Christian Tarr

Christian Tarr ( born May 25, 1765 in Baltimore, Maryland, † February 24, 1833 in Washington, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1821 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Christian Tarr received only a limited education. In 1794 he moved to the Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he worked in agriculture. Later he worked in Fayette County in the pottery. Politically, he joined the Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1816 Tarr was in the 13th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Isaac Griffin on March 4, 1817. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1821 two legislative sessions.

In the years 1821 and 1822 Tarr sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; 1827 to 1829 he was road overseer of the national road between Cumberland ( Maryland) and Wheeling in what is now West Virginia. He died on 24 February 1833 in the village of Washington in Fayette County.