Member Biography

Robert P. Fleming 

Robert P. Fleming 

Portrait: Courtesy, Lycoming County Law Association

 

Sessions Office Position District Party
1839       12 Democrat
1840       12 Democrat
1841       12 Democrat
1842       12 Democrat

COUNTIES: Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Northumberland  


Biography

05/12/1801 - 05/30/1874

Robert P. Fleming (D12) Centre, Clinton, Lycoming and Northumberland Counties 1839-1842

Early Life:

Robert P. Fleming, born May 12, 1801, Lock Haven, Clinton County, Pennsylvania; son of John and Susanna Chatham Fleming; studied law, admitted, Lycoming County bar, 1827; trial Lawyer; delegate, Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, 1837-1838; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1839-1842; first president, Lycoming Law Association, 1870; married, Mary Lloyd, remarried, Esther F. Evans; died, May 30, 1874 (aged 73 years 18 days), Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; interment, Williamsport Cemetery, Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Delegate, Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, 1837-1838.

Elected, Democrat, 12th district, Pennsylvania State Senate, Centre, Clinton, Lycoming and Northumberland Counties, 1839-1841. 

Cited:

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

Marshall Anspach, Historical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of Lycoming County, Pa., 1961.

Robert Fleming (1801-1874) - Find a Grave Memorial