Simon Peter Wolverton was born in Rush Township,
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania on January 28, 1837. He attended the common schools and Danville Academy, and later graduated from Lewisburg University, also known as
Bucknell University in
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He was principal of Sunbury Academy from 1860 to 1862. Wolverton studied law and was called to the bar in 1862. He began his legal practice in
Sunbury, Pennsylvania.
Civil War During the
American Civil War Wolverton raised a company of emergency men, of which he was appointed captain in 1862. He served in the Eighteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was later chosen as captain of Company F, Thirty-Sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers in June 1863.
Political career After the war he was elected to the
Pennsylvania Senate, serving three terms from 1879 to 1891. He was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for the
United States Senate in the joint convention of 1884. He was elected to the
52nd Congress and the
53rd Congress (March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1895). He failed to be renominated in 1894. ==Later career and death==