Pennsylvania_Senate,_District_8

Pennsylvania's 8th
State Senate district
Pennsylvania's 8th; State Senate district
Senator
	Anthony Hardy Williams; D–Philadelphia
Population (2021)	256,726

Pennsylvania Senate, District 8

American legislative district

Pennsylvania State Senate District 8 includes parts of Delaware County and Philadelphia County. It is currently represented by Democrat Anthony Hardy Williams.

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Representative^[2]	Party	Years	Note
Henry Jarrett	Democratic-Republican	1813 – 1816
Thomas Jones Rogers	Democratic-Republican	1815 – 1818	U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district from 1818 to 1823 and for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1823 to 1824^[3]
John Erwin	Democratic-Republican	1817 – 1818
Joseph Fry, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	1817 – 1820	Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1816 to 1817. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1827 to 1831^[4]
Henry Winter	Democratic-Republican	1819 – 1822	Pennsylvania State Senator for the 12th district from 1823 to 1826^[5]
John Andrew Schulze	Democratic-Republican	1821 – 1824	6th Governor of Pennsylvania^[6]
John Harrison	National Republican	1823 – 1824
Adam Ritscher	Democratic-Republican	1823 – 1826
George Seltzer	Democratic	1827 – 1830
Jacob Stoever	Democratic	1831 – 1834
John Harper	Anti-Masonic	1835 – 1836	Pennsylvania State Senator for the 7th district from 1837 to 1838^[7]
David Rittenhouse Porter	Democratic	1835 – 1837	Pennsylvania State Representative in 1819. 9th Governor of Pennsylvania^[8]
Isaac Slenker	Democratic	1837 – 1838
James Martin Bell	Whig	1837 – 1839
Robert Plunket Maclay	Whig	1839 – 1841
James Mathers	Whig	1841 – 1842
Francis Wade Hughes	Democratic	1843 – 1844	Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1852 to 1853. Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1853 to 1855^[9]
Henry C. Eyer	Democratic	1843 – 1844	Pennsylvania State Senator for the 15th district from 1845 to 1846^[10]
George Rahn	Democratic	1845 – 1846
William A. Overfield	Jackson Democrat	1847 – 1848
Charles Frailey	Democratic	1851 – 1852	Pennsylvania State Senator for the 9th district from 1835 to 1840^[11]
David Taggart	Whig	1855 – 1858	Speaker in 1857^[12]
Thomas Craig, Jr.	Democratic	1857 – 1860
Henry Spering Mott	Republican	1861 – 1862
Hiester Clymer	Democratic	1861 – 1866	U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1873 to 1881^[13]
Joseph Depuy Davis	Democratic	1867 – 1874
Jacob Crouse	Republican	1875 – 1876^[14]
William Imlay Newell	Republican	1877 – 1882
Benjamin F. Hughes	Republican	1883 – 1886
Henry S. Taylor	Republican	1887 – 1889	Died in office^[15]
Jacob Crouse	Republican	1889 – 1898^[14]
David Martin	Republican	1899 – 1902	Pennsylvania Senator for the 5th district from 1917 to 1920^[16]
Horatio Balch Hackett	Republican	1903 – 1905
Vivian Frank Gable	Democratic	1905 – 1906
John T. Murphy	Republican	1907 – 1910
James T. Nulty	Fusion Democrat	1911 – 1914
William Wallace Smith	Republican	1915 – 1918
George Gray	Republican	1919 – 1922
Thaddeus Stevens Krause	Republican	1923 – 1934
Walter S. Pytko	Democratic	1935 – 1938
Louis H. Farrell	Republican	1939 – 1950
John F. Byrne, Sr.	Democratic	1951 – 1952
Francis P. McCusker	Republican	1953 – 1954
William Vincent Mullin	Democratic	1955 – 1966
Thomas McCreesh	Democratic	1967 – 1974	Pennsylvania State Senator for the 4th senatorial district from 1959 to 1966^[17]
Paul McKinney	Democratic	1975 – 1982
Hardy Williams	Democratic	1983 – 1998	Pennsylvania State Representative for the 191st district from 1971 to 1982^[18]
Anthony Hardy Williams	Democratic	1999 – present	Pennsylvania State Representative for the 191st district from 1989 to 1998. Democratic Whip of the Pennsylvania Senate since 2011^[19]

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