John McNair (congressman)

John Alexander McNair ( born June 8, 1800 Bucks County, Pennsylvania, † August 12 1861 in Port Evans, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1855 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John McNair enjoyed an academic education and worked as a teacher. In 1825 he was headmaster at the Loller Academy in Hatboro. In Abington, he founded a school for boys. From 1845 to 1848 he was bailiff in Montgomery County. At the time he settled in Norristown. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1850 McNair 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 John Freedley on March 4, 1851. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1855 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War. Since 1853 McNair was chairman of the Craft Committee.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, John McNair settled on a plantation in Prince William County in Virginia. He died on August 12, 1861 in Port Evans.