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Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( /ˌpɛnsɨlˈveɪnjə/ (help·info)) is a state located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada to the north...
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Catherine Baker Knoll
Catherine Baker Knoll (September 3, 1930 – November 12, 2008) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party. She was the 30th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, serving under Governor Ed Rendell from 2003 to 2008.
Catherine Baker...
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- Jan 21, 2003
Thomas Mifflin
Thomas Mifflin (January 10, 1744 – January 20, 1800) was an American merchant and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial...
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- Dec 17, 1799
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- Dec 21, 1790
Thomas McKean
Thomas McKean (March 19, 1734 – June 24, 1817) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolution he was a delegate to the Continental Congress where...
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- Dec 20, 1808
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- Dec 17, 1799
Simon Snyder
Simon Snyder (5 November 1759 – 9 November 1819) was the governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1808 to 1817. A Jeffersonian Democrat, he served three terms as speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives before becoming governor....
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- Dec 16, 1817
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- Dec 20, 1808
William Findlay
William Findlay (June 20, 1768 – November 12, 1846) was governor of Pennsylvania from 1817 to 1820. A Jeffersonian Democrat, and lawyer by training, Findlay served in the state legislature and was elected state treasurer in 1807. He remained in this...
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- Dec 19, 1820
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- Dec 16, 1817
Joseph Hiester
Joseph Hiester (born Bern Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, 18 November 1752; died Reading, Pennsylvania, 10 June 1832) was governor of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1823. He was a member of the Hiester family political dynasty, the son of John...
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- Dec 16, 1823
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- Dec 19, 1820
John Andrew Shulze
John Andrew Shulze (July 19, 1774 – November 18, 1852) was a Pennsylvania political leader and sixth Governor of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Muhlenberg family political dynasty.
Shulze was born in Tulpehocken Township, Berks (now Lebanon)...
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- Dec 15, 1829
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- Dec 16, 1823
George Wolf
George Wolf (12 August 1777 – 11 March 1840) was the governor of Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1835.
Wolf was born in Allen Township, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1799 and commenced practice in Easton, Pennsylvania. He served...
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- Dec 15, 1835
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- Dec 15, 1829
Joseph Ritner
Joseph Ritner (March 25, 1780 – October 16, 1869) was the eighth governor of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, elected as a member of the Anti-Masonic Party. He served from 1835 to 1839. Controversy surrounding his 1838 electoral defeat led to the...
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- Jan 15, 1839
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- Dec 15, 1835
David R. Porter
David Rittenhouse Porter (October 31, 1788 – August 6, 1867) was the governor of Pennsylvania from 1839 to 1845.
Born near Norristown, Pennsylvania, he was a business owner for a while until business failures and recession drove him into politics....
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- Jan 21, 1845
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- Jan 15, 1839
Francis R. Shunk
Francis Rawn Shunk (7 August 1788 – 20 July 1848) was governor of Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1848. Born into a poor family, Shunk served in the Pennsylvania militia during the War of 1812. Both before and after the war, he served as a clerk and...
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- Jul 9, 1848
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- Jan 21, 1845
William F. Johnston
William Freame Johnston (29 November 1808 – 25 October 1872) was governor of Pennsylvania from 1848 to 1852. A lawyer by training, Johnston became district attorney of Westmoreland County at the age of 21 in 1829. He was elected to the Pennsylvania...
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- Jan 20, 1852
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- Jul 26, 1848
William Bigler
William Bigler (January 11, 1814 – August 9, 1880) was governor of Pennsylvania from 1852 to 1855, and later a U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party.
Bigler was born in rural Pennsylvania and received little formal education; he studied informally...
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- Jan 16, 1855
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- Jan 20, 1852
James Pollock
James Pollock (September 11, 1810 – April 19, 1890) was the governor of the State of Pennsylvania from 1855 to 1858.
James Pollock graduated from the College of New Jersey at Princeton before setting up a law practice in his home community, in...
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- Jan 19, 1858
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- Jan 16, 1855
William F. Packer
William Fisher Packer (2 April 1807 – 27 September 1870) was governor of Pennsylvania from 1858 to 1861. His father was James Packer from Chester County, Pennsylvania and his mother was Charity Packer. His ancestry was primarily Quakers from...
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- Jan 15, 1861
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- Jan 19, 1858
Andrew Gregg Curtin
Andrew Gregg Curtin (April 22, 1817 – October 7, 1894) was a U.S. lawyer and politician who served as Governor of Pennsylvania during the American Civil War.
Curtin was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. His parents were Roland Curtin, Sr., a noted...
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- Jan 15, 1867
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- Jan 15, 1861
John W. Geary
John White Geary (December 30, 1819 – February 8, 1873) was an American lawyer, politician, and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was the final alcalde and first mayor of San Francisco, California, and the governor of the Kansas...
