# Pennsylvania Senate, District 18

Pennsylvania State Senate District 18 includes parts of Lehigh and Northampton counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It is currently represented by Democrat Lisa Boscola.

## District profile
### Historic composition

* 1st, 1801-1808, Mercer, Venango, Crawford, Erie, and Warren counties
* 2nd, 1809-1822, Washington and Greene counties
* 3rd, 1827-1843, Westmoreland County
* 4th, 1843-1845, Washington and Fayette counties
* 5th, 1845-1851, Adams and Franklin counties
* 6th, 1851-1853, Clarion, Tioga, Clearfield, McKean, Potter and Warren counties
* 7th, 1853-1855, Clearfield, Tioga, McKean, Potter and Jefferson counties
* 8th, 1857-1859, Tioga, Clearfield, McKean, Potter, and Jefferson counties
* 9th, 1859-1860, Adams, Franklin, and Fulton counties
* 10th, 1861-1862, Adams, Franklin, Fulton, and Philadelphia counties
* 11th, 1862-1865, Adams, Franklin, Fulton, and York counties
* 12th, 1865-1867, Cumberland, Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, and York counties
* 13th, 1867-1869, Mercer, Venango, and Warren counties
* 14th, 1869-1871, Cumberland and York counties
* 15th, 1872-1874, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, and Elk counties
* 16th, 1875-1969, Northampton County
* 17th, 1969-1995, Northampton, Monroe, and Lehigh counties
* 18th, 1995-1999, Northampton and Monroe counties
* 19th, 1999–Present, Northampton and Lehigh counties

### Current composition

Since 1999 the district consists of the following areas:
Lehigh County
* Bethlehem (Lehigh County portion)
Northampton County
* Bangor
* Bethlehem (Northampton County portion)
* Bethlehem Township
* Easton
* East Bangor
* Forks Township
* Freemansburg
* Glendon
* Hellertown
* Lower Mount Bethel Township
* Lower Nazareth Township
* Lower Saucon Township
* Nazareth
* Palmer Township
* Pen Argyl
* Plainfield Township
* Portland
* Roseto
* Stockertown
* Tatamy
* Upper Mount Bethel Township
* Upper Nazareth Township
* Washington Township
* West Easton
* Williams Township
* Wilson
* Wind Gap

