Samuel McKean

Samuel McKean ( born April 7, 1787 Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, † December 14, 1841 in West Burlington, Pennsylvania) was an American politician who represented the state of Pennsylvania in both houses of Congress.

Samuel McKean first attended the public schools and then in the commercial building sectors. In the State militia he held the rank of major general. In 1814 he was the executive ( board of commissioners ) of Bradford County.

From 1815 to 1819 McKean was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. In 1822 he was first elected as a member of the Jackson wing of the Democratic-Republican Party to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he represented the 9th Congressional District of Pennsylvania March 4, 1823 to March 3, 1829. Between 1829 and 1830, a session of the Senate of Pennsylvania joined; In 1832 he was then for the Democratic Party at the Electoral College, the Andrew Jackson confirmed after his victory over Henry Clay for U.S. president. Finally, in the same year he was elected to the U.S. Senate. There remained McKean on 4 March 1833 to 3 March 1839 functioned among others as Committee Chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses.

Samuel McKean died in December 1841. His nephew James B. McKean belonged from 1859 to 1863 as a Republican representative of New York also the U.S. House of Representatives on.