John Sergeant (1779–1852)
Sergeant presented before the United States Supreme Court during Bushrod Washington's tenure as associate justice.
John Sergeant, lawyer and congressman, was born in Philadelphia on 5 December 1779. Orphaned at the age of fourteen, he graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) two years later. In 1799 he was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, the start of a fifty-year career in law. Sergeant also served as a state legislator, U.S. representative (1815–23, 1827–29, 1837–41), and president of the Pennsylvania constitutional convention of 1838.
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John Hill Martin, Martin’s Bench and Bar of Philadelphia; Together with Other Lists of Persons Appointed to Administer the Laws in the City and County of Philadelphia, and the Province and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: R. Welsh & Co., 1883).
Julian P. Boyd, "John Sergeant's Mission to Europe for the Second Bank of the United States: 1816–1817," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 58, Number 3 (1934), 213–31.
John Sergeant Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
John Sergeant at Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
John Sergeant at Find a Grave.
John Sergeant at FamilySearch.