John Cradlebaugh

Infobox Officeholder
name = John Cradlebaugh


office=Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Nevada Territory
term_start=December 2, 1861
term_end=March 3, 1863
predecessor=(none)
successor=Gordon Newell Mott
date of birth= birth date|1819|2|22
place of birth=Circleville, Ohio
dead = dead
date of death=death date and age|1872|2|22|1819|2|22
place of death=Eureka, Nevada
residence=
spouse=
profession=Attorney, mining
religion=
party=Independent|

John Cradlebaugh (February 22, 1819 – February 22, 1872) was the first delegate to the United States House of Representatives from Nevada Territory.

Born in Circleville, Ohio, he attended the common schools; Kenyon College (in Gambier, Ohio) and Oxford University (in Ohio). He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1840, and was appointed United States associate justice for the district of Utah on June 4, 1858.

In March 1859, Cradlebaugh convened a grand jury in Provo, Utah concerning the Mountain Meadows massacre and several other unsolved murders and crimes that occurred in the territory, but the jury declined any indictments. [Citation
last=Cradlebaugh
first=John
author-link=John Cradlebaugh
title= Charge
url=http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/valleytan,553
pages=1
editor-last=Anderson
editor-first=Kirk
newspaper=Valley Tan
publication-date=March 15 1859
volume=1
issue=20] [Citation
last=Cradlebaugh
first=John
author-link=John Cradlebaugh
title= Discharge of the Grand Jury
url=http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/valleytan,632
pages=3
editor-last=Anderson
editor-first=Kirk
newspaper=Valley Tan
publication-date=March 29 1859
volume=1
issue=22]

He moved to Carson City, Nevada, and upon the formation of the Territory of Nevada was elected a Delegate to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving from December 2, 1861, to March 3, 1863, during the first years of the American Civil War. [Citation
last=Cradlebaugh
first=John
author-link=John Cradlebaugh
title = Utah and the Mormons: a Speech on the Admission of Utah as a State
year=1863
date=February 7, 1863
place = 37th United States Congress, 3rd Session
url = http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=063/llcg063.db&recNum=798] He was the colonel of the 114th Ohio Infantry and served from April 27, 1862, until honorably discharged on October 20, 1863, on tender of resignation after being wounded in the Battle of Vicksburg.

Cadelebaugh returned to Nevada and engaged in the mining business until his death at Eureka; interment was in Forest Cemetery, Circleville, Ohio.

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References

#Citation
last=Cradlebaugh
first=William
year=1883
date=1917
title=WILLIAM M. CRADLEBAUGH—NEVADA BIOGRAPHY-1883
url=http://www.nevadaobserver.com/Reading%20Room%20Documents/Nevada%20Biography%20(1883).htm

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