Biography

02/28/1770 - 11/24/1822

ALBRIGHT, John Andrew, a Representative from Northumberland County; born, February 28, 1770 in Bethlehem, Lehigh County, Pa.; hotel proprietor, Lewisburg, Pa.; elected, coroner, Northumberland County (1800-1801); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Lewisburg (1801-1804); elected, sheriff, Northumberland County (1803-1806); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1807); elected, auditor, Northumberland County (1807-1808, 1811-1812); elected as a Democratic Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1808-1809 term; elected, burgess, Sunbury (1810-1811); elected, treasurer, Northumberland County (1812-1813); appointed, associate judge, Northumberland County (1813-1818); elected, prothonotary, Northumberland County (1819-1821); reelected to the House as a Democrat for the 1821-1822 term; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1822); died, November 24, 1822, Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Sunbury Cemetery, Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.