Pennsylvania State Senate District 9 includes parts of Chester County and Delaware County. It is currently represented by Democrat John I. Kane.
District profile The district includes the following areas:
Chester County
Avondale Birmingham Township East Marlborough Township Franklin Township Kennett Township Kennett Square London Britain Township London Grove Township New Garden Township Pennsbury Township Pocopson Township Thornbury Township West Grove Westtown Township
Delaware County
Aston Township Bethel Township Brookhaven Chadds Ford Township Chester Chester Heights Chester Township Concord Township Eddystone Edgmont Township Lower Chichester Township Marcus Hook Middletown Township Nether Providence Township Parkside Rose Valley Thornbury Township Trainer Upland Upper Chichester Township
Senators Representative Party Years District home Note Richard Thomas Federalist 1791 – 1793 U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1795 to 1801 William Ross Democratic-Republican 1811 – 1815 Charles Fraser Democratic-Republican 1815 – 1819 Simon Snyder Democratic-Republican 1817 – 1819 3rd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1808 to 1817 Robert Willets Democratic 1819 – 1821 Redmond Conyngham Federalist 1819 – 1823 Andrew Albright Republican 1821 – 1822 Lewis Dewart Democratic-Republican 1821 – 1825 John Ray Jackson Democrat 1827 – 1829 Samuel Jones Packer Anti-Mason 1831 – 1833 Isaac Slenker Democratic 1835 – 1837 Charles Frailey Democratic 1835 – 1841 Samuel Freeman Headley Democratic 1841 – 1842 Jefferson Kreider Heckman Democratic 1843 – 1845 Jacob D. Boas Whig 1847 – 1849 Conrad Schilp Shimer Democratic 1851 – 1852 William Fry Democratic 1853 – 1854 Joseph Laubach Democratic 1855 – 1857 Elijah Reed Myer Republican 1859 – 1860 Pennsylvania State Senator for the 17th district from 1857 to 1858 George Landon Republican 1859 – 1863 William J. Turrell Republican 1863 – 1865 William M. Randall Democratic 1865 – 1873 Thomas Valentine Cooper Republican 1874 – 1889 Pennsylvania State Representative for Delaware County from 1870 to 1871, 1872 to 1873 and 1901 to 1909. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 5th district from 1873 to 1874 John Buchanan Robinson Republican 1889 – 1892 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 6th district from 1891 to 1897 Jesse Matlack Baker Republican 1893 – 1897 Pennsylvania State Representative for Delaware County from 1889-1892 William Cameron Sproul Republican 1897 – 1919 27th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1923 Richard J. Baldwin Republican 1919 – 1920 Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1917 to 1918 Albert Dutton MacDade Republican 1921 – 1929 John J. McClure Republican 1929 – 1937 Found guilty and sentenced to 18 months in prison for vice and rum-running, conviction overturned on appeal Weldon Brinton Heyburn Republican 1937 – 1949 George Watkins Republican 1949 – 1960 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1965 to 1967. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1967 to 1970 Clarence D. Bell Republican 1961 – 2002 Longest serving state senator in Pennsylvania history Dominic F. Pileggi Republican 2002 – 2016 Mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania from 1999 to 2002. Republican leader of the Pennsylvania Senate from 2007 to 2014 Tom Killion Republican 2016 – 2020 Pennsylvania State Representative for the 168th district from 2003 to 2016 John I. Kane Democratic 2020 – present
Recent election results
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