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From: "Sandra Ferguson" <>
Subject: [PaOldC] Presidential Electors from Chester Co
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 09:57:10 -0400


Each state is authorized by the constitution, to appoint a number of electors equal to the # of senators and representatives the state is entitled to in Congress. Then these electors vote directly for the President and Vice President. The following are the men who have filled the earliest office of Presidential electors from Chester Co;
1792 Thomas Bull
1796 James Boyd
1804 James Boyd
1808 George Hartman
1812 James Fulton
1816 William Clingan
1824 Cromwell Pearce
1826 John W. Cuningham
1832 Oliver Alison
1836 Oliver Alison
1840 A.R. McIlvaine
1844 Jesse Sharp
1848 John D. Steele
1852 N. Strickland
1856 John H. Brinton
1860 J.M. Broomall
1864 Robert Parke
1868 Francis C. Hooton
1872 John M. Broomall
1876 Joseph W. Barnard
1880 David Houston
(no electors are given for 1789 and 1800-in those years none of the electors resided in Chester co.)



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