Biography

07/26/1769 - 01/09/1846


REIGART, Emanuel, a Representative from Lancaster County; born, July 26, 1769 in Lancaster County, Pa.; tanner; currier; elected, coroner, Lancaster County (1795-1798); elected, sheriff, Lancaster (1800-1803, 1806-1809); unsuccessful campaign, sheriff, Lancaster County (1803); elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1813-1814, 1814-1815, 1815-1816 and 1817-1818; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate (1819); elected, auditor, Lancaster County (1821); died, January 9, 1846 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.


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