John Westbrook (January 9, 1789 – October 8, 1852) was a Democratic member of the

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from Pennsylvania. John Westbrook was born in Sussex County, New Jersey. He moved with his parents to Pike County, Pennsylvania, in 1792 and settled near Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania. He attended private schools and was engaged in lumbering and agricultural pursuits. He served as a colonel in the State militia in 1812 and as

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of Pike County in 1817. He was a member of the

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in 1833. Westbrook was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress. He declined to be a candidate for reelection in

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to the Twenty-eighth Congress. He resumed agricultural pursuits and died near Dingmans Ferry in 1852. Interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Milford, Pennsylvania.

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The Political Graveyard
{{DEFAULTSORT:Westbrook, John 1789 births 1852 deaths Democratic Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American legislators People from Pike County, Pennsylvania