Senate Historical Biographies

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Name	Position	Session	Party	County	District	Born/Died
Afflerbach II, Roy C		1987-1998	D	Lehigh, Northampton	16	1945 -
Albright, Edwin		1872-1876	D	Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton	11,16	11/08/1838 - 12/13/1902
Boas, Jacob D		1847	W	Lehigh, Northampton	9	1806 - 1887
Brightbill, David J.	Majority Caucus Secretary, Majority Floor Leader, Policy Committee Chair, Whip	1983-2006	R	Berks, Chester, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh	48	11/03/1942 -
Brown, Robert S		1867-1869*	D	Lehigh, Northampton	7
Dent, Charles W		1999-2004	R	Lehigh, Northampton	16	1960 -
Dewalt, Arthur Granville		1903-1910	D	Lehigh	16	1854 - 1931
Erwin, John		1817-1818	DR	Lehigh, Northampton, Pike, Wayne	8	1786 - 1820
Freed, Tilghman A		1951-1954	R	Lehigh	16	1895 -
Fry Jr, Joseph		1817-1820*	DR	Lehigh, Northampton, Pike, Wayne	8	1781 - 1860
Fry, William		1853	D	Lehigh, Northampton	9	1800 - 1868
Gerlach, James W		1995-2002	R	Berks, Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery	44	1955 -
Gibbons, John S		1841	D	Lehigh, Northampton	10
Harvey, Laning		1929-1936	R	Lehigh, Luzerne	21	1882 - 1942
Heckman, Jefferson Kreider		1843-1845*	D	Lehigh, Northampton	9	1799 - 1853
Henninger, Milton Christian		1883-1894	D	Lehigh	16	04/21/1851 - 09/25/1921
Holben, Evan		1877-1882	D	Lehigh	16	11/26/1837 - 05/16/1918
Jarrett, Henry		1813-1816*	DR	Lehigh, Northampton, Northumberland, Pike, Wayne	0,8	1772 - 1830
Kern, Jacob	Speaker	1831-1836*	BD	Lehigh, Northampton, Pike, Wayne	12	1790 - 1837
King, Henry		1825-1830*	JD	Lehigh, Northampton, Pike, Wayne	12	1790 - 1861
Kratzer, Guy M		1983-1986	R	Lehigh	16	1941 -
Laubach, Joseph		1855-1857*	D	Lehigh, Northampton	5,9	1798 - 1866
Livingston, Walter Copake		1831-1832	D	Lehigh, Northampton, Pike, Wayne	12	1799 - 1872
Messinger, Henry C		1971-1982	D	Lehigh	16	1915 - 1991
Michler, Peter S		1835-1838*	AM, W	Lehigh, Northampton, Pike, Wayne	10,12
Miller, James A		1911-1914	D	Lehigh	16	1863 - 1933
Newhard, Peter		1833-1836*	D	Lehigh, Northampton, Pike, Wayne	12	1783 - 1860
Pecora, Frank A		1979-1994	R, D	Allegheny, Berks, Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery, Westmoreland	44	1930 -
Ralston, James		1811-1814*	DR	Lehigh, Northampton, Wayne	0	1767 - 1836
Reibman, Jeanette F		1969-1994	D	Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton	18	1915 - 2006
Rogers, Thomas Jones		1815-1818*	DR	Lehigh, Northampton, Pike, Wayne	8	1781 - 1832
Rupp, George A		1935-1938	D	Lehigh	16	1903 -
Schall, George B		1865	D	Lehigh, Northampton	7
Schantz, Horace Walker	President Pro Tempore	1915-1930	R	Lehigh	16	1875 - 1937
Scott, William G		1827-1830*	D	Lehigh, Northampton, Pike, Wayne	12
Shimer, Conrad Schilp		1851	D	Lehigh, Northampton	9	1797 - 1866
Shindel Jr., Jeremiah Peter		1858-1860	D	Lehigh, Northampton	5	05/15/1807 - 07/02/1870
Shortz, Abraham		1839	D	Lehigh, Northampton	10	1793 - 1876
Snyder, Henry L		1931-1934	D	Lehigh	16
Stein, George W		1861-1863*	D	Lehigh, Northampton	5
Stiles, Harry Gibson		1895-1902	D	Lehigh	16	1856 - 1908
Tallman, Oscar Jacob		1939-1950	R	Lehigh	16	1902 - 1967
Van Sant, John T		1955-1970	R	Lehigh	16	1915 - 1972
Winter, Henry		1819-1826*	DR, D	Lehigh, Northampton, Pike, Wayne	8,12

*served non-consecutive terms