## Senators

| Representative | Party | Years | District home | Note |
| The original 18th District was created in 1801 and consisted of Mercer, Venango, Crawford, Erie, and Warren counties |||||
| William McArthur Sr. | Democratic-Republican | 1801 – 1808 | Meadville | Laid out the town of Meadville. |
| The 18th District was redistricted in 1809 to represent Washington and Greene counties |||||
| James Stevenson | Democratic-Republican | 1808 – 1810 | Cross Creek | Born in Frederick County, Virginia, Pennsylvania State Representative from 1806-1807 and 1814-1816. |
| Isaac Weaver Jr. | Democratic-Republican | 1809 – 1812 | Waynesburg | Pennsylvania State Representative from 1797 to 1803 including as Speaker from 1800 to 1803. Treasurer of Pennsylvania from 1802 to 1807. First term as Pennsylvania State Senator. |
| Abel McFarland | Democratic-Republican | 1811 – 1818 | Amity | Originally from New Jersey, he settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania with his parents as a child. |
| Isaac Weaver Jr. | Democratic-Republican | 1817 – 1820 | Waynesburg | Pennsylvania State Representative from 1797 to 1803 including as Speaker from 1800 to 1803. Treasurer of Pennsylvania from 1802 to 1807. Second term as Pennsylvania State Senator. |
| Rees Hill | Democratic-Republican | 1821 – 1822 | Waynesburg | Pennsylvania State Representative from 1810 to 1813 and 1814 to 1820 including as Speaker in 1816 and 1819. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 20th district from 1823 to 1824 |
| The original 18th District ceased to exist in 1822. A 2nd 18th District to represent Westmoreland County would be created in 1827 |||||
| Jacob M. Wise | Democratic | 1827 – 1830 | Greensburg | Prominent early democrat from Western Pennsylvanian. Part of the committee that first nominated Jackson for president on December 23, 1823. |
| John Klingensmith Jr. | Democratic | 1831 – 1834 | West Newton | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district from 1835 to 1839 |
| Samuel Leas Carpenter | Democratic | 1835 – 1837 | Greensburg | Son of Judge Daniel Leas Carpenter. Also represented district 16 following redistricting from 1837 to 1839. |
| William F. Coplan | Jackson Democrat | 1837 – 1842 | Uniontown | Former Cumberland Road Commissioner |
| James Xavier McLanahan | Democratic | 1843 – 1844 | Chambersburg | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 14th district from 1841 to 1842. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district from 1849 to 1853. Chair of the House Judiciary Committee from 1851 to 1853. |
| The 18th District would be redistricted in 1843 to represent Fayette and Greene counties |||||
| Charles Alexander Black | Democratic | 1843 – 1844 | Waynesburg | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 22nd district from 1845 to 1848 |
| The 18th District would be redistricted in 1845 to represent Adams and Franklin counties |||||
| Thomas Erskine Carson | Whig | 1845 – 1848 | Mercersburg | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 11th district from 1851 to 1854 |
| William Richard Sadler | Whig | 1847 – 1850 | York Springs | County auditor in Huntington Township, killed at the Battle of South Mountain. |
| The 18th District would be redistricted in 1851 to represent Clarion, Tioga, Clearfield, McKean, Potter and Warren counties |||||
| Timothy Ives | Democratic | 1851 – 1852 | Coudersport | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 28th district from 1849 to 1850 |
| The 18th District would be redistricted in 1853 to represent Tioga, Clearfield, McKean, Potter and Forest counties |||||
| Byron Delano Hamlin | Democratic | 1853 – 1855 | | |
| The 18th District would be redistricted in 1857 to represent Tioga, Clearfield, McKean, Potter and Jefferson counties |||||
| Henry Souther | Republican | 1857 – 1858 | Ridgway | Surveyor General of Pennsylvania in 1861. |
| The 18th District would be redistricted in 1859 to represent Adams, Franklin, and Fulton counties |||||
| George W. Brewer | Democratic | 1859 – 1860 | Chambersburg | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 11th district from 1857 to 1858 |
| The 18th District would be redistricted in 1861 to represent Adams, Franklin, Fulton, and Philadelphia counties |||||
| Alexander Kelly McClure | Republican | 1861 – 1862 | Chambersburg | Pennsylvania State Representative from 1858 to 1859 and 1865 to 1866. Also represented the 4th district from 1873 to 1874. Personally met with Robert E. Lee when he occupied Chambersburg. |
| The 18th District would be redistricted in 1862 to represent Adams, Franklin, Fulton, and York counties |||||
| William McSherry | Democratic | 1863 – 1864 | Littlestown | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 19th district from 1865 to 1866 and the 20th district from 1873 to 1874 |
| The 18th District would be redistricted in 1865 to represent Cumberland, Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, and York counties |||||
