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William Crawford
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania
In office
March 4, 1809 – March 3, 1817
Preceded by James Kelly
Succeeded by William Maclay, Andrew Boden
Constituency 6th district (1809–1813)
5th district (1813–1817)
Personal details
Born 1760 (1760)
Paisley, Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain
Died October 23, 1823(1823-10-23) (aged 62–63)
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political party Democratic-Republican

William Crawford (1760 – October 23, 1823) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and a slaveholder.

Crawford was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1760. He received a liberal schooling, studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and in 1781 received his degree. He emigrated to the United States and settled near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He purchased a farm on Marsh Creek in 1785, where he spent the rest of his life practicing medicine. He was an associate judge for Adams County, Pennsylvania, from 1801 to 1808.

Crawford was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eleventh and to the three succeeding Congresses. He again resumed the practice of medicine near Gettysburg where he died in 1823. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg.

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  • The Political Graveyard
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
James Kelly
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district

1809–1813
Succeeded by
Samuel D. Ingham
Robert Brown
Preceded by
George Smith
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district

1813–1817
1813 alongside: Robert Whitehill

1813–1815 alongside: John Rea
1815–1817 alongside: William Maclay

Succeeded by
William Maclay
Andrew Boden

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