1. John Tipton was from Tennessee and became a farmer in Indiana; an officer in the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe, and veteran officer of the War of 1812, in which he reached the rank of Brigadier General; and politician.
19 Facts About John Tipton
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John Tipton was elected to the Indiana General Assembly in 1819, and in 1831 as US Senator from the state of Indiana, serving until 1838.
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John Tipton was appointed as US Indian Agent and was selected to lead the militia in removing Menominee's band of Potawatomie in 1838; they were relocated to Kansas, Indian Territory.
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When John Tipton was only 6 years old his father was killed by Native Americans.
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John Tipton's great uncle, named John Tipton, was a prominent man in the area.
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When John Tipton was an infant, his uncle's house was besieged by supporters of an effort to create the 14th state in Northeastern Tennessee called the State of Franklin.
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At the age of 17, John Tipton moved to Harrison County, Indiana.
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John Tipton served as Major in command of two companies of Indiana Rangers at Fort Vallonia during the War of 1812 with Great Britain.
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An American militia group of 30 men from the Indiana territory known as the Indiana Rangers were led by Major John Tipton pursuing the Shawnee war party.
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Major John Tipton ordered his rangers to maintain absolute silence, and tied one ranger to a tree when he kept talking.
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John Tipton entered politics, being elected as a member of the Indiana State House of Representatives and serving two terms, from 1819 to 1823.
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John Tipton participated in commissions to establish a new state capital for Indiana and to set the boundaries between Indiana and Illinois.
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John Tipton's father died at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.
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In 1831, John Tipton was elected by the state legislature to a seat in the United States Senate from Indiana to fill the unexpired term of James Noble who had died.
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John Tipton served as chairman of the committees on roads and canals and Native American affairs from 1837 to 1839.
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In 1838, at the behest of Governor David Wallace, John Tipton was selected as captain of the militia to organize the forced removal of 859 Potawatomi from the vicinity of Plymouth, to which they had agreed by treaty.
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John Tipton started the group on the two-month-long "Trail of Death" to Kansas.
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John Tipton declined to run for reelection due to poor health, and his term expired a month before his death.
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John Tipton is interred in Mount Hope Cemetery in Logansport, Indiana.