John Claiborne | |
State: | Virginia |
Term Start: | March 4, 1805 |
Term End: | October 9, 1808 |
Predecessor: | Thomas Claiborne |
Successor: | Thomas Gholson, Jr. |
Birth Date: | 26 January 1778 |
Birth Place: | Brunswick County, Virginia |
Death Place: | Brunswick County, Virginia |
Party: | Democratic-Republican |
Alma Mater: | University of Pennsylvania |
John Claiborne (January 26, 1778October 9, 1808) was a son of Thomas Claiborne (1749–1812) and brother of Thomas Claiborne (1780–1856). He was a Representative from Virginia; born in Brunswick County, Virginia in 1778;[1] pursued academic studies; graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1798 and practiced; elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1805, until his death in Brunswick County, Virginia, on October 9, 1808; interment in the family burying ground of Parson Jarratt, Dinwiddie, Virginia.