William McClelland
U.S. Congressperson
1842 – 1892
Who was William McClelland?
William McClelland was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
William McClelland was born in Mount Jackson, Pennsylvania. He attended Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. He served in the American Civil War for four years. He attended Allegheny College, studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice at Mount Jackson in 1870.
McClelland was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872. He resumed the practice of his profession, and died in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1892. Interment in Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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