Biography

1831 - 09/27/1887


LIGGETT, James, a Representative from Berks County; born, 1831 in Chester County, Pa.; tailor; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1878 and 1880; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1882); died, September 27, 1887 in Birdsboro, Berks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Paul’s United Methodist Church Cemetery, Geigertown, Berks County, Pennsylvania.


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