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- Jan 21, 1873
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- Jan 15, 1867
John F. Hartranft
John Frederick Hartranft (December 16, 1830 – October 17, 1889) was the governor of Pennsylvania from 1873 to 1879 and a Union General who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the American Civil War.
Hartranft was born in Fagleysville...
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- Jan 21, 1879
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- Jan 21, 1873
Henry M. Hoyt
Henry Martyn Hoyt (June 8, 1830 – December 1, 1892) was Governor of Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1883, as well as a general in the Union army during the American Civil War.
Hoyt was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania and attended Wyoming Seminary. He...
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- Jan 16, 1883
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- Jan 21, 1879
Robert E. Pattison
Robert Emory Pattison (8 December 1850 – 1 August 1904) was governor of Pennsylvania from 1883 to 1887 and 1891 to 1895. Born at Quantico in Somerset County, Maryland, Pattison's family moved to Philadelphia when he was five. He practiced law from...
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- Jan 18, 1887
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- Jan 16, 1883
James A. Beaver
James Addams Beaver (October 21, 1837 – January 31, 1914) was an American politician who served as governor of Pennsylvania from 1887 to 1891. He also served as the acting president of the Pennsylvania State University from 1906 to 1908.
Beaver...
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- Jan 20, 1891
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- Jan 18, 1887
Robert E. Pattison
Robert Emory Pattison (8 December 1850 – 1 August 1904) was governor of Pennsylvania from 1883 to 1887 and 1891 to 1895. Born at Quantico in Somerset County, Maryland, Pattison's family moved to Philadelphia when he was five. He practiced law from...
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- Jan 15, 1895
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- Jan 20, 1891
Daniel H. Hastings
Daniel Hartman Hastings (26 February 1849 – 9 January 1903) was governor of Pennsylvania from 1895 to 1899. Although he was only 12 years old at the outbreak of the American Civil War, the young Hastings made three successive attempts to run away...
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- Jan 17, 1899
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- Jan 15, 1895
William A. Stone
William Alexis Stone (18 April 1846 – 1 March 1920) was Governor of Pennsylvania from 1899 to 1903.
Stone was born in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. In 1864, Stone enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War and continued his military service...
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- Jan 20, 1903
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- Jan 17, 1899
Samuel W. Pennypacker
Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker (April 9, 1843 – September 2, 1916) was Governor of Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1907.
Gov. Pennypacker was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, April 9, 1843; son of Dr. Isaac A. Pennypacker and Anna Maria Whitaker; grandson...
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- Jan 15, 1907
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- Jan 20, 1903
Edwin Sydney Stuart
Edwin Sydney Stuart (December 28, 1853, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – March 21, 1937) was a Republican American politician who served as the Mayor of Philadelphia from 1891 to 1895 and as the Governor of Pennsylvania from 1907 to 1911.
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- Jan 17, 1911
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- Jan 15, 1907
John K. Tener
John Kinley Tener (July 25, 1863 – May 19, 1946) was a Major League baseball player and executive and, from 1911 to 1915, served as Governor of Pennsylvania.
John Tener was born in County Tyrone, Ireland to George Evans Tener and Susan Wallis. In...
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- Jan 19, 1915
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- Jan 17, 1911
Martin Grove Brumbaugh
Martin Grove Brumbaugh, A.M., Ph.D. (April 14, 1862 – March 14, 1930) was Pennsylvania's 25th Governor, a Republican. He is frequently referred to as M.G. Brumbaugh, as is common in the Brumbaugh family.
Author of A History of the German Baptist...
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- Jan 21, 1919
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- Jan 19, 1915
William Cameron Sproul
William Cameron Sproul (September 16, 1870 – March 21, 1928) was Governor of Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1923. He was born near Octoraro and Andrew's Bridge, Colerain Township, Lancaster County. He was born in a structure currently known as the John...
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- Jan 16, 1923
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- Jan 21, 1919
Gifford Pinchot
Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946) was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905–1910) and the Governor of Pennsylvania (1923–1927, 1931–1935). He was a Republican and Progressive.
Pinchot is known for reforming the...
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- Jan 18, 1927
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- Jan 16, 1923
John Stuchell Fisher
John Stuchell Fisher (May 25, 1867 S. Mahoning Twp, PA –June 25, 1940 Pittsburgh) was Pennsylvania's 28th Governor, a Republican.
Fisher graduated from Pennsylvania's Indiana State Normal School and began his career as a teacher; he then served as...
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- Jan 20, 1931
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- Jan 18, 1927
Gifford Pinchot
Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946) was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905–1910) and the Governor of Pennsylvania (1923–1927, 1931–1935). He was a Republican and Progressive.
Pinchot is known for reforming the...
