William Crawford (Pennsylvania)
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William Crawford (1760 - October 23, 1823) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Crawford was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1760. He received a liberal schooling, studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and in 1781 received his degree. He emigrated to the United States and settled near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He purchased a farm on Marsh Creek in 1785, where he spent the rest of his life practicing medicine. He was an associate judge for Adams County, Pennsylvania, from 1801 to 1808.
Crawford was elected as a Republican to the Eleventh and to the three succeeding Congresses. He again resumed the practice of medicine near Gettysburg where he died in 1823. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg.
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- William Crawford (Pennsylvania) at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- The Political Graveyard
| Preceded by James Kelly |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district 1809 - 1813 |
Succeeded by Samuel D. Ingham Robert Brown |
| Preceded by George Smith |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district 1813 - 1817 1813 alongside: Robert Whitehill 1813 - 1815 alongside: John Rea |
Succeeded by William Maclay Andrew Boden |
