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Dawson, John Littleton

lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1813, in Uniontown, Pa. He was appointed in 1845 United States attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania, and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-second and thirtythird congresses. In 1862 he was elected to the thirty-eighth congress, and was the author of the homestead bill, which passed in 1854. He was a delegate to the Baltimore conventions of 1844, 1848, and 1860, and to the Cincinnati convention of 1856.

He was re-elected in 1864 to the thirtyninth congress, and was a delegate to the New York convention of 1868. He died Sept. 18, 1870, in Fayette county, Pa.