Biography

09/1817 - 08/14/1860


PORTER, Thomas H., a Representative from Cambria County; born, September of 1817; engaged, lumber business; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat for the 1859 term; unseated by contest, February 3, 1859; died, August 14, 1860 in Washington Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Aloysius Church Cemetery, Cresson, Cambria County, Pennsylvania.


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