Biography

12/25/1755 - 02/03/1827

CONNELLY, John, a Representative from Philadelphia City; born, December 25, 1755; captain, 8^th Company, Pennsylvania Artillery (1780-1795, Revolutionary War); major then colonel, 8^th Company, Pennsylvania Artillery (1800-1808); appointed, prison inspector, Philadelphia (1794-1799, 1803-1808, 1810-1811); elected, select council, Philadelphia (1795-1796, 1801-1802); unsuccessful campaign, select council, Philadelphia (1804); elected, elections Inspector, Philadelphia (1808); elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1809-1810); unsuccessful campaign for reelection, Pennsylvania State Senate (1810, 1811, 1817, 1819); unsuccessful campaign, common council, Philadelphia (1810); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democratic-Republican for the 1812-1813 term; reelected to the House as a Republican for the 1813-1814 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1814, 1816); unsuccessful campaign, elected, director, Bank of the United States (1817-1818, 1821-1823); unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1818); presidential elector (1824); died, February 3, 1827 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Old Pine Street Presbyterian Churchyard, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.