James Burns, JR.

James Burns, JR.

Member

Photo credit:

History of that Part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys, Embraced in the Counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Vol 1 Philadelphia: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886.

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1845 Representative Democrat
Counties Mifflin

Biography

07/04/1802 - 10/26/1879


BURNS, James, Jr., a Representative from Mifflin County; born, July 4, 1802 in Pennsylvania; farmer; agent, Pioneer Line of Packets and Stages; contractor, canal locks and railroad tunnels; appointed, treasurer, Mifflin County (1835-1837, 1841); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1845 term; elected, Pennsylvania Canal Commission (1845-1849); president, Mifflin County National Bank; died, October 26, 1879 in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Marks Cemetery, Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. 


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