Chauncey Forward

Chauncey Forward

Member

Photo credit:

The Twentieth Century Bench and Bar of Pennsylvania. Vol. II. Chicago: H.C. Cooper, Jr., Bro. & Co., 1903.

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1821-1822 Representative Democrat
1822-1823 Representative Democrat
1823-1824 Representative Democrat
Counties Cambria, Somerset

Biography

02/04/1793 - 10/09/1839


FORWARD, Chauncey, a Representative from Cambria and Somerset Counties; born, February 4, 1793 in Granby, Hartford County, Ct.; attended, Jefferson College (now, Washington and Jefferson College); commander, “The Mountain Cavalry,” Somerset County, Pennsylvania Militia (1829); attorney (1817-1839); elected, burgess, Somerset (1820); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1820-1821, 1821-1822 and 1822-1823 terms; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1823-1826); elected, United State Congress (1826-1831); gubernatorial appointee, prothonotary, register and recorder of deeds, and clerk of the courts, Somerset County (1831-1836); engaged, real estate; died, October 9, 1839 in Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania; interred, Aukeny Square Cemetery, Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.


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