- Jasper Packard
Jasper Packard (
February 1 ,1832 -December 13 ,1899 ) was a U.S. Representative fromIndiana .Born in
Austintown, Ohio , Packard moved with his parents to Indiana in 1835.He attended the public schools and was graduated from theUniversity of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1855.He taught school.He settled inLa Porte, Indiana .He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1861. During the Civil War enlisted in theUnion Army as a private in the Forty-eighth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry,October 24 ,1861 .He was promoted to first lieutenantJanuary 1 ,1862 .He served as captainSeptember 12 ,1862 .He served as lieutenant colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry,March 17 ,1864 .He served as colonelJune 26 ,1865 . Brevetted brigadier generalMarch 13 ,1865 , "for meritorious services". Mustered outApril 10 ,1866 . Auditor of La Porte County fromNovember 15 ,1866 , toMarch 1 ,1869 , when he resigned.Packard was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses (
March 4 ,1869 -March 3 ,1875 ).He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Forty-third Congress), Committee on Private Land Claims (Forty-third Congress).He was not a candidate for renomination in 1874.He engaged in newspaper pursuits.He was appointedJuly 1 ,1899 , commandant of the State soldiers' home atLafayette, Indiana , and died thereDecember 13 ,1899 .He was interred in the Soldiers' Home Cemetery.References
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