1. John Tod was an American judge and politician who served as a Democratic-Republican member of the US House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 1821 to 1823 and for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district from 1823 to 1824.
John Tod served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 14th district from 1815 to 1818 including as Speaker from 1815 to 1816 and as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1810 to 1813 including two terms as Speaker.
John Tod served as presiding judge of the Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas for the 16th district from 1824 to 1827 and as an associate judge of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1827 until his death in 1830.
In 1779, Tod was born in Suffield, Connecticut, and was educated in the common schools and at Yale College.
John Tod studied law under his brother George and received his legal certificate around 1799.
John Tod moved with his father to Aquasco, Maryland, and began teaching as Assistant Master of Charlotte Hall.
John Tod was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1810 to 1813, serving twice as its Speaker.
John Tod served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 14th district from 1815 to 1818 including as Speaker from 1815 to 1816.
John Tod served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Manufactures during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses.
John Tod served as presiding judge of the Pennsylvania Court of Common pleas for the sixteenth judicial district from 1824 from 1827 and as associate judge of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1827 until his death in 1830.
John Tod died on March 27,1830, at about the age of 50 in Bedford, Pennsylvania.