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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaJohn TIPTON
(1786-1839)
Senate Years of Service:
1832-1839Party: Jacksonian; DemocratTIPTON, 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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