Biography

12/26/1797 - 05/30/1853

PETTIT, Thomas McKean, a Representative from Philadelphia City; born, December 26, 1797 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; A.B., University of Pennsylvania, 1815; M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1818; captain, Second Company, Philadelphia Battalion, Pennsylvania Militia (1826); lawyer; solicitor, Philadelphia City (1820); deputy attorney general to the supreme and oyer and terminer courts of Philadelphia (1824-1826); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1830-1831 term; elected, select council, Philadelphia (1831); associate judge, District Court of Philadelphia (1832-1835), presiding judge, District Court of Philadelphia (1835-1844); appointed, United Sates District Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1845); appointed, director, United States Mint, Philadelphia (1853); died, May 30, 1853 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.