Citizenship Test Answers for Pennsylvania
Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in Pennsylvania.
62. What is the capital of your state?
Answer for Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
This is the one state-specific answer that does not change. The three below change with elections. Every name on this page is checked each night against the congressional record and, for governors, two independent public records, and a name is left out rather than printed when the sources disagree.
23. Who is one of your state's U.S. senators now?
Answer for Pennsylvania now
- David McCormick
- John Fetterman
You only need to give one of these names.
Pennsylvania has two U.S. senators, like every state. You only need to name one of them. Senators are elected to six-year terms, so this answer changes; give the name of a senator serving on the day of your interview.
Look up Pennsylvania's senators at senate.gov
29. Name your U.S. representative.
Your representative depends on your congressional district, not just your state, so it is different for two people living in the same city. Look it up by ZIP code.
All 17 of Pennsylvania's representatives, by district
| District | Representative |
|---|---|
| 1 | Brian K. Fitzpatrick |
| 2 | Brendan F. Boyle |
| 3 | Dwight Evans |
| 4 | Madeleine Dean |
| 5 | Mary Gay Scanlon |
| 6 | Chrissy Houlahan |
| 7 | Ryan Mackenzie |
| 8 | Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr. |
| 9 | Daniel Meuser |
| 10 | Scott Perry |
| 11 | Lloyd Smucker |
| 12 | Summer L. Lee |
| 13 | John Joyce |
| 14 | Guy Reschenthaler |
| 15 | Glenn Thompson |
| 16 | Mike Kelly |
| 17 | Christopher R. Deluzio |
If you do not know your district, the lookup below finds it from your ZIP code.
Find your representative at house.gov
Residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or Resident Commissioners may provide the name of that Delegate or Commissioner. Also acceptable is any statement that the territory has no (voting) representatives in Congress.
61. Who is the governor of your state now?
Answer for Pennsylvania now
Josh Shapiro
Governors are elected and change, so answer with whoever is serving on the day of your
interview. Your state government's official .gov website is the reliable
place to check.
Background on Pennsylvania
Harrisburg is Pennsylvania's capital, and Philadelphia, roughly twenty times larger, is not — an easy mistake, since Philadelphia is where the country was founded. The seat moved to Harrisburg in 1812 for a more central location. Pennsylvania is one of the thirteen original states and became the 2nd state in 1787. It has 17 congressional districts and 19 electoral votes. More test answers happened in this state than almost any other: the Declaration of Independence was adopted in Philadelphia, the Constitution was written there in 1787, Benjamin Franklin lived and is buried there, and the Battle of Gettysburg was fought in the south of the state in 1863. York, in the south of the state, even served as the seat of the Continental Congress for nine months in 1777 and 1778, while the British held Philadelphia.
This background section is written by US Citizenship Test Practice. It is not part of the USCIS question list, and it names no senator, representative or governor itself: those names change with elections, so they appear only in the answers above, which are checked every night.
The other 124 questions
Everything else on the civics test is the same no matter where you live.