Biography

1801 - 1843

FINDLAY, James, a Representative from Westmoreland County; born, 1801 in Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pa.; attended, College of New Jersey (now Princeton University); lawyer (1824-1843); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1831-1832, 1832-1833 and 1833-1834 term; elected, Speaker (1833); resigned from the House, December 17, 1833; appointed, Secretary of the Commonwealth (1833-1835); solicitor, Pittsburgh (1837-1839); died, 1843 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.