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Senator Richard Alloway II was elected to his first term representing the 33rd District in the Pennsylvania Senate in November 2008. The 33rd District includes all of Franklin and Adams Counties and portions of York County.

Senator Alloway serves as Chairman of the Senate Game and Fisheries Committee, which oversees the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. He is also Vice Chairman of the Senate Law and Justice Committee and serves as a member of the Senate Aging and Youth, Judiciary, Local Government, and Rules and Executive Nominations Committees.

Prior to his election to the Senate, Senator Alloway served as a magisterial district judge for five years and was in private law practice with Larry Meminger.

Senator Alloway is a member of the National Rifle Association, the Hamilton Township Ruritan, the Franklin County Farm Bureau, Pleasant Hall Fire Company and Trinity Lutheran Church. He is a former member of the Franklin County Development Corporation and Downtown Chambersburg, Inc. He also served as President of the Green Township and the Lurgan Township Lions Clubs.

A Franklin County native, Senator Alloway is a 1986 graduate of Chambersburg Area Senior High School. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Government from Shippensburg University and graduated from Widener Law School in 2002. Senator Alloway resides in Hamilton Township with his wife Shannon and three little angels, Figgy, Sassy and Fritz.