Joseph Powell (congressman): Difference between revisions
m Robot: sorting stub (based on existing categorisation) |
fix suc box |
||
| Line 16: | Line 16: | ||
| district=15 |
| district=15 |
||
| before=[[John A. Magee]] |
| before=[[John A. Magee]] |
||
| after=[[ |
| after=[[Edward Overton, Jr.]] |
||
| years=1875 - 1877 |
| years=1875 - 1877 |
||
}} |
}} |
||
Revision as of 18:33, 5 February 2007
Joseph Powell (June 23, 1828–April 24, 1904) was a Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Joseph Powell was born in Towanda, Pennsylvania. He completed preparatory studies and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was president of the First National Bank of Towanda from 1870 to 1889.
Powell was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876. He was appointed special deputy collector of the port of Philadelphia in 1885 and served four years. He was sheriff of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, from 1889 to 1893. He died in Towanda in 1904. Interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Sources
- United States Congress. "Joseph Powell (id: P000480)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- The Political Graveyard
 | This article about a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |