About William Beatty
Lived 1787 – 1851 (aged 63–64). William Beatty was an American politician.
William Beatty (1787 – April 12, 1851) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
William Beatty was born in Stewartstown, County Tyrone in the Kingdom of Ireland in 1787. He immigrated to the United States in 1807 and settled in Butler, Pennsylvania. Beatty was a sergeant in Captain Thompson's company in the War of 1812. He served as sheriff of Butler County, Pennsylvania, from 1823 to 1826.
Beatty was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1840 to 1842. He appointed deputy sheriff of Butler County and died in Butler in 1851. Interment in the Old Butler Cemetery.
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American politician
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William Beatty was born in 1787 in Stewartstown.
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William Beatty died on 12 April 1851 in Butler, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States.
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William Beatty was a politician.
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