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James Duncan (Pennsylvania)
James Duncan
was a member of the
United States House of Representatives
from
Pennsylvania
.
James Duncan born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
. He attended the
common schools
and
Princeton College
. He served as the first
prothonotary
of
Adams County, Pennsylvania
. During the
American Revolutionary War
he was appointed as a
lieutenant
in
Colonel
Moses
Hazen’s
2nd Canadian Regiment
on
November 3
,
1776
, and on
March 25
, 1778, was promoted to captain.
Duncan was elected as a
Democratic-Republican
to the
Seventeenth Congress
but resigned before
Congress
assembled. He died in
Mercer County, Pennsylvania
.