Biography

04/12/1829 - 02/28/1865


PRESSLEY, David Alexander Porter, a Representative from Allegheny County; born, April 12, 1829 in Cedar Springs, Greenwood County, SC; graduated, Washington College, 1848; druggist; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1860 term; died, February 28, 1865 in Allegheny City (now Pittsburgh), Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.


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