STERIGERE, John Benton (1793-1852)
Jacksonian of Pennsylvania 
5th congressional district
Served in House 1827-1831
Biography
Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Upper Dublin Township, near Ambler, Montgomery County, Pa., July 31, 1793; worked on a farm and attended school; taught at Puffs Church School; appointed justice of the peace in 1818; member of the Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1821-1824; studied law; was admitted to the bar November 17, 1829, and commenced practice in Norristown, Pa.; elected as a Jacksonian candidate to the Twentieth and to the succeeding Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1831); chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Twenty-first Congress); delegate to the Pennsylvania state convention to revise the constitution in 1838; member of the Pennsylvania state senate, 1839 and 1843-1846; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1852; edited the Register; appointed by the Pennsylvania state assembly as chairman of a commission to improve the town of Norristown; died in Norristown, Montgomery County, Pa., October 13, 1852; interment in Upper Dublin Lutheran Church Cemetery, Ambler, Pa.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
