John Alexander Magee was a Democratic

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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John A. Magee was born in Landisburg, Pennsylvania

Landisburg, Pennsylvania

Landisburg is a borough in Perry County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 195 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Landisburg is located at ....

. He attended the common schools and was graduated from New Bloomfield Academy. He engaged in the printing business and for a number of years published the Perry County Democrat. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1863. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention

Democratic National Convention

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 in 1868

1868 Democratic National Convention

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, 1876

1876 Democratic National Convention

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, and 1896

1896 Democratic National Convention

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Magee was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third

43rd United States Congress

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 Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1874

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. He resumed his former business pursuits, and died in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania, in 1903. Interment in Bloomfield Cemetery.

Sources

• The Political Graveyard