Member Biography

Michael J. Stack III

Michael J. Stack III
Sessions Office Position District Party
2001       5 Democrat
2002       5 Democrat
2003       5 Democrat
2004       5 Democrat
2005       5 Democrat
2006       5 Democrat
2007       5 Democrat
2008       5 Democrat
2009       5 Democrat
2010       5 Democrat
2011       5 Democrat
2012       5 Democrat
2013       5 Democrat
2014       5 Democrat

COUNTIES: Philadelphia  


Biography

06/05/1963 -

Michael Joseph Stack, III (D5) Philadelphia (part) County 2000-2015

Early Life

Michael Joseph Stack, III, born June 5, 1963, Washington, D.C., La Salle College High School; La Salle University, 1987; Villanova University School of Law, 1992; JAG School at the University of Virginia; entered United States Army, Judge Advocate General's Corps; captain: Pennsylvania Army National Guard; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 5th district, Philadelphia, 2000 - resigned January 20, 2015; elected, 33rd Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, 2015-2019; stand-up comedian; married to the former Tonya Whitmore and has a stepson Justin. 

Early Career: 

Former executive deputy director: Pennsylvania Catastrophic Loss Fund; member: Philadelphia Board of City Trusts, Pennsylvania/Maryland Bar Associations , Chilean & American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia, Officer Daniel Boyle Division 88 of Ancient Order of Hibernians, Saint Katharine Drexel K of C, Shaare Shamayim Men’s Club, Somerton Civic Assn., Friends of Pennypack Park; fellow: Pennsylvania  Leadership Academy at the Fells Institute of Government; co-chair:  Philadelphia Veterans Advisory Commission; board of trustees: Temple University

Pennsylvania Politics: 

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 5th district, Philadelphia, 2000- resigned January 20, 2015, committee assignments, Aging and Youth, Banking and Insurance (Minority Chair), Communications and Technology, Judiciary, Local Government. 

Continued Government Service/National Politics: 

Elected, 33rd Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, 2015-2019; defeated primary, 2018; only Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania to lose his renomination bid. 

After Legislative Career: 

Moved, California, stand-up comedian under the name "Mikey Stack". Routine involves self-deprecating jokes about his nickname "Mikey", his mother's cooking and Donald Trump. 

Stack's grandfather, the first Michael J. Stack, United States Congressman, 1935-1939. 

Cited:

Bogden, S. (Ed.). (2013). The Pennsylvania manual, 121. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, p. 3-22, 3-41.