Adam Seybert (May 16, 1773 – May 2, 1825) represented
Pennsylvania
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in the
U.S. House of Representatives from October 10, 1809, to March 3, 1815.
Adam Seybert was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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. He completed the medical course at the
University of Pennsylvania
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at Philadelphia in 1793 and continued studies in
Europe
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, where he attended schools in
Edinburgh
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,
Göttingen
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General information
The ori ...
, and
Paris
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. He returned to Philadelphia and devoted himself to
chemistry and
mineralogy. He was elected as a member of the
American Philosophical Society
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in 1797 and a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 1824.
Seybert was elected as a
Democratic-Republican
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to the
Eleventh
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Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Benjamin Say. He was reelected to the
Twelfth and
Thirteenth Congresses. He was chairman of the
United States House Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business during the Twelfth Congress. He was again elected to the
Fifteenth
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Congress. He visited Europe from 1819 to 1821 and again in 1824 and settled in Paris, France, where he died May 2, 1825. He was interred at
Laurel Hill Cemetery
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The cemetery is ...
in Philadelphia.
Sources
The Political Graveyard
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
1773 births
1825 deaths
Burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia)
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Politicians from Philadelphia
Members of the American Philosophical Society
Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni
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