Biography

1802 - 10/26/1862


Westmoreland County (1850), Fayette and Westmoreland County (1851-1852)

GUFFEY, Joseph, a Representative from Fayette and Westmoreland Counties; born, 1802 in Sewickley Township, Westmoreland County, Pa.; farmer; elected, delegate, Democratic State Convention (1849); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1850 term; reelected to the House for the 1851 and 1852 terms; died, October 26, 1862 in Sewickley Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Guffey Cemetery, Sutersville, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.


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