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McLENE, James, congressman, born in New London, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 14 October., 1730; died in Antrim, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, 13 March, 1806. He was educated at the academy of the Reverend Francis Alison, and in 1753 removed to Cumberland county. He was a member of the Pennsylvania convention in 1776, of the assembly several times between 1776 and 1794, and its speaker in 1778, and of the supreme executive council of the state in 1778 and 1783-'4. He was also a member of the Continental congress in 1778-'80, of the council of censors of Pennsylvania in 1783, of the board of property of that state in 1786-'7, of its Constitutional convention in 1790, and a justice of the peace in 1800.
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