John Anderson Scudder (March 22, 1759 – November 6, 1836) was a

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from

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. Born in Freehold Township to

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Nathaniel Scudder Nathaniel Scudder (May 10, 1733October 17, 1781) was an American Founding Father, physician, and officer during the American Revolutionary War. He served as a delegate for New Jersey to the Continental Congress, where he was one of two delegate ...

and his wife Isabella (née Anderson), Scudder completed preparatory studies, and graduated from

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in 1775. He studied medicine and commenced practice in

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. During the Revolutionary War, Scudder served as a surgeon's mate in the First Regiment of Monmouth County, in 1777. He was the Secretary of the New Jersey Medical Society in 1788 and 1789. He served as a member of the

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representing

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from 1801 through 1807, and as a member of the

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in 1809. Scudder was elected as a

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to the

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Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Cox and served from October 31, 1810, to March 3, 1811. He was not a candidate for renomination to the Twelfth Congress. Scudder resumed the practice of medicine. He moved to Kentucky after 1810 and to

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, in 1819. He died in

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on November 6, 1836, and was interred in the Old City Cemetery there.

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John Anderson Scudder entry
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