John Whiteside (1773 – July 28, 1830) was a member of the

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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, ...

. John Whiteside was born near

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. He attended the common schools and Chestnut Level Academy. He employed on his father's farm, and later engaged in the

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business and operated a

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. He was a justice of the peace and a member of the

Pennsylvania House of Representatives The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts. It ...

in 1810 and 1811. Whiteside was elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth and

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Congresses. He resumed the hotel business in Lancaster and served as register of wills and again a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1825. He died in Lancaster in 1830. Interment in

Lancaster Cemetery The Lancaster, Kentucky Cemetery in Lancaster, Kentucky dates from 1861. It is enclosed by Campbell, Crab Orchard, and Richmond Streets in Lancaster. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The listing included two ...

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1773 births 1830 deaths Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Politicians from Lancaster, Pennsylvania Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Businesspeople from Lancaster, Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub