Biography

07/09/1770 - 04/12/1837

Brigadier General Abner (Laycock) Lacock (Democratic-Republicans19) Allegheny, Beaver and Butler Counties 1808-1811

Early Life:

Brigadier General Abner Lacock, born July 9, 1770, Alexandria, Alexandria City, Province of Virginia, British Colonial America; moved with his parents to Washington County, Pennsylvania, as a youth; moved to Beaver (then Allegheny County) County, Pennsylvania, 1796; justice of the peace, 1796; innkeeper; elected, Democratic Republican, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1801-1803; associate judge, Beaver County Court, 1803-1804; elected, Democratic Republican, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1804-1805; elected Conventionalist, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1805-1807; member, brigadier general, Pennsylvania Militia, 1807; elected, Democratic-Republicans, Pennsylvania State Senate 1808-1811; elected, Democratic Republican, United States House of Representatives, Twelfth Congress, 1811-1813; reelected, Thirteenth Congress but resigned before it commenced, having been elected Senator; elected, Democratic Republican, United States Senate, 1813-1819; chairman, Committee on Pensions (Fifteenth Congress); appointed, Pennsylvania State Survey Commissioner, 1825; elected, National Republicans, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1832-1835; appointed to survey and construct the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal, 1836; married, Hannah Eddy Lacock, children, Bethsheba Lacock Pentland, Atlas Eddy Lacock, Dryden Lacock, Minerva Lacock Reno, Caroline Lacock Bausman; Adelaide Henrietta Lacock Linton, Abner P Lacock; died, April 12, 1837 (age 66 years, 277 days) Freedom, Beaver County, Pennsylvania; interment, in Lacock Cemetery, East Rochester, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Justice of the peace, 1796. 

Elected, Democratic Republican, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1801-1803.

Associate judge, Beaver County Court, 1803-1804. 

Elected, Democratic Republican, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1804-1805.

Elected Conventionalist, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1805-1807.

Elected, Conventionalists (Democratic-Republican), Pennsylvania State Senate, 19th district, Allegheny, Beaver and Butler Counties, 1808-1811. Sometimes referred to Laycock. 

Appointed, Pennsylvania State Survey Commissioner, 1825. 

Elected, National Republicans, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1832-1835. 

Appointed to survey and construct the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal, 1836.

Continued Government Service/National Politics:

Elected, Democratic Republican, United States House of Representatives, Twelfth Congress, 1811-1813; reelected, Thirteenth Congress but resigned before it commenced, having been elected Senator.

Elected, Democratic Republican, United States Senate, 1813-1819; chairman, Committee on Pensions (Fifteenth Congress).

Pennsylvania House of Representatives Biography:

Not currently available. 

Cited:

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

A New Nation Votes (tufts.edu)

Abner Lacock (1770-1837) - Find a Grave Memorial