About Chauncey Forward
Lived 1793 – 1839 (aged 46). Chauncey Forward was an American politician and lawyer.
Chauncey Forward (February 4, 1793 – October 19, 1839) was an American politician who served as a Jacksonian member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Early life and education Forward was born in Old Granby, Connecticut, to Samuel and Susannah Forward.
Career He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1820 to 1822 and the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 22nd district from 1823 to 1826.
Forward was elected to the Nineteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alexander Thomson. He was reelected to the Twentieth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress. He was appointed prothonotary and recorder of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in 1831. He died in Somerset in 1839.
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Who was Chauncey Forward?
American politician (1793-1839)
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Chauncey Forward was born on 4 February 1793 in Granby.
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Chauncey Forward died on 19 October 1839 in Somerset.
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Chauncey Forward was a politician and lawyer.
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