WAR 1812 COLONEL 93rd PA SENATOR & NAVY SECRETARY SIGNED PRE CIVIL WAR LETTER

  
INVREF#CL6-33 WAR 1812 COLONEL 93rd PA CONGRESSMAN SENATOR NAVY SURGEON PAYNTER LETTER SIGNED! Heres an Uncommon Autograph Letter Signed by the Hon. > BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE HONORABLE LEMUEL PAYNTER Lemuel Paynter(1788 August 1, 1863) was a Democratic member of the U. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Lemuel Paynter was born in Lewes, Delaware. He moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and served in theWar of 1812and became major and lieutenant colonel of the Ninety-third Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia. He served as a member of the board of commissioners of the Southwark district for many years and also served as a president of the board. He was a member of the guardians of the poor and also a school director.

He was elected a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1833. Congress Paynter was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1840.

He again served as a member of the board of commissioners of the Southwark district. Death He died in Philadelphia in 1863. Interment in Union Sixth Street Cemetery which was closed in 1971 and his remains moved to Philadelphia Memorial Park in Frazer, Pennsylvania. Proud member of the Universal Autograph Collectors Club (UACC), The Ephemera Society of America, the Manuscript Society and the American Political Items Collectors (APIC).

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