Biography

1839 - 03/18/1878

David A. Nagle (D3) Philadelphia County 1868-1873 (D2) Philadelphia County 1875-1878

Early Life: 

David A. Nagle born 1839, reared by his mother after his father’s early death; attended common schools; telegraph messenger and telegraph operator; studied law but never practiced; clerk, Philadelphia Ledger; supervised, magazine department, T.B. Peterson and Brothers; Philadelphia Assessor, four years; operated, law blank stationery business; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1868-1873; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1875-1878; died, in office, March 18, 1878, Bright’s Disease of kidneys, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interment Saint Mary's Catholic Churchyard 252 South 4th Street, above Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

Early Career:

Clerk, Philadelphia Ledger, during 1850s; supervised, magazine department, T.B. Peterson and Brothers Publishers and Booksellers, 308 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia; operated, law blank stationery business

Pennsylvania Politics:

Philadelphia Assessor, four years

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 3^rd district, Philadelphia County 1868-1873; member, Banks Corporations, Federal Relations and Roads and Bridges Committees.

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 2^nd district, Philadelphia County 1875-1878; member, Corporations, Finance, Municipal Affairs and Railroads Committees.

Legacy:

Elected, Pennsylvania State Senate, at age 28, 1867.

Cited:

Smull’s Legislative Hand Book, (1873) Smull, J.A., Members of the Senate of Pennsylvania, pages 514, 517 and 522-524.

Smull’s Legislative Hand Book, (1875) Smull, J.A., Members of the Senate of Pennsylvania, pages 601 and 606-608.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) Saturday March 23, 1878, Page 1