Shapiro is the first elected governor to succeed an incumbent from his own party since 1967.
Pennsylvania’s state government made a generational change Tuesday with the inauguration of Joshua David Shapiro as the state’s 48th governor.governor, and the youngest person to hold the office since former Gov. Dick Thornburgh was elected in 1978 at age 46.
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