William Maclay (Representative)
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William Maclay (March 22, 1765 – January 4, 1825) was a member of the
United States House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the Lower house, lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the United States Senate, Senate being ...
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, ...
. Maclay was born in
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. He attended the country schools, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1800 and commenced the practice of his profession at
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Chambersburg is a borough in and the county seat of Franklin County, in the South Central region of Pennsylvania, United States. It is in the Cumberland Valley, which is part of the Great Appalachian Valley, and north of Maryland and the Mas ...
. He was county commissioner of
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, in 1805 and 1806. He was a member of the
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in 1807 and 1808, and served as associate judge for the Cumberland district in 1809. Maclay was elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth and
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Congresses. He died in Lurgan in 1825 and was interred in Middle Springs Cemetery.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Maclay, William Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives People from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 1765 births 1825 deaths Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania