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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaJohn SERGEANT
(1779-1852)
SERGEANT, John, (son of
Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, grandfather of John Sergeant Wise and
Richard Alsop Wise, and great-grandfather of John Crain Kunkel), a
Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa.,
December 5, 1779; attended the common schools and the University of
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; was graduated from Princeton College
in 1795; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1799 and practiced
in Philadelphia for fifty years; deputy attorney general for
Philadelphia in 1800; commissioner of bankruptcy for Pennsylvania
in 1801; member of the state house of representatives 1808-1810;
elected as a Federalist to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Jonathan Williams; reelected to the
Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses and served from
October 10, 1815, to March 3, 1823; chairman, Committee on the
Judiciary (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses); was not a
candidate for reelection; president of the Pennsylvania Board of
Canal Commissioners in 1825; envoy to the Panama Congress in 1826;
elected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth Congress (March 4,
1827-March 3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelection;
unsuccessful National-Republican candidate for election as Vice
President of the United States in 1832; president of the state
constitutional convention in 1838; elected as a Whig to the
Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses and
served from March 4, 1837, until his resignation on September 15,
1841; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-sixth Congress);
died in Philadelphia, Pa., November 23, 1852; interment in Laurel
Hill Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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