Robert Asher, National Committeeman

A BUSINESS PERSON

Board of Directors' Co-Chairman, Asher's Chocolates (4th generation family candy business of C.A. Asher), major candy-making and national distribution center at Souderton, PA, with operations also in Historic Germantown area of Philadelphia and Lewistown, PA.  Asher's annually produces more than 6 million pounds of confectioneries for national and international distribution.

AN INVOLVED CITIZEN:

• Pennsylvania member of Republican National Committee, appointed 1998
• Chairman, Development Committee, Nature Conservancy of Pennsylvania
• Board of Directors, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Advisory Board; and Salvation Army, Philadelphia Region
• Member, Pennsylvania Society
• Philadelphia Zoological Society
• Session of Oreland (PA) Presbyterian Church
• Union League of Philadelphia
• Academy Club of Germantown Academy
• Leadership Council, Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania
• Avalon (NJ) Yacht Club
• Old York Road Country Club, Gwynedd, PA
• Chairman, Republican Party of Pennsylvania of Pennsylvania, 1983-1986
• Chairman, Montgomery State County (PA) Republican Committee, 1978-1986
• State Chairman, PA Governor Dick Thornburgh's successful re-election campaign committee, 1982
• Delegate, Republican National Convention, Detroit 1980 and Dallas 1984
• Commissioner, Springfield Township, Montgomery County, PA 1968-1971

CIVIC RECOGNITION

• Humanitarian Award, Montgomery County (PA) Association for Retarded Citizens
  Special Award/Recognition, Valley Forge (PA) Council, Boy Scouts of America
• Good Citizenship Award, Union League of Philadelphia

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTS

• Graduate, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business and Commerce, Philadelphia, B.S. in Economics (Class of 1960)
• Graduate, Germantown Academy, Fort Washington, PA (Class of 1955)

MILITARY SERVICE

• U.S. Army veteran, active duty and reserve status

PERSONAL DATA

• Born 9/7/37, Philadelphia, PA
• Married to former Joyce Webb, with three children, son Jeff, daughters Jill and Jodi, all married and with three grandchildren.
• Montgomery County, PA resident more than 35 years.

Last month, our team of more than 40 PA GOP staffers and volunteers traveled up to Massachusetts in order to elect Scott Brown to the United States Senate. Ask any one of those volunteers about Pike County Commissioner Harry Forbes, however, and you’ll be sure to put a smile on their faces.

Throughout the course of the trip, Commissioner Forbes proved his commitment to electing qualified Republican candidate on numerous occassions. From phone banking and knocking on doors to tracking voter turnout and inspiring the PA GOP "Special Forces" on the bus, Commissioner Forbes, like all of our wonderful grassroots leaders, was always eager to do whatever was asked of him and more.

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