Biography

05/26/1787 - 12/23/1861

Captain James McConkey (Anti-Mason14) Adams and York Counties 1835-1837 (Whig6) Lancaster and York Counties 1837-1839

Early Life:

Captain James McConkey, born May 26, 1787, Little Britain, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; son of Hugh and Jane Neeper McConkey; veteran, War of 1812; married, Julie Ann Wiley McConkey, 1815 (d.1833), children, Henry Fullard McConkey, William McConkey, Hugh McConkey, Stephen Decatur McConkey, Caroline McConkey, John Quincy Adams McConkey; married, Rachel Ramsay McConkey, (d.1836); married, Mary Ann Ramsay McConkey, 1836, son, Charles Reynolds McConkey; elected, Anti-Mason, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1835-1837; elected, Whig, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1837-1839; died, December 23, 1861, (aged 74), York County, Pennsylvania; interment, Slateville Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Delta, York County, Pennsylvania.  

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Anti-Mason, Pennsylvania State Senate, 14th district, Adams and York Counties, 1835-1837. 

Elected, Whig, Pennsylvania State Senate, 6th district, Lancaster and York Counties, 1837-1839.

Legacy:

Rachel Ramsay McConkey, 2nd wife deceased, 1836; married her sister, Mary Ann Ramsay, 1836.

Grandson, Edwin K. McConkey, Pennsylvania State Senate, 28th district, York County, 1903-1906. 

Edwin Knight McConkey  - Pennsylvania Senate Library (pasen.gov)

Cited:

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members M". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University. 

James McConkey (1787-1861) - Find a Grave Memorial