William Beatty (1787April 12, 1851) was a member of the

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from

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. William Beatty was born in Stewartstown,

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in the Kingdom of Ireland in 1787. He immigrated to the United States in 1807 and settled in

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. He was a sergeant in Captain Thompson's company in the

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. He served as sheriff of Butler County, Pennsylvania, from 1823 to 1826. Beatty was elected as a

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to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1840 to 1842. He appointed deputy sheriff of Butler County and died in Butler in 1851. Interment in the Old Butler Cemetery.

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