OVERVIEW:

BORN:
June 8, 1799
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

DIED:
August 17, 1873 (age 74)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

EDUCATION:
University of Pennsylvania 

POLITICAL PARTY:
Federalist (Before 1824)
Whig (1834–1854)
Republican (1854–1873)

HIGHLIGHTS: 
1824-1828:
Pennsylvania State Representative
1841:
U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
1849-1850:
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury 
1861-1867:
Attorney General of Pennsylvania 

SOURCES:
Department of the Treasury
Historical Society of Pennsylvania 
Dickinson College
Wikipedia