Hon. Amos Ellmaker

Amos graduated from Princeton in 1805. According to Laura B. Anthony's family narrative, "Amos was elected to Congress in 1814, but declined to serve; offered the position of Secretary of War in Monroe's cabinet in 1817, he refused; appointed to Attorney-General of Pennsylvania, he resigned in 1821 to practice law in Lancaster. He did run for Vice-President in 1832 as the Anti-Masonic party's candidate, but ran no risk of winning against Andrew Jackson's bid for a second term."

US Congressman. From 1809 to 1815, he was deputy Attorney General for Dauphin County and a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1813 and 1814. In 1814, he was elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress but resigned when appointed and commissioned president judge of the twelfth judicial district in 1815. He served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1816 to 1819 and from 1828 to 1829. In 1832, he was nominated as the Anti-Masonic Vice Presidential candidate. The ticket of William Wirt and Ellmaker took 7.8% of the national popular vote and won the state of Vermonta and and received seven electoral votes. Ellmaker sought election to the United States Senate in 1834 but was defeated by James Buchanan.

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• Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S., Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014