Joseph Fornance - Biography - The Biographicon

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Joseph Fornance (October 18, 1804 - November 24, 1852) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Joseph Fornance born in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Norristown, Pennsylvania. He served as president of the council of the borough of Norristown. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1834.

Fornance was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1842. He resumed the practice of his profession, and died in Norristown in 1852. Interment in Montgomery Cemetery.

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Winfield Scott Hancock

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...Hancock was at first educated at Norristown Academy, but removed to the public schools when the first one opened in Norristown in the late 1830s. In 1840, Joseph Fornance, the local Congressman, nominated Hancock to the United States Military Academy at West Point. Hancock's progress at West Point was average, and at graduation in 1844 he was assigned to the infantry.