Biography

01/16/1819 - 01/30/1882

John M. Cresswell, Jr. (D15) Blair, Cambria, Huntingdon Counties, 1854-1858 (D20) Blair, Cambria, Clearfield Counties 1859

Early Life:

John M. Cresswell, Jr., born January 16, 1819, Alexandria, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania; son of John Sr., and Margaret Mytinger Cresswell; schoolteacher, 1834-1836; admitted, Huntingdon bar, 1842; attorney, law practice, Hollidaysburg; married, Margaret Armitage, 1845, children, John George Cresswell, Marilla Cresswell Locke, Sarah Cresswell, Mary Elizabeth Cresswell, Margaret Foster Cresswell; gubernatorial appointment, Blair County, first district attorney, 1846; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1854-1859, Speaker, 1858; unsuccessful nomination, governor of Pennsylvania, Democrat Convention, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1860; retired, Hollidaysburg legal practice; justice of the peace, Hollidaysburg, 1879; died, January 30, 1882 (age-63), Hollidaysburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania; interment, Hollidaysburg Presbyterian Cemetery, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Gubernatorial appointment, Governor Francis Rawn Shunk, Blair County, first district attorney, 1846.

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 15th district, Blair, Cambria, Huntingdon Counties, 1854-1858, Speaker, 1858, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 20th district, Blair, Cambria, Clearfield Counties, 1859.

Unsuccessful nomination, governor of Pennsylvania, Democrat Convention, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1860.

Justice of the peace, 1879.

Cited:

Cox, Harold "Senate Members "C". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

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