Pennsylvania State Senate District 17 includes parts of Delaware County and Montgomery County. It is currently represented by Democrat Amanda Cappelletti.
District profile The district includes the following areas:
Delaware County: Haverford Township Radnor Township
Montgomery County: Bridgeport East Norriton Township Lower Merion Township Narberth Norristown Upper Merion Township West Conshohocken West Norriton Township
Senators Representative Party Years District home Note Joseph Hiester Jeffersonian Republican 1791 – 1792 Pennsylvania State Representative from 1787 to 1790. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1797 to 1803, Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1803 to 1805 and Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1815 to 1820. 5th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1823. Presley Carr Lane Independent Republican 1807 – 1814 Speaker of the Senate from 1807 to 1814 William Davidson Independent Republican 1817 – 1824 Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representative from 1814 to 1818 including as Speaker of the House from 1817 to 1818 William Rudolph Smith Federalist 1821 – 1824 Attorney General for Wisconsin from 1855 to 1856 Christian Garber Democratic-Republican 1823 – 1828 Thomas Jackson Democratic 1829 – 1832 George McCulloch Democratic 1835 – 1836 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district from 1839 to 1841 Isaac Leet Democratic 1837 – 1838 Pennsylvania State Senator for the 20th district from 1833 to 1836. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district from 1839 to 1841. John Hoge Ewing Republican 1837 – 1842 Pennsylvania State Representative from 1835 to 1836. Speaker of the Senate from 1841 to 1842. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 20th congressional district from 1845 to 1847. Walter Craig Whig 1843 – 1844 Pennsylvania State Senator for the 23rd district from 1845 to 1846 Adam Ebaugh Democratic 1843 – 1845 Philip A. Smyser Whig 1847 Henry Fulton Democratic 1849 – 1850 Pennsylvania State Senator for the 12th district from 1851 to 1852 George Sanderson Whig 1851 – 1853 10th mayor of Lancaster, PennsylvaniaMayors of the City of Lancaster, PA . Retrieved on 2009-10-25. William Henry Welsh Democratic 1855 – 1859 Elijah Reed Myer Republican 1857 – 1858 Pennsylvania State Senator for the 9th district from 1859 to 1860 John M. Dunlap Republican 1863 – 1865 Benjamin Champneys Democratic 1865 – 1866 Pennsylvania State Representative from 1825 to 1826, 1828 to 1829 and 1863. Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1846 to 1848. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district from 1843 to 1844 and the 16th district from 1863 to 1864 Joseph W. Fisher Republican 1867 – 1868 Pennsylvania State Representative from 1848 to 1849. Chief justice of the territorial courts in Wyoming Territory from 1871 to 1879. Esaias Billingfelt Republican 1867 – 1871 Andrew Hemphill Dill Democratic 1871 – 1877 Jacob George Heilman Republican 1873 – 1875 George F. Meily Republican 1877 – 1880 Cyrus Ressley Lantz Republican 1881 – 1884 John Peter Shindel Gobin Republican 1885 – 1898 7th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania Samuel Weiss Republican 1899 – 1904 Daniel P. Gerberich Republican 1905 – 1916 Horace Leander Haldeman Republican 1915 – 1916 Cleon N. Berntheizel Republican 1921 – 1924 William C. Freeman Republican 1925 – 1932 Henry J. Pierson Republican 1933 – 1940 Clarence D. Becker Republican 1943 – 1948 Harold W. Risser Republican 1947 – 1948 G. Graybill Diehm Republican 1949 – 1956 Thomas Alexander Ehrgood Republican 1957 – 1964 Robert P. Johnson Republican 1965 – 1966 Robert Lawrence Coughlin Republican 1967 – 1968 Pennsylvania State Representative for the Montgomery County district from 1965 to 1966. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district from 1969 to 1993 Richard A. Tilghman Republican 1969 – 2001 Pennsylvania State Representative for the Montgomery County district from 1967 to 1968 Constance H. Williams Democratic 2001 – 2008 Pennsylvania State Representative for the 149th district from 1997 to 2001 Daylin Leach Democratic 2009 – 2020 Pennsylvania State Representative for the 149th district from 2003 to 2008 Amanda Cappelletti Democratic 2020 – present
Recent election results
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