Tarah Dorothea Probst is a Democratic member of the

Pennsylvania House of Representatives The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts. It ...

, representing the 189th District since 2023.

Biography

Born in

East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania East Stroudsburg is a borough in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in the Poconos region of the state. Originally known as "Dansbury", East Stroudsburg was renamed for geographic reasons when the Delaware, Lackawanna, and ...

, Probst graduated from King's College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications in 1992 and from

Widener University Widener University is a private university in Chester, Pennsylvania. The university has three other campuses: two in Pennsylvania (Harrisburg and Exton) and one in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded as The Bullock School for Boys in 1821, the school ...

's School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 2003. From 2015 to 2022, she served as mayor of

Stroudsburg Stroudsburg is a borough in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It lies within the Poconos region, approximately five miles (8 km) from the Delaware Water Gap at the confluence of the Brodhead, McMichaels and Pocono Creeks in Northeastern Pennsyl ...

; as a part-time mayor, she also worked as a regional outreach coordinator at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility. She previously owned a restaurant with her husband and spent many years in business marketing. In 2018, she unsuccessfully challenged

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incumbent

Mario Scavello Mario Scavello (born May 9, 1952) is a Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate representing the 40th district. Prior to his election to the State Senate in 2014, he served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives rep ...

for Pennsylvania's 40th Senate District, receiving 42,396 votes to Scavello's 54,783. When State Representative Rosemary Brown ran to succeed the retiring Scavello in 2022, Probst ran for Brown's seat and won with 56% of the vote, defeating Republican Steve Ertle.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Probst, Tarah Living people People from Monroe County, Pennsylvania Democratic Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives 21st-century American politicians Year of birth missing (living people)