Biography

01/28/1837 - 10/25/1910

Captain Simon Peter Wolverton (D27) Northumberland, Snyder and Union Counties 1879-1888

Early Life: 

Captain Simon Peter Wolverton born January 28, 1837, Rush Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania; attended, common schools, Danville Academy; Lewisburg University (now Bucknell University), Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1860; principal of Sunbury Academy 1860-1862; studied law; admitted, bar, Northumberland County, 1862, attorney, commenced practice, Sunbury; captain, Civil War, 1862-1863; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1879-1888; unsuccessful, Democratic nominee, United States Senate, joint convention, 1884; elected, Democrat, United States House of Representatives, 1891-1895; not a candidate for renomination, 1894; continued the practice of law; died, October 25, 1910, Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, interment, Pomfret-Manor Cemetery, Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.

Early Career:

Formed company, captain, 1862; served, Eighteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers; Captain, Company F, Thirty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, 1863. 

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 27th district, Northumberland, Snyder and Union Counties, resignation vacancy A. H. Hill, 1879-1888; committee assignments, Congressional Apportionment, Legislative Apportionment, Judiciary General, Judiciary Special, Railroad. 

Continued Government Service/National Politics: 

Unsuccessful, Democratic nominee, United States Senate, 1884.

Elected, Democrat, United States House of Representatives, Fifty-second, Fifty-third Congresses, 1891-1895; not a candidate for renomination, 1894.

Cited: 

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members W". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1888). Cochran, T.B., (Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 670, 676-678, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 647.

Simon Peter Wolverton (1837-1910) - Find a Grave Memorial