Chauncey Forward


Chauncey Forward was an American politician who served as a Jacksonian member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Early life and education

Forward was born in Old Granby, Connecticut to Samuel and Susannah Forward. His brother is Walter Forward and his grandson Chauncey Forward Black. He moved with his father to Ohio in 1800, and a short time afterward to Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He pursued classical studies, studied law, was admitted to the bar in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1817 and began practice in Somerset, Pennsylvania. He was married to Rebekah Blair of Maryland.

Career

He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1820 to 1822 and the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 22nd district from 1823 to 1826.
Forward was elected to the Nineteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alexander Thomson. He was reelected to the Twentieth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress. He was appointed prothonotary and recorder of Somerset County, Pennsylvania in 1831. He died in Somerset in 1839 and was interred in Ankeny Square Cemetery.