HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) - State Rep. David Rowe has defeated Democrat Nicholas Jacobson to represent Pennsylvania's 85th District.
Rowe has represented Pennsylvania’s 85th District since 2019 after previously serving as vice-chairman of the East Buffalo Board of Supervisors.
Rowe has also served as a member of the Capital Campaign Council of Evangelical Community Hospital, Director of the Central Susquehanna Fire and Emergency Services Board; and Commissioner of the Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department.
Rowe attended National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan and participated in its Mandarin Chinese Immersion Study program after two years of Christian missionary work as an educator in Southeast Asia.
Jacobson, 23, is a lifelong rural Pennsylvania resident who graduated from Lewisburg public schools in 2019. Jacobson graduated from Yale in 2023 and has worked in the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Office of the Auditor General’s Legal Counsel.
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