John Bull (1803February 1863) was an American clergyman and physician who represented

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in the

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between 1833 and 1835.

Life

He was born in Virginia, studied medicine in

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, moved to

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, and settled near

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. He engaged in the practice of medicine. He owned slaves. He studied theology, was ordained to the ministry and became a Methodist minister in Glasgow, Missouri. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1832 Missouri gubernatorial election and a presidential elector on the Jackson-Calhoun ticket in 1828. John Bull was elected as an

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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,

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, in February 1863; interment in Hutcheson Cemetery, a family burial ground, near Rothville.

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