TOD, John (1780-1830)
Democrat-Republican of Pennsylvania 
13th congressional district
Served in House 1821-1824
Biography
Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Suffield, Hartford County, Conn., September 24, 1780; attended the common schools and Yale College; moved to Bedford, Pa., in 1800; taught school while studying law; admitted to the bar in 1803 and commenced practice in Bedford, Pa.; postmaster, Bedford, Pa., 1805; clerk to the county commissioners of Bedford County in 1806 and 1807; member of the State house of representatives 1810-1813, serving twice as speaker; served in the State senate and acted as president 1814-1816; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses until his resignation in June 1824; chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses); presiding judge of the court of common pleas for the sixteenth judicial district 1824-1827; appointed associate judge of the State supreme court in 1827; died in Bedford, Bedford County, Pa., March 27, 1830; interment in Bedford Cemetery.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
