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Pennsylvania's 3rd
State Senate district
Senator
  Sharif Street
D–Philadelphia
Population (2021)263,993

Pennsylvania State Senate District 3 includes part of Philadelphia County. It is currently represented by Democrat Sharif Street.

District profile[edit]

The district includes the following areas:[1]

Philadelphia County:

  • Ward 11
  • Ward 13
  • Ward 14
  • Ward 15
  • Ward 16
  • Ward 20
  • Ward 29
  • Ward 32
  • Ward 35 [PART, Divisions 09, 10, 11, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31]
  • Ward 37
  • Ward 42
  • Ward 43
  • Ward 47
  • Ward 49
  • Ward 61

Senators[edit]

Representative[2] Party Years District home Note
Cyrus Cadwallader Federalist 1817 – 1823
Joel Keith Mann Jackson Democrat 1823 – 1825 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1831 to 1835[3]
Benjamin Reiff National Republican 1827 – 1831
John Matheys Democratic 1831 – 1833
James Holdsworth Paull Anti-Mason, Whig 1835 – 1839
Francis James Anti-Mason 1837 – 1839
Henry Myers Democratic 1837 – 1839
Thomas S. Bell Democratic 1837 – 1841
Nathaniel Brooke Whig 1839 – 1841
John Benton Sterigere Whig 1839 – 1843 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1827 to 1831[4]
John T. Huddleston Whig 1841 – 1842
Abraham Brower Whig 1841 – 1843
George Richards Whig 1847 – 1848
Joshua Y. Jones Democratic 1851 – 1853
Benjamin Wick Whig 1853 – 1854
Thomas Pope Knox Democratic 1855 – 1857
John Thompson Whig 1859 – 1861
John Christman Smith Democratic 1861 – 1863
Cornelius M. Donovan Democratic 1865 – 1867
David A. Nagle Democratic 1869 – 1875
Henry S. Evans Whig 1871 – 1873
John Lamon Republican 1873 – 1879
James Gay Gordon Democratic 1881 – 1883
Francis Augustus Osbourne Republican 1887 – 1901
Charles P. Devlin Democratic 1889 – 1890
William H. Keyser Republican 1901 – 1911
James P. McNichol Democratic 1907 – 1915[5] Pennsylvania State Senator for the 7th district from 1905 to 1906[6]
William J. McNichol Republican 1919 – 1925
William Cosgrove Hunsicker Republican 1927 – 1935
Jerome H. Jaspan Democratic 1937 – 1947
John R. Meade Republican 1949 – 1951
Peter J. Camiel Democratic 1953 – 1964
Louis C. Johanson Democratic 1965 – 1966 Convicted for bribery and conspiracy as part of the Abscam sting operation.[7] Served three years in prison and fined $20,000.[8]
Herbert Arlene Democratic 1967 – 1980 First African-American to serve in the Pennsylvania Senate.[9]
T. Milton Street Republican 1981 – 1984
Roxanne Jones Democratic 1985 – 1996 First African-American woman to serve in the Pennsylvania Senate.[10]
Shirley M. Kitchen Democratic 1996 – 2017 Pennsylvania State Representative for the 181st district from 1987 to 1988[11]
Sharif Street Democratic 2017 – present

References[edit]

  1. ^ "2021 Final Reapportionment Plan" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  2. ^ "Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
  3. ^ "MANN, Joel Keith, (1780-1857)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  4. ^ "Stephine to Sterlie". www.politicalgraveyard.com. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  5. ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - James P McNichol Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  6. ^ "James P. McNichol". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  7. ^ Greenhouse, Linda (June 1, 1983). "Court Bars Abscam Appeals". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  8. ^ "Louis Carl Johanson". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
  9. ^ "Ex-Sen. Herbert Arlene". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 11, 1989. Retrieved January 31, 2012.
  10. ^ Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1995-1996" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.
  11. ^ "Pennsylvania House of Representatives Shirley M. Kitchen Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Senate,_District_3