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George Plumer

George Plumer served as a representative for Pennsylvania (1821-1827).

  • Jackson
  • Pennsylvania
  • District 17
  • Former
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Role Representative

Current assignment referenced in the congressional directory.

State Pennsylvania

Representing constituents across the Pennsylvania delegation.

District District 17

District insights and legislative focus areas.

Service period 1821-1827

Years of public service formally recorded.

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Biography

George Plumer (December 5, 1762 – June 8, 1843) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

George Plumer was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1812 to 1815 and again in 1817.

Plumer was elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He died near West Newton, Pennsylvania, in 1843. Interment in Old Sewickley Presbyterian Church Cemetery.

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