John Goddard Watmough (December 6, 1793 – November 27, 1861) was an American politician who served as anAnti-Jacksonian member of theU.S. House of Representatives forPennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1831 to 1835.

Watmough was born inWilmington, Delaware. He pursued classical studies and graduated fromPrinceton College. He also did postgraduate work in theUniversity of Pennsylvania inPhiladelphia. He served in theWar of 1812 as a corporal in the Fourth Company, Fourth Detachment, Pennsylvania Militia, from May 13 to July 31, 1813. He was appointed second lieutenant in the Regular Army September 2, 1813 and brevetted first lieutenant August 15, 1814, for gallant conduct in the defense ofFort Erie inCanada, and resigned on October 1, 1816.^[1]

Watmough was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to theTwenty-second andTwenty-third Congresses and served from 1831 to 1835. He was an unsuccessfulWhig candidate for reelection in1834 to theTwenty-fourth Congress. He served as highsheriff of Philadelphia in 1835 until at least 1838, and surveyor of theport of Philadelphia from 1841 to 1845. He discontinued active pursuits in 1854 and lived in retirement until his death in Philadelphia in 1861.

• Watmough, John G. (1838).Address of John G. Watmough, high sheriff, to his constituents, with reference to the disturbances which took place in the City and County of Philadelphia, during the summer of 1838. Philadelphia.
• Watmough, John G. (1834).Remarks of Mr. Watmough, of Pennsylvania, on the general appropriation bill, delivered in the House...April 9, 1834. Washington, D.C.

• United States Congress."John Goddard Watmough (id: W000195)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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