Biography

1783 - 05/14/1836

KENNEDY, Thomas G., a Representative Bucks County; born, circa 1783 in Bucks County, Pa.; proprietor, flour mill; appointed, prothonotary, Bucks County (1808); appointed, town planning commissioner for Doylestown (1812); elected, sheriff, Bucks County (1815-1817); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1818-1819 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House; gubernatorial appointee, commissioner for Improvements on the Delaware River (1826-1827); unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1828); superintendent, Pennsylvania Canal Commission, Delaware Division (1829-1830); died, May 14, 1836 in Erwinna, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Erwin Family Cemetery, Erwinna, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.