Mark B. Cohen

Who is Mark B. Cohen?

Mark B. Cohen is a Democratic politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Succeeding Eugene Gelfand, he has represented Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 202 in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives since June 10, 1974, making him the most senior member in the Pennsylvania General Assembly since the December 27, 2010 death of Sen. Michael O'Pake, one of the most senior state legislators in the United States, and one of the longest serving state legislators in Pennsylvania history. He is one of those who "know Harrisburg," a reporter summarized. Cohen was a Washington, D.C. intern during the Great Society and the War in Vietnam. He is the last of the Watergate Babies in Pennsylvania still serving in the Pennsylvania legislature who were elected to office for the first time in 1974 in the wake of the national backlash against the illegal activities of the Watergate scandal. They helped to make Pennsylvania "among the 22 states that established outside oversight of ethical conduct and/or disclosure requirements of legislators in the post-Watergate 1970s." Cohen is the most senior of the small number of Pennsylvania legislators who started serving before the Reagan Era and the Presidency of Ronald Reagan.