Years of Service: 1789-1791 Party: Anti-Administration
MACLAY, William, (brother of Samuel
Maclay and uncle of William Plunkett Maclay), a Senator from Pennsylvania; born
in New Garden, Chester County, Pa., July 20, 1737; pursued classical studies;
served as a lieutenant in an expedition to Fort Duquesne in 1758, and in other
expeditions against the French and Indians; studied law; was admitted to the bar
in 1760; became a surveyor in the employ of the Penn family; prothonotary and
clerk of the courts of Northumberland County in the 1770s; served in the
Continental Army as a commissary in the Revolutionary War; frequent member of
the State legislature in the 1780s; Indian commissioner, judge of the court of
common pleas, and member of the executive council; elected to the United States
Senate and served from March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1791; retired to his farm in
Dauphin, Pa.; member, State house of representatives 1795, and reelected in 1796
and 1797; presidential elector in 1796; county judge 1801-1803; member, State
house of representatives 1803; died in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pa., April
16, 1804; interment in Old Paxtang Church Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Maclay, William. The Journal of
William Maclay and Other Notes on Senate Debates. Documentary History of the
First Federal Congress of the United States of America, 4 March 1789-3 March
1791, vol. 9. Edited by Kenneth R. Bowling and Helen E. Veit. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1988.
-- Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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