The Political Graveyard: Pennsylvania Delegation to 1860 Republican National Convention
- ️Lawrence Kestenbaum
Pennsylvania Delegation to the
1860
Republican National Convention
Delegates (may be incomplete!)
- At-Large: Titian J. Coffey, Pittsburgh - John H. Ewing, Washington - Morrow B. Lowry, Erie - Henry D. Moore, Philadelphia - Samuel A. Purviance, Pittsburgh - Andrew H. Reeder, Easton - Thaddeus Stevens, Lancaster - David Wilmot, Towanda
- 1st District: John M. Butler, Philadelphia - William Elliott, Philadelphia - J. Money, Philadelphia - Ellis Ward, Philadelphia
- 2nd District: Francis Blackburn, Philadelphia - George A. Coffey, Philadelphia - Richard Ellis, Philadelphia - John M. Pomeroy, Philadelphia
- 3rd District: Benjamin H. Brown, Philadelphia - William B. Mann, Philadelphia - James McManus, Philadelphia - George Read, Philadelphia
- 4th District: M. S. Buckley, Richmond - William D. Kelley, Philadelphia - William H. Kern, Philadelphia - A. C. Roberts, Philadelphia
- 5th District: James Hooven, Norristown - C. M. Jackson, Philadelphia - George W. Pumroy, Philadelphia - William B. Thomas, Philadelphia
- 6th District: John M. Broomall, Chester - Joseph J. Lewis, West Chester - Jacob S. Serrill, Darby - Washington Townsend, West Chester
- 7th District: George Beisel, Allentown - Henry J. Saeger, Allentown - Caleb N. Taylor, Bristol - Joseph Young, Allentown
- 8th District: J. Bowman Bell, Reading - Isaac Eckert, Reading - Jacob Knabb, Reading - David E. Stout, Reading
- 9th District: Oliver James Dickey, Lancaster - C. S. Kauffman, Columbia - Joseph D. Pownall, Christiana - Samuel Schoch, Columbia
- 10th District: William Cameron, Lewisburg - Joseph Casey, Harrisburg - G. Dawson Coleman, Lebanon - Levi Kline, Lebanon
- 11th District: S. A. Bergstresser, Elysburg - Jacob G. Frick, Pottsville - William C. Lawson, Milton - Robert M. Palmer, Pottsville
- 12th District: Davis Alton, Carbondale - Winthrop W. Ketchum, Wilkes-Barre - Peter M. Osterhout, Tunkhannock - Frank Stewart, Berwick
- 13th District: Charles Albright, Mauch Chunk - William H. Armstrong, Easton - William Davis, Stroudsburg - Samuel E. Dimmick, Honesdale
- 14th District: Abel Humphreys, Tioga Point - William H. Jessup, Montrose - F. E. Smith, Tioga Point - Henry Wells Tracy, Standing Stone
- 15th District: William Butler, Lewistown - Lindsay Mehaffey, Newberry - G. B. Overton, Coudersport - B. Rush Peterkin, Lock Haven
- 16th District: Alexander J. Frey, York - Kirk Haines, Millerstown - Jacob S. Haldeman, New Cumberland - W. B. Irvin, Mechanicsburg
- 17th District: Francis Jordan, Bedford - D. McCaunaghy, Gettysburg - William McClellan, Chambersburg - John J. Patterson, Academia
- 18th District: Abraham Andrews Barker, Ebensburg - S. M. Green, Bailey's Forge - Lewis W. Hall, Altoona - William H. Koontz, Somerset
- 19th District: Addison Leech, Leechburg - Darwin Phelps, Kittanning - D. W. Shryok, Greensburg - W. M. Stewart, Indiana
- 20th District: Smith Fuller, Uniontown - William E. Gapen, Waynesburg - Alexander Murdoch, Washington - Andrew Stewart, Uniontown
- 21st District: John F. Dravo, McKeesport - James A. Ekin, Elizabeth - William H. Marsh, Pittsburgh - J. J. Siebeneck, Pittsburgh
- 22nd District: W. L. Graham, Butler County - Stephen H. Guyer, Pittsburgh - John N. Purviance, Butler County - D. N. White, Sewickley
- 23rd District: John Allison, New Brighton - William G. Brown, Mercer - David Craig, New Castle - L. L. McGuffin, New Castle
- 24th District: D. C. Gillispie, Brooklyn - S. P. Johnston, Warren - James S. Meyers, Franklin - Henry Souther, Ridgway
- 25th District: Thomas J. Devore, Erie - J. C. Hayes, Meadville - S. Newton Pettis, Meadville - B. B. Vincent, Erie
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