PENNSYLVANIA
U.S. STATE (COMMONWEALTH) OF PENNSYLVANIA
The English colony of Pennsylvania was established in 1681. It became an independent state - styled Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - in 1776 and an original member state of the Union. __________________________________________________________________________________COMMONWEALTH OFFICERS
Governors 1845 - 1848 Francis Rawn Shunk 1788 - 1848 1848 - 1852 William Freame Johnston 1808 - 1872 1852 - 1855 William Bigler 1814 - 1880 1855 - 1858 James Pollock 1810 - 1890 1858 - 1861 William Fisher Packer 1807 - 1870 1861 - 1867 Andrew Gregg Curtin 1815 - 1894 1867 - 1873 John White Geary 1819 - 1873 1873 - 1879 John Frederick Hartranft 1830 - 1889 1879 - 1883 Henry Martyn Hoyt 1830 - 1892 1883 - 1887 Robert Emory Pattison 1850 - 1904 1887 - 1891 James Addams Beaver 1837 - 1914 1891 - 1895 Robert Emory Pattison (2x) 1895 - 1899 Daniel Hartman Hastings 1849 - 1903 1899 - 1903 William Alexis Stone 1846 - 1903 1903 - 1907 Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker 1843 - 1916 1907 - 1911 Edwin Sydney Stuart 1853 - 1937 1911 - 1915 John Kinley Tener 1863 - 1946 1915 - 1919 Martin Grove Brumbaugh 1862 - 1930 1919 - 1923 William Cameron Sproul 1870 - 1928 1923 - 1927 Gifford Pinchot 1865 - 1946 1927 - 1931 John Stuchell Fisher 1867 - 1940 1931 - 1935 Gifford Pinchot (2x) 1935 - 1939 George Howard Earle III 1890 - 1974 1939 - 1943 Arthur Horace James 1883 - 1973 1943 - 1947 Edward Martin 1879 - 1967
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