Background
Plumer, George was born on December 5, 1762 in near Pittsburgh.
Plumer, George was born on December 5, 1762 in near Pittsburgh.
Plumer was elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He died near West Newton, Pennsylvania, in 1843.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1812 to 1815 and again in 1817.