The Political Graveyard: Pennsylvania: Governors

1918 Nov 5: William C. Sproul (Rep & Washington), elected; Eugene C. Bonniwell (Dem & Fair Play), defeated; Edwin J. Fithian (Prohibition), defeated; Charles Sehl (Socialist), defeated; Robert C. Macauley (Single Tax), defeated.

1922 Nov 7: Gifford Pinchot (Rep), elected; John A. McSparran (Dem), defeated; Lilith Martin Wilson (Socialist), defeated; William Repp (Prohibition), defeated; William H. Thomas (Industrial), defeated; John W. Dix (Single Tax), defeated.

1926 Nov 2: John S. Fisher (Rep), elected; Eugene C. Bonniwell (Dem & Labor), defeated; George E. Pennock (Prohibition), defeated; John W. Slayton (Socialist), defeated; H. W. Wicks, defeated; Julian P. Hickok (Commonwealth Land), defeated.

1930 Nov 4: Gifford Pinchot (Rep & Prohibition), elected; John M. Hemphill (Dem & Liberal), defeated; James H. Maurer (Socialist), defeated; Frank Mozer (Communist), defeated.

1934 May 15: George H. Earle (Dem), nominated; Charles D. Copeland (Dem), defeated in primary; Eugene C. Bonniwell (Dem), defeated in primary; William N. McNair (Dem), defeated in primary; John A. McSparran (Dem), defeated in primary.

1934 May 15: William A. Schnader (Rep), nominated; Edward C. Shannon (Rep), defeated in primary; Charles J. Margiotti (Rep), defeated in primary; Thomas W. Phillips, Jr. (Rep), defeated in primary; John A. McSparran (Rep), defeated in primary; Benjamin G. Eynon (Rep), defeated in primary; Harry S. McDevitt (Rep), defeated in primary; Jay Williams Sechler (Rep), defeated in primary; Louis G. Karzis (Rep), defeated in primary; George A. Welsh (Rep), defeated in primary; Marion D. Patterson (Rep), defeated in primary; Robert E. Lamberton (Rep), defeated in primary; Albert S. C. Millar (Rep), defeated in primary; Edward L. Stokes (Rep), defeated in primary; Tilghman E. Hauseman (Rep), defeated in primary; Charles Avery Dravo (Rep), defeated in primary.

1934 May 15: Herbert T. Ames (Prohibition), nominated unopposed.

1934 May 15: Jesse H. Holmes (Socialist), nominated unopposed.

1934 Nov 6: George H. Earle (Dem), elected; William A. Schnader (Rep), defeated; Jesse H. Holmes (Socialist), defeated; Herbert T. Ames (Prohibition), defeated; Emmett Patrick Cush (Communist), defeated; Bess Gyekis (Industrial Labor), defeated.

1938: Charles Alvin Jones (Dem), defeated.

1942: Dale H. Learn (Prohibition), defeated.

1946 Nov 5: James H. Duff (Rep), elected; John S. Rice (Dem), defeated; James A. W. Killip (Prohibition), defeated; George S. Taylor (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1950 Nov 7: John S. Fine (Rep), elected; Richardson K. Dilworth (Dem), defeated; Richard R. Blews (Prohibition), defeated; Reginald B. Naugle (G.I.'s Against Communism), defeated; Thomas J. Fitzpatrick (Progressive), defeated; Robert Z. Wilson (Socialist), defeated; George S. Taylor (Industrial Government), defeated; Herbert G. Lewin (Militant Workers), defeated.

1954 Nov 2: George M. Leader (Dem), elected; Lloyd H. Wood (Rep), defeated; Henry Beitscher (Progressive), defeated; Louis Dirle (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1958 May 20: David L. Lawrence (Dem), nominated; Roy E. Furman (Dem), defeated in primary; Edward P. Lavelle (Dem), defeated in primary.

1958 May 20: Arthur T. McGonigle (Rep), nominated; Harold E. Stassen (Rep), defeated in primary; William S. Livengood, Jr. (Rep), defeated in primary; Harold J. Vaughan (Rep), defeated in primary.

1958 Nov 4: David L. Lawrence (Dem), elected; Arthur T. McGonigle (Rep), defeated; Herman A. Johansen (Socialist Labor), defeated; Herbert G. Lewin (Workers), defeated.

1962 Nov 6: William W. Scranton (Rep), elected; Richardson K. Dilworth (Dem), defeated; George S. Taylor (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1966: Robert P. Casey (Dem), defeated in primary.

1966 Nov 8: Raymond P. Shafer (Rep), elected; Milton Shapp (Dem), defeated; Edward S. Swartz (Constitutional), defeated; George S. Taylor (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1970 May 19: Milton Shapp (Dem), nominated; Robert P. Casey (Dem), defeated in primary; Harvey F. Johnston (Dem), defeated in primary; Samuel G. Neff (Dem), defeated in primary; Walter J. Tray (Dem), defeated in primary; Edward P. Lavelle (Dem), defeated in primary.

1970 Nov 3: Milton Shapp (Dem), elected; Raymond J. Broderick (Rep), defeated; Andrew J. Watson (Constitutional), defeated; Francis McGeever (American Independent), defeated; George S. Taylor (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1974 Nov 5: Drew Lewis (Rep), defeated.

1978: Robert P. Casey (Dem), defeated in primary.

1978: Peter F. Flaherty (Dem), defeated.

1982: Allen E. Ertel, defeated.

1986: Edward G. Rendell (Dem), defeated in primary.

1994: Dwight E. Evans (Dem), defeated in primary.

1994: Samuel P. Katz (Rep), defeated in primary.

1994: Tom Ridge (Rep), elected.

1998: Tom Ridge (Rep), elected.

2002: Bob Casey, Jr. (Dem), defeated in primary.

2002 Nov 5: Edward G. Rendell (Dem), elected.

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