Pennsylvania Senate, District 2

Pennsylvania's 2nd State Senate district
Senator	Christine M. Tartaglione D–Philadelphia
Population (2021)	260,277

Pennsylvania State Senate District 2 includes parts of Philadelphia County. It is currently represented by Democrat Christine M. Tartaglione.

District profile

The district includes the following areas:^[1]

Philadelphia County:

• Ward 07
• Ward 19
• Ward 23
• Ward 25 [PART, Divisions 02, 03, 05, 06, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24]
• Ward 33
• Ward 35 [PART, Divisions 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 26 and 32]
• Ward 45
• Ward 53
• Ward 54
• Ward 55
• Ward 62

Senators

Representative[2]	Party	Years	District home	Note
Lindsay Coats	Federalist	1795 – 1797
Maskell Ewing	Federalist	1813 – 1819
Joel Barlow Sutherland	Democratic	1815 – 1816		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1827 to 1833[3]
Abraham Bailey	Federalist	1815 – 1817
Samuel Cochran	Federalist	1817 – 1819
Daniel Groves	Democratic-Republican	1821 – 1825
James Kelton Jr.	Federalist	1821 – 1825
Stephen Duncan	Federalist	1821 – 1829
Peter Hay	Old School Jefferson	1827 – 1829
Samuel Breck	National Republican	1831 – 1833		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1823 to 1825[4]
Joseph Taylor	Democratic	1831 – 1833
George N. Baker	Democratic	1833 – 1835
Francis Jacob Harper	Democratic	1833 – 1835		U.S. Representative-elect for Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district in 1836 but died before taking office[5]
James McConkey	Whig	1837 – 1837
James Hanna	Whig	1837 – 1838
Alexander M. Peltz	Democratic	1837 – 1838
Charles Brown	Democratic	1837 – 1839		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 1st district from 1841 to 1843. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 3rd district from 1847-1849[6]
Michael Snyder	Democratic	1837 – 1839
Samuel Stevenson	Democratic	1837 – 1839
John Benton Sterigere	Buchanan Democratic	1839 – 1845		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1827 to 1831[7]
Thomas McCully	Democratic	1841 – 1842
Benjamin Crispin	Democratic	1841 – 1843
James Enue Jr.	Democratic	1843 – 1844
Edward A. Penniman	Democratic	1843 – 1844
John Foulkrod	Democratic	1843 – 1845
Oliver Perry Cornman	Democratic	1845 – 1846
Henry Lewis Benner	Democratic	1845 – 1847
William Franklin Small	Democratic	1847 – 1848
Thomas H. Forsythe	Democratic	1847 – 1851
Thomas Sargent Fernon	Democratic	1849 – 1851
Peleg Bahrows Savery	Democratic	1849 – 1851
Levi Foulkrod	Whig	1853 – 1854
Samuel G. Hamilton	Native American	1853 – 1854
William Goodwin	Democratic	1853 – 1855
Henry Charles Pratt II	Republican	1855 – 1856
Thomas S. Bell	Democratic	1857 – 1859
Jacob S. Serrill	Republican	1861 – 1862
Jacob Elwood Ridgway	Republican	1865 – 1867
Alexander Wilson Henszey	Republican	1869 – 1871
David A. Nagle	Democratic	1875 – 1877
John Cochran	Democratic	1879 – 1881
Joseph P. Kennedy	Democratic	1881 – 1885
William McAleer	Democratic	1887 – 1889		U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1891 to 1895 and from 1897 to 1901[8]
Elwood Becker	Republican	1891 – 1897
Israel Wilson Durham	Republican	1897 – 1899		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district from 1897 to 1898.[9] President of the Philadelphia Phillies in 1909[10]
George W. Holzwarth	Republican	1899 – 1900
Harry Gransback	Republican	1901 – 1905
John Morin Scott	Republican	1907 – 1909		Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district from 1899 to 1906[11]
Samuel W. Salus	Republican	1911 – 1937
A. Evans Kephart	Republican	1939 – 1953
Benjamin R. Donolow	Democratic	1955 – 1972		Senate minority leader from 1965 to 1970[12]
Francis J. Lynch	Democratic	1973 – 1993		Pennsylvania Representative for the 195th district from 1967 to 1973[13]
William G. Stinson	Democratic	1993 – 1994		Removed from office by order of the U.S. District Court on February 18, 1994[14] due to election fraud[15]
Bruce Marks	Republican	1994		Seated April 28, 1994[16]
Christine M. Tartaglione	Democratic	1995 – present

References

1. "2021 Final Reapportionment Plan" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
2. "Senate Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
3. "SUTHERLAND, Joel Barlow (1792-1861)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
4. "BRECK, Samuel, (1771-1862)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
5. "HARPER, Francis Jacob, (1800-1837)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
6. "BROWN, Charles, (1797-1883)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
7. "STERIGERE, John Benton, (1793-1852)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
8. "McALEER, William, (1838-1912)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
9. "Israel Wilson Durham". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
10. Sporting Life Magazine, Vol. 52, No. 26, March 6, 1909, Philadelphia.
11. "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Morin Scott Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
12. "Benjamin Donolow". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
13. "FRANCIS J. LYNCH". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
14. Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1993-1994" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.
15. "William G. Stinson". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
16. Cox, Harold (2004). "Pennsylvania Senate - 1993-1994" (PDF). Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

• Cox, Harold (2004). "Legislatures - 1776-2004". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.