John Wurts

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John Wurts (August 13, 1792 - April 23, 1861) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

John Wurts was born in Flanders, New Jersey. After his father’s death in 1793 the family resided in Montville, New Jersey, and subsequently moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Princeton College in 1813, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1816 and commenced practice in Philadelphia. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1817. He served in the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1820.

Wurts was elected to the Nineteenth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination. He was United States district attorney from 1827 to 1831 and a member of the city council of Philadelphia. He served as president of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. from 1831 to 1858. He went abroad for his health in 1859 and died in Rome, Italy, in 1861. Interment in the family cemetery at Pleasant Mills, New Jersey, near Batsto, New Jersey.

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• John Wurts at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Daniel H. Miller

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district 1825 - 1827

Succeeded by Joel Barlow Sutherland