- Adam Seybert
Adam Seybert (
May 16 ,1773 -May 2 ,1825 ) representedPennsylvania in theU.S. House of Representatives from October 10, 1809, to March 3, 1815.Adam Seybert was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . He completed the medical course at theUniversity of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1793 and continued studies inEurope , where he attended schools inEdinburgh ,Gottingen , andParis . He returned to Philadelphia and devoted himself tochemistry andmineralogy . He was elected as a member of theAmerican Philosophical Society in 1797.Seybert was elected as a
Democratic-Republican to the Eleventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofBenjamin Say . He was reelected to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses. He was chairman of theUnited States House Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business during the Twelfth Congress. He was again elected to the Fifteenth Congress. He visited Europe from 1819 to 1821 and again in 1824 and settled in Paris, France, where he died May 2, 1825.ources
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