Pennsylvania

Many Pennsylvanians have found success in film, television, and the theater including:. See also Memphis Mafia. Pennsylvania has given birth to some of the nation's leading popular and rock music groups, including Anti-Flag, Christina Aguilera, Bloodhound Gang, Boyz II Men, Vanessa Carlton, Coolio, Fuel, Hall & Oates, Live, Joan Jett, Pink, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Shanice, Will Smith, and others.
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Top and bottom 10 locations by per capita income:. Sports Figures. Major cities:. Jurists, Politicians and Activists. It is technically incorrect to refer to any location in Pennsylvania other than Bloomsburg as a town. Businesspeople. All other municipalities are incorparted as cities, villages, boroughs or other similar status. Actors, Directors and Musicians.

Pennsylvania has only one incorporated town, Bloomsburg, the county seat of Columbia County. Other museums in the area include:. The three largest Protestant denominations in Pennsylvania are: Baptist (10% of the total state population), Methodist (9%), Lutheran (9%). Along with the legendary Stax Sound, the museum also spotlights the music of Muscle Shoals, Motown, Hi and Atlantic. The current religious affiliations of the citizens Pennsylvania are:. The museum is home to a broad collection of artifacts, photographs, exhibits, commentary, and music. In Philadelphia today is the shrine and burial place of Saint John Neumann, himself a Czech immigrant, who worked for the betterment of the new arrivals and who founded the American parochial school system. Also, there is the Stax Museum of American Soul Music.

Later, after industrialization, immigrants from the Catholic countries of Europe also were added to this mix. The Children's Museum of Memphis features many interactive exhibits, including a simulated grocery store, a wood skyscraper maze, and full-scale models of a fire truck and an airplane fuselage. This was a fairly diverse group of denominations by Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century standards, and testifies to the benign administration of Penn. A smaller art museum, the Dixion Gallery and Gardens focuses on impressionism and has several works by Monet, Degas and Renoir. Other groups also settled, including the Moravian Bretheren, who founded and named today's large city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and the Scots-Irish Presbyterians, who settled on the frontier. The Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park, founded in 1916, serves as the region's major art museum. The Quakers at the founding of Penn's colony pursued a policy of religious toleration, which benefited other older groups, such as Lutherans from the New Sweden settlement, and which also attracted relgious refugees from the European continent, such as Amish and Mennonites. was assassinated.

Females made up approximately 51.7% of the population. Memphis is home to the National Civil Rights Museum, located in the former Lorraine Motel, where the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. 5.9% of Pennsylvania's population were reported as under 5, 23.8% under 18, and 15.6% were 65 or older. A month long festival, Memphis in May, is held each year to host the city's largest events like the Beale Street Music Festival, the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest and the Sunset Symphony. The 5 largest ancestry groups in Pennsylvania are German (25.4%), Irish (16.1%), Italian (11.5%), African American (10%), English (7.9%). There are several art galleries in Memphis, including, most prominently, the Dixon Gallery. The racial makeup of the state is:. Opera Memphis, the region's opera company, performs at the Clark Opera Memphis Center in East Memphis.

Many Asian Indians, Arabs, Koreans, Hispanics, and Blacks call Pennsylvania home. Ballet Memphis, which is the region's only major ballet company, performs at The Orpheum Theatre. Pennsylvania is a very diverse state. The Memphis area is home to many of West Tennessee's larger arts and culutral organizations, such as the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, which performs at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Memphis. Census Bureau, as of 2003, Pennsylvania's population was estimated at 12,365,455 people. Carnival salutes various aspects of Memphis and its industries, and is reigned over by the current year's secretly selected King & Queen of Carnival. According to the U.S. Carnival Memphis (formerly known as the Memphis Cotton Carnival), is a series of parties and festivities staged every year by the Carnival Memphis Association and its member krewes (similar to that of Mardi Gras) during the early summer.

