Luther Reily (October 17, 1794 – February 20, 1854) was a member of the

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from

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. Luther Reily was born in

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. He studied medicine and began practice in

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. He held various local offices. During the

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, he served as a private in Capt. R.M. Crane’s company of Pennsylvania Volunteers from August 3 to September 7, 1814, and as surgeon’s mate in Maj. Gen. R. Watson’s company from September 7 to December 5, 1814. Reily was elected as a

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to the Twenty-fifth Congress. He resumed the practice of his profession and died in Harrisburg in 1854. Interment in

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Sources

The Political Graveyard

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