Job Roberts Tyson

Job Roberts Tyson ( born February 8, 1803 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † February 27, 1858 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Job Tyson attended the common schools and taught afterwards in the village of Hamburg in Berks County as a teacher. After studying law and his 1827 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Philadelphia in this profession. He also occupied himself with literary matters and has held several local offices. Politically, he joined the Whig party to. In the meantime, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1854 Tyson was in the second electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Ripley Chandler on March 4, 1855. Until March 3, 1857, he was able to complete a term in Congress. This was marked by the events leading up to the Civil War. Job Tyson died on June 27, 1858 on his estate Woodlawn and was buried in Philadelphia.