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George Washington Toland (February 8, 1796 – January 30, 1869) was an American politician 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, ...
who served as a Whig member of the
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for
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from 1837 to 1843 and as a Democratic member of the
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for the 1st district from 1833 to 1835.


Early life and education

Toland was born in
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to Henry Toland of
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. He attended the common schools, and graduated from
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in 1816. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1819.


Career

He held several local offices. He was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1832 and 1844. He was elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 1st district and served from 1833 to 1855. Toland was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses. He died in Philadelphia in 1869 and is interred at
Laurel Hill Cemetery Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia. Founded in 1836, it was the second major rural cemetery in the United States after Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts. The cemetery is ...
.


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The Political Graveyard
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