Levi A. Mackey

Levi Augustus Mackey ( born November 25, 1819 in White Deer, Union County, Pennsylvania, † February 8, 1889 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1829 Levi Mackey came with his parents to Milton in Northumberland County. He received an academic education and graduated in 1837 from Union College in Schenectady (New York). After a subsequent law studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle and his 1840 was admitted to the bar he began in Lock Haven to work in this profession, which he held until 1855. Then he went into the banking industry. In 1855 he became president of Lock Haven Bank. Politically, he was a member of the Whig party. In June 1852 he was a delegate part of their national convention in Baltimore on which Winfield Scott was nominated as a presidential candidate.

After the dissolution of the Whigs to Mackey joined the Democratic Party. In 1868, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet. Two years later he was elected mayor of the city of Lock Haven. In July 1872 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore. At that time he was also president of the Bald Eagle Valley Railroad Co and some other companies. Since 1870 until his death, he also served as a board member of the Normal School in Lock Haven.

In the congressional elections of 1874 Mackey was in the 20th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Hiram Lawton Richmond on March 4, 1875. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1879 two legislative sessions. Since 1877 he was chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Levi Mackey took his previous activities on again. He died on February 8, 1889 in Lock Haven, where he was also buried.