1. John Covode was an American businessman and abolitionist politician.
13 Facts About John Covode
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John Covode served three terms in the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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John Covode worked for several years on his father's farm, served an apprenticeship to a blacksmith, and then was employed at a woolen mill in Lockport, Pennsylvania.
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John Covode became owner of the woolen mill and attained considerable wealth as a woolen manufacturer.
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John Covode served for two terms in the Pennsylvania Legislature.
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John Covode was a strong supporter of the Freedmen's Bureau, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the Reconstruction Acts.
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John Covode attended the Union National Convention in Philadelphia in 1866.
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On February 21,1868, Covode introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives to impeach President Andrew Johnson.
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John Covode served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Public Expenditures from 1857 until 1859 and the United States House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds from 1867 until 1869.
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John Covode served on the United States Congressional Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, in reference to the American Civil War.
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John Covode is most famous for chairing a committee to investigate the possibility of impeaching President James Buchanan during the spring and summer of 1860.
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John Covode's oldest son, George H Covode, was a colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War.
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John Covode died on June 25,1864, after being shot in the arm and stomach by Confederate troops he had mistaken for Unionists.