John Bull

U.S. Congressperson

1803 – 1863

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Who was John Bull?

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

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; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-third Congress; 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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Born
1803
Also known as
  • Dr. John Bull
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Lived in
  • Virginia
Died
1863

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on July 23, 2013

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