Joel Frost

Joel Frost ( born February 28, 1765 in Carmel, New York, † September 11, 1827 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1823 and 1825 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joel Frost, son of Huldah Munson and John Frost, grew up during the British colonial period and attended public schools. On May 20, 1789 he married Martha Wright ( 1771-1861 ), daughter of Millicent Purdy and Benjamin Wright. He was a member of the 1803 District Council of Westchester County. Between 1806 and 1808, he sat in the New York State Assembly. 1812, the southern part of the former Dutchess County was separated and formed from Putnam County. Frost was there the first guardianship and estate Richter ( surrogate ). Frost held that post in the following years: 1812, 1813, 1815-1819, 1821 and 1822 he took part in the 1821 Constituent Assembly of New York.. Then he was a judge at the Court of Common Pleas. He moved to Schenectady. As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Crawford Group. In the congressional elections of 1822 frost in the fourth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William W. Van Wyck on March 4, 1823. Since he gave up for reelection in 1824, he retired after the March 3, 1825 out of the Congress. He died on September 11, 1827 in Carmel and was then buried there on the Gilead Cemetery.