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John Pettit

This article is about the U.S. Representative from Indiana from (1843–1849). For the U.S. Representative from Indiana from (1855–1861), see John U. Pettit. For the District Attorney of Washington County, Pennsylvania, see John Pettit (attorney).
"Senator Pettit" redirects here. For other uses, see Senator Pettit (disambiguation).
John Pettit
United States Senator
from Indiana
In office
January 18, 1853 – March 3, 1855
Preceded byCharles W. Cathcart
Succeeded byGraham N. Fitch
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Indiana's 8th district
In office
March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1849
Preceded byDistrict created
Succeeded byJoseph E. McDonald
6th United States Attorney for the District of Indiana
In office
1839–1841
PresidentMartin Van Buren
Preceded byTilghman Howard
Succeeded byCourtland Cushing
Member of the Indiana House of Representatives
In office
1838-1839
Personal details
Born(1807-06-24)June 24, 1807
Sackets Harbor, New York
DiedJanuary 17, 1877(1877-01-17) (aged 69)
Lafayette, Indiana
Political partyDemocratic

John Pettit (June 24, 1807 – January 17, 1877) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician. A United States Representative and Senator from Indiana, he also served in the court systems of Indiana and Kansas.

Born in Sackets Harbor, New York, he completed preparatory studies and admitted to the bar in 1831. He moved to Lafayette, Indiana, where he commenced practice in 1838; he was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives in 1838-1839 and was United States district attorney from 1839 to 1843.

Pettit was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1843 - March 3, 1849); he was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1848. In 1850 he was a delegate to the Indiana state constitutional convention and a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1852. He was appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Whitcomb and served from January 18, 1853, to March 4, 1855; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854.

While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims (Thirty-third Congress). During the Senate debate on the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, Pettit argued in favor of expanding slavery to Kansas, and famously said that Jefferson's idea (in the United States Declaration of Independence) that "all men are created equal" was not a "self-evident truth" but instead "is nothing more to me than a self-evident lie."[1] The debate over Pettit's inflammatory words is credited[by whom?] with reviving Abraham Lincoln's interest in national politics.

After his time in Congress, Pettit was chief justice of the United States courts in the Territory of Kansas from 1859 to 1861, and was a judge of the Indiana Supreme Court from 1870 to 1877.

He died in Lafayette, Indiana, aged 69, and was interred in Greenbush Cemetery.

References

  1. ^ Codevilla, Angelo (2010-07-16) America's Ruling Class, The American Spectator

External links

Wikiquote has quotations related to John Pettit.
  • United States Congress. "John Pettit (id: P000277)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • John Pettit at Find a Grave
  • Text of 1854 speech by Abraham Lincoln against the extension of slavery, quoting Pettit
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
New district
 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Indiana's 8th congressional district
March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1849 		Succeeded by
U.S. Senate
Preceded by U.S. senator (Class 3) from Indiana
1853–1855
Served alongside: Jesse D. Bright 		Succeeded by
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