John Winfield Wallace was born near
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. He attended Darlington Academy in
Darlington, Pennsylvania, where he afterward taught. He graduated from
Jefferson Medical College at
Philadelphia in 1846 and commenced the practice of medicine in Darlington. He moved to
New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1850, and held several local offices. Wallace was elected as a Republican to the
Thirty-seventh Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1862. During the Civil War, Wallace served as paymaster in the
Union Army. He was again elected as a Republican to the
Forty-fourth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in
1876. He resumed the practice of medicine in New Castle where he died in 1889, aged 70. Interment in Grandview Cemetery, near Beaver Falls. ==References==