On Lake Erie some freshwater commercial fishing exists, the prinicipal catch being yellow perch. Jude Classic, a PGA Tour golf tournament. Most of these are produced by Amish and Mennonite craftsmen. Also part of Memphis in May is the FedEx St. Such items are shipped all over the country (and the world) out of Lancaster County. Each year, the city honors a foreign country, and each weekend hosts a special event, including the World Championship Barbeque Cooking Contest and the Beale Street Music Festival. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania is well know for its quality wood products such as furniture, sheds, gazebos and play sets. The Mid-South Fair comes to the city every fall, and every May there is the Memphis in May.

Small companies, such as the Pennsylvania Dutch Candies company, also exist in Pennsylvania. There is Libertyland Amusement Park and the adjacent Liberty Bowl and Memphis Children's Museum, Mud Island, Detour Memphis - an art and performing space, Lichterman Nature Center, the Pink Palace Museum, The Pyramid, The Memphis Zoo, the Memphis Queen riverboat. Heinz Company in Pittsburgh; and Zippo lighters from Zippo Manufacturing in Bradford. King used to play his guitar, and occasionally still appears at a club bearing his name and partly owned by him. J. Blues fans can head down to Beale Street, where a young B.B. Among these products are Hershey bars from the Hershey Chocolate Company in Hershey, Pennsylvania; Heinz ketchup and Heinz-57 sauce from the H. Other famous musicians who got their start at Sun include Johnny Cash, Rufus Thomas, Charlie Rich, Howlin' Wolf, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Pennsylvania has a large, diverse group of manufacturing companies and within this group are some whose products have come to be household words, symbolic of ordinary American life. Rock and roll is located in the city also. Its industrial outputs are food processing, chemical products, machinery, electric equipment, and tourism. Sun studios was where Elvis first recorded "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin". Its agricultural outputs are dairy products, poultry, cattle, nursery stock, mushrooms, hogs, and hay. Tourists come from all over the world to see Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley. Pennsylvania's 1999 total gross state product was $383 billion, placing it 6^th in the nation and its 2000 Per Capita Personal Income was $29,539, 18^th in the nation. Out of the total population, 30.1% of those under the age of 18 and 15.4% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

Finally, in 1979 the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Incident near the state capital of Harrisburg, while not as destructive to the community, nevertheless cost close to $1 billion to clean up and changed the national public perception of nuclear power to a much less favorable viewpoint. 20.6% of the population and 17.2% of families are below the poverty line. 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. The per capita income for the city is $17,838. In 1889 the South Fork Dam, impounding a recreational mountain lake for sportsmen, burst after a heavy rain and destroyed the downstream factory town of Johnstown, killing over 2,200 inhabitants in the notorious Johnstown Flood (the town was later rebuilt and is a reasonably large community today in the central mountains). Males have a median income of $31,236 versus $25,183 for females. Pennsylvania has been the site of some of the most horrendous ecological disasters experienced in the USA. The median income for a household in the city is $32,285, and the median income for a family is $37,767.

Chester, downstream from Philadelphia, and Erie, the Great Lakes outlet on Lake Erie in the Erie Triangle, are smaller but still important ports. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 84.9 males. In the west the Port of Pittsburgh is also very large and even exceeds Philadelphia in rank by annual tonnage, due to the large volume of bulk coal shipped by barge down the Ohio River. For every 100 females there are 89.8 males. (How these two concepts are defined and measured is explained at length in an extended footnote under "Miscellaneous" in the article on New Hampshire.) Definitional niceties notwithstanding, Pennsylvania has one of the largest seaports in the US on its narrow shore, the Port of Philadelphia. The median age is 32 years. However, by a quirk of the official definitions, New Hampshire has the shortest US saltwater "coast" line. In the city the population is spread out with 27.9% under the age of 18, 10.8% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 19.7% from 45 to 64, and 10.9% who are 65 years of age or older.

