US Congressman. He was born one of three children in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to United States Representative John Wilkes Kittera and his wife Ann Moore Kittera on March 21, 1789. He was educated locally and later attended and graduated from the prestigious University of Pennsylvania, in 1805. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1808, and commenced his practice of law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, shortly thereafter. He then entered politics and served a term as the Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania in the Mayor's Court from 1817 to 1818. He was also elected to the Philadelphia Common Council in 1821, and served on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the Court of Oyer & Terminer (Courts of Criminal Jurisdiction), from 1821 to 1824. He also served another term as the Deputy Attorney General of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1824 to 1826, and as a Member of the Select Council from 1822 to 1826, and President of the Select Council from 1824 to 1826. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected as an Adams Party Candidate to represent the Nineteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Joseph Hemphill. A Member of the Adams Party, he then served Pennsylvania's 2nd District while representing the Nineteenth Congress from October 10, 1826, to March 3, 1827. He was an unsuccessful Candidate to represent the Twentieth Congress in the same election. After his term in the United States Congress expired he was succeeded in office by United States Representative John Sergeant on March 3, 1827. After leaving the United States Congress he continued with his practice of law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, until his death. He passed away in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 16, 1839, at the age of 50, and was buried in Old Saint Pauls Episcopal Church Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was reinterred in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, along with other graves in 1870. He never married nor had any children, although other sources say he was the father-in-law of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mayor Robert Taylor Conrad (1810-1858). He was also a Freemason and was a member of Harmony Lodge 52 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a Warrant Master of Phoenix Lodge 130 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and rose to the highest level in Pennsylvania serving as the Right Worshipful Grand Master of Pennsylvania from 1826 to 1828. At age the age of thirty-seven he was the 23rd youngest man to rise to this position. His portrait, painted by the famous artist Thomas Sully, hangs in the Masonic Temple at Broad & Filbert Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.