Biography

1820 - 03/16/1885

McJUNKIN, James T., a Representative from Butler, Lawrence and Mercer Counties; born, 1820 in Butler County, Pa.; private, Company G, 14th Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia (1862, Civil War); teacher; marble worker; proprietor, James T. McJunkin & Son, insurance business; elected, register and recorder, Butler County (1848-1853); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1867; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1868); died, March 16, 1885 in Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania; interred, North Side Cemetery, Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania.