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McALLISTER, Archibald (1813-1883)

Democrat of Pennsylvania

17th congressional district

Served in House 1863-1865

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Biography

A Representative from Pennsylvania; born at Fort Hunter, near Rockville, Dauphin County, Pa., October 12, 1813; attended the common schools and Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.; moved to Blair County, Pa., in 1842 and engaged in manufacturing charcoal iron at Springfield Furnace; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); was not a candidate for renomination in 1864; resumed the manufacture of iron; died in Royer, Blair County, Pa., July 18, 1883; interment in Mountain Cemetery.
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