John Yudichak | |
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Member of the Pennsylvania Senate from the 14th district |
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Assumed office January 4, 2011 |
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Preceded by | Ray Musto |
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the 119th district |
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In office January 5, 1999 – November 30, 2010 |
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Preceded by | Stanley Jarolin |
Succeeded by | Gerald Mullery |
Personal details | |
Born |
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States |
May 1, 1970
Political party | Democratic |
Residence | Plymouth Township, Pennsylvania |
Alma mater | Penn State University |
John T. Yudichak (born May 1, 1970) is a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, representing the 14th District since 2011. The district includes parts of Carbon, Luzerne, and Monroe Counties. He previously served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1999 to 2010.
John Yudichak was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Sarah Yudichak. He graduated from Nanticoke Area High School in 1988, and attended Wyoming Seminary for one year before transferring to the Pennsylvania State University. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1993. Yudichak and his wife, Heather, have four daughters: Sarah, Anna, Evelyn, and Grace.
Yudichak worked as an intern for U.S. Representative Paul E. Kanjorski before serving as director of development at the Osterhout Free Library in Wilkes-Barre. In 1996, he unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Stanley Jarolin for the Democratic nomination for the 119th District in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, losing by 600 votes. However, he ran for the nomination again in 1998, and defeated Jarolin by more than 800 votes. In the general election, he defeated Republican Jean Sepling. He received a Master of Arts degree in American Studies from Penn State in 2004.