John Covode

U. S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, 1855-1863; 1867-1869; 1870-1871

Born: March 18, 1808, near West Fairfield, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

• Attended the public schools.
  
• Engaged in agricultural pursuits, manufacturing, and transportation.
  
• Largely interested in the coal trade.
  
• Elected from Pennsylvania as an Anti-Masonic Whig to the Thirty-fourth U. S. Congress, and as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, and Thirty-seventh U. S. Congresses, March 4, 1855 - March 3, 1863.
  
• Delegate to the Union National Convention at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1866.
  
• Elected from Pennsylvania to the Fortieth U. S. Congress, March 4, 1867 - March 3, 1869.
  
• Contested with Henry D. Foster the election to the Forty-first U. S. Congress, neither being sworn pending the contest, as no credentials were issued by the Governor.
  
• On February 9, 1870, the U. S. House of Representatives declared him duly elected, whereupon he qualified, serving until his death.
  
• Was not a candidate for re-election in 1870.

Died: January 11, 1871, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Buried: Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, West Fairfield, Pennsylvania.

(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)