John Chapman (Pennsylvania politician) explained

John Chapman
Birth Date:18 October 1740
Birth Place:Wrightstown Township, Province of Pennsylvania, British America
Death Place:Upper Makefield Township, Pennsylvania, US
State1:Pennsylvania
District1:4th
Restingplace:Friends’ Burying Ground in Wrightstown Township
Term Start1:March 4, 1797
Term End1:March 3, 1799
Preceded1:Samuel Sitgreaves
John Richards
Succeeded1:Peter Muhlenberg
Robert Brown
Office2:Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Term2:1787–1796
Party:Federalist

John Chapman (October 18, 1740January 27, 1800) was an early American politician who served as member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, serving one term from 1797 to 1799.

Biography

Chapman was born in Wrightstown Township in the Province of Pennsylvania.

He was commissioned justice of the peace February 25, 1779, and was one of the justices commissioned judge of the court of common pleas of Bucks County the same year. He moved to Upper Makefield Township, Pennsylvania, prior to 1776. He was a member of the Pennsylvania General Assembly from 1787 to 1796.

He was a member of the revived American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768.[1]

Congress

Chapman was elected as a Federalist to the Fifth Congress.

Death and burial

He died in Upper Makefield Township in 1800. Interment in the Friends’ Burying Ground in Wrightstown Township.

Notes and References

  1. Bell, Whitfield J., and Charles Greifenstein, Jr. Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society. 3 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997, I: 424-26, III:337.