| George Hough Bucher | Democratic | 1865 – 1866 | Mechanicsburg | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 14th district from 1863 to 1864 |
| The 18th District would be redistricted in 1867 to represent Mercer, Venango, and Warren counties |||||
| James C. Brown | Republican | 1867 – 1868 | Greenville | Civil War veteran, former State Representative, and unsuccessfully ran for United States Congress in 1890. |
| The 18th District would be redistricted in 1869 to represent Cumberland and York counties |||||
| Andrew G. Miller | Democratic | 1869 – 1871 | Shippensburg | Local blacksmith and amputee, father of State Senator William Edward Miller. |
| The 18th District would be redistricted in 1871 to represent Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, and Elk counties |||||
| William A. Wallace | Democratic | 1872 – 1874 | Huntingdon | Pennsylvania Democratic Chair, United States Senator from Pennsylvania 1875 to 1881, unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1886 and 1890. |
| The 18th District would be redistricted in 1875 to represent Northampton County |||||
| Samuel C. Shimer | Independent Democrat | 1875 – 1876 | Bethlehem | Son of Conrad Schilp Shimer, local farmer, Pennsylvania State Representative from 1864 to 1865. |
| David Engleman | Democratic | 1877 – 1878 | Bath | Local doctor, Pennsylvania State Representative from 1870 to 1871, member of the Pennsylvania State Board of Health. |
| William Beidelman | Democratic | 1879 – 1882 | Easton | 2nd Mayor of Easton, Civil War Veteran. |
| Jeremiah S. Hess | Democratic | 1883 – 1886 | Hellertown | Chief Burgess and town councilor of Hellertown. |
| Jacob Dachrodt | Democratic | 1887 – 1890 | Easton | Civil war hero and Easton City Councilor. |
| Edward Henry Laubach | Democratic | 1891 – 1896 | Northampton | President of the Northampton Brewing Company, first Senator to win re-election |
| Henry D. Heller | Republican | 1895 – 1898 | Hellertown | Local Doctor, later named State Quarantine Physician by Governor William A. Stone |
| Jacob B. Kemerer | Democratic | 1899 – 1902 | Bethlehem | Chief Burgess of Bethlehem from 1887 to 1893. Died in office from Bright's disease. |
| Thomas D. Danner | Democratic | 1903 – 1906 | Easton | Northampton County Democratic Committee Chairman from 1901 to 1904. |
| Benjamin Franklin Miller | Democratic | 1907 – 1910 | Bangor | Pennsylvania State Representative for the Northampton County district from 1899 to 1902. |
| Harry J. Morgan | Democratic | 1911 – 1914 | Bethlehem | Former clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Northampton County from 1903 to 1910. |
| William Clayton Hackett | Democratic | 1915 – 1922 | Easton | Son of Joseph Marion Hackett, unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1926. |
| Harry D. Kutz | Democratic | 1923 – 1926 | Easton | Lawyer associated with the National Security League. |
| Warren R. Roberts | Democratic | 1927 – 1936 | Freemansburg | Pennsylvania Auditor General from 1937 to 1941. |
| William G. Barthold | Democratic | 1937 – 1938 | Bethlehem | Northampton County judge for 31 years, 21 as President Judge. |
| Charles A.P. Bartlett | Republican | 1939 – 1942 | Wilson | World War I Army captain, Pennsylvania Senate Librarian from 1943 to 1948. |
| Carleton T. Woodring | Democratic | 1943 – 1948 | Easton | Pennsylvania State Representative from 1940 to 1942, Northampton County judge for 33 years, 19 as President Judge. |
| Joseph J. Yosko | Democratic | 1949 – 1958 | Bethlehem | Worked in various state department offices, State President of the Young Democrats of America |
| Fred B. Rooney | Democratic | 1959 – 1964 | Bethlehem | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district from 1963 to 1979 |
| Gus P. Verona | Democratic | 1963 – 1964 | Bangor | Former Bobbin boy, Chairman of the Lehigh Valley Democratic Committee for 20 years |
| Justin D. Jirolanio | Democratic | 1963 – 1968 | Fountain Hill | Pennsylvania State Representative for the Northampton County district from 1936 to 1940 |
| The 18th District would be redistricted in 1969 to include portions of Lehigh and Monroe counties |||||
| Jeanette F. Reibman | Democratic | 1969 – 1994 | Easton | Pennsylvania State Representative for the Northampton County district from 1955 to 1966 |
| The 18th District would be redistricted in 1995 removing the Lehigh County portion of the district |||||
| Joseph M. Uliana | Republican | 1995 – 1998 | Bethlehem | Pennsylvania State Representative for the 135th district from 1991 to 1994 |
| The 18th District would be redistricted in 1999 returning the Lehigh County portion of the district and removing the Monroe county portion |||||
| Lisa Boscola | Democratic | 1999 – present | Bethlehem Township | Pennsylvania State Representative for the 135th district from 1995 to 1998 |