Allan Macdonald (November 21, 1794 White Plains,

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– January 1862) was an American politician from

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Life

He was the son of Dr. Archibald Macdonald (d. 1813), a native of

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. Allan Macdonald was Postmaster of White Plains from before 1825 until after 1833, and Sheriff of Westchester County from 1826 to 1828. He was a member of the

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(2nd D.) from 1832 to 1835, sitting in the 55th, 56th, 57th and

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s. He was Adjutant General of the New York State Militia from 1836 to 1838. He was co-owner, with his brother Dr. James Macdonald (1803–1849), of a private insane asylum located since 1845 at Sanford Hall, the former residence of Chancellor

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(1777–1838) in

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Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 129f, 146 and 410; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
''The New York Civil List''
(1867; pg. 244)
''Register of Officers and Agents in the Service of the United States''
(1831; pg. 369) *Obituary of his brother, i
''The American Journal of Insanity''
(1849; pg. 71—92) *Obituary i
''Littell's Living Age''
(Vol. 72, 1862; pg. 456) {{DEFAULTSORT:Macdonald, Allan 1794 births 1862 deaths People from White Plains, New York New York (state) state senators New York (state) postmasters New York (state) sheriffs American people of Scottish descent 19th-century American politicians