# Pennsylvania Senate, District 8

Pennsylvania State Senate District 8 includes parts of Delaware County and Philadelphia County. It is currently represented by Democrat Anthony Hardy Williams.

## District profile

The district includes the following areas:

## Senators

| Representative | Party | Years | Note |
| Henry Jarrett | Democratic-Republican | 1813 – 1816 | |
| Thomas Jones Rogers | Democratic-Republican | 1815 – 1818 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district from 1818 to 1823 and for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1823 to 1824 |
| John Erwin | Democratic-Republican | 1817 – 1818 | |
| Joseph Fry, Jr. | Democratic-Republican | 1817 – 1820 | Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1816 to 1817. U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1827 to 1831 |
| Henry Winter | Democratic-Republican | 1819 – 1822 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 12th district from 1823 to 1826 |
| John Andrew Schulze | Democratic-Republican | 1821 – 1824 | 6th Governor of Pennsylvania |
| John Harrison | National Republican | 1823 – 1824 | |
| Adam Ritscher | Democratic-Republican | 1823 – 1826 | |
| George Seltzer | Democratic | 1827 – 1830 | |
| Jacob Stoever | Democratic | 1831 – 1834 | |
| John Harper | Anti-Masonic | 1835 – 1836 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 7th district from 1837 to 1838 |
| David Rittenhouse Porter | Democratic | 1835 – 1837 | Pennsylvania State Representative in 1819. 9th Governor of Pennsylvania |
| Isaac Slenker | Democratic | 1837 – 1838 | |
| James Martin Bell | Whig | 1837 – 1839 | |
| Robert Plunket Maclay | Whig | 1839 – 1841 | |
| James Mathers | Whig | 1841 – 1842 | |
| Francis Wade Hughes | Democratic | 1843 – 1844 | Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1852 to 1853. Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1853 to 1855 |
| Henry C. Eyer | Democratic | 1843 – 1844 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 15th district from 1845 to 1846 |
| George Rahn | Democratic | 1845 – 1846 | |
| William A. Overfield | Jackson Democrat | 1847 – 1848 | |
| Charles Frailey | Democratic | 1851 – 1852 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 9th district from 1835 to 1840 |
| David Taggart | Whig | 1855 – 1858 | Speaker in 1857 |
| Thomas Craig, Jr. | Democratic | 1857 – 1860 | |
| Henry Spering Mott | Republican | 1861 – 1862 | |
| Hiester Clymer | Democratic | 1861 – 1866 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1873 to 1881 |
| Joseph Depuy Davis | Democratic | 1867 – 1874 | |
| Jacob Crouse | Republican | 1875 – 1876 | |
| William Imlay Newell | Republican | 1877 – 1882 | |
| Benjamin F. Hughes | Republican | 1883 – 1886 | |
| Henry S. Taylor | Republican | 1887 – 1889 | Died in office |
| Jacob Crouse | Republican | 1889 – 1898 | |
| David Martin | Republican | 1899 – 1902 | Pennsylvania Senator for the 5th district from 1917 to 1920 |
| Horatio Balch Hackett | Republican | 1903 – 1905 | |
| Vivian Frank Gable | Democratic | 1905 – 1906 | |
| John T. Murphy | Republican | 1907 – 1910 | |
| James T. Nulty | Fusion Democrat | 1911 – 1914 | |
| William Wallace Smith | Republican | 1915 – 1918 | |
| George Gray | Republican | 1919 – 1922 | |
| Thaddeus Stevens Krause | Republican | 1923 – 1934 | |
| Walter S. Pytko | Democratic | 1935 – 1938 | |
| Louis H. Farrell | Republican | 1939 – 1950 | |
| John F. Byrne, Sr. | Democratic | 1951 – 1952 | |
| Francis P. McCusker | Republican | 1953 – 1954 | |
| William Vincent Mullin | Democratic | 1955 – 1966 | |
| Thomas McCreesh | Democratic | 1967 – 1974 | Pennsylvania State Senator for the 4th senatorial district from 1959 to 1966 |
| Paul McKinney | Democratic | 1975 – 1982 | |
| Hardy Williams | Democratic | 1983 – 1998 | Pennsylvania State Representative for the 191st district from 1971 to 1982 |
| Anthony Hardy Williams | Democratic | 1999 – present | Pennsylvania State Representative for the 191st district from 1989 to 1998. Democratic Whip of the Pennsylvania Senate since 2011 |