VAN HORNE, Archibald (??-1817)

Democrat-Republican of Maryland

2nd congressional district

Served in House 1807-1811

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Biography

Representative from Maryland; birth date unknown; appointed adjutant of the Fourteenth Regiment of the Maryland Militia, April 18, 1798; commissioned captain May 26, 1802; member of the State house of delegates 1801-1803 and 1805, and served as speaker in the latter year; resigned November 11, 1805; elected as a Republican to the Tenth and Eleventh Congresses (March 4, 1807-March 3, 1811); chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Eleventh Congress); again a member of the State house of delegates 1814-1816; elected to the State senate in 1816 and served until his death in Prince George's County, Md., in 1817.
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