Allyson Schwartz

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Allyson Schwartz (2011)

Allyson Young Schwartz (born October 3, 1948 in New York City ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . From 2005 to 2015 she represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives . In the spring of 2013, she announced that she would no longer run for re-election and instead run for governor of her state. However , she lost the primary for her party's top candidacy in May 2014 to Tom Wolf .

Career

Allyson Young, her maiden name, attended the Calhoun School in New York until 1966 and then studied at Simmons College in Boston until 1970 . She graduated from Bryn Mawr College , Pennsylvania in 1972 . From 1972 to 1975 she worked for the Philadelphia Health Department . She was then director of the Elizabeth Blackwell Center , a clinic in the Planned Parenthood Program, in that city . Then she worked in 1988 as a Deputy Commissioner for the local city administration. Politically, she joined the Democratic Party . She served in the Pennsylvania Senate from 1991 to 2004 . In 2000, she unsuccessfully sought her party's nomination for the US Senate elections .

In the 2004 congressional election , Allyson Schwartz was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 13th  constituency of Pennsylvania , where she succeeded Joe Hoeffel on January 3, 2005 . After four re-elections, she was able to exercise her mandate in Congress until January 3, 2015. Until 2011 she was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means . Afterwards she was a member of the Budget Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee . She is married and has two grown sons; privately she lives in Jenkintown .

In the spring of 2013, Schwartz announced that he would no longer apply to her seat in Congress in 2014 and instead for the governorship in Pennsylvania to run . She wanted to challenge Republican Governor Tom Corbett in the November 2014 election. However, in the internal Democratic primary election on May 20, 2014, she was defeated by former Minister for State Revenue and entrepreneur Tom Wolf . She came second out of the party's four applicants. Around 17 percent of democratic voters spoke out in favor of Schwartz. Wolf accounted for almost 58 percent.

Web links

Commons : Allyson Schwartz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalina Camia: The Rep. Schwartz Jumps into Pa. Governor's Race. In: USA Today (online edition), April 8, 2013.
  2. ↑ politicspa.com: PA Governor: Tom Wolf wins Democratic nomination
predecessor Office successor
Joe Hoeffel United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (13th constituency)
January 3, 2005 - January 3, 2015 		Brendan Boyle
personal data
SURNAME Schwartz, Allyson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwartz, Allyson Young (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City