Lemuel Todd (29 July 1817 – 12 May 1891) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-PA 16) from 4 March 1855 to 3 March 1857 (succeeding William Henry Kurtz and preceding John A. Ahl) and from the at-large district from 4 March 1873 to 3 March 1875.
Biography[]
Lemuel Todd was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1817, and he became a lawyer in 1841. Todd served in the US House of Representatives from 1855 to 1857 as an "Oppositionist" Whig, later joining the Republican Party. He raised a Union Army volunteer company during the American Civil War, fighting in the Seven Days Battles, the Second Battle of Bull Run, and the Battle of South Mountain. After the war, Todd served in the US Congress from 1873 to 1875, and he died in 1891.