John Goddard Watmough

Background

Watmough, John Goddard was born on December 6, 1793 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States.

Education

Graduate Princeton; graduated from the University Pennsylvania at Philadelphia Served with 4th Company

Career

He also did postgraduate work in the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. He served in the War of 1812 as corporal in the Fourth Company, Fourth Detachment, Pennsylvania Militia, from May 13 to July 31, 1813. He was appointed second lieutenant in the Regular Army September 2, 1813 and brevetted first lieutenant August 15, 1814, for gallant conduct in the defense of Fort Erie in Canada, and resigned on October 1, 1816.

Watmough was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses.

He was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress. He served as high sheriff of Philadelphia in 1835 and 1836 and surveyor of the port of Philadelphia from 1841 to 1845.

He discontinued active pursuits in 1854 and lived in retirement until his death in Philadelphia in 1861. Interment in Christ Church Cemetery.

Achievements

• John Goddard Watmough has been listed as a noteworthy congressman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member United States House