Townsend Haines

Townsend Haines

Townsend Haines

Photo credit:

Futhey, J. Smith and Gilbert Cope.  History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with Genealogical and Biographical Sketches. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1881.

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1826-1827 Representative Federalist
1827-1828 Representative Federalist
Counties Chester

Biography

01/07/1792 - 09/21/1865


HAINES, Townsend, a Representative from Chester County; born, January 7, 1792 in West Chester, Chester County, Pa.; attended, Enoch Lewis School; studied law, judge Isaac Darlington; lawyer (1818-1851); elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1826-1827 and 1827-1828 term; owner and editor, American Star (1839-1841); unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1846); appointed, Secretary of the Commonwealth (1848-January 24,1850); secretary to President Millard Fillmore (1850); elected, president judge, 15th Judicial district (1851-1861); died, September 21, 1865 in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred, Rosedale Friends Cemetery, West Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.


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