William Crawford was a member of the United States House of Representatives

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 from Pennsylvania

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Crawford was born in Paisley

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, Scotland

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, in 1760. He received a liberal schooling, studied medicine

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 at the University of Edinburgh

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, and in 1781 received his degree. He emigrated to the United States

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 and settled near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

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. He purchased a farm on Marsh Creek

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 in 1785, where he spent the rest of his life practicing medicine. He was an associate judge for Adams County, Pennsylvania

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, from 1801 to 1808.

Crawford was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eleventh

11th United States Congress

- House of Representatives :-Leadership:- Senate :* President: George Clinton * President pro tempore:** John Milledge ** Andrew Gregg , elected June 26, 1809** John Gaillard , elected February 28, 1810...

 and to the three succeeding Congresses. He again resumed the practice of medicine near Gettysburg where he died in 1823. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery

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 in Gettysburg.

Sources

• The Political Graveyard

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