Pennsylvania Senate, District 9

Senators
Representative[2] Party Years District home Note
Richard ThomasFederalist1791 – 1793U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1795 to 1801[3]
William RossDemocratic-Republican1811 – 1815
Charles FraserDemocratic-Republican1815 – 1819
Simon SnyderDemocratic-Republican1817 – 18193rd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1808 to 1817[4]
Robert WilletsDemocratic1819 – 1821
Redmond ConynghamFederalist1819 – 1823
Andrew AlbrightRepublican1821 – 1822
Lewis DewartDemocratic-Republican1821 – 1825
John RayJackson Democrat1827 – 1829
Samuel Jones PackerAnti-Mason1831 – 1833
Isaac SlenkerDemocratic1835 – 1837
Charles FraileyDemocratic1835 – 1841
Samuel Freeman HeadleyDemocratic1841 – 1842
Jefferson Kreider HeckmanDemocratic1843 – 1845
Jacob D. BoasWhig1847 – 1848
Conrad Schilp ShimerDemocratic1851 – 1852
William FryDemocratic1853 – 1854
Joseph LaubachDemocratic1855 – 1857
Elijah Reed MyerRepublican1859 – 1860Pennsylvania State Senator for the 17th district from 1857 to 1858[5]
George LandonRepublican1859 – 1863
William J. TurrellRepublican1863 – 1865
William M. RandallDemocratic1865 – 1873
Thomas Valentine CooperRepublican1874 – 1889Pennsylvania State Representative for Delaware County from 1870 to 1871, 1872 to 1873 and 1901 to 1909. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 5th district from 1873 to 1874[6]
John Buchanan RobinsonRepublican1889 – 1892U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 6th district from 1891 to 1897[7]
Jesse Matlack BakerRepublican1893 – 1897Pennsylvania State Representative for Delaware County from 1889-1892[8]
William Cameron SproulRepublican1897 – 191927th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1923[9]
Richard J. BaldwinRepublican1919 – 1920Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1917 to 1918[10]
Albert Dutton MacDadeRepublican1921 – 1929
John J. McClureRepublican1929 – 1937Found guilty and sentenced to 18 months in prison for vice and rum-running, conviction overturned on appeal[11]
Weldon Brinton HeyburnRepublican1937 – 1949
George WatkinsRepublican1949 – 1960U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1965 to 1967. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1967 to 1970[12]
Clarence D. BellRepublican1961 – 2002Longest serving state senator in Pennsylvania history[13]
Dominic F. PileggiRepublican2002 – 2016Mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania from 1999 to 2002. Republican leader of the Pennsylvania Senate from 2007 to 2014[14]
Tom KillionRepublican2016 – 2020Pennsylvania State Representative for the 168th district from 2003 to 2016[15]
John I. KaneDemocratic2020 – present

References
  1. "Composite Listing of State Senate Districts" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
  2. "Pennsylvania State Senate Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  3. "THOMAS, Richard, (1744-1832)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  4. "Governor Simon Snyder". Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  5. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Elijah Reed Myer Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  6. "Pennsylvania House of Representatives - Thomas Valentine Cooper". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  7. "ROBINSON, John Buchanan, (1846-1933)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  8. "Pennsylvania House of Representatives Jesse M. Baker". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
  9. "Governor William Cameron Sproul". www.phmc.state.pa.us. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  10. "Richard Jacobs Baldwin". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  11. Beers, Paul B. (1 November 2010). Pennsylvania Politics Today and Yesterday: The Tolerable Accommodation. Penn State Press. p. 137. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  12. "George Robert Watkins". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
  13. "Clarence D. Bell - PA State Senator". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  14. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Dominic F Pileggi". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  15. "THOMAS H. KILLION". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 19 December 2018.


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