John McNair (congressman)

John Alexander McNair (June 8, 1800 – August 12, 1861) was a teacher and congressman representing Pennsylvania's fifth district.

This article is about the Pennsylvania Congressman. For the New Brunswick politician, see John Babbitt McNair.

Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, he taught school and worked as principal of Loller Academy in Hatboro, Pennsylvania in 1825. He established a boys school in the village of Abington, Pennsylvania. He served as clerk of the courts of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1848 and moved to Norristown, Pennsylvania.

McNair was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Manufactures during the Thirty-third Congress. McNair settled on a plantation in Prince William County, Virginia, near Gainesville.

He died at Evansport, Virginia, near Aquia Creek, in 1861.

Sources
  • United States Congress. "John McNair (id: M000581)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
John Freedley		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district
March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1855		 Succeeded by
John Cadwalader



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