David Marchand was a member of the

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from

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. He was born near

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. He studied medicine and practiced in

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. He was a major general of the Thirteenth Division of the State militia from 1812 to 1814. He had a son, Albert Gallatin Marchand. Marchand was elected as a

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to the

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Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth Congress. He was elected

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of Westmoreland County in 1821. He resumed the practice of medicine and died in

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, in 1832. Interment in Greensburg Cemetery.

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