For the Delaware state legislator, see William A. Simonton.
William Simonton (February 12, 1788 – May 17, 1846) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
William Simonton was born in West Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Dr. William Simonton and Jane Wiggins.[1] He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1810 and practiced his profession while residing on his farm near Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. Simonton was elected auditor of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1823 and served three years. He was one of the original supporters of the free-school system established by the act of 1834.
Simonton was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses. He died in South Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, in 1846. Interment in the Old Hanover Cemetery, north of Shellsville, Pennsylvania.
One of his sons, Ashbel Green Simonton, was a Presbyterian minister and the first missionary to settle a Protestant Church in Brazil.
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WilliamSimonton (February 12, 1788 – May 17, 1846) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. WilliamSimonton was born...
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United States. November 7, 1840: 1840 United States presidential election: William Henry Harrison defeated Martin Van Buren February 18, 1841: The first ongoing...
10th district In office March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1849 Preceded by WilliamSimonton Succeeded by Milo M. Dimmick Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives...
between March 4, 1841, and March 4, 1843, during the one-month presidency of William Henry Harrison and the first two years of the presidency of his successor...
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1923, Coe was married to twenty year old designer Clover Simonton, a daughter of Thomas C. Simonton. After their marriage, they lived nearby in Glen Cove...
the field seasons reports. Coe was the son of designer Clover Simonton and banker William Rogers Coe. His brother was fellow Mayanist Michael D. Coe, with...
p. 13 (See also "The Truth About the 'Termites'" Kaufman, S. B. 2009) Simonton 1999, p. 4 "When Terman first used the IQ test to select a sample of child...
1860, it was sold to Burnett B. Wilkerson, who sold it to WilliamSimonton shortly after. Simonton remained the property owner until 1872. During the American...
continuities to inform what's basic to the human condition. For example, D. K. Simonton, finds some regularities in the types of ideas that gain ascendancy following...
Tristram Shaw D NH March 4, 1839 02nd term Left the House in 1843. 106 WilliamSimonton W PA-10 March 4, 1839 02nd term Left the House in 1843. 107 Truman...
William Parker Caldwell (November 8, 1832 – June 7, 1903) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the...
property before Simonton who, with the aid of some influential friends in Washington, was able to gain clear title to the island. Simonton had wide-ranging...
Tristram Shaw D NH March 4, 1839 01st term Left the House in 1841. 226 WilliamSimonton W PA-10 March 4, 1839 01st term 227 Albert Smith D ME-02 March 4, 1839...
Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2015. Simonton, Dean Keith (1994). Greatness: Who Makes History and Why. Guilford Press...
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