- Almon Heath Read
Almon Heath Read (
June 12 ,1790 -June 3 ,1844 ) was a Democratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Almon Heath Read was born in
Shelburne, Vermont . He graduated fromWilliams College inWilliamstown, Massachusetts , in 1811. He served as county clerk from 1815 to 1820. Read studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1816 and commenced practice inMontrose, Pennsylvania . He was a member of thePennsylvania House of Representatives from 1827 to 1832. He served in thePennsylvania State Senate from 1833 to 1837, and was State treasurer in 1840.Read was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Davis Dimock, Jr. . He was reelected to the Twenty-eighth Congress and served until his death in Montrose in 1844. Interment in Montrose Cemetery.ources
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