Harry Fawkes

"Fawkes nurtured a powerful organization that has dominated the Bucks County courthouse for 25 years. As Gleason noted, he was credited with helping two county commissioners become lieutenant governor, incumbent Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley and Mark Schweiker, who became governor in 2001 when Tom Ridge was chosen as the first director of the federal Department of Homeland Security. Outside politics, Fawkes was a butcher and later founded a garbage-hauling business, which he sold to Waste Management in the mid 1980s. Fawkes’ family told the Bucks County Courier Times he had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. He had retired as chairman last year." http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/big_tent/Harry-Fawkes-longtime-Bucks-GOP-leader-dies-at-83.html