Biography

10/27/1846 - 10/13/1923

HINES, John Philip, a Representative from Mercer County; born, October 27, 1846 in Washington, DC; attended, Emerson Institute; pharmacist; proprietor, drugstore; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Stoneboro (1885-1889, 1915-1923); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1891 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1893 term; chair, Mercer County Democratic Committee; unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1912); elected, delegate, Democratic National Convention (1912); died, October 13, 1923 in Stoneboro, Mercer County, Pennsylvania; interred, Oak Hill Cemetery, Sandy Lake, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.