Pennsylvania's saltwater "shore" line, only 89 miles by official US figures, is the shortest of any US state. The average household size is 2.52 and the average family size is 3.18. Along the shore of Lake Erie in the far northwest are orchards and vinyards. 30.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. Timber and dairy farming are also sources of livelihood for midstate and western Pennsylvania. There are 250,721 households out of which 31.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.1% are married couples living together, 23.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 36.8% are non-families. These fossil fuels have been an important resource to Pennsylvania. 2.97% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

In the metamorphic (folded) belt, anthracite (hard coal) is mined near Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton. The racial makeup of the city is 34.41% White, 61.41% African American, 0.19% Native American, 1.46% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 1.45% from other races, and 1.04% from two or more races. Similar rock layers also contain coal to the south and east of the oil and gas deposits. There are 271,552 housing units at an average density of 375.4/kmē (972.2/miē). Drake drilled the first oil well in the USA into these sediments. The population density is 898.6/kmē (2,327.4/miē). In 1859 near Titusville Edwin L. As of the census² of 2000, there are 650,100 people, 250,721 households, and 158,455 families residing in the city.

The Plateau is underlain by sedimentary rocks of Mississippian and Pennsylvanian age, which bear abundant fossils, as well as natural gas and petroleum. Slightly over 80% of office space in the city is occupied. This plateau is so dissected by valleys that it also seems mountainous. Memphis as a whole contains about twenty million square feet (2,000,000 mē) of office space, with the downtown area containing only around four million square feet (400,000 mē). To the northwest of the folded mountains is the Allegheny Plateau, which continues into southwestern and south central New York. Memphis' Division of Light, Gas and Water ("MLGW") is one of the largest municipal utitilites in the United States. Pennsylvania is bisected diagonally by ridges of the Appalachian Mountain chain from southwest to northeast. Because of its status as the primary hub for FedEx, Memphis International Airport is currently the world's busiest cargo airport in terms of tonnage.

Other factors, such as a markedly different style of agriculture, the rise of the oil industry, timber exploitation and the old wood chemical industry, and even, in linguistics, the local "yinzer" dialect, all make this large area sometimes seem a virtual "state within a state". It is also the headquarters of FedEx shipping. Several important, complex factors set Western Pennsylvania apart in many respects from the east, such as the initial difficulty of access across the mountains, an orientation to the Mississippi drainage system of rivers, and above all, the complex economics involved in the rise and decline of the American steel industry centered around Pittsburgh. Memphis is a center of manufacture of textiles, heating equipment, pianos, and automobile and truck parts. It sometimes helps to consider the western third of the state a separate large geophysical unit, which is so distinctive that it can often best be described on its own. Public transportation in the Memphis area is provided by the Memphis Area Transit Authority (http://www.matatransit.com), which provides the area with buses and a downtown trolley system that is also in the process of expanding into a regional system. Pennsylvania is in the Eastern time zone. The future interstates of I-22 and I-69 are also planned to converge into the Memphis area.

Its lowest point is at sea level on the Delaware River. The interstates of I-40 and I-55 (along with rail lines) cross the Mississippi at Memphis into the state of Arkansas. The highest point of 3,213 feet (979 m) above sea level is at Mount Davis. Interstate highways I-40, its spur highway I-240 and I-55 are the main freeways in the Memphis area. It is the 33rd largest state in the United States. The Memphis metopolitan area encompasses the counties of Fayette, Tipton, and Shelby in Tennessee, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tunica in Mississippi, and Crittenden in Arkansas. The total land area is 44,817 square miles (119,283 kmē), 739,200 acres (2,990 kmē) of which are bodies of water. Census.

Pennsylvania is 180 miles (290 km) north to south and 310 miles (500 km) east to west. The Memphis metropolitan area has a populuation of 1,195,977, according to the 2000 U.S. The capital is Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Memphis is the primary city of a metropolitan region including parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. The Youghiogheny River and Oil Creek are smaller rivers which have played an important role in the development of the state. Major Memphis parks include Tom Lee Park, Audubon Park, Overton Park and the Memphis Botanic Garden. The Delaware, Susquehanna, Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio Rivers are the major rivers of the state. The total area is 5.24% water.

