Political Representatives Worksheet Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering the political representatives, offices, political parties, and background facts from the lecture notes.

Daria S. Devlin

Democratic Mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania; lifelong resident who received the Dr. King Woman of Influence Award in 2024.

André Horton

Democratic Erie City Council member and past President of Erie Branch NAACP; the first person of color to hold an elected Erie County office since its incorporation in 1803.

Ed Brzeszinski

Democratic Erie City Council member who spent 12 years on the Erie School Board and served as an Erie City Councilman in the 80s.

Erie County Home Rule Charter (1976)

A 1976 charter establishing that Erie County is governed by an Erie County Executive and a seven district Erie County Council rather than county commissioners.

Terry M. Scutella

Democratic Erie County Council member and lifelong Erie resident who served in the United States Marine Corps from 1967-1973.

Charlie Bayle

Republican Erie County Council member from Washington Township, Pennsylvania; retired from the United States Army and Pennsylvania State Police, and spent several years as a school police officer for Girard School District.

Patrick J. Harkins

Democratic State House Representative from Erie, Pennsylvania; lifelong Erie resident who was formerly a driver with the United Parcel Service for 23 years.

Dan Laughlin

Republican State Senator from Erie, Pennsylvania; lifelong Erie resident who serves as Vice chairman of the Game and Fisheries Committee.

Josh Shapiro

Democratic State Governor from Abington Township, PA/Harrisburg, PA; undefeated in all official public office elections, who started as a pre-med student but switched to political science after taking organic chemistry freshman year.

Mike Kelly

Republican Federal House Representative from Butler, Pennsylvania; attended University of Notre Dame on a football and academic scholarship and ran his family's car dealership before entering into politics.

John Fetterman

Democratic Federal Senator from Braddock, Pennsylvania; tallest serving US senator at 6ft 8in, who suffered a stroke just before the May 2022 primary election.

JD Vance

Republican Vice President of USA (Washington, D.C.); enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps after high school, deployed to Iraq in 2005, and was previously a critic of Donald Trump before becoming his vice-presidential running mate during the 2024 election.

Donald Trump

Republican President of USA (Washington, D.C); found guilty of 34 felony counts, with more references in the Epstein files than the name "Harry" is mentioned in the entire Harry Potter book series.