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

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

Representative[2] Party Years District home Note
Cyrus CadwalladerFederalist1817 – 1823
Joel Keith MannJackson Democrat1823 – 1825U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1831 to 1835[3]
Benjamin ReiffNational Republican1827 – 1831
John MatheysDemocratic1831 – 1833
James Holdsworth PaullAnti-Mason, Whig1835 – 1839
Francis JamesAnti-Mason1837 – 1839
Henry MyersDemocratic1837 – 1839
Thomas S. BellDemocratic1837 – 1841
Nathaniel BrookeWhig1839 – 1841
John Benton SterigereWhig1839 – 1843U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1827 to 1831[4]
John T. HuddlestonWhig1841 – 1842
Abraham BrowerWhig1841 – 1843
George RichardsWhig1847 – 1848
Joshua Y. JonesDemocratic1851 – 1853
Benjamin WickWhig1853 – 1854
Thomas Pope KnoxDemocratic1855 – 1857
John ThompsonWhig1859 – 1861
John Christman SmithDemocratic1861 – 1863
Cornelius M. DonovanDemocratic1865 – 1867
David A. NagleDemocratic1869 – 1875
Henry S. EvansWhig1871 – 1873
John LamonRepublican1873 – 1879
James Gay GordonDemocratic1881 – 1883
Francis Augustus OsbourneRepublican1887 – 1901
Charles P. DevlinDemocratic1889 – 1890
William H. KeyserRepublican1901 – 1911
James P. McNicholDemocratic1907 – 1915[5]Pennsylvania State Senator for the 7th district from 1905 to 1906[6]
William J. McNicholRepublican1919 – 1925
William Cosgrove HunsickerRepublican1927 – 1935
Jerome H. JaspanDemocratic1937 – 1947
John R. MeadeRepublican1949 – 1951
Peter J. CamielDemocratic1953 – 1964
Louis C. JohansonDemocratic1965 – 1966Convicted for bribery and conspiracy as part of the Abscam sting operation.[7] Served three years in prison and fined $20,000.[8]
Herbert ArleneDemocratic1967 – 1980First African-American to serve in the Pennsylvania Senate.[9]
T. Milton StreetRepublican1981 – 1984
Roxanne JonesDemocratic1985 – 1996First African-American woman to serve in the Pennsylvania Senate.[10]
Shirley M. KitchenDemocratic1996 – 2017Pennsylvania State Representative for the 181st district from 1987 to 1988[11]
Sharif StreetDemocratic2017 – present

References

  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.
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