David Marchand was a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from
Pennsylvania. He was born near
Irwin, Pennsylvania. He studied medicine and practiced in
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He was a major general of the Thirteenth Division of the State militia from 1812 to 1814. He had a son,
Albert Gallatin Marchand.
Marchand was elected as a
Democratic-Republican to the
Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the
Sixteenth
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Congress. He was elected
prothonotary of Westmoreland County in 1821. He resumed the practice of medicine and died in
Greensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1832. Interment in Greensburg Cemetery.
Sources
The Political Graveyard
1776 births
1832 deaths
Politicians from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Physicians from Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania prothonotaries
American militiamen in the War of 1812
Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
American militia generals
Military personnel from Pennsylvania
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