H. William DeWeese is an American politician who is a former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party,DeWeese served as the 135th Speaker of the Pennsylvania House from 1993 to 1994. After five years of investigation by Republican State Attorney General Tom Corbett,he was indicted in December 2009 on six charges of conflict of interest,theft and criminal conspiracy on accusations that two members of his staff used state resources to campaign for political office. The trial began January 23,2010. He was re-elected in 2010 despite the charges,but was convicted of five of the six felony charges on February 6,2012.
Thomas Wingett Corbett Jr. is an American politician,lobbyist,and former prosecutor who served as the 46th governor of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he was also attorney general of Pennsylvania.
Eugene A. DePasquale is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as the Pennsylvania Auditor General from 2013 to 2021. From 2007 to 2013,he served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives,representing the York County-based 95th district. He was the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district in the 2020 election. Since leaving office,DePasquale served as an Adjunct Professor at Widener University School of Law,and is currently an Adjunct Law Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2023,he announced his candidacy in the 2024 Pennsylvania Attorney General election.
Jesse J. White is a former attorney and former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives,representing the 46th District since 2007. His district included portions of Washington,Allegheny and Beaver Counties.
Chief Oil &Gas is a company founded in Dallas,Texas in 1994 by Trevor Rees-Jones. Its primary holdings of natural gas were developed in the core areas of the Barnett Shale in Tarrant County,Denton County and Parker County. In 1999,new technology in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing along with rising gas prices made the Barnett Shale,an unconventional resource for natural gas,more economical. Chief rapidly expanded its leasehold position and drilling and production program in the Barnett Shale to become the fields second largest producer there.
J. Richard Gray is an American lawyer and politician,who was mayor of Lancaster,Pennsylvania from 2006 until 2018.
Michael Coyne Turzai is an American politician and former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives who served as Speaker of the House. He is from Allegheny County and represented the 28th legislative district between 2001 and 2020. His district included the municipalities of Pine Township,Marshall Township,Bradford Woods,Franklin Park,and McCandless. Turzai served as the House Majority Leader from 2011 until 2015,and was elected Speaker in January 2015. He was a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2018 until he suspended his campaign in February 2018. He resigned from his House seat in 2020;after leaving office,he became general counsel for Peoples Gas,a subsidiary of Essential Utilities.
Bryan Dean Cutler is an American politician and former Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. A Republican,Cutler represents the 100th legislative district of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He was first elected in 2006,defeating incumbent Gibson C. Armstrong. He was elected House Majority Leader after the 2018 elections,and he became Speaker on June 22,2020,after the resignation of Mike Turzai.
The 96th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in South Central Pennsylvania and has been represented by Mike Sturla since 1991.
Phyllis Mundy is a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and former minority chairman of the House Finance Committee.
Steven J. Santarsiero is an American attorney and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he has represented the 10th District in the Pennsylvania State Senate since 2019. Santarsiero previously served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives,representing the 31st District between 2009 and 2016.
Mark Stephen Critz is an American politician and former U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district,having served from a special election in May 2010 until January 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district during his tenure,which was located in the southwestern portion of the state,stretched from Johnstown to the southern suburbs of Pittsburgh.
The 2014 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election was held on November 4,2014,to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania,concurrently with elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
The Marcellus natural gas trend is a large geographic area of prolific shale gas extraction from the Marcellus Shale or Marcellus Formation,of Devonian age,in the eastern United States. The shale play encompasses 104,000 square miles and stretches across Pennsylvania and West Virginia,and into eastern Ohio and western New York. In 2012,it was the largest source of natural gas in the United States,and production was still growing rapidly in 2013. The natural gas is trapped in low-permeability shale,and requires the well completion method of hydraulic fracturing to allow the gas to flow to the well bore. The surge in drilling activity in the Marcellus Shale since 2008 has generated both economic benefits and considerable controversy.
Thomas R. Sankey III is a Republican former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Originally,he represented the 74th District from 2013 to 2014. Following redistricting,Sankey represented the 73rd District from 2015 until 2022.
The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania were held on November 8,2016,to elect the 18 U.S. representatives from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,one from each of the state's 18 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The primaries were held on April 26.
Craig Staats is a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives,representing the 145th House district in Bucks County,Pennsylvania. Staats is a former Richland Township Supervisor,having served from 2006 to 2014. He succeeded Representative Paul Clymer who retired;in 2014 Craig Staats defeated Karen Chellew in the general election. In 2016,Craig Staats was re-elected,defeating challenger Vera Cole.
The 2018 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania,concurrently with the election of Pennsylvania's Class I U.S. Senate seat,as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various local elections. Incumbent Governor Tom Wolf won re-election to a second term by a double-digit margin,defeating Republican challenger Scott Wagner and two third-party candidates from the Green Party,Paul Glover and Libertarian Party,Ken Krawchuk. The primary elections were held on May 15. This was the only Democratic-held governorship up for election in 2018 in a state Donald Trump won in the 2016 presidential election.
The Pennsylvania Auditor General election of 2020 took place on November 3,2020. Primary elections were originally due to take place on April 28,2020. However,following concerns regarding the coronavirus pandemic the primaries were delayed until June 2,2020. Under the Pennsylvania Constitution incumbent Democratic Auditor General Eugene DePasquale was ineligible to seek a third consecutive term.
Paul Michael Jones is an American politician presently a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. A member of the Republican Party,Jones has represented the 93rd District since 2019.
