Daniel Sheffer

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Daniel Sheffer (May 24, 1783 - February 16, 1880) was a Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Almon Heath Read was born in York, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and Harvard University. He studied medicine in Philadelphia and commenced practice at York Springs, Pennsylvania. He was associate judge of Adams County, Pennsylvania, from 1813 to 1837.

Sheffer was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress. He resumed the practice of his profession and was a delegate to the 1848 Democratic National Convention. He died at York Springs in 1880. Interment in the Old Lutheran Cemetery.

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

Preceded by George Chambers

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district 1837 - 1839

Succeeded by James Cooper