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HARRISBURG – White-haired and assured, a candidate from central casting, Attorney General Tom Corbett captured the endorsement for governor from the Republican State Committee today and assumed the leadership of a party brimming with confidence for across-the-board electoral gains in Pennsylvania.

Dealing with a looming budget crisis will be the next governor's first job, Attorney General Tom Corbett said Thursday.

Pennsylvania hosted the nation's first superhighway, stock exchange, oil well and agricultural society.

State Attorney General Tom Corbett announced his campaign for the 2010 Republican gubernatorial nomination Monday night in Pittsburgh, kicking off a 10-day announcement and fundraising tour that landed him in Grove City by Tuesday afternoon.

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge today weighed into the Republican race for governor next year, saying he strongly endorses state Attorney General Tom Corbett in the May GOP primary.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett told employees of a local business on Tuesday that cutting taxes and reducing the size of state government would be among his goals if elected governor.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett, R, has made his bid for the governor’s mansion official, entering a GOP primary race against U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach, 6th, of Berks, Chester, Lehigh and Montgomery counties.

SHAMOKIN DAM — Four days after announcing his candidacy for governor, state Attorney General Tom Corbett was in Snyder and Northumberland counties Thursday, proposing the enactment of a two-year budget process that he said would prevent the kind of political wrangling voters have seen in Harrisburg this year.

Corbett, 60, brought his statewide announcement tour to Northeastern Pennsylvania Thursday, stopping at Diamond Manufacturing in Wyoming. Corbett toured the plant, shaking hands with workers as he made his way through a sometimes noisy facility.

Trying to win over voters, Attorney General Tom Corbett made a stop in the Alleghenies Wednesday.