John Conard

{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = John Conard | image = | birth_date = {{birth date|1773|11|15}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1857|5|9|1773|11|15}} | birth_place = Chester Valley, Province of Pennsylvania, British America | death_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | state = Pennsylvania | district = 1st | term_start = March 4, 1813 | term_end = March 3, 1815 | preceded = Adam Seybert, William Anderson, James Milnor | succeeded = Joseph Hopkinson, William Milnor, Thomas Smith, Jonathan Williams | party = Democratic-Republican }}

'''John Conard''' (November 15, 1773{{spnd}}May 9, 1857) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was nicknamed the "Fighting Quaker".

John Conard was born in Chester Valley in the Province of Pennsylvania. He was educated at the Friends School. He moved to Germantown, Pennsylvania about 1795. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced. He was a professor of mathematics at the local academy in Germantown.

Conard was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Thirteenth Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1814. He was the associate judge of the district court. He was appointed United States marshal for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by President James Monroe. He was reappointed by President John Quincy Adams and served two years under President Andrew Jackson. He retired from public life in 1832, and moved to Maryland about 1834 and settled in Cecil County near Port Deposit, where he lived until 1851, when he moved to Philadelphia. He died in Philadelphia in 1857. Interment in St. Mary Anne's Episcopal Churchyard in North East, Maryland.

==Sources== {{CongBio|C000667}} *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/comte-conditt.html The Political Graveyard]

{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box | state=Pennsylvania | district=1 | before=Adam Seybert William Anderson James Milnor | after=Joseph Hopkinson William Milnor Thomas Smith Jonathan Williams | years=1813–1815 alongside: Adam Seybert, William Anderson and Charles J. Ingersoll }} {{s-end}}

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