# Pennsylvania Senate, District 5

Pennsylvania State Senate District 5 includes parts of Philadelphia County. It is currently represented by Republican Joe Picozzi.

## District profile

The district includes the following areas:
Philadelphia County:
* Ward 41
* Ward 56
* Ward 57
* Ward 58
* Ward 63
* Ward 64
* Ward 65
* Ward 66

## Senators

| Representative | Party | Years | Note |
| Peter Frailey | Democratic-Republican | 1811 – 1819 | |
| Charles Shoemaker, Jr. | Democratic-Republican | 1813 – 1819 | |
| Marks John Biddle | Federalist | 1815 – 1817 | |
| Ely Kitchin | Republican | 1825 – 1826 | |
| William H. Rowland | Democratic | 1827 – 1828 | |
| Mathias Morris | Anti-Jacksonian, Whig | 1829 – 1831 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district from 1835 to 1839 |
| John Miller | Democratic | 1837 – 1839 | |
| Samuel Fegeley | Democratic | 1841 – 1845 | |
| John Potteiger | Democratic | 1847 – 1848 | |
| William Muhlenberg Hiester | Democratic | 1853 – 1855 | |
| John Clarkson Evans | Democratic | 1855 – 1857 | |
| Joseph Laubach | Democratic | 1857 – 1858 | Pennsylvania State Representative for the 9th district from 1855 to 1856 |
| Jeremiah Schindel | Democratic | 1859 – 1860 | |
| George W. Stein | Democratic | 1861 – 1863 | |
| Wilmer Worthington | Republican | 1863 – 1869 | |
| Horace Royer | Republican | 1865 – 1867 | |
| Charles Henderson Stinson | Republican | 1867 – 1869 | |
| Hugh Jones Brooke | Whig | 1871 – 1872 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 4th district from 1849 to 1852 |
| William B. Waddell | Republican | 1873 – 1874 | |
| Thomas Valentine Cooper | Republican | 1873 – 1874 | Pennsylvania State Representative for Delaware County from 1870 to 1871, 1872 to 1873 and 1901 to 1909. Pennsylvania State Senator for the 9th district from 1875 to 1888. |
| John Edgar Reyburn | Republican | 1877 – 1883 | Pennsylvania State Representative in 1871 and from 1874 to 1876. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 4th district from 1890 to 1897 and Pennsylvania's 2nd district from 1906 to 1907. |
| Charles A. Porter | Republican | 1891 – 1895 | |
| Charles Lincoln Brown | Republican | 1897 – 1900 | First two of four terms as Pennsylvania State Senator |
| William H. Berkelbach | Republican | 1901 – 1903 | |
| Charles Lincoln Brown | Republican | 1905 – 1907 | Second two of four terms as Pennsylvania State Senator |
| Richard V. Farley | Democratic | 1913 – 1915 | |
| David Martin | Republican | 1917 – 1920 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 8th district from 1899 to 1902 |
| Max Aron | Republican | 1921 – 1935 | |
| Israel Stiefel | Democratic | 1937 – 1963 | |
| Herbert J. McGlinchey | Democratic | 1965 – 1972 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 6th district from 1945 to 1947 |
| Charles F. Dougherty | Republican | 1973 – 1979 | Resigned January 15, 1979. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 4th district from 1979 to 1983. |
| James R. Lloyd, Jr. | Democratic | 1979 – 1984 | Elected April 23, 1979, to fill vacancy |
| Frank A. Salvatore | Republican | 1985 – 2000 | Pennsylvania State Representative for the 170th district from 1973 to 1984. |
| Michael J. Stack III | Democratic | 2001 – 2015 | 33rd Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 2015 to 2019 |
| John P. Sabatina Jr. | Democratic | 2015 – 2021 | Pennsylvania State Representative for the 174th district from 2006 to 2015 |
| Jimmy Dillon | Democratic | 2022 – 2025 | |
| Joe Picozzi | Republican | 2025 – | |