Biography

12/29/1825 - 06/25/1906

STOCKDALE, John M., a Representative from Greene County; born, December 29, 1825 in Greene County, Pa.; sheep and livestock farmer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1854 and 1855 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1856 term; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate (1884); editor, Review and Examiner, Washington, Pa.; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Mulgrave, Pa. (1897); died, June 25, 1906 in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania; interred, Oakmont Cemetery, Franklin Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania.