John Bull (congressman)

John Bull (1803–1863) was an American clergyman and physician who represented Missouri in the U.S. Congress between 1833 and 1835.

Life

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; in 1832, the unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Missouri; presidential elector on the ticket of Jackson and Calhoun in 1828.

John Bull was 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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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
(none)
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Missouri's at-large congressional district

1833-1835
Succeeded by
Albert Galliton Harrison