Biography

12/03/1779 - 11/20/1856


POSTLETHWAIT, Thomas Irvin, a Representative from Juniata, Mifflin and Union Counties; born, December 3, 1779 in Lancaster County, Pa.; farmer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1843 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1844 term; died, November 20, 1856 in Wayne Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania; interred, Postlethwait Cemetery, Wayne Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. 


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