Eric Papenfuse

Quick Facts

Full Name	Eric Papenfuse
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Sep 4, 1971(1971-09-04)
Age	53
Country	United States
Birth City	Baltimore
Horoscope	Virgo

Eric Papenfuse Biography

Eric Papenfuse is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on September 4, 1971 in Baltimore, United States. Midtown Scholar Midtown Scholar has a coffee shop and bakery operated by P&R known for their sweet potato pies from the south. They host music performances and book clubs, author talks as well as poetry readings. In the past year the Midtown Scholar hosted the acclaimed author Salman Rushdie who presented his book The Golden House; Mark Bowden who is who wrote Hue 1968, Masha Gessen, who’s a journalist and critic from Russia, Putin as well as Patricia Lockwood, whose poems have been published within The London Review of Books and the New Yorker magazine.

Papenfuse was briefly on the board from the month of January on the Harrisburg Authority board (now named Capital Region Water) which has been responsible for the failure of Harrisburg’s incinerator, and brought the city close to bankruptcy, with over $300 million of debt. He was forced to resign in November 2007 when an online video of his presenting a mock list of gifts for Christmas that had been spooky named publications for the city’s officials.

Papenfuse won a contested Democratic primary election in May 2013 by beating incumbent mayor Linda Thompson as well as Dan Miller and Lewis Butts. After losing to him in the primaries, Dan Miller switched parties and ran against Papenfuse in the general election as the Republican candidate . Papenfuse defeated him and several write-in candidates to win the mayor’s seat on November 5, 2013. There were an unusual amount of write-in votes for mayor, accounting for about 17% of the final vote. Papenfuse assumed office on January 6, 2014.

In the second year of his tenure as Mayor, Papenfuse initiated a Comprehensive Plan for the City of Harrisburg. The Plan was launched in 2015 and sought to encourage preservation of historic buildings, strengthen neighborhoods and the environment by promoting growth through improving the quality of life. The $200,000 Plan was to be completed in the Spring of 2016, but issues with the hired consultant, Bret Peters, of the Office of Planning and Architecture, lead to the City terminating the contract.

His wife Catherine Lawrence, in an advanced American historical class in Yale University. When Lawrence and Papenfuse completed their studies at Yale University, in 1999 Lawrence was offered a job as an assistant professor in British historical studies for Messiah College and they decided to relocate to Harrisburg. They found a massive Victorian home on Front Street in Harrisburg’s Shipoke neighborhood, which is near the Harris’ Ferry which is known as the “most historic crossing place on the Susquehanna.”

Eric Papenfuse Net Worth

Eric Papenfuse is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Eric Papenfuse 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Eric Papenfuse was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 4 1971. He was a student at The Boys’ Latin School in Maryland and graduated in 1989 as valedictorian. The father of his son, Edward C. Papenfuse is former Maryland State Archivist. Her mother, Sallie Papenfuse, is a reading instructor at The Boys’ Latin School in Maryland. He attended Yale studying for the degree of an undergraduate and graduate in the field of history. While at Yale He also wrote the book The Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of slavery, that came out in 1997 by The American Philosophical Society in 1997.

Eric Robert Papenfuse (born September 4 1971) is an American politician and businessman. He is currently the city’s 38th mayor in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Papenfuse is the co-owner and co-founder together with his wife of The Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg that they have run since 2001.

After two unsuccessful Democratic primary bids in 2009 for a seat on the Harrisburg City Council and in 2011 for Dauphin County Commissioner, Papenfuse reentered politics in January 2013 with his announcement that he would run for Mayor of Harrisburg. He won the 2013 Mayoral Election which began his political career and in 2017 won a second term as mayor. Prior to his career as a bookstore owner and a mayor, he was a teacher of Latin for Central Dauphin East High School and Linglestown Junior High School.

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Top Facts about Eric Papenfuse

1. Born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 4, 1971.
2. Attended Yale University and wrote a book called The Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery
3. Founded The Midtown Scholar Bookstore in 2000
4. Ran unsuccessfully for Harrisburg City Council and Dauphin County Commissioner in 2009 and 2011
5. Elected Mayor of Harrisburg in 2013
6. Initiated a Comprehensive Plan for the City of Harrisburg in 2015
7. Directed his spokeswoman to no longer answer questions from The Patriot-News in June 2016
8. Won second term as mayor in 2017
9. Lost the May 2021 Democratic Primary to City Council President Wanda Williams
10. Went on to lose to Williams in the November General Election
11. Met his wife, Catherine Lawrence, while they were both at Yale University
12. Founded The Eric Papenfuse and Catherine Lawrence Endowment Fund in Film and Media Studies
13. Father Edward C. Papenfuse was a retired Maryland state archivist
14. Mother Sallie Papenfuse was a reading teacher at The Boys’ Latin School of Maryland
15. The Midtown Scholar Bookstore won the Publishers Weekly Bookstore of the Year Award in 2023