Thomas Kittera (March 21, 1789 – June 16, 1839) was a member of the

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from

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Biography

Thomas Kittera was the son of John Wilkes Kittera. He was born in

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. He graduated from the

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in 1805. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1808 and commenced practice in Philadelphia. He served as deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania in 1817 and 1818 and deputy attorney general of Philadelphia from 1824 to 1826. He was a member of the select council and its president from 1824 to 1825. Kittera was elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of

Joseph Hemphill Joseph Hemphill (January 7, 1770May 29, 1842) was an American politician who served as a Federalist member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1801 to 1803, as a Jackson Federalist represent ...

. At the same election he was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Twentieth Congress. He died in Philadelphia in 1839. He was interred in St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal Church Cemetery and reinterred to Mount Moriah Cemetery in 1870. He is the father-in-law of Philadelphia mayor, Robert Taylor Conrad.

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1789 births 1839 deaths Burials at Mount Moriah Cemetery (Philadelphia) University of Pennsylvania alumni Politicians from Lancaster, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania lawyers National Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American lawyers {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub