Biography

07/21/1797 - 11/29/1874

READ, John Meredith, a Representative from Philadelphia City; born, July 21, 1797 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; graduated, University of Pennsylvania, 1818, lawyer; elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1823-1824 and 1824-1825 terms; elected, solicitor, Philadelphia; United States District Attorney of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1837-1845); unconfirmed nomination, judge, United States Supreme Court (1845); Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1846), elected, judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1858-1872); died, November 29, 1874 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Christ Church Burial Gound, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.