Pennsylvania State Senate District 3 includes part of Philadelphia County. It is currently represented by Democrat Sharif Street.
District profile The district includes the following areas:
Philadelphia County:
Ward 11 Ward 13 Ward 14 Ward 15 Ward 16 Ward 20 Ward 29 Ward 32 Ward 35 [PART, Divisions 09, 10, 11, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31] Ward 37 Ward 42 Ward 43 Ward 47 Ward 49 Ward 61
Senators Representative Party Years District home Note Cyrus Cadwallader Federalist 1817 – 1823 Joel Keith Mann Jackson Democrat 1823 – 1825 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1831 to 1835 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 Thomas S. Bell Democratic 1837 – 1841 Nathaniel Brooke Whig 1839 – 1841 John Benton Sterigere Whig 1839 – 1843 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1827 to 1831 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 Henry S. Evans 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 Pennsylvania State Senator for the 7th district from 1905 to 1906 William J. McNichol Republican 1919 – 1925 William Cosgrove Hunsicker Republican 1927 – 1935 Jerome H. Jaspan Democratic 1937 – 1947 John R. Meade Republican 1949 – 1951 Peter J. Camiel Democratic 1953 – 1964 Louis C. Johanson Democratic 1965 – 1966 Convicted for bribery and conspiracy as part of the Abscam sting operation. Served three years in prison and fined $20,000. Herbert Arlene Democratic 1967 – 1980 First African-American to serve in the Pennsylvania Senate. T. Milton Street Republican 1981 – 1984 Roxanne Jones Democratic 1985 – 1996 First African-American woman to serve in the Pennsylvania Senate. Shirley M. Kitchen Democratic 1996 – 2017 Pennsylvania State Representative for the 181st district from 1987 to 1988 Sharif Street Democratic 2017 – present
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