Daniel Sturgeon

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 US Senate .

Sturgeon, who was born in what is now Adams County , first attended the public schools in his homeland before moving with his parents to western Pennsylvania in 1804, where the family settled near Pittsburgh . He graduated from Jefferson College in Canonsburg and Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia . From 1813 he was employed as a doctor in Uniontown, later he was a coroner in Fayette County .

Politically Sturgeon was active for the first time as a member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1818 to 1824. In 1825 he moved to the State Senate , where he remained until 1830 and from 1828 to 1830 served as its president. Between 1830 and 1836 he was the Auditor General of the state, from 1838 to 1839 he was the State Treasurer .

After the Pennsylvania legislature failed to elect a representative of its state for the session of the US Senate beginning March 4, 1839, the vote was then cast in a by-election on the Democrat Sturgeon, who took his seat on January 14, 1840 and after confirmation in office remained in Congress until March 3, 1851 . During his time in the Senate, among other things, he was Chairman of the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office .

In 1853, US President Franklin Pierce appointed him head of the United States Mint , based in Philadelphia, which he remained until 1858. Then Sturgeon worked in the banking industry. He died in Uniontown in 1878.

Web links

• Daniel Sturgeon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Daniel Sturgeon in the database of Find a Grave (English)