James McLene

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James McLene (born October 11, 1730 in New London , Chester County , Province of Pennsylvania , †  March 13, 1806 in Antrim Township , Pennsylvania ) was an American politician who attended the Continental Congress as a delegate from Pennsylvania .

After spending his youth in Chester County, James McLene moved to Antrim in what was then Cumberland County in 1754 ; today the place belongs to Franklin County . After the outbreak of the American Revolution he was a delegate to a state assembly in 1776 that was supposed to draw up a constitution for Pennsylvania. From 1776 to 1777 he also sat in the House of Representatives in his home state.

Between 1778 and 1779 McLene was a member of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania. He then took part in the sessions of the Continental Congress until 1780, which were held in Philadelphia at that time . In the years 1789 and 1790 he worked again in each case with the constitutional conventions of Pennsylvania; in addition, further terms of office in the state parliament followed from 1790 to 1791 and from 1793 to 1794. McLene died in Antrim in March 1806.

Web links

  • James McLene in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)