Biography

01/14/1782 - 05/08/1860

SERGEANT, Thomas, a Representative from Philadelphia City; born, January 14, 1782 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; graduated, College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), 1798; lawyer (1802-1849); clerk, Mayor’s Court, Philadelphia (1807); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1810); elected, elections Inspector, Lower Delaware Ward, Philadelphia (1811); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democratic-Republican for the 1812-1813 term; reelected to the House as a Republican for the 1813-1814 term; unsuccessful campaign, United States Senate (1814); associate judge, Philadelphia County (1814-1817); elected, common council, Philadelphia (1817); Secretary of the Commonwealth (1817-1819); Pennsylvania Attorney General (1819-1820); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Philadelphia (1828-1833); appointed, associate justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1834-1846); provost, Law Academy of Philadelphia (1846-1848); appointed, solicitor to the sheriff, Philadelphia County (1846-1847); trustee, University of Pennsylvania; died, May 8, 1860 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Laurel Hill East Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.