Biography

01/10/1811 - 11/09/1882

Hiram Findlay (D20) Bedford, Fulton and Somerset Counties 1870-1872 (D21) Bedford, Blair, Fulton and Somerset Counties 1872 

Early Life:

Hiram Findlay, born January 10, 1811, Berks County, Pennsylvania; son of Reverend Samuel D. and Mary Polly Shockey Findley; married, Mary Meese, children, Hiram Findley, Lucretia Findlay; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1870-1872; died, November 9, 1882, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Burial location unknown. 

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 20th district, Bedford, Fulton and Somerset Counties, 1870-1871. 

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 21st district, Bedford, Blair, Fulton and Somerset Counties, 1872; committee assignments, Accounts, Canals and Inland. Navigation, Election Districts.

Cited:

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

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1872). Smull, J.A., (Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 502, 506-508.