Jonathan T. Updegraff
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Jonathan Taylor Updegraff (May 13, 1822 - November 30, 1882) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Born near Mount Pleasant, Ohio, Updegraff attended private schools and Franklin College. He studied medicine. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1845 and later from medical schools in Edinburgh and Paris. Practiced his profession, but devoted a large share of his time to agricultural pursuits. He served as a surgeon in the Union Army during the Civil War. He served in the State senate in 1872 and 1873. He served as delegate to the Republican State convention in 1873 and to the 1876 Republican National Convention.
Updegraff was elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1879, until his death in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, November 30, 1882. He served as chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor (Forty-seventh Congress). Had been reelected to the Forty-eighth Congress. He was interred in Updegraff Cemetery, near Mount Pleasant, Ohio. He was reinterred in Short Creek Cemetery, west of Mount Pleasant, in 1926.
