Claim: John Claiborne (January 26,1778 - October 9, 1808) failed to become a member of the Democratic- Republican party and his alma mater was the University of Pennsylvania
Evidence: He was a Representative from Virginia; born in Brunswick County, Virginia in 1778; pursued academic studies; graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1798 and practiced; elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1805, until his death in Brunswick County, Virginia, on October 9, 1808; interment in the family burying ground of Parson Jarratt, Dinwiddie, Virginia. 
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Virginia's 17th district Democratic-Republican