Daniel Sturgeon

Daniel Sturgeon ( born October 27, 1789 in Mount Pleasant, York County, Pennsylvania, † July 3, 1878 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania) was an American politician who represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate.

Sturgeon, who was born in what is now Adams County, first attended the public schools of his home before he moved with his parents in 1804 in Western Pennsylvania, where the family settled near Pittsburgh. He graduated at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, and at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. From 1813, he worked as a doctor in Uniontown, later he became coroner in Fayette County.

Politically, Sturgeon operated first as a member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1818 to 1824. 1825 he moved into the state Senate, where he remained until 1830 and from 1828 to 1830 served as its president. Between 1830 and 1836 he worked as an auditor ( auditor general) of the State, from 1838 to 1839 he was the Minister of Finance (State treasurer ).

Once it was the legislature of Pennsylvania have failed to elect a representative of their state for the period beginning on March 4, 1839 session of the U.S. Senate, then accounted for the vote in a by-election to the Democrats Sturgeon, who took his seat on January 14, 1840 and for confirmation in office remained until March 3, 1851 in Congress. During his time in the Senate, he served as chairman of the committee of the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office.

1853 appointed U.S. President Franklin Pierce him the head of the United States Mint, based in Philadelphia, a position he held until 1858. Then Sturgeon worked in the banking industry. He died in 1878 in Uniontown.