Augustus Herman Pettibone (January 21, 1835 – November 26, 1918) was an American politician and a member of the

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for the 1st congressional district of

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Biography

Pettibone was born in

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, in

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, son of Augustus N. and Nancy L. (Hathaway) Pettibone. He graduated from

Hiram College Hiram College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Hiram, Ohio. It was founded in 1850 as the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute by Amos Sutton Hayden and other members of the Disciples of Christ Church. The college is nonsectarian and coe ...

in Ohio and then from the

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in 1859. He studied law, with the Hon. Jonathan E. Arnold, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was admitted to the

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in 1860. He then commenced practice in

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. He was married three times. On July 16, 1868, he married Mary C. Speck, of Rogersville, Tennessee, daughter of George C. Speck. His second wife was Sara Bradford Young, and his third wife was Serafina Deery M. Trigg.

Career

During the

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, Pettibone enlisted as a

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in the

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in 1861 and was promoted to

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, and

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in the

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. Pettibone continued the practice of law in

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, in 1865. He served as an

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of Greenville from 1866 to 1868. He was an

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for the first judicial circuit of Tennessee in 1869 and 1870. He was appointed an assistant

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for the eastern district of Tennessee on December 27, 1871, serving until 1880. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1878 to the

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. He was a delegate to the

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in 1880. Elected as a

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to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses, Pettibone served from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1887. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1886, but resumed the practice of law and served in the

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from 1897 to 1899. He was appointed a special agent of the

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and served from July 17, 1899, to January 31, 1905, when he resigned.

Death

Pettibone died in

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, and is

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, in

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