John Blanchard (politician)

John Blanchard ( born September 30, 1787 Peacham, Caledonia County, Vermont; † March 9, 1849 in Columbia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. From 1845 to 1849 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Blanchard attended the common schools and then taught himself as a teacher. He then completed until 1812 Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). In the same year he moved to York in Pennsylvania, where he worked as a teacher again. After studying law and his 1815 was admitted to the bar, he began practicing in this profession in Lewistown. In the same year he transferred his residence and his law firm to Bellefonte. Later he hit as a member of the Whig Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1844 Blanchard was in the 17th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Irvin on March 4, 1845. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1849 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Mexican-American War.

In 1848, John Blanchard gave up another candidacy. He died on March 9, 1849, five days after the end of his last term in Congress, on the way home from Washington to Bellefonte in Columbia.