George May Keim (March 23, 1805 – June 10, 1861) was a
Democratic 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
George May Keim (uncle of
William High Keim
William High Keim (June 13, 1813 – May 18, 1862) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, as well as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Early life and career
William High Keim ...
), was born in
Reading, Pennsylvania. He attended
Princeton College
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ni ...
, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in Reading. He was a major general of militia. He was a delegate to the State constitutional convention of 1837 and 1838.
Keim was elected as a Democrat to the
Twenty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Henry A. P. Muhlenberg. He was reelected to the
Twenty-sixth and
Twenty-seventh Congresses. He was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Militia during the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses. He was appointed by President
John Tyler
John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841. He was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig tick ...
as
United States marshal
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for the
on December 18, 1843. He was reappointed by President
James K. Polk
James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. He previously was the 13th speaker of the House of Representatives (1835–1839) and ninth governor of Tennessee (183 ...
on January 3, 1848, and served until 1850. He was mayor of Reading in 1852, and was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of
Stephen A. Douglas and
Herschel V. Johnson in
1860
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The discovery of a hypothetical planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.
* January 10 – The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusett ...
. He died in Reading in 1861. Interment Reading's
Charles Evans Cemetery
Charles Evans Cemetery is an historic, nonsectarian, garden-style cemetery located in the city of Reading, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Charles Evans (1768-1847), a son of Quaker parents and native of Philadelphia who became a prominent attorn ...
.
Sources
The Political Graveyard
1805 births
1861 deaths
Burials at Charles Evans Cemetery
Mayors of Reading, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania lawyers
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Princeton University alumni
United States Marshals
1860 United States presidential electors
19th-century American legislators
19th-century American lawyers
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