John Banks (American politician) explained

John Banks
Birth Date:17 October 1793
Birth Place:Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Death Place:Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Resting Place:Charles Evans Cemetery
Office1:18th Treasurer of Pennsylvania
Term Start1:1847
Term End1:1848
Governor1:Francis R. Shunk
Preceded1:James Ross Snowden
Succeeded1:Arnold Plumer
State2:Pennsylvania
Term Start2:March 4, 1831
Term End2:March 31, 1836
Preceded2:Thomas Hale Sill
Succeeded2:John James Pearson
Party:Anti-Masonic

John Banks (October 17, 1793 – April 3, 1864) was an Anti-Masonic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

John Banks was born near Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Juniata County, Pennsylvania, in 1819. He moved to Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and continued the practice of law.

Banks was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Congresses and served until his resignation on March 31, 1836.[1] He became judge of the Berks judicial district from May 1836 until he resigned to become State treasurer of Pennsylvania in 1847. He resumed the practice of law in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1864. Interment in Reading's Charles Evans Cemetery.

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  1. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=111/llcg111.db&recNum=361 The Congressional Globe, 1836