Background
Milnor, William was born on June 26, 1769 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Milnor, William was born on June 26, 1769 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
University of Pennsylvania.
He engaged in mercantile pursuits in Philadelphia, and was elected as a Federalist to the Tenth and Eleventh Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Accounts during the Eleventh Congress. He was elected to the Fourteenth Congress, and again elected to the Seventeenth Congress and served until his resignation on May 8, 1822.
Milnor elected mayor of Philadelphia on October 20, 1829, and served one year.
He died in Burlington, New Jersey, and was buried in that city"s Saint Mary"s Episcopal Churchyard.
William Milnor was the brother of James Milnor, a lawyer, former member of the United States. House of Representatives, and rector of Saint George’s Chapel in Manhattan, New New York