Archibald McAllister
U.S. Congressperson
1813 – 1883
Who was Archibald McAllister?
Archibald McAllister was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Archibald McAllister was born at Fort Hunter, Pennsylvania, near present day Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He moved to Blair County, Pennsylvania, in 1842 and engaged in manufacturing charcoal iron at Springfield Furnace, Pennsylvania.
McAllister was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress. He supported the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1864. He resumed the manufacture of iron and died in Royer, Pennsylvania. He is interred in Mountain Cemetery.
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- Born
- Oct 12, 1813
Fort Hunter, Pennsylvania - Lived in
- Harrisburg
- Died
- Jul 18, 1883
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on July 23, 2013
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