US Congressman. He was born in East Earl, Pennsylvania, in November of 1752, but the exact date is unknown. He was educated locally and later attended the prestigious Princeton College (later Princeton University), in Princeton, New Jersey, where he graduated from in 1776. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1782, and commenced his practice of law in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, shortly thereafter. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected. A Member of the Pro-Administration Party, he then served Pennsylvania's 8th District as an At-Large Delegate while representing the Second Congress and Third Congress in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1791, to March 3, 1793. After his term in the United States Congress expired the 8th District was eliminated. He was then reelected to a seat in a newly created 5th District. A Member of the Federalist Party, he then served Pennsylvania's 5th District as an At-Large Delegate while representing the Fourth Congress, Fifth Congress, and Sixth Congress, in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1793, to March 3, 1795, while serving alongside United States Representatives Thomas Fitzsimons, Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg, William Findley, Thomas Hartley, Thomas Scott, James Armstrong, Peter Muhlenberg, Andrew Gregg, Daniel Hiester, William Irvine, John Smilie, and William Montgomery. After his term in the United States Congress expired the 5th District was eliminated and the newly 7th District was created. A Member of the Federalist Party, he then served Pennsylvania's 7th District while representing the Fourth Congress, Fifth Congress, and Sixth Congress, in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1795, to March 3, 1801. After his term in the United States Congress expired he was succeeded in office by United States Representative Thomas Boude on March 3, 1801. After leaving the United States Congress he was appointed by then-President of the United States John Adams to serve in the position of United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 1801, but he died before he could take office. He passed away following a lingering illness in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on June 6, 1801, at the age of 48, and was buried in Pequa Baptist Cemetery in Gap, Pennsylvania. He is also listed by some sources as being buried at the English Presbyterian Cemetery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, (this is the name of the old cemetery beneath the Evans Memorial Chapel of the First Presbyterian Church, 140 E. Orange St., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, so this could be some sort of cenotaph or memorial or a previous burial location). He married on November 8, 1785, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and he and his wife had three children together including United States Representative Thomas Kittera (1789-1839). On his passing The Lancaster Journal of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, published his obituary, 'Died, in this borough, on Saturday last, in the forty-ninth year of his age, after a lingering illness, John Wilkes Kittera, Esq., a late representative from this country in the Congress of the United States, and on Monday evening his body was committed to the earth in the Presbyterian burial-ground. On this occasion, the Rev. Mr. Sample delivered a short but pathetic and impressive address, well adapted to the mournful occurrence, from the word 'Weep not.' (Luke vii. 13).