John P. Sanderson

John P. Sanderson

Member

Photo credit:

Virtue, Liberty, Independence: The Senate of Pennsylvania in the Civil War, 1861-1865.  Harrisburg, Pa.: The Senate of Pennsylvania, 2008.

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1845 Representative Whig
Counties Lebanon

Biography

02/13/1818 - 10/14/1864


SANDERSON, John Philipp, a Representative from Lebanon County; born, February 13, 1818 in Lebanon County, Pa.; colonel, 15th United States Army Infantry (1861-1864); appointed, Provost Marshall General of the Department of Missouri (1864); lawyer (1839-1864); editor and publisher, Lebanon Demokrat; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1844; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1846-1848); publisher, Philadelphia Daily News (1847-1853); chief clerk, United States War Department; died, October 14, 1864 in St. Louis, Missouri; interred, Ferncliff Cemetery, Springfield, Clark County, Ohio.

 

Bibliography

Sanderson, John P.  Republican Landmarks. The views and opinions of American statesmen on foreign immigration. United States, n.p, 1856.


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