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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaJohn Barney PETERSON
(1850-1944)
PETERSON, John Barney,
(cousin of Horatio Clifford Claypool and Harold Kile Claypool), a
Representative from Indiana; born near Lowell, Lake County, Ind.,
July 4, 1850; attended the public schools; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice in Crown Point,
Lake County, Ind.; prosecuting attorney of the thirty-first
judicial circuit 1880-1884; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress;
resumed the practice of law in Crown Point, Ind.; also engaged in
banking and served as president of the Commercial Bank, Crown
Point, Ind., and of the First Calumet Trust & Savings Bank of
East Chicago, Ind., until 1939, when he retired; died in Crown
Point, Ind., July 16, 1944; interment in Maplewood Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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