James Duncan (Pennsylvania)

James Duncan (* 1756 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † June 24, 1844 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. In 1821 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Duncan attended the public schools of his home and then the Princeton College. He has subsequently held in Adams County, the Office of the Prothonotary, which corresponds to an administrative staff at the District Court. During the Revolutionary War he served as a lieutenant in the Continental Army under General Moses Hazen. Through its activities in the following decades, nothing has survived. Later he became a member of the Democratic- Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1820 Duncan was in the fifth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Andrew soil on March 4, 1821. He exercised this mandate but not really, because he laid it down in the same year and before the inaugural session of Congress. Over the following years until his death on June 24, 1844 there is no information about supplies.