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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyGeorge HOLCOMBE
(1786-1828)
HOLCOMBE, George, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in West Amwell (now
Lambertsville), Hunterdon County, N.J., in March 1786; completed
preparatory studies and was graduated from Princeton College in
1805; attended the medical department of the University of
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; later studied medicine in Trenton,
N.J., and was granted a license by the Medical Society of New
Jersey; practiced medicine in Allentown, N.J., 1808-1815; held
several local offices; member of the State general assembly in 1815
and 1816; elected as Republican to the Seventeenth Congress,
elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and
reelected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Congresses, and served from March 4, 1821, until his death in
Allentown, N.J., January 14, 1828; interment in the Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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