Pennsylvania Senate, District 17

Pennsylvania's 17th
State Senate district
Senator
  Amanda Cappelletti
D–East Norriton Township
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

The district includes the following areas:[1]

Senators

Representative[2] Party Years District home Note
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

PA Senate election, 2020
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Amanda Cappelletti 104,273 65.8
Republican Ellen Fisher 54,066 34.2
Total votes 158,339 100.0
Democratic hold
Democratic primary, 2020
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Amanda Cappelletti 33,857 65.3%
Democratic Daylin Leach (incumbent) 17,950 34.7%
Total votes 51,807 100.0%
PA Senate election, 2016
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Daylin Leach (incumbent) 88,827 64.0
Republican Brian Gondek 50,010 36.0
Total votes 138,837 100.0
Democratic hold
PA Senate election, 2012
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Daylin Leach (incumbent) 78,508 63.2
Republican Charles Gehret 45,707 36.8
Total votes 124,215 100.0
Democratic hold
PA Senate election, 2008
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Daylin Leach 76,350 61.5
Republican Lance Rogers 47,873 38.5
Total votes 124,223 100.0
Democratic hold

References

  1. ^ "2021 Final Reapportionment Plan" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  2. ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Senate Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
  3. ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Joseph Hiester Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  4. ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Presley Carr Lane Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  5. ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - William Davidson Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "McCULLOCH, George, (1792-1861)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  8. ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Issac Leet Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  9. ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Hoge Ewing Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  10. ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Walter Craig Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  11. ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Henry Fulton Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
  12. ^ Mayors of the City of Lancaster, PA Archived August 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2009-10-25.
  13. ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Elijah Reed Myer Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
  14. ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - Benjamin Champneys Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
  15. ^ "Colonel Joseph Washington Fisher". www.antietam.aotw.org. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
  16. ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Peter Shindel Gobin Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
  17. ^ "COUGHLIN, Robert Lawrence (1929-2001)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
  18. ^ "Pennsylvania House of Representatives - RICHARD A. TILGHMAN Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  19. ^ "Pennsylvania House of Representatives - CONSTANCE H. WILLIAMS Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
  20. ^ "Our Campaigns – PA State House 149- Special Election Race – Feb 12, 2002". Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  21. ^ "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.