Covode, John

Covode was a Republican congressman from Pennsylvania whose investigating committee in 1860 reported on widespread corruption within the Buchanan Administration. James Buchanan (Dickinson Class of 1809) denounced the Covode Report as partisan, but most historians accept many of its judgments as accurate.

Life Span
to
Full name
John Covode
Place of Birth
Burial Place
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
2
No. of Children
9
Family
Jacob Covode (father), Sarah Hay Covode (first wife - died 1847), Margaret Ann Peale Covode (second wife)George H. Covode (son),
Occupation
Politician
Businessman
Other Occupation
Blacksmith
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Church or Religious Denomination
Methodist
Political Parties
Whig
Republican
Other Affiliations
Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)
Government
US House of Representatives
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