About John McNair
Lived 1800 – 1861 (aged 61). John McNair was an American politician.
John Alexander McNair (June 8, 1800 – August 12, 1861) was an American teacher and congressman representing Pennsylvania's fifth district for two terms from 1851 to 1855.
Biography Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, he taught school and worked as principal of Loller Academy in Hatboro, Pennsylvania in 1825.
Early career He established a boys school in the village of Abington, Pennsylvania. He served as clerk of the courts of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1848 and moved to Norristown, Pennsylvania.
Congress McNair was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Manufactures during the Thirty-third Congress.
Retirement and death McNair settled on a plantation in Prince William County, Virginia, near Gainesville.
He died at Evansport, Virginia, near Aquia Creek, in 1861.
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Who was John McNair?
American politician
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John McNair was born on 8 June 1800 in Bucks County.
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John McNair died on 12 August 1861.
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John McNair was a politician.
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John McNair was American.
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· DBpedia: John McNair (congressman)
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