John Hoge Ewing
| John H. Ewing | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 20th district |
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In office March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1847 |
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| Preceded by | John Dickey |
| Succeeded by | John Dickey |
| Member of the Pennsylvania Senate | |
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In office 1838-1842 |
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| Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives | |
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In office 1835-1836 |
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October 5, 1796 Brownsville, Pennsylvania |
| Died | June 9, 1887 (aged 90) Washington, Pennsylvania |
| Political party | Whig |
| Alma mater | Washington College |
John Hoge Ewing (October 5, 1796 – June 9, 1887) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
John Hoge Ewing, son of William Porter Ewing and Mary Conwell Ewing, was born near Brownsville, Pennsylvania in 1796. In 1814, he graduated from Washington College (now Washington and Jefferson College) in Washington, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the Bar in 1818, and commenced practice in Washington, Pennsylvania.
He practiced law for only two years when he was awarded a contract (in partnership with his father) to construct the National Pike's road-bed between Brownsville and Hillsborough, Pennsylvania, which was completed in 1820. Ewing never returned to the active practice of law, but instead engaged in a variety of business and agricultural pursuits.
On November 2, 1820, Ewing married Ellen Blaine, daughter of James Blaine, Esq., and aunt of James Gillespie Blaine, the Republican presidential candidate in 1884. The Ewings had ten children (not all of whom survived childhood) before Ellen Blaine Ewing died in 1840 from complications following childbirth; in 1845, John Hoge Ewing married Margaret Brown, with whom he had two children.
Ewing was a trustee of Washington College from 1834 to 1887 and of Washington Female Seminary from 1846 to 1887. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1835-36, and served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1838 to 1842. He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth Congress, and was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention.
He was a staunch supporter of the Union cause during the Civil War, and in 1862, at the age of 66, served as Captain of Company F of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment of Militia, which was briefly called up and deployed to Chambersburg, PA, during Lee's Maryland invasion that September.
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