John B. Peterson

John Barney Peterson (* July 4, 1850 in Lowell, Lake County, Indiana, † July 16, 1944 in Crown Point, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Peterson was a cousin of Congressman Horatio C. Claypool (1859-1921) and Harold K. Claypool (1886-1958) from Ohio. He attended the common schools. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1870 admitted to the bar he began in Crown Point to work in this profession. Between 1880 and 1884 he was a prosecutor in the 31st Judicial District of Indiana.

Politically, Peterson was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1912 he was in the tenth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edgar D. Crumpacker on March 4, 1913. Since he Republican William Robert Wood defeated in 1914, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1915. In 1913 were the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Peterson went into the banking industry. He became president of the Commercial Bank in Crown Point and First Calumet Trust & Savings Bank in East Chicago. In 1939, John Peterson moved back into retirement. He died on 16 July 1944 at the age of 94 in Crown Point.

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