James Gerry
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James Gerry was a Democratic
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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
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James Gerry was born near Rising Sun, Maryland
Rising Sun, Maryland
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. He pursued an academic course and was graduated from West Nottingham Academy. He studied medicine at the University of Maryland
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 in Baltimore, Maryland, and commenced practice in Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania
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, in 1824.

Gerry was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth
26th United States Congress
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 and Twenty-seventh
27th United States Congress
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 Congresses. He continued the practice of medicine until 1870, when he retired. He died in Shrewsbury, York County, Pennsylvania
York County, Pennsylvania
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, in 1873. Interment in Lutheran Cemetery.

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