John Sergeant

John Sergeant

John Sergeant

Photo credit:

Nichols, Tom. “Find-A-Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records,” October 13, 2018.  www.findagrave.com

 

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1805-1806 Representative Federalist
1807-1808 Representative Quid
Counties Philadelphia City

Biography

12/05/1779 - 11/23/1852


SERGEANT, John, a Representative from Philadelphia City; born, December 5, 1779 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; attended, University of Pennsylvania; graduated, College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), 1795; lawyer (1799-1852); deputy attorney general, Philadelphia (1800); Presidential appointee, commissioner of bankruptcy for Pennsylvania, United States Department of Treasury (1801); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Federalist for the 1805-1806 term; unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1806); reelected to the House as a Quid for the 1807-1808 term; elected, United States Congress (1815-1822, 1827-1828, 1837-1841); board president, Pennsylvania Canal Commission (1825); Presidential appointee, member, Panama Mission (1826); counsel, Bank of the United States (1829); unsuccessful campaign, Vice President of the United States (1832); president, Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention (1837-1838); died, November 23, 1852 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Laurel Hill East Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. 

 

Archival Collections

John Sergeant papers, (0586), Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Sergeant Family Collection, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

 

Bibliography

Meredith, William Morris. Eulogium on the character and services of the late John Sergeant. Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, printers, 1853.

Sergeant, John. An address delivered before the citizens of Philadelphia, at the House of Refuge, on Saturday, the twenty-ninth of November, 1828. By John Sergeant, president of the institution. Published by order of the Board of Managers. Philadelphia: Jesper Harding, printer, 1828.

Congressional Biography

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