It is bordered on the north and northeast by New York, on the east, across the Delaware River by New Jersey, on the south by Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia, on the west by Ohio, and on the northwest by Lake Erie. 723.4 kmē (279.3 miē) of it is land and 40.0 kmē (15.4 miē) of it is water. 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. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 763.4 kmē (294.8 miē). See: List of Pennsylvania counties. Memphis is located at 35°7'3" North, 89°58'16" West (35.117365, -89.971068)¹. James Carville summed up Pennsylvania politics as "Philadelphia on one end Pittsburgh on the other, with Alabama in the middle.". See also: List of mayors of Memphis.

The central part of the state tends to be very conservative. There has been in recent years the idea thrown around of the potential of the merger of county government of Shelby County and City of Memphis into a metropolitan government similar to that in Nashville. Democrats are the majority in the Philadelphia area, as well as around Allentown and the Poconos in the east and in the southwestern part of the state and the Pittsburgh area in the west and Erie, Pennsylvania in the northwest. Herenton served for 12 years as the superintendent of Memphis City Schools. The state is divided into heavily left leaning areas along the sides. Prior to his election, Dr. Bill Clinton carried the state twice, Al Gore won here in 2000 as did John Kerry in 2004. He was elected for the first time in 1991, when he became Memphis' first black mayor.

Pennsylvania is considered a swing state in national elections, but usually leans Democratic. Herenton is currently serving his fourth consecutive term as Mayor. House Of Representatives, but the Democratic Party holds the governor's seat and their candidate has won four of the last five presidential elections. Dr. As of 2005, the Republican Party holds both houses of the state legislature, both United States Senate seats and a majority of the state's seats in the U.S. Herenton. Pennsylvania politics is not dominated by any single party. W.

Kanjorski (D, 11th District); John Murtha (D, 12th District); Allyson Schwartz (D, 13th District); Mike Doyle (D, 14th District); Charlie Dent (R, 15th District); Joe Pitts (R, 16th District); Tim Holden (D, 17th District); Tim Murphy (R, 18th District); and Todd Russell Platts (R, 19th District). W. Peterson (R, 5th District); Jim Gerlach (R, 6th District); Curt Weldon (R, 7th District); Michael Fitzpatrick (R, 8th District); Bill Shuster (R, 9th District); Don Sherwood (R, 10th District); Paul E. The current mayor of Memphis is Dr. Pennsylvania's 19 representatives in the House are Robert Brady (D, 1st District); Chaka Fattah (D, 2nd District); Phil English (R, 3rd District); Melissa Hart (R, 4th District); John E. This plan provides for nine districts, seven with one representative each and two districts with three representatives each. senators are Rick Santorum (Republican) and Arlen Specter (Republican). In 1995, the council adopted a new district plan which changed council positions to all districts.

Pennsylvania's two U.S. The new city charter provided for the election of a mayor and thirteen council members, six elected at large from throughout the city and seven elected from geographic districts. The Supreme Court has seven justices chosen by public election; the chief justice is the justice with the most seniority. Since 1966, Memphis has been governed by the "weak mayor" form of mayor-council government. It also hears appeals directly from the Courts of Common Pleas in certain cases, including felony murder prosecutions, the right to public office, criminal contempt, and any case in which the Court of Common Pleas ruled that a state law was unconstitutional. "Boss" Crump. Pennsylvania's entire judicial system is under the supervision of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, which is also the final appellate court for both the Superior Court and the Commonwealth Court. H.

The Commonwealth Court also functions as a trial court in some civil suits, including cases that involve the state or its officers as parties, and cases regarding statewide elections. From the 1910s to the 1950s, Memphis was a hotbed of machine politics under the direction of E. The jurisdiction of the nine-judge Commonwealth Court is limited to appeals from final orders of certain state agencies and certain designated cases from the Courts of Common Pleas. In 1897, Memphis' pyramid-shaped pavilion was a conspicuous part of the Tennessee Centennial exposition. It also has original jurisdiction to review warrants for wiretap surveillance. A yellow fever epidemic in 1870 greatly reduced the population for many years thereafter. The fifteen judges of the Superior Court hear all appeals from the Courts of Common Pleas not expressly designated to the Commonwealth Court or Supreme Court. At the conclusion of the Battle of Memphis on June 6, 1862 during the American Civil War, Union forces captured Memphis from Confederate control.

