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Jeremiah Brown (April 14, 1785 – March 2, 1858) was a
Whig member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
.
Biography
Jeremiah Brown was born in
Little Britain Township, Pennsylvania
Little Britain Township is a Township (Pennsylvania), township in southeastern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,134 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is part of ...
. He engaged in milling and agricultural pursuits. He served as a member of the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1826. He was a delegate to the convention to revise the State constitution in 1836.
Brown was elected as a Whig to the
Twenty-seventh and
Twenty-eighth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in
1844. He served as first associate judge for
Lancaster and served from 1851 to 1856. He died in
Goshen, Pennsylvania, in 1858. Interment in the cemetery adjoining Penn Hill Quaker Meeting House in Little Britain Township.
Sources
The Political Graveyard
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1785 births
1858 deaths
Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Pennsylvania state court judges
Politicians from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American judges