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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaJasper PACKARD
(1832-1899)
PACKARD, Jasper, a
Representative from Indiana; born in Austintown, Mahoning County,
Ohio, February 1, 1832; moved with his parents to Indiana in 1835;
attended the public schools and was graduated from the University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1855; taught school; settled in La
Porte, Ind.; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1861;
during the Civil War enlisted in the Union Army as a private in the
Forty-eighth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, October 24,
1861; promoted to first lieutenant January 1, 1862; captain
September 12, 1862; lieutenant colonel of the One Hundred and
Twenty-eighth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, March 17, 1864;
colonel June 26, 1865; brevetted brigadier general March 13, 1865,
“for meritorious services”; mustered out April 10,
1866; auditor of La Porte County from November 15, 1866, to March
1, 1869, when he resigned; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses (March 4,
1869-March 3, 1875); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of State (Forty-third Congress), Committee on Private
Land Claims (Forty-third Congress); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1874; engaged in newspaper pursuits; appointed July
1, 1899, commandant of the State soldiers’ home at Lafayette,
Ind., and died there December 13, 1899; interment in the
Soldiers’ Home Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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