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The 8th Congressional District of Pennsylvania includes all of Bucks County, a tiny finger of Montgomery County around Willow Grove and parts of two wards in Northeast Philadelphia.
The History of Our District
Bucks County was one of William Penn's three original settlements and the launching point for George Washington's crossing of the frigid Delaware River - to surprise English and Hessian forces - on Christmas Day 1776. Upper Bucks County is a paradise of bucolic hills and creeks running into the Delaware River and, after Penn's secretary James Logan built the Durham Furnace iron works in 1727, one of the nation's major industrial sites.
In the 1920s, Bucks County's well-settled farmland, old fieldstone houses and covered bridges in its northern parts captured the imagination of writers and artists, attracting the New York theatrical crowd--Oscar Hammerstein, Moss Hart, Dorothy Parker, S. J. Perelman. After World War II, its location between Philadelphia and Trenton, New Jersey, brought industrial Lower Bucks County to the forefront. The ocean-navigable Delaware River and several rail lines resulted in huge new developments: U.S. Steel's Fairless Works, one of the few big postwar steel plants, down by the river, and the Levitt organization's second Levittown, in what had been farmland and swamp between U.S. 13 and U.S. 1. But most of the steel mill closed in 1991, and Bucks County's economy depends more on more modern technologies.
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Pennsylvania State Senators
Pennsylvania State Representatives
- Gene DiGirolamo, Pennsylvania's 18th Representative District [+]
- Bernard T. O'Neill, Pennsylvania's 29th Representative District [+]
- David J. Steil, Pennsylvania's 31st Representative District [+]
- John T. Galloway, Pennsylvania's 140th Representative District [+]
- Anthony J. Melio, Pennsylvania's 141st Representative District [+]
- Chris King, Pennsylvania's 142nd Representative District [+]
- Marguerite Quinn, Pennsylvania's 143rd Representative District [+]
- Katharine M. Watson, Pennsylvania's 144th Representative District [+]
- Paul I. Clymer, Pennsylvania's 145th Representative District [+]
- Thomas P. Murt, Pennsylvania's 152nd Representative District [+]
- Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania's 153rd Representative District [+]
- Dennis M. O’Brien, Pennsylvania's 169th Representative District [+]
- George T. Kenney, Jr, Pennsylvania's 170th Representative District [+]
- Scott A. Petri, Pennsylvania's 178th Representative District [+]
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Our District 
