Andrew Gregg Curtin
Governor, Pennsylvania, 1861-1867
U. S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, 1881-1887
Born: April 22, 1817, Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
Died: October 7, 1894, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.
- Pursued preparatory studies in Milton (Pennsylvania) Academy.
- Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, graduate, 1837.
- Studied law, was admitted to the bar, 1837, and commenced practice in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.
- Supported General Benjamin Harrison for the U. S. Presidency, 1840.
- Presidential elector on the Whig ticket of Taylor and Fillmore, 1848, and of Scott and Graham, 1852.
- Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Superintendent of Public Instruction in Pennsylvania.
- Governor of Pennsylvania, January 15, 1861 - January 15, 1867.
- Active in support of the Union Army throughout the period of the Civil War and in raising and equipping 270 regiments, besides a number of detached companies that Pennsylvania furnished for the northern armies.
- U. S. Minister to Russia, 1869-1872.
- Delegate to the Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania.
- Elected from Pennsylvania as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth U. S. Congresses, March 4, 1881 - March 3, 1887.
- Was not a candidate for renomination, 1886.
- Resumed his law practice.
Buried: Union Cemetery, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.
(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)