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- Jan 15, 1935
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- Jan 20, 1931
George Howard Earle III
George Howard Earle III (December 5, 1890 – December 30, 1974) was an American politician. He served as the U.S. Minister to Austria from 1933 to 1934, and as the governor of Pennsylvania from 15 January 1935 to 17 January 1939.
In 1943, when Earle...
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- Jan 17, 1939
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- Jan 15, 1935
Arthur James
Arthur Horace James (July 14, 1883 – April 27, 1973) was an American politician. He served as the governor of Pennsylvania from 1939 until 1943.
He was elected governor as a Republican when the Democratic machine (led by U.S. Senator Joe Guffey)...
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- Jan 19, 1943
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- Jan 17, 1939
Edward Martin
Edward Martin (September 18, 1879 – March 19, 1967) was an American lawyer and Republican party politician from Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Martin served as a General in the United States National Guard and later retired from military service and went...
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- Jan 2, 1947
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- Jan 19, 1943
John C. Bell, Jr.
John Cromwell Bell, Jr. (October 25, 1892, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – March 18, 1974) was a Pennsylvania politician and judge.
He served as Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, 1943-47, and Governor briefly in 1947, succeeding Edward Martin, who...
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- Jan 21, 1947
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- Jan 2, 1947
James H. Duff
James Henderson Duff (January 21, 1883 – December 20, 1969) was an American lawyer and politician in the mid-20th century. He served as the Governor of Pennsylvania (1947–1951) and U.S. senator from Pennsylvania (1951-1957).
Duff was active in...
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- Jan 16, 1951
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- Jan 21, 1947
John S. Fine
John Sydney Fine (April 10, 1893 – May 21, 1978) was Governor of Pennsylvania from January 16, 1951 until January 18, 1955. He was born in Alden, Pennsylvania near Nanticoke and quickly rose in Luzerne County politics, serving as Republican County...
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- Jan 18, 1955
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- Jan 16, 1951
George M. Leader
George Michael Leader (born January 17, 1918) is a former governor of Pennsylvania serving from January 18, 1955 until January 20, 1959. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and a native of York County, Pennsylvania. Currently he is the only...
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- Jan 20, 1959
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- Jan 18, 1955
David L. Lawrence
David Leo Lawrence (June 18, 1889—November 21, 1966) was an American politician who served as the Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania from 1959 to 1963. He is to date the only mayor of Pittsburgh to be elected Governor of Pennsylvania. Previously,...
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- Jan 15, 1963
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- Jan 20, 1959
William Scranton
William Warren Scranton (born July 19, 1917) is a former U.S. Republican Party politician. Scranton served as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. From 1976 to 1977, he served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
William...
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- Jan 17, 1967
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- Jan 15, 1963
Raymond P. Shafer
Raymond Philip Shafer (March 05, 1917 – December 12, 2006) served as the 41st Governor of Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1971. He had previously served as Lieutenant Governor from 1963 to 1967. He was a national leader of the moderate wing of the...
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- Jan 19, 1971
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- Jan 17, 1967
Milton Shapp
Milton Jerrold Shapp (June 25, 1912 - November 24, 1994) was the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania from 1971 to 1979 and was the first Jewish governor of Pennsylvania.
Shapp was born Milton Jerrold Shapiro in Cleveland, Ohio to...
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- Jan 16, 1979
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- Jan 19, 1971
Dick Thornburgh
Richard Lewis "Dick" Thornburgh (born July 16, 1932) is a lawyer and Republican politician who served as the Governor of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1987, and then as the U.S. Attorney General from 1988 to 1991.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,...
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- Jan 20, 1987
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- Jan 16, 1979
Robert P. Casey
Robert Patrick "Bob" Casey, Sr. (January 9, 1932 – May 30, 2000) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served Pennsylvania in several capacities, most notably as its 42nd Governor from 1987 to 1995. He is best known for...
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- Jan 17, 1995
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- Jan 20, 1987
Tom Ridge
Thomas Joseph Ridge (born August 26, 1945) is an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives (1983–1995), Governor of Pennsylvania (1995–2001), Assistant to the President for Homeland Security (2001–2003)...
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- Oct 5, 2001
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- Jan 17, 1995
Mark S. Schweiker
Mark Steven Schweiker (born January 31, 1953) was the governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2003.
Schweiker, a Republican, became 44th Governor of Pennsylvania on October 5, 2001, when his predecessor, Tom Ridge, resigned as...
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- Jan 21, 2003
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- Oct 5, 2001
Ed Rendell
Edward Gene "Ed" Rendell (born January 5, 1944) is an American politician and Governor of Pennsylvania. Rendell, a member of the Democratic Party, was elected Governor of Pennsylvania in 2002, and his term of office began January 21, 2003. He is...
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