Patrick Farrelly was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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Patrick Farrelly (father of John Wilson Farrelly

John Wilson Farrelly

John Wilson Farrelly was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.John Wilson Farrelly was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He received a limited schooling and graduated from Allegheny College at Meadville in 1826. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1828 and...

) was born in Ireland

Ireland

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. He immigrated to the United States

United States

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 in 1798. He studied law, was admitted to the bar July 11, 1803, and commenced practice in Meadville, Pennsylvania

Meadville, Pennsylvania

Meadville is a city in and the county seat of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The city is generally considered part of the Pittsburgh Tri-State and is within 40 miles of Erie, Pennsylvania. It was the first permanent settlement in northwest Pennsylvania...

. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Pennsylvania House of Representatives

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 in 1811 and 1812. He served in the War of 1812

War of 1812

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 as a major of militia.

Farrelly was elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth

17th United States Congress

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 Congress, and was reelected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth

18th United States Congress

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 Congress and as a Jacksonian candidate to the Nineteenth

19th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:-Leadership:- Senate :* President: John C. Calhoun * President pro tempore: John Gaillard , until December 4, 1825** Nathaniel Macon , from May 20, 1826- House of Representatives :* Speaker: John W. Taylor -Members:...

 Congress and served until his death in Meadville in 1826. Interment in Greendale Cemetery.

Sources

• The Political Graveyard