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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaJonathan JENNINGS
(1784-1834)
JENNINGS, Jonathan, a
Delegate from the Territory of Indiana and a Representative from
Indiana; born in Hunterdon County, N.J., in 1784; moved about the
year 1790 to Fayette County, Pa., with his parents, who settled
near Dunlap’s Creek; attended a grammar school conducted by
Rev. John McMillin at Canonsburg, Pa.; moved to Indiana Territory
in 1806 and settled at Jeffersonville; studied law and commenced
the practice of law; moved to Vincennes in 1807; was admitted to
the bar and continued his legal profession; clerk to the receiver
of public money; became assistant to the clerk of the house of
representatives of the Territorial government in 1807; engaged in
newspaper work in 1808; moved to Clark County in 1809 and settled
in Charlestown; elected a Delegate to the Eleventh and to the three
succeeding Congresses and served from November 27, 1809, to
December 11, 1816, when the Territory was admitted as a State into
the Union; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1816
and served as president; elected Governor of Indiana in December
1816 and served until 1822; member of the commission to negotiate a
treaty with the Indians for lands in 1818; elected as a Republican
to the Seventeenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of William Hendricks; reelected as a Jackson Republican
to the Eighteenth Congress; reelected as an Adams candidate to the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian
to the Twenty-first Congress; and served from December 2, 1822, to
March 3, 1831; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1830;
retired to his farm and engaged in agricultural pursuits; in 1832
served as a commissioner to negotiate with the Indians for the
purchase of lands in northern Indiana and southern Michigan; died
near Charlestown, Ind., July 26, 1834; interment in Charlestown
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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