James McLene

James McLene ( born October 11, 1730 in New London, Chester County, Pennsylvania, † March 13 1806 in Antrim Township, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician, who participated as a delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress.

After he had spent his youth in Chester County, James McLene moved in 1754 to Antrim in what was then Cumberland County; now part of the site for Franklin County. After the outbreak of the American Revolution he was a delegate in 1776 to a National Assembly, which was to create a constitution for Pennsylvania. From 1776 to 1777 he also sat in the House of Representatives in his home state.

Between 1778 and 1779 McLene a member of the Executive Council ( Supreme Executive Council) of Pennsylvania. Then he took up in 1780 participate in the meetings of the Continental Congress, which took place at this time in Philadelphia. In the years 1789 and 1790, he worked again with each in the constitutional conventions of Pennsylvania; In addition, further terms of office in the state legislature from 1790 to 1791 and from 1793 to 1794 joined. McLene died in March 1806 in Antrim.