Charles A. Camp begins his second term as a Beaver County Commissioner in 2004, having been elected first in 2000 after serving as a Jury Commissioner from 1997 to 1999. Mr. Camp is the third generation of his family to serve as a County Commissioner, following in the footsteps of his father, James, and his grandfather, Gordon. While Commissioner, Charlie Camp has served as Chairman of the County’s Bridge Committee and as the Secretary and Treasurer of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Corporation (SPC) Executive Committee, where he has been responsible for the reconstruction of 12 county-owned bridges as well as fast tracking long-neglected transportation infrastructure projects such as the Crow’s Run Corridor. He also serves on the board for the Beaver County Conservation District, the Beaver County Victim Witness Protection Program, and on the Executive Committee of the Penn State Agricultural Extension.
Mr. Camp formerly owned and operated Gordon Camp Cleaners along with his father. Prior to his election, Mr. Camp served in the following community leadership posts:
• Grace Lutheran Church Council
• Western Pennsylvania Cleaners Association, Past President
• Rochester Area Business Improvement Authority, Vice President
• Rochester Development Corporation, Director
A graduate of Rochester High School (where he was All-County center on the 1975 MAC championship football team), Mr. Camp received his Batchelor of Science in Business Administration from Truman State University in Missouri. Charlie is an avid nature lover who enjoys golf, gardening, hunting, hiking, horseback riding, biking and everything else you can do in the great outdoors. He has volunteered in the Blackhawk School District with the P.T.O., youth soccer, and Cub Scouts. He has also been proudly affiliated with Chippewa Indian Football, Boy Scout Troop 409, and the Blackhawk Junior Historians.
Commissioner Camp has been married for sixteen years to Jane (Ferguson) Camp, who is a the student resource coodinator for the PA Cyber School. They reside in Patterson Township and are the proud parents of Connor (age 13), Spencer (age 11), and Meredith (age 9).
