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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaJohnathan McCARTY
(1795-1852)
McCARTY, Johnathan, a
Representative from Indiana; born in Culpeper County, Va., August
3, 1795; attended the public schools; moved to Indiana in 1803 with
his father, who settled in Franklin County; engaged in mercantile
pursuits; member of the State house of representatives in 1818;
moved to Connersville, Fayette County, Ind.; clerk of the county
court 1819-1827; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second and
Twenty-third Congresses and reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the
Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1837); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress;
presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1840; moved to Keokuk,
Iowa, where he died March 30, 1852; interment in Oakland
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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