Packer, John Black

Name: Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 - Packer, John Black
Author: U.S. Congress

Packer, John Black, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa., March 21, 1824; received private instructions and later attended Sunbury (Pa.) Academy; member of the corps of engineers employed by the State in the survey and construction of public improvements 1839-1842; studied law; was admitted to the bar on August 6, 1844, and commenced the practice of his profession in Sunbury; also engaged in banking; deputy attorney general 1845-1847; served in the State house of representatives in 1850 and 1851; one of the organizers of the Susquehanna Railroad Co., in 1851; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1877); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1876; declined the appointment as Postmaster General in the Cabinet of President Grant in 1874; resumed the practice of law in Sunbury, Pa.; also resumed his banking activities; died in Sunbury, Pa., July 7, 1891; interment in Pomfret Manor Cemetery.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Packer, John Black," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1644 Original Sources, accessed March 25, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3ZHQZDSLB4HZQSQ.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "Packer, John Black." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1644, Original Sources. 25 Mar. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3ZHQZDSLB4HZQSQ.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Packer, John Black' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1644. Original Sources, retrieved 25 March 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3ZHQZDSLB4HZQSQ.