Biography

1815 - 1886

McKEE, John W., a Representative from Armstrong and Westmoreland Counties; born in 1815; blacksmith (1850-1886); elected, justice of the peace, Freeport (circa 1860-1886); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives (1862); seated as a Union Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1864 term as a result of contested election, January 27, 1864; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1865 term; died, 1886 in Freeport, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; interred, Freeport Cemetery, Freeport, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.