Biography

10/13/1778 - 04/10/1858

MARKS, William, Jr., a Representative from Allegheny and Butler Counties; born, October 13, 1778 in Faggs Manor, Chester County, Pa.; brigadier general, Pennsylvania Milita; tanner; farmer; lawyer; elected, commissioner, Allegheny County (1805); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat-Republican for the 1809-1810 term; reelected to the House as a Republican for the 1810-1811, 1811-1812, 1812-1813 and 1813-1814 terms; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1816); appointed, coroner, Allegheny County (1817); reelected to the House as a Democrat to the 1817-1818 and 1818-1819 terms; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1819-1825); elected, Speaker of the Senate (1820-1825); unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1820); elected, United States Senate (1825-1831); chair, National Republican Convention (1831); commissioner, Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Bank of Pittsburgh (1833); chair, Whig County Convention (1839); chair, Whig State Convention (1844); died, April 10, 1858 in Beaver, Beaver County, Pennsylvania; interred, Clark Park Cemetery, Beaver, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.