Background
Pettibone, Augustus Herman was born on January 21, 1835 in Bedford, Ohio, United States. Son of Augustus Norman and Nancy Leonard (Hathaway) Pettibone.
Pettibone, Augustus Herman was born on January 21, 1835 in Bedford, Ohio, United States. Son of Augustus Norman and Nancy Leonard (Hathaway) Pettibone.
He graduated from Hiram College in Ohio and then from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1859. He studied law, with the Honorary
Jonathan East. Arnold, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was admitted to the bar in 1860. He then commenced practice in Louisiana Crosse, Wisconsin. During the American Civil War, Pettibone enlisted as a private in the Union Army in 1861 and was promoted to second lieutenant, captain, and major in the 20th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
Pettibone continued the practice of law in Greeneville, Tennessee, in 1865.
He served as an alderman of Greenville from 1866 to 1868. He was an attorney general for the first judicial circuit of Tennessee in 1869 and 1870.
He was appointed an assistant United States district attorney for the eastern district of Tennessee on December 27, 1871, serving until 1880. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress.
He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1880.
Elected as a Republican 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 Tennessee House of Representatives from 1897 to 1899. He was appointed a special agent of the General Land Office and served from July 17, 1899 to January 31, 1905, when he resigned.
Pettibone died in Nashville, Tennessee, and is interred in Nashville National Cemetery in Madison, Tennessee, in Davidson County, Tennessee.
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Married Mary Clarinda Speck, July 16, 1868. Married second, Seraphine Deery, November 22, 1899.