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Robert Patrick Casey Sr. (January 9, 1932 – May 30, 2000) was an American lawyer and politician from Pennsylvania who served as the 42nd governor of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1995. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania Senate for the 22nd district from 1963 to 1968 and as Auditor General of Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1977.
Jul 2, 2018 · Sen. Bob Casey calls himself a pro-life Democrat. But his voting record paints a different picture. After a decade in the Senate, Casey has become an increasingly reliable vote in support of...
May 31, 2000 · Robert P. Casey, the governor of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1994, whose strong opposition to abortion put him at odds with the Democratic Party, died yesterday in Scranton, where he lived. He was...
Nov 9, 2022 · Among Democrats, we had Gov. Robert Casey Sr., the namesake of the landmark Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision, which Casey regrettably lost, though that decision was at long last reversed...
Bob Casey, Sr. was Pennsylvania's 42nd governor, 1987-1995. Robert P. Casey was born in Queens, New York, in 1931. His family then moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he would live for the rest of his life. In 1953, Casey got married and together he and his wife had eight children.
Jul 15, 2022 · The father, Gov. Bob Casey Sr., became a national leader of the Right to Life movement. In a 1993 interview with Charlie Rose, Casey Senior argued: “My party — this country — has been the...
Robert Casey was Governor of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1995, and also a high-profile heart-liver transplant recipient. Though born in New York, Casey was raised in eastern Pennsylvania; his family was from Scranton.
Robert Patrick Casey Sr. was an American lawyer and politician from Pennsylvania who served as the 42nd governor of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1995. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania Senate for the 22nd district from 1963 to 1968 and as Auditor General of Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1977.
ROBERT P. CASEY SR. was born in Jackson Heights, New York and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he was valedictorian of Scranton Prep School. A cum laude graduate of Holy Cross, he received his law degree from The George Washington University. He served in the state Senate from 1963 to 1967; was First Vice President of the Pennsylvania ...
In one of the closest gubernatorial elections in Commonwealth history, Casey defeated Scranton in the November general election by a 79,000-vote margin. On January 20, 1987, he became the fifth Democrat in the twentieth century to be sworn into the governor's office vowing to bring an activist government to Harrisburg.
