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Abraham Robinson McIlvaine (August 14, 1804 – August 22, 1863) was a Whig member of the
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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, ...
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Biography

Abraham R. McIlvaine was born in
Ridley, Pennsylvania Ridley Township is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The population was 30,768 at the 2010 census. Ridley Township contains the census designated places of Folsom and Woodlyn along with the unincorporated communities of Crum Lynne a ...
. He engaged in agricultural pursuits in
Chester County, Pennsylvania Chester County (Pennsylvania Dutch: ''Tscheschter Kaundi''), colloquially known as Chesco, is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in the Delaware Valley region of the state. As of the 2020 census, the population was 53 ...
. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1836 and 1837. McIlvaine was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War during the Twenty-eighth Congress. An unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1848, he resumed his agricultural interests and also engaged in the iron business. He died on his estate, “ Springton Manor Farm” in Chester County in 1863. Interment in Caln Orthodox Quaker Meeting Burial Ground near Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Reinterment in Northwood Cemetery in Downingtown."McIlvaine, Abraham Robinson," ''The Political Graveyard''.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:McIlvaine, Abraham Robinson Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives American Quakers 1804 births 1863 deaths Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians People from Ridley Township, Pennsylvania Burials in Pennsylvania