George Plumer (December 5, 1762 – June 8, 1843) was a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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from
Pennsylvania
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.
George Plumer was born near
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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. He was a member of the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
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It ...
from 1812 to 1815 and again in 1817.
Plumer was elected as a Republican to the
Seventeenth Congress, elected as a Jackson Republican to the
Eighteenth Congress, and reelected as a Jacksonian to the
Nineteenth Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He died near
West Newton, Pennsylvania
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, in 1843. Interment in Old Sewickley Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Sources
The Political Graveyard
Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Politicians from Pittsburgh
American Presbyterians
1762 births
1843 deaths
Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
19th-century American politicians
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