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Robert McCoy

This article is about the Pennsylvania Congressman. For the general in the National Guard, see Robert Bruce McCoy. For the American bluesman, see Robert Lee McCollum. For the accused murderer, see McCoy v. Louisiana.

Robert McCoy (died June 7, 1849) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Robert McCoy born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania (birth date unknown). He served as prothonotary of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was a Brigadier General of the militia and a state canal commissioner.

McCoy was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative William Ramsey. He died in Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1849.

Sources

  • United States Congress. "Robert McCoy (id: M000375)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • The Political Graveyard
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Thomas Hartley Crawford
William Ramsey 		Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district
November 22, 1831 – March 3, 1833
alongside: Thomas Hartley Crawford 		Succeeded by
Charles Augustus Barnitz



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