State: | Pennsylvania |
District: | 3 |
Chamber: | Senate |
Representative: | Sharif Street |
Party: | Democratic |
Residence: | Philadelphia |
Population: | 263,993 |
Population Year: | 2021 |
Pennsylvania State Senate District 3 includes part of Philadelphia County. It is currently represented by Democrat Sharif Street.
The district includes the following areas:[1]
Representative[2] | Party | Years | District home | Note | |
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Cyrus Cadwallader | Federalist | 1817 - 1823 | |||
Jackson Democrat | 1823 - 1825 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1831 to 1835[3] | |||
Benjamin Reiff | National Republican | 1827 - 1831 | |||
John Matheys | Democratic | 1831 - 1833 | |||
James Holdsworth Paull | Anti-Mason, Whig | 1835 - 1839 | |||
Francis James | Anti-Mason | 1837 - 1839 | |||
Henry Myers | Democratic | 1837 - 1839 | |||
Democratic | 1837 - 1841 | ||||
Nathaniel Brooke | Whig | 1839 - 1841 | |||
Whig | 1839 - 1843 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1827 to 1831[4] | |||
John T. Huddleston | Whig | 1841 - 1842 | |||
Abraham Brower | Whig | 1841 - 1843 | |||
George Richards | Whig | 1847 - 1848 | |||
Joshua Y. Jones | Democratic | 1851 - 1853 | |||
Benjamin Wick | Whig | 1853 - 1854 | |||
Thomas Pope Knox | Democratic | 1855 - 1857 | |||
John Thompson | Whig | 1859 - 1861 | |||
John Christman Smith | Democratic | 1861 - 1863 | |||
Cornelius M. Donovan | Democratic | 1865 - 1867 | |||
David A. Nagle | Democratic | 1869 - 1875 | |||
Whig | 1871 - 1873 | ||||
John Lamon | Republican | 1873 - 1879 | |||
James Gay Gordon | Democratic | 1881 - 1883 | |||
Francis Augustus Osbourne | Republican | 1887 - 1901 | |||
Charles P. Devlin | Democratic | 1889 - 1890 | |||
William H. Keyser | Republican | 1901 - 1911 | |||
James P. McNichol | Democratic | 1907 - 1915[5] | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 7th district from 1905 to 1906[6] | ||
William J. McNichol | Republican | 1919 - 1925 | |||
William Cosgrove Hunsicker | Republican | 1927 - 1935 | |||
Jerome H. Jaspan | Democratic | 1937 - 1947 | |||
John R. Meade | Republican | 1949 - 1951 | |||
Democratic | 1953 - 1964 | ||||
Democratic | 1965 - 1966 | Convicted for bribery and conspiracy as part of the Abscam sting operation.[7] Served three years in prison and fined $20,000.[8] | |||
Democratic | 1967 - 1980 | First African-American to serve in the Pennsylvania Senate.[9] | |||
Republican | 1981 - 1984 | ||||
Democratic | 1985 - 1996 | First African-American woman to serve in the Pennsylvania Senate.[10] | |||
Democratic | 1996 - 2017 | Pennsylvania State Representative for the 181st district from 1987 to 1988[11] | |||
Democratic | 2017 - present |