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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaJohn PETTIT
(1807-1877)
Senate Years of Service:
1853-1855Party: DemocratPETTIT, John, a
Representative and a Senator from Indiana; born in Sackets Harbor,
N.Y., June 24, 1807; completed preparatory studies; admitted to the
bar in 1831; moved to LaFayette, Tippecanoe County, Ind., where he
commenced practice in 1838; member, State house of representatives
1838-1839; United States district attorney 1839-1843; elected as a
Democrat to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth
Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1849); unsuccessful candidate
for renomination in 1848; delegate to the State constitutional
convention in 1850; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket
in 1852; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of James Whitcomb and served from
January 18, 1853, to March 3, 1855; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1854; chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims
(Thirty-third Congress); chief justice of the United States courts
in the Territory of Kansas 1859-1861; judge of the supreme court of
Indiana 1870-1877; died in LaFayette, Ind., January 17, 1877;
interment in Greenbush Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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