Chauncey Forward

{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Chauncey Forward | image = | caption = | state1 = Pennsylvania | district1 = 13th | term_start1 = December 4, 1826 | term_end1 = March 3, 1831 | preceded1 = Alexander Thomson | succeeded1 = George Burd | office2 = Member of the Pennsylvania Senate for the 22nd district | term_start2 = 1823 | term_end2 = 1826 | preceded2 = David Mann | succeeded2 = Alexander Ogle | office3 = Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives | term3 = 1820-1822 | birth_date = {{birth date|1793|02|04}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1839|10|19|1793|02|04}} | birth_place = Old Granby, Connecticut, US | death_place = Somerset, Pennsylvania, US | party = Jacksonian | relations = Oliver Forward (brother)<br>Walter Forward (brother) }} '''Chauncey Forward''' (February 4, 1793 – October 19, 1839) 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.<ref name=PASenateBio/> Among his brothers were Oliver Forward and Walter Forward. His grandson was 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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Clayton |first1=Mary Black |title=Reminiscences of Jeremiah Sullivan Black |date=1887 |publisher=Christian Publishing Company |location=St. Louis |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jkY8AAAAYAAJ&dq=chauncey+forward&pg=PA45 |accessdate=25 May 2020}}</ref>

==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.<ref name=PASenateBio>{{cite web |title=Pennsylvania State Senate - Chauncey Forward Biography |url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=4651&body=S |website=www.legis.state.pa.us |accessdate=25 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = Cox | first = Harold | title = Senate Members F | publisher = Wilkes University | work = Wilkes University Election Statistics Project| date = | url =http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/legis/SF.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = Cox | first = Harold | title = House Members F | publisher = Wilkes University | work = Wilkes University Election Statistics Project| date = | url =http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/legis/F.html}}</ref>

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.

==Sources== {{reflist}} {{CongBio|F000290}} *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fort-fossum.html The Political Graveyard]

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