Archibald McAllister

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Archibald McAllister (October 12, 1813–July 18, 1883) was a Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Archibald McAllister (grandson of John Andre Hanna) was born at Fort Hunter, Pennsylvania, near present day Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He moved to Blair County, Pennsylvania, in 1842 and engaged in manufacturing charcoal iron at Springfield Furnace, Pennsylvania.

McAllister was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1864. He resumed the manufacture of iron and died in Royer, Pennsylvania. Interment in Mountain Cemetery.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Edward McPherson

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district 1863 - 1865

Succeeded by Abraham A. Barker