Results tagged “Robert P. Kane” from York Town Square

State Revenue Secretary Tom Wolf addresses the YorkCounts Summit in March. He is the latest in a string of York County residents who have held high office in Harrisburg. Wolf has since returned to his family business in York, The Wolf Organization.
Our quest for high state and federal state office holders from York County's past started when Tom Wolf was under consideration for state treasurer.

Soon thereafter, we added former state attorney general Robert P. Kane to the list.

I found more in reading the appendix to Georg Sheets' "Lawyers and Leaders: The Role of Lawyers in the Development of York County, Pennsylvania." (Order through York County Heritage Trust.

Here is Sheets' list of county residents who became state administrative officials (concentrating on lawyers) between 1950-2000 (some of which duplicates mine):

Robert P. Kane, former Pennsylvania attorney general, should be added to the list of political luminaries hailing from York County.

A couple of posts ago, I put forth such a list connected to York businessman Tom Wolf's interest in Pennsylvania's state treasurer's post.

I asked for additions or corrections, and Barbara Wills, former Central school director and a candidate for a state legislative seat in the early 1990s, recalled that Kane served in the Shapp administration in the 1970s... .