John Alexander Morrison was a Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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John A. Morrison was born in Colerain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Colerain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Colerain Township is a township in southeastern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,261 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Solanco School District....

. He studied medicine and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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, in 1837 and commenced practice in Cochranville, Pennsylvania.

Morrison was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second

32nd United States Congress

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 Congress. He was inspector and appraiser of imports of drugs at the port of Philadelphia from 1853 to 1861. He resumed the practice of medicine in Cochranville from 1861 to 1865. He also engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits and died in Cochranville in 1904. Interment in Fagg’s Manor Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Londonderry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Londonderry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania

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Sources

• The Political Graveyard