Biography

10/11/1851 - 04/13/1940

Horace Billings Packer (R25) McKean, Potter and Tioga Counties, 1889-1892

Early Life: 

Horace Billings Packer born October 11, 1851 Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pennsylvania; son of Doctor Nelson Packer and Mary (McDougall) Packer; attended, Wellsboro Academy, and Alfred University, New York; admitted, Tioga County bar, 1873; engaged, real estate, banking, lumber businesses; Lawyer; elected, Tioga County, district attorney, 1875-1879; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1885-1888; elected, Republican Pennsylvania State Senate, 1889-1892; unsuccessful reelection campaign, 1892; president, Republican State Conventions 1893, 1894; elected, Republican, United States Congress, 16th District, 1897-1901; Presidential Elector, Pennsylvania, 1916; delegate, Republican National Convention, Pennsylvania, 1924. Died, April 13, 1940 (age 88 years, 185 days) Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, interment Wellsboro Cemetery, Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Tioga County, district attorney, 1875-1879.

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1885-1888.

Elected, Republican Pennsylvania State Senate, 25^th district, McKean, Potter and Tioga Counties, 1889-1892, unsuccessful reelection campaign, 1892, member Banks, Congressional Apportionment, Judiciary Local and Judiciary Special Committees.

President, Republican State Conventions 1893-1894.

Continued Government Service/National Politics:

Elected, Republican, United States Congress, 16th District, 55^th-56^th congresses 1897-1901; not a candidate for renomination, 1900.  

Presidential Elector, Pennsylvania, 1916; delegate, Republican National Convention, Pennsylvania, 1924.

Pennsylvania House of Representatives Biography:

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=6411&body=H

Cited: 

Smull’s Legislative Hand Book, (1890) Cochran, T.B., Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 659, 687 and 693-695.