James Milnor was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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James Milnor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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. He attended the Philadelphia Grammar School and the University of Pennsylvania

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 at Philadelphia, but did not graduate. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1794 and commenced practice in Norristown, Pennsylvania

Norristown, Pennsylvania

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. He moved to Philadelphia in 1797 and continued the practice of his profession. He was a member of the Philadelphia Common Council in 1800, a member of the select council from 1805 to 1810 and served as president in 1808 and 1809.

Milnor was elected as a Federalist

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 to the Twelfth

12th United States Congress

- House of Representatives :During this congress, one new House seat was added for the new state of Louisiana.- Senate :*President: George Clinton *President pro tempore: William H. Crawford -House of Representatives:*Speaker: Henry Clay...

 Congress. After his time in Congress, he studied theology

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 and was ordained as a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 1814 he was appointed assistant minister of St. Peter’s Church in Philadelphia and in 1816 became rector of St. George’s Church in New York City

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, in which capacity he served until his death in New York City in 1844. Interment in Greenwood Cemetery

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, Brooklyn, New York.

Sources

• The Political Graveyard
• Documents by and about James Milnor from Project Canterbury
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