John Barney Peterson (July 4, 1850 – July 16, 1944) was aU.S. Representative fromIndiana, cousin ofHoratio Clifford Claypool andHarold Kile Claypool.

Born nearLowell, Indiana, Peterson attended public schools. He wasadmitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice inCrown Point, Indiana.He served as prosecuting attorney of the thirty-first judicial circuit 1880-1884.

Peterson was elected as aDemocrat to theSixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1915). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to theSixty-fourth Congress. He resumed the practice of law inCrown Point, Indiana. He also engaged in banking and served as president of the Commercial Bank,Crown Point, Indiana, and of the First Calumet Trust & Savings Bank ofEast Chicago, Indiana, until 1939, when he retired. He died inCrown Point, Indiana, July 16, 1944, and was interred in Maplewood Cemetery.

• United States Congress."John B. Peterson (id: P000262)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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