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Abraham Robinson McIlvaine (August 14, 1804 – August 22, 1863) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.


Biography

Abraham R. McIlvaine was born in Ridley, Pennsylvania. He engaged in agricultural pursuits in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts. It ...
in 1836 and 1837. McIlvaine was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War during the Twenty-eighth Congress. An unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1848, he resumed his agricultural interests and also engaged in the iron business. He died on his estate, “
Springton Manor Farm The Springton Manor Farm is an historic, American farm and national Historic district (United States), historic district that is located in Wallace Township, Pennsylvania, Wallace Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the Nati ...
” in Chester County in 1863. Interment in Caln Orthodox Quaker Meeting Burial Ground near
Downingtown, Pennsylvania Downingtown is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, west of Philadelphia. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 7,898. Downingtown was settled by European colonists in the early 18th century and has a number of historic buildings an ...
. Reinterment in Northwood Cemetery in Downingtown."McIlvaine, Abraham Robinson," ''The Political Graveyard''.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:McIlvaine, Abraham Robinson Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives American Quakers 1804 births 1863 deaths Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians People from Ridley Township, Pennsylvania Burials in Pennsylvania