Biography

03/29/1787 - 03/03/1863


CRAIG, Neville Burgoyne, a Representative from Allegheny County; born, March 29, 1787 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; attended, Pittsburgh Academy (now University of Pittsburgh); attended, Princeton; law clerk; lawyer (1810-1863); owner and editor, Pittsburgh Gazette (1829-1841); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1843 term; unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1844); author and publisher; died, March 3, 1863 in Pitt Township (now Pittsburgh), Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.


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