Biography

05/25/1765 - 02/24/1833

TARR, Christian, a Representative from Fayette County; born, Baltimore, Baltimore County, Md. on May 25, 1765; engaged, agriculture; farmer; engaged, earthenware pottery manufacturing; engaged, real estate; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1799); appointed, treasurer, Fayette County (1803); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1804-1805, 1805-1806, 1806-1807, 1807-1808, 1808-1809, 1809-1810, 1810-1811 and 1821-1822 terms; trustee, Union Academy (later, Madison College) (1808); unsuccessful reelection to the House for the 1811-1812 term; elected, United States Congress (1817-1821); unsuccessful campaign for reelection to Congress (1820); appointed, superintendent of the National Road (1827-1829); died, February 24, 1833 in Washington Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania; interred, Methodist Graveyard, Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania; removed to, Christ Episcopal Churchyard, Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.