul B. (1 November 2010). Pennsylvania Politics Today and Yesterday: The Tolerable Accommodation. Penn State Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0271044989. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ "George Robert Watkins". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- ^ "Clarence D. Bell - PA State Senator". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
- ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Dominic F Pileggi". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ^ "THOMAS H. KILLION". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
- Cox, Harold (2004). "Legislatures - 1776-2004". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.
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