Abraham Robinson McIlvaine
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| name = Abraham Robinson McIlvaine
| image name = AbrahamMcIlvaine.png
| caption = McIlvaine in the 1840s
| state1 = Pennsylvania
| district1 = 7th
| term_start1 = March 4, 1843
| term_end1 = March 3, 1849
| preceded1 = John Westbrook
| succeeded1 = Jesse Column Dickey
| office2 = Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
| term2 = 1836–1837
| birth_date = {{birth date|1804|08|14}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1863|08|22|1804|08|14}}
| birth_place = Ridley, Pennsylvania
| death_place = Springton Manor Farm
| party = Whig
}}
Abraham Robinson McIlvaine (August 14, 1804 – August 22, 1863) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.{{Cite web |title=McIlvaine, Abraham Robinson |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M000474 |access-date=2023-08-14 |website=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |publisher=Offices of the Historians of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate |publication-place=Washington D.C.}}{{Cite web |title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Mchie to Mcintire |url=https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mchie-mcintire.html |access-date=2023-08-14 |website=The Political Graveyard |publication-place=Ann Arbor, Michigan}}
Biography
Abraham R. McIlvaine was born in Ridley, Pennsylvania. He engaged in agricultural pursuits in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1836 and 1837.
McIlvaine was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War during the Twenty-eighth Congress.
An unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1848, he resumed his agricultural interests and also engaged in the iron business.
He died on his estate, "Springton Manor Farm" in Chester County in 1863. Interment in Caln Orthodox Quaker Meeting Burial Ground near Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Reinterment in Northwood Cemetery in Downingtown.
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Category:Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Category:Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Category:19th-century people from Pennsylvania
Category:People from Ridley Township, Pennsylvania
Category:19th-century members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly
Category:19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives