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10 Facts About Andrew Beaumont

1.

Andrew Beaumont was a member of the US House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

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Andrew Beaumont moved to Pennsylvania in 1808 and studied law but never practiced.

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Andrew Beaumont served as Collector of Revenue from 1814 to 1816, and prothonotary and Clerk of the Courts of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, from 1816 to 1819.

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Andrew Beaumont was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1821,1822, and 1826.

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Andrew Beaumont served as postmaster of Wilkes-Barre from 1826 to 1832.

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Andrew Beaumont was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth US Congresses.

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Andrew Beaumont was appointed Commissioner of Public Buildings in Washington, DC by President James K Polk, and but served only from November 5,1846, to March 3,1847, because the Senate refused to confirm his appointment.

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8.

Andrew Beaumont was again a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1849.

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Andrew Beaumont died in Wilkes-Barre in 1853 and was buried in Hollenback Cemetery.

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Andrew Beaumont's grandson was Brigadier General John Colt Beaumont, US Marine Corps, and his cousin was Major William Beaumont, Surgeon, US Army.