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In 2014, he was elected to the Punxsutawney Borough Council, becoming council president in 2016. [2] In 2020, Smith was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives representing the 66th district, which includes parts of Jefferson County and Indiana County. [1] He did not have an opponent in the November general election. [3]
Ronald Wilson Reagan [a] (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party and became an important figure in the American conservative movement.
Representative Party Years District home Note Prior to 1969, seats were apportioned by county. L. Eugene Smith: Republican: 1969 – 1986: Punxsutawney: Retired Samuel H. Smith: Republican: 1987 – 2014: Punxsutawney: Retired Cris Dush: Republican: 2015 - 2021: Pine Creek Township: Brian Smith: Republican 2021–present Punxsutawney: Incumbent
This was one of only three elections since the Civil War in which Pennsylvania has voted more Democratic than neighboring New York (along with 1952 and 1956), and the most recent election in which it voted to the left of Illinois, Washington, or Hawaii. Reagan became the first Republican ever to win the White House without carrying Mercer or ...
The following is a list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Pennsylvania. The list has been updated periodically ...
Stuart K. Spencer, a Republican strategist who took a washed-up movie actor named Ronald Reagan and helped make him California governor and, later, president — helping invent the modern ...
Voters chose 27 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Pennsylvania voted for the Republican nominee, former Governor Ronald Reagan, over the Democratic nominee, President Jimmy Carter. Reagan won Pennsylvania by a margin of 7.11%. This result nonetheless made Pennsylvania about 2.6% ...
Ronald Reagan's tenure as the 40th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1981, and ended on January 20, 1989. Reagan, a Republican from California, took office following his landslide victory over Democrat incumbent president Jimmy Carter and independent congressman John B. Anderson in the 1980 presidential election.