Robert McCoy (died June 7, 1849) was a 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, ...

. Robert McCoy born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania (birth date unknown). He served as

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of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was a Brigadier General of the militia and a state canal commissioner. McCoy was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative William Ramsey. He died in Wheeling,

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(now

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) in 1849.

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Pennsylvania prothonotaries 1849 deaths People from Carlisle, Pennsylvania Year of birth unknown Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub