Biography

1778 - 03/15/1866

CARR, Robert W., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, 1778 in Ballyhalbert, County Down, Ireland; major, 16^th Infantry Regiment, United States Army (1812, War of 1812); lieutenant colonel, 9^th Infantry Regiment and 15^th Infantry Regiment, United States Army (1813-1815, War of 1812); Adjutant General of Pennsylvania (1821-1824); printer; botanist; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1818, 1819, 1821, 1822, 1824); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1820-1821 term as an Old School party member; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate (1825); elected, alderman, Kingsessing (now Philadelphia); justice of the peace, Philadelphia County; died, March 15, 1866 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.