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John Sergeant (
December 5,
1779,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
November 23,
1852, Philadelphia) was a
Pennsylvania politician. He was from a family of
American politicians, including his father,
Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, his grandsons,
John Sergeant Wise and
Richard Alsop Wise, and his great-grandson,
John Crain Kunkel.
Private Life and Education
Sergeant was educated in the common schools and at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. He graduated from
Princeton College in
1795. He became a lawyer and, after being admitted to the bar in
1799, practiced law for fifty years.
Public Service
He also immediately became a politician. In
1800 he became deputy
attorney general for Philadelphia and then commissioner of bankruptcy for Pennsylvania the following year. He was a member of the
Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from
1808 to
1810. He was elected as a
Federalist to the
United States House of Representatives to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Jonathan Williams. He was re-elected three times, serving from
October 10,
1815 to
March 3,
1823, and managed to reach the position of chairman of the
United States House Committee on the Judiciary. Sergeant was a strong backer of
Henry Clay's
American System and the
Second Bank of the United States in Congress, and even traveled to Europe to negotiate loans to the Bank. He was also a strong opponent of slavery who voted against the
Missouri Compromise. He then retired (albeit temporarily) from Congress.
In
1825, he was president of the Pennsylvania Board of Canal Commissioners. The following year, he was an envoy to the
Panama Congress, and then was returned to the U.S. House of Representatives for the term starting
March 4,
1827. He failed re-election to the following term and left Congress for the second time on
March 3,
1829. He then became legal counsel to the
Bank of the United States.
After his Vice Presidential candidacy, he returned as president of the Pennsylvania constitutional convention in
1838, and then was elected as a
Whig to the U.S. House of Representatives. He served this last time from
March 4,
1837 until he resigned on
September 15,
1841, and again was chair of the Committee on the Judiciary for the
1837 –
1839 term. He returned to his law practice, declining offers of a cabinet or diplomatic position from the new Whig administration.
Vice Presidential Candidate
Sergeant was
Henry Clay's running mate on the
National Republican ticket in
1832 but lost to
Andrew Jackson and
Martin Van Buren in a landslide and again retreated from public life.
Sergeant was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
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