DeWitt Clinton Littlejohn (7 February 1818 – 27 October 1892) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-NY 22) from 4 March 1863 to 3 March 1865, succeeding William E. Lansing and preceding Sidney T. Holmes.
Biography[]
DeWitt Clinton Littlejohn was born in Bridgewater, New York in 1818, and he became a flour manufacturer in Oswego before serving as Mayor from 1849 to 1850, in the State Assembly from 1853 to 1855, in 1857, from 1859 to 1861, from 1866 to 1867, from 1870 to 1871, and in 1884, and in the US House of Representatives from 1863 to 1865. He was an ally of Thurlow Weed's political machine, having defected from the Democrats to the Republicans over the slavery debate. He actively recruited troops for the Union Army in the Oswego region during the American Civil War, and he moved to Buffalo in 1867 before returning to Oswego soon after. He became a railroad and steamboat businessman, and he defected to the Liberal Republican Party in 1862 and returned to the Democrats after the Liberal Republicans' dissolution. He died in 1892.