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Jeremiah Brown

Whig Representative of Pennsylvania's 8th district

  • Representative

    Pennsylvania, district 4

    May 31, 1841 - March 3, 1843

  • Representative

    Pennsylvania, district 8

    December 4, 1843 - March 3, 1845

2

Congresses Served

2

House Terms

April 14, 1785 (72 years old)

Birthday

March 2, 1858

Death

  • American politician and member of the Whig Party.
  • Engaged in milling and agricultural activities prior to his political career.
  • Served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1826.
  • Participated as a delegate in the 1836 convention to revise the Pennsylvania State Constitution.
  • Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for two consecutive terms (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses).
  • Did not seek renomination after his terms in Congress ended in 1844.
  • Served as the first associate judge for Lancaster from 1851 to 1856.
  • Passed away in 1858 and was interred in a cemetery in Little Britain Township, Pennsylvania.