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John Maugridge Snowden (January 13, 1776 – April 1, 1845) served as Mayor of Pittsburgh City from 1825 to 1828.
Snowden served terms as
Early life
Snowden was born inPhiladelphia
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, Pennsylvania
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, to a revolutionary war family of patriots. His father, William Snowden, was a hero of the war, being imprisoned by the British forces and dying in their custody. His wife Elizabeth Moor, was a major advisor to General Washington
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during his Pennsylvania campaigns. In 1811 Snowden began a printing and book business in Pittsburgh. He eventually bought and edited his own newspaper, the '' Pittsburgh Mercury''. Like his predecessor as mayor, John Darragh, he used his appointment as president of the Bank of Pittsburgh to launch his mayoral candidacy.
Pittsburgh politics
Snowden served terms as Allegheny County
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Recorder and Treasurer before being elected mayor of Pittsburgh in 1825. He served until 1828.
Later life
Snowden died suddenly of heart disease on April 1, 1845, at his residence inAllegheny City
Allegheny City was a municipality that existed in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania from 1788 until it was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907. It was located north across the Allegheny River from downtown Pittsburgh, with its southwest border formed by ...
, now Pittsburgh's North Side. He was buried at Concord Presbyterian Church on Brownsville Road
Brownsville Road is a road between Pittsburgh, at Eighteenth Street and South Avenue in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania eastwards through Mount Oliver and generally highlands situated along or near the hilltops often overlooking (and sometimes t ...
, near his home there.
Honors
Allegheny County's community Snowden (part of present-daySouth Park Township
South Park Township is a township in the southern part of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, near Pittsburgh. The population was 13,416 at the 2010 census.
A large portion of the township consists of a county park of the same name. ...
) was named for John Snowden.
See also
* List of mayors of PittsburghReferences
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