Biography

12/05/1809 - 10/07/1866

Potter and Tioga Counties (1842-1843), Northumberland County (1877-1880)

SHERWOOD, Daniel Lee, a Representative from Northumberland, Potter and Tioga Counties; born, December 5, 1809 in Marathon, Courtland County, NY; engaged, lumber business; farmer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1842 and 1843 terms; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1844-1846); elected, Speaker of the Senate Speaker (1846); unsuccessful campaign, canal commissioner (1854); unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1856); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate (1859); reelected to the House for the 1877, 1878 and 1879-1880 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1880); died, October 7, 1886 in Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Riverview Cemetery, Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.