John Bull (congressman)
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John Bull (1803 – 1863) was an American clergyman and physician who represented Missouri in the U.S. Congress in 1833 and 1834.
He was born in Virginia, studied medicine in Baltimore, Maryland; moved to Howard County, Missouri, and settled near Glasgow, Missouri; engaged in the practice of medicine; studied theology; was ordained to the ministry and became a Methodist minister in that locality; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Missouri; presidential elector on the ticket of Jackson and Calhoun in 1828; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); resumed his ministerial duties and also the practice of medicine; died near Rothville, Missouri, Chariton County, Missouri, in February 1863; interment in Hutcheson Cemetery, a family burial ground, near Rothville.
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri's At-large congressional district 1833-1835 |
Succeeded by Albert Galliton Harrison |
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