Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district

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Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district was substantially redrawn in the 2002 redistricting.

The district includes parts of Montgomery County, Chester County and Berks County. The largest cities in the district are Reading and Norristown. The current Congressman is Jim Gerlach. In 2004 and 2006, Gerlach won re-election against Democrat Lois Murphy.

[edit] Representatives

Representative	Party	Years	District home	Note
District created from Pennsylvania's At-large congressional district
Samuel Maclay	Democratic-Republican	1795 - 1797
John Andre Hanna	Democratic-Republican	1797 - 1803
John Stewart	Democratic-Republican	1803 - 1805
James Kelly	Federalist	1805 - 1809
William Crawford	Democratic-Republican	1809 - 1813		Moved to Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district
District reorganized in 1813 to have two seats
Robert Brown Samuel D. Ingham	Democratic-Republican	1813 - 1815		Robert Brown was not a candidate for renomination
John Ross Samuel D. Ingham	Democratic-Republican	1815 - 1818		John Ross resigned in 1818
Samuel Moore Thomas Jones Rogers	Democratic-Republican	1818 - 1822		Samuel Moore resigned May 20, 1822
Samuel D. Ingham Thomas Jones Rogers	Democratic-Republican	1822 - 1823		Moved to Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district
District reorganized in 1823 to have one seat
Robert Harris	Jackson Democratic-Republican	1823 - 1825
	Democratic-Republican	1825 - 1827
Innis Green	Jacksonian	1827 - 1831
John C. Bucher	Jacksonian	1831 - 1833
Robert Ramsey	Jacksonian	1833 - 1835		Did not run for reelection
Mathias Morris	National-Republican	1835 - 1837		Changed to the Whig party
	Whig	1837 - 1839		Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
John Davis	Democratic	1839 - 1841	Davisville	Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
Robert Ramsey	Whig	1841 - 1843		Did not run for reelection
Michael H. Jenks	Whig	1843 - 1845	Newtown	Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
Jacob Erdman	Democratic	1845 - 1847	Coopersburg	Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
Westbrook Hornbeck	Whig	1847 - 1848	Allentown	Died in office
Samuel A. Bridges	Democratic	1848 - 1849
Thomas Ross	Democratic	1849 - 1853
William Everhart	Whig	1853 - 1855
John Hickman	Democratic	1855 - 1859
	Anti-Lecompton Democrat	1859 - 1861
	Republican	1861 - 1863
John D. Stiles	Democratic	1863 - 1865
Benjamin M. Boyer	Democratic	1865 - 1869		Not a candidate for renomination
John D. Stiles	Democratic	1869 - 1871		Not a candidate for renomination
Ephraim L. Acker	Democratic	1871 - 1873		Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
James S. Biery	Republican	1873 - 1875		Not a candidate for renomination
Washington Townsend	Republican	1875 - 1877		Not a candidate for renomination
William Ward	Republican	1877 - 1883		not a candidate for renomination
James B. Everhart	Republican	1883 - 1887		Unsuccessful candidate for renomination
Smedley Darlington	Republican	1887 - 1891	West Chester	Not a candidate for renomination
John B. Robinson	Republican	1891 - 1897		Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
Thomas S. Butler	Independent Republican	1897 - 1899		Joined the Republican Party
	Republican	1899 - 1903		Moved to Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district
George D. McCreary	Republican	1903 - 1913		not a candidate for renomination
J. Washington Logue	Democratic	1913 - 1915		Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
George P. Darrow	Republican	1915 - 1923		Moved to Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district
George A. Welsh	Republican	1923 - 1932		Resigned to become a district court judge
Robert L. Davis	Republican	1932 - 1933
Edward L. Stokes	Republican	1933 - 1935		not a candidate for renomination because he was a gubernatorial candidate
Michael J. Stack	Democrat	1935 – 1939		unsuccessful Democratic candidate for renomination and unsuccessful Royal Oak candidate for reelection
Francis J. Myers	Democrat	1939 – 1945
Herbert J. McGlinchey	Democrat	1945 – 1947		Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
Hugh Scott	Republican	1947 - 1959		Successfully ran to become United States Senator from Pennsylvania
Herman Toll	Democrat	1959 – 1963		Moved to Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district
George M. Rhodes	Democrat	1963 – 1969		Not a candidate for reelection
Gus Yatron	Democrat	1969 – 1993		Not a candidate for renomination
Tim Holden	Democrat	1993 – 2003		Moved to Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district
Jim Gerlach	Republican	2003 - Incumbent		Incumbent

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