Bretz, John L
educator, lawyer, jurist, banker, congressman, was born Sept. 21, 1852, near Huntingburg, Ind.
He was educated in common country schools and Huntingburg high school; taught school three years; read law under Hon. W. A. Traylor, and graduated from the Cincinnati Law school in 1880.
He located in Jasper the same year; was elected prosecuting attorney of the eleventh judicial circuit in 1884; and was re-elected in 1886 and 1888. He was elected to the fifty-second and re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat; after retiring from congress in 1895, returned to the practice of law; is president of Farmers' and Merchants' bank of Jasper, Ind.; and vice-president of Springfield, Ohio River and South Atlantic Railway company.