Member

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1981 Representative 27 Democrat
1982 Representative 27 Democrat
1983 Representative 27 Democrat
1984 Representative 27 Democrat
1985 Representative 27 Democrat
1986 Representative 27 Democrat
1987 Representative 27 Democrat
1988 Representative 27 Democrat
1989 Representative 27 Democrat
1990 Representative 27 Democrat
1991 Representative 27 Democrat
1992 Representative 27 Democrat
1993 Representative 27 Democrat
1994 Representative 27 Democrat
1995 Representative 27 Democrat
1996 Representative 27 Democrat
1997 Representative 27 Democrat
1998 Representative 27 Democrat
1999 Representative 27 Democrat
2000 Representative 27 Democrat
2001 Representative 27 Democrat
2002 Representative 27 Democrat
2003 Representative 27 Democrat
2004 Representative 27 Democrat
2005 Representative 27 Democrat
2006 Representative 27 Democrat
2007 Representative 27 Democrat
2008 Representative 27 Democrat
Counties Allegheny

Biography

07/31/1937 - 08/05/2014


PETRONE, Thomas Charles, a Representative from Allegheny County; born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa., July 31, 1937; graduated, Crafton High School, 1955; attended, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1955-1956; attended, the Pittsburgh Playhouse; served, "U.S.S. Allen M. Sumner," United States Navy (1956-1958); employed, David Lawrence’s gubernatorial campaign (1959); sales management and public relations (20 years); employed, industrial waste treatment (1965); member, Allegheny County Democratic Committee (16 years); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1980; reelected to 13 consecutive terms thereafter; appointed, Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee (1991-2008); appointed, Select Committee on Alternatives for the Operation of the Philadelphia International Airport (2000); not a candidate for reelection to the House (2008); died, August 5, 2014 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Resurrection Cemetery, Coraopolis, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
 
 
 

Archival Collections


Papers of Thomas C. Petrone, 1981-2008, Pennsylvania House of Representatives Archives, Harrisburg.
 


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