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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaTIPTON, John
(1786—1839)
Senate Years of Service:
1832-1839
Party:
Jacksonian; Democrat
TIPTON, John, a Senator from Indiana; born near Sevierville, Sevier County, Tenn., August 14, 1786; received a limited schooling; moved to Harrison County, Ind., in 1807 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; served with the “Yellow Jackets” in the Tippecanoe campaign and subsequently attained the rank of brigadier general of militia; sheriff of Harrison County, Ind., 1816-1819; member, State house of representatives 1819-1823; one of the commissioners to select a site for a new capital for Indiana in 1820; commissioner to determine the boundary line between Indiana and Illinois 1821; appointed United States Indian agent for the Pottawatamie and Miami tribes 1823; laid out the city of Logansport, Ind., in 1828; elected as a Jacksonian (later Democrat) to the United States Senate on December 9, 1831, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Noble; reelected in 1832 and served from January 3, 1832, to March 3, 1839; due to poor health declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1838; chairman, Committee on Roads and Canals (Twenty-fifth Congress), Committee on Indian Affairs (Twenty-fifth Congress); died in Logansport, Cass County, Ind., on April 5, 1839; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Blackburn, Glen A. “The Papers of John Tipton.” Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1928; Robertson, Nellie and Dorothy Riker, eds. The John Tipton Papers
. 3 vols. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1942.
Blackburn, Glen A. “The Papers of John Tipton.” Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1928.
Pershing, M.W. Life of General John Tipton and Early Indiana History
. Tipton, IN: Tipton Literary and Suffrage Club, n.d.
Robinson, Nellie Armstrong, and Dorothy Riker, eds. The John Tipton Papers
. 3 vols. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1942.
Tipton, John. “The Journal of John Tipton.” Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History
1 (1905): 9-15, 74-79.
___. “The Tippecanoe Journal of John Tipton.” Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History
2 (December 1906): 170-84.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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