A native of Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, Donald Sherwood earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College in 1963. His early career was in the automobile business. He began his public service by serving six terms on the Tunkhannock area school board. He was first elected to the U.S. Congress in November 1998. He served on the Armed Services and Transportation & Infrastructure Committees before becoming a member of the House Appropriations Committee. In January 2003, he was selected to be a member of that committee’s Subcommittee on Homeland Security. Now in his third term, Sherwood represents a newly redistricted area of Pennsylvania, which includes the counties of Bradford, Montour, Northumberland, Pike, Union, Snyder, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming, and also parts of Lackawanna, Luzerne and Lycoming counties.

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