The state has two intermediate-level appellate courts: the Superior Court and the Commonwealth Court. The city was founded in 1819 and incorporated as a city in 1826. Each judicial district has at least one, and the Courts of Common Pleas serving the larger Pennsylvania counties have specialized divisions. The French built Fort Prudhomme in the vicinity. They also serve as appellate courts to the district judges and for certain agency decisions. The Spanish explorer, Hernando de Soto, is believed to have visited what is now the Memphis area. The general trial courts in which most criminal and civil cases originate are the Courts of Common Pleas. Memphis was settled by the Chickasaw tribe.

As Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the Pittsburgh police magistrate court is the only true city-level court in the state.
. Pennsylvania is divided into 60 judicial districts[1] (http://www.courts.state.pa.us/Index/CommonPleas/Judicialdistricts.asp), each of which has district judges (formerly called justices of the peace) who mainly preside over minor criminal offenses and small civil claims. The Philadelphia Municipal Court and the Pittsburgh police magistrate court have similar jurisdiction, limited to those cities. Memphis is on the Lower Chickasaw Bluff above the Mississippi River, at the mouth of the Wolf River. Perzel and Senate Minority Appropriations Chairman Vincent Fumo (D). King. Mellow (D), Speaker of the House of Representatives John M. B.

Notable General Assembly members include Senate Majority Leader David J. Brightbill (R), Senate Minority Leader Robert J. Memphis was home to Elvis Presley and is home to B. The Pennsylvania General Assembly consists of a Senate with 50 members and a House of Representatives with 203. The city is particularly known for blues music and barbecue. Pennsylvania has had a bicameral legislature since 1790. (This makes Memphis the largest city but second largest metropolitan area in Tennessee, surpassed by Metropolitan Nashville). The Governor's cabinet consists of the eighteen appointed heads of Pennsylvania state agencies: the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Adjutant General, Secretary of Education, Insurance Commissioner, Secretary of Banking, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Health, State Police Commissioner, Secretary of Labor and Industry, Secretary of Public Welfare, Secretary of Revenue, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Community Affairs, Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Environmental Resources, Secretary of General Services, Secretary of Aging, and the Secretary of Corrections. The greater Memphis metropolitan area had a population of 1,195,977.

The other elected officials composing the executive branch are the Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Auditor General, and State Treasurer. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 650,100 within the city limits, making it the largest city in the state of Tennessee, United States. The head of the executive branch is the Governor, who is currently Democrat Edward G Rendell, a former mayor of Philadelphia. Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, of which it is the county seat. The capital of Pennsylvania is in Harrisburg. 35°7'3" N
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650,100. Pennsylvania was hard-hit by the decline of the steel industry and other heavy U.S.
 - Total (2000). In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Pennsylvania received very large numbers of immigrants from Europe seeking work; dramatic, sometimes violent confrontations took place between organized labor and the state's industrial concerns.
. Shipbuilding and numerous other forms of manufacturing flourished in the eastern part of the state, and coal mining was also extremely important in many regions. Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin (Poet).

During the 20th century Pennsylvania's existing iron industries expanded into a major center of steel production. William Eggleston (Author). kerosene for years thereafter, and saw the rise and fall of oil boom towns. Shelby Foote (Author). oil (kerosene) industry was born in western Pennsylvania, which supplied the vast majority of U.S. Richard Halliburton (explorer and author). In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. Ric Flair (professional wrestling) was born in Memphis, but was adopted in infancy by a couple in the Twin Cities and grew up there.

Dead from this battle rest at Gettysburg National Cemetery, site of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Jerry Lawler (professional wrestling)