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Photo credit:

“Pennsylvania Governors.”  Pennsylvania Museum and Historical Commission. August 26, 2015.  www.phmc.pa.gov 

 

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1848 Representative Speaker Democrat
1849 Representative Speaker Democrat
Counties Clinton, Lycoming, Potter

Biography

04/02/1807 - 09/27/1870


PACKER, William Fisher, a Representative of Clinton, Lycoming and Potter Counties; born, April 2, 1807 in Howard Township, Centre County, Pa.; printer’s apprentice, Publick Inquirer, Sunbury (1820-1824); printer’s apprentice, Bellefonte Patriot; journeyman, Pennsylvania Intelligencer (1825-1827); owner, Lycoming Gazette (1827-1836); superintendent, West branch division, Pennsylvania Canal (1832-1835); elected, National Democratic Convention (1835, 1856); owner, Keystone, Harrisburg (1837-1841); appointed, State Canal Commissioner (1839-1842); appointed, Pennsylvania Auditor General (1842-1845); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1846); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1848 and 1849 terms; elected, Speaker of the House (1848-1849); elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1850-1852); elected, Governor of Pennsylvania (1858-1861); died, September 27, 1870 in Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; Williamsport Cemetery, Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania


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