Scott E. Hutchinson (born August 19, 1961) is an American politician from Pennsylvania currently serving as a Republican member of the

Pennsylvania State Senate The Pennsylvania State Senate is the upper house of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the Pennsylvania state legislature. The State Senate meets in the State Capitol building in Harrisburg Harrisburg is the capital city of the Commonwealt ...

for the 21st district since 2013. He also served as a 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 ...

for the 64th District from 1992 to 2013.

Early life and education

Hutchinson graduated from Oil City Area High School and received a bachelor's degree in economics from The

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ( ; also known as Wharton Business School, the Wharton School, Penn Wharton, and Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in ...

in 1983. He has also studied at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville and

Thiel College Thiel College (, ) is a private college in Greenville, Pennsylvania. It is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and is one of the smallest colleges or universities in the region with about 100 full-time and part time facult ...

Career

Hutchinson served as the chief deputy county treasurer for

Venango County Venango County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 50,454. Its county seat is Franklin. The county was created in 1800 and later organized in 1805. Venango County comprises the Oil City ...

from 1984 to 1992. In addition, he was a member of the Oil City Area School Board from 1986-1992. He was also a member of the Venango County Board of Assistance until 1992. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 64th district from 1993 to 2012. He was Republican chairman of the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee and a member of the House Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness Committee. He was elected in an uncontested election to the Pennsylvania Senate to represent the 21st district. He succeeded Republican

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, who retired at the end of her term in 2012.

Personal

He married Mary Beth Radkowski in 1993 and together they have three children (Sophie, Anne Marie, and Lucy) and live in Oil City.

References

External links

Senator Hutchinson official web sitePennsylvania Senate profile
1961 births 21st-century American politicians Living people Republican Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives People from Oil City, Pennsylvania Republican Party Pennsylvania state senators School board members in Pennsylvania Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni {{Pennsylvania-PASenate-stub