Lottery operated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania Lottery
Agency overview
Formed
August 26, 1971
Jurisdiction
Pennsylvania
Headquarters
Middletown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Motto
Benefits Older Pennsylvanians. Every Day.
Agency executives
Drew Svitko, Executive Director
Jim Sawyer, Security Director
Ewa Swope, Press Secretary
Parent agency
Pennsylvania Department of Revenue
Website
www.palottery.state.pa.us
The Pennsylvania Lottery is operated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Lottery was created by the Pennsylvania General Assembly on August 26, 1971;[1] two months later, Henry Kaplan was appointed as its first executive director. The Pennsylvania Lottery sold its first tickets on March 7, 1972 and drew its first numbers on March 15, 1972.[2]
^"Title 4". The official website for the Pennsylvania General Assembly. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
^Beers, Paul B. (1 November 2010). Pennsylvania Politics Today and Yesterday: The Tolerable Accommodation. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-04498-9.
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