Pennsylvania Senate, District 6

Pennsylvania State Senate District 6 includes parts of Bucks County. It is currently represented by Republican Frank Farry.

Pennsylvania's 6th
State Senate district
Senator
  Frank Farry
R–Langhorne
Population (2021)269,699

District profile

The district includes the following areas:[1]

Senators
Representative[2] Party Years District home Note
John ForsterFederalist1813 – 1817
John SawyerDemocratic-Republican1819 – 1821
Conrad FegerFederalist1821 – 1823
William AudenreidDemocratic-Republican1825 – 1827
George Schall Jr.Democratic1825 – 1827
John KerlinFederalist1825 – 1829
Daniel A. BertoletRepublican1829 – 1831
Jacob KrebsDemocratic1829 – 1835Pennsylvania State Representative from 1812 to 1813. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1826 to 1827.[3]
Paul GeigerDemocratic1831 – 1835
John StrohmAnti-Masonic1837 – 1842U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1849[4]
James A. CaldwellDemocratic1837 – 1839
Thomas Evans CochranDemocratic1839 – 1841
William HiesterAnti-Masonic1841 – 1843U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district from 1831 to 1837[5]
Henry ChapmanDemocratic1843 – 1845U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1857 to 1859[6]
Benjamin ChampneysDemocratic1843 – 1845Pennsylvania State Representative from 1825 to 1826, 1828 to 1829 and 1863. Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1846 to 1848. Pennsylvania Senator for the 16th district from 1863 to 1866 and the 17th district from 1865 to 1866[7]
Josiah RichWhig1847 – 1848
Benjamin MaloneWhig1849 – 1851
Howard K. SagerDemocratic1853 – 1854
Jonathan ElyDemocratic1855 – 1857
Benjamin NunemacherDemocratic1859 – 1860
Oliver P. JamesDemocratic1865 – 1866
Richard J. LindermanDemocratic1867 – 1869
Jesse W. KnightDemocratic1871 – 1872Pennsylvania State Senator for the 7th district from 1873 to 1874[8]
Aaron K. DunkleRepublican1875 – 1877
Wiliam ElliottRepublican1879 – 1881
A. Wilson NorrisRepublican1881 – 1882
Robert Adams Jr.Republican1883 – 1885United States Minister to Brazil from 1889 to 1890. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1893 to 1906.[9]
Boies PenroseRepublican1887 – 1889U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania from 1897 to 1921.[10] Political boss of the Pennsylvania Republican political machine.[11]
Israel Wilson DurhamRepublican1897 – 1898Pennsylvania State Senator for the 2nd district from 1899 to 1900. Political boss of Philadelphia's 7th ward. President and principal owner of the Philadelphia Phillies in 1909.[12]
John Morin ScottRepublican1899 – 1906Pennsylvania State Senator for the 2nd district from 1907 to 1910[13]
Francis Salisbury McElhennyRepublican1907 – 1913
Owen Blair JenkinsRepublican1915 – 1917
George WoodwardRepublican1919 – 1945
James Burd HubleyFederalist1921 – 1923
John W. Lord Jr.Republican1947 – 1951Philadelphia City Councilman from 1952 to 1954. Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1954 to 1971. Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1971. Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1971 to 1972.[14]
Martin SilvertDemocratic1951 – 1963
William John McLaughlin IIIRepublican1965 – 1966
John F. Byrne Jr.Democratic1967 – 1970
Robert A. RovnerRepublican1971 – 1974
H. Craig LewisDemocratic1975 – 1994
Tommy TomlinsonRepublican1995 – 2023
Frank FarryRepublican2023 – present

Recent election results
PA Senate election, 2022
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Frank Farry 67,406 53.2
Democratic Ann Marie Mitchell 57,264 45.2
Libertarian Brandon Bentrim 1,961 1.6
Total votes 126,631 100.0
Republican hold
PA Senate election, 2018
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Tommy Tomlinson (incumbent) 54,382 50.03
Democratic Tina Davis 54,308 49.97
Total votes 108,690 100.0
Republican hold
PA Senate election, 2014
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Tommy Tomlinson (incumbent) 45,361 61.8
Democratic Kimberly Yeager-Rose 27,997 38.2
Total votes 73,358 100.0
Republican hold
PA Senate election, 2010
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Tommy Tomlinson (incumbent) 49,958 58.2
Democratic Bryan Allen 35,879 41.8
Total votes 85,837 100.0
Republican hold

References
  1. "2021 Final Reapportionment Plan" (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of State. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  2. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Senate Historical Biographies". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  3. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Jacob Kreps". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  4. "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Strohm Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  5. "Pennsylvania State Senate - William Hiester - Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  6. "CHAPMAN, Henry, (1804-1891)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  7. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Benjamin Champneys Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  8. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Jesse W Knight Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  9. "ADAMS, Robert, Jr., (1849-1906)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  10. "PENROSE, Boies, (1860-1921)". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  11. Beers, Paul B. (November 1, 2010). Pennsylvania Politics Today and Yesterday: The Tolerable Accommodation. Penn State Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0271044989. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
  12. "Pennsylvania State Senate - Israel Wilson Durham Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  13. "Pennsylvania State Senate - John Morin Scott Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  14. John Whitaker Lord Jr. at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
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