Jeremiah McLene
Jeremiah McLene | |
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| Member of the William Creighton, Jr. | |
| Succeeded by | Moses H. Kirby |
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| Born | 1767 Jacksonian |
Jeremiah McLene (1767 – March 19, 1837) was a
Democrat
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Early life
McLene was born in Cumberland County in the Province of Pennsylvania in 1767. As a youth he attended the common schools. During the Revolution he served in the militia at a very young age and rose to the rank of major general by the war's end in 1783.
Political career
After the war he moved west to settle in
Presidential elector in 1832 for Andrew Jackson.[1] In 1832 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives for the Ohio's 8th congressional district and served two terms. He lost re-election to a third term in 1836 to a Whig, Joseph Ridgway
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Death
McLene died in Washington, D.C., on March 19, 1837, at age 70, before he could move back to Columbus. He is interred in the United States Congressional Cemetery.
Notes
- ^ Taylor 1899 : 193
References
- United States Congress. "Jeremiah McLene (id: M000556)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- Taylor, William Alexander; Taylor, Aubrey Clarence (1899). Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 ... Vol. 1. State of Ohio. p. 193.
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