Sterigere was elected to the Twentieth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress . He served as the chairman of the United States House Committee on Private Land Claims during the Twenty-first Congress . He was a delegate to the state convention to revise the constitution in 1838 , and a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 3rd district in 1839 and for the 2nd district from 1843 to 1846 . He was a delegate to the 1852 Democratic National Convention . He edited the '' Register '' and was appointed by the State assembly as chairman of a commission to improve the town of Norristown . He died in Norristown in 1852 . He is interred in Upper Dublin Lutheran Church Cemetery in Ambler , Pennsylvania
1852 Democratic National Convention
1852 Democratic National Convention
John Benton Sterigere