Biography

03/05/1786 - 05/22/1876

ORR, Robert, Jr., a Representative from Armstrong, Indiana and Jefferson Counties; born, March 5, 1786 in Hannah’s Town, Westmoreland County, Pa.; general, Pennsylvania Militia (1812-1813, War of 1812); surveyor and conveyancer; unsuccessful campaign, sheriff, Westmoreland County (1795); deputy sheriff, Armstrong County (1805); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1818-1819, 1819-1820 and 1820-1821 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1821); elected, Pennsylvania States Senate (1822-1825); elected, United States Congress (1825-1829); gubernatorial appointee, associate judge, Armstrong County; died, May 22, 1876 in Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; interred, Kittanning Cemetery, Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.