Jeremiah Brown (April 14, 1785 – March 2, 1858) was a Whig 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

Jeremiah Brown was born in

Little Britain Township, Pennsylvania Little Britain Township is a Township (Pennsylvania), township in southeastern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,134 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is part of ...

. He engaged in milling and agricultural pursuits. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1826. He was a delegate to the convention to revise the State constitution in 1836. Brown was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1844. He served as first associate judge for Lancaster and served from 1851 to 1856. He died in Goshen, Pennsylvania, in 1858. Interment in the cemetery adjoining Penn Hill Quaker Meeting House in Little Britain Township.

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