David Marchand

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David Marchand (December 10, 1776 - March 11, 1832) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

David Marchand (father of Albert Gallatin Marchand) was born near Irwin, Pennsylvania. He studied medicine and practiced in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He was a major general of the Thirteenth Division of the State militia from 1812 to 1814.

Marchand was elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth Congress. He was elected prothonotary of Westmoreland County in 1821. He resumed the practice of medicine and died in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1832. Interment in Greensburg Cemetery.

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

Preceded by William Findley

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district 1817 - 1821

Succeeded by George Plumer