The office of Pennsylvania governor was created by the state's Constitution of 1790. Before 1790, those who are listed below had held the office called president of the state Supreme Executive Council.
Presidents of the Supreme Executive Council to 1790
1777-1778.....Thomas Wharton, Jr. (no party affiliation)
1778..............George Bryan (no party affiliation)
- Following Governor Shunk's resignation due to illness, an interregnum of 17 days occurred before Governor Johnston was sworn in, during which time the office was vacant. Under the state's constitution of the time, the Speaker of the Senate should have become Governor upon Shunk's resignation. Johnston however was not officially notified until six days after Shunk's death (17 days following his resignation).
- In June 1993, Governor Casey underwent a heart-lung transplant operation, installing Singel as Acting Governor until he recovered. Exact dates for this temporary transfer of power are still being researched.
Pennsylvania (the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) is one of four states of the United States of America that is called a commonwealth.
Pennsylvania's nickname "The Keystone State" is quite apt, as the state forms a geographic bridge both between the Northeastern states and the Southern states, and between the Atlantic seaboard and the Midwest.
Pennsylvania is bisected diagonally by ridges of the Appalachian Mountain chain from southwest to northeast.
Pennsylvania is divided into 60 judicial districts[1], most of which (save Philadelphia and Allegheny Counties) have district justices (formerly called justices of the peace), who preside mainly over minor criminal offenses and small civil claims.
Pennsylvania is 180 miles (290 km) north to south and 310 miles (500 km) east to west.
In 1961 an exposed seam of coal at Centralia, Pennsylvania caught fire and forced eventually almost the entire community to abandon their settlement; the coal fire is still burning today and is estimated to last 100 years more.
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