Biography

11/08/1757 - 11/08/1836

Armstrong and Westmoreland (1802-1803), Armstrong, Indiana and Westmoreland (1803-1804), Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson and Westmoreland (1804-1806), Westmoreland (1812-1816, 1817-1819) 

ALLSHOUSE, Henry, a Representative from Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson and Westmoreland County; born, November 8, 1757 in Easton, Northampton County, Pa.; fifer and private, First Battalion, Associators of Northampton (1776, Revolutionary War; prisoner of war, on the Grosvenor, 1776-1777); captain, Fifth Battalion, Northampton County Militia (1778, Revolutionary War); captain, Sixth Battalion, Pennsylvania Militia (1780) and Major (1783, Revolutionary War); elected, commissioner, Westmoreland County (1798-1799); farmer; elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1802-1803, 1803-1804 and 1804-1805 terms; reelected to the House as a Quid for the 1805-1806 term; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate (1811); reelected to the House as a Democratic-Republican for the 1812-1813, 1813-1814, 1814-1815 and 1815-1816 terms; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1816); reelected to the House as a Democrat for the 1817-1818 and 1818-1819 terms; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1819-1827); elected, delegate, National Democratic Convention (1812, 1816, 1828); died, November 8, 1836 in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Henry Allshouse Memorial, Jeannette, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania