John U. Pettit

John Upfold Pettit ( born September 11, 1820 Fabius, Onondaga County, New York, † March 21, 1881 in Wabash, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1861 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After an academic education John Pettit attended Hamilton College in Clinton. Subsequently, he studied until 1839 at Union College in Schenectady. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1841 admitted to the bar he began to work in Wabash in this profession. Between 1850 and 1853 he was American consul in Brazil's Maranhão.

Politically Pettit was initially a member of the short-lived opposition party. In the congressional elections of 1854 he was in the eleventh electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Andrew J. Harlan on March 4, 1855. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1861 three legislative periods. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War. Since 1857, Pettit took the Republican Party, he was now joined. Between 1855 and 1857 he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Post Ministry.

In 1865, John Pettit was a member and President of the House of Representatives from Indiana. Between 1872 and 1880 he served as a judge in the 27th Judicial District of the State of. He died on 21 March 1881 in Wabash.