Biography

1820 - 01/17/1875


FAGAN, William H., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, 1820 in Ireland; clerk, United States Postal Service, Philadelphia; secretary, United Fireman’s Insurance Company; elected, delegate, Democratic State Convention (1850); elected, board of commissioners, Moyamensing; elected, common council, Philadelphia; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1875 term, died while in office, January 17, 1875 in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; interred, New Cathedral Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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