Archibald McAllister


Archibald McAllister was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Early life and education

Archibald McAllister was born at Fort Hunter, Pennsylvania, near present-day Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He moved to Blair County, Pennsylvania, in 1842 and engaged in manufacturing charcoal iron at Springfield Furnace, Pennsylvania.

Career

McAllister was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress. Although he was a Democrat, he supported the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1864.

Later life and death

He resumed the manufacture of iron and died in Royer, Pennsylvania. He is interred in Mountain Cemetery.