Pennsylvania State Senate District 15 includes part of Dauphin County. It is currently represented by Democrat Patty Kim.
District profile The district includes the following areas:
Conewago Township Dauphin Derry Township East Hanover Township Harrisburg Highspire Hummelstown Londonderry Township Lower Paxton Township Lower Swatara Township Middle Paxton Township Middletown Paxtang Penbrook Royalton South Hanover Township Steelton Susquehanna Township Swatara Township West Hanover Township
Senators Representative Party Years District home Note James Poe Democratic-Republican 1803 – 1818 Robert Smith Democratic-Republican 1819 – 1822 John Rea Democratic-Republican 1823 – 1824 James Dunlop Federalist 1823 – 1826 David Fullerton Anti-Masonic 1827 – 1838 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th district from 1819 to 1820. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 14th district from 1839 to 1840 Samuel M. Barclay National Republican 1837 – 1840 George Shannon Mullin, Sr. Whig 1841 – 1842 Pennsylvania State Senator for the 19th district from 1843 to 1844 Henry C. Eyer Democratic 1845 – 1846 Pennsylvania State Senator for the 8th district from 1843 to 1844 Jacob Wagenseller Whig 1845 – 1848 Jonathan J. Cunningham Whig 1849 – 1850 Robert Allison McMurtrie Whig 1851 – 1852 Ner Middleswarth Whig 1853 – 1854 Pennsylvania State Representative from 1815 to 1841. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district from 1853 to 1855 John Creswell, Jr. Democratic 1853 – 1858 Pennsylvania State Senator for the 20th district from 1859 to 1860 John Brisban Rutherford Republican 1857 – 1860 Paxton Former Cavalry officer Amos R. Boughter Republican 1861 – 1863 Lebanon Refused re-election to join the 43rd Pennsylvania Militia Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War David Fleming Republican 1863 – 1864 West Hanover Pennsylvania State Senator for the 16th district from 1865 to 1866 David B. Montgomery Democratic 1865 – 1866 Pennsylvania State Senator for the 13th district from 1863 to 1864 George Duggan Jackson Democratic 1867 – 1868 Pennsylvania State Senator for the 24th district from 1879 to 1880 Thomas Chalfant Democratic 1873 – 1874 Andrew Jackson Herr Republican 1875 – 1880 Alexander F. Thompson Republican 1885 – 1892 Samuel John Milton McCarrell Republican 1893 – 1900 John E. Fox Republican 1901 – 1912 Edward Ensinger Beidleman Republican 1913 – 1918 Pennsylvania State Representative for Dauphin County from 1905 to 1908. 12th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1923 Frank A. Smith Republican 1919 – 1924 William H. Earnest Republican 1925 – 1932 George Leffingwell Reed Republican 1933 – 1936 George Kunkel Democratic 1937 – 1940 M. Harvey Taylor Republican 1941 – 1964 William B. Lentz Republican 1965 – 1976 George W. Gekas Republican 1977 – 1982 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district from 1983 to 2003 John J. Shumaker Republican 1983 – 1995 Seated April 11, 1983, to fill vacancy.Resigned August 31, 1995 Jeffrey E. Piccola Republican 1995 – 2012 Pennsylvania State Representative for the 104th district from 1977 to 1995. Rob Teplitz Democratic 2013 – 2017 Susquehanna Township John DiSanto Republican 2017 – 2024 Patty Kim Democratic 2025 – present Harrisburg
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