Joseph Barker (Massachusetts)

Joseph Barker (* October 19, 1751 in Branford, Connecticut, † July 5, 1815 in Middleboro, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1805 and 1809 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Barker attended the public schools of his home and then for two years Harvard College. Subsequently, he studied until 1771 at Yale College. After studying theology and his 1775 ordination to the clergy took place, he began to preach in Middleboro for the local First Congregational Church. Politically, he was a member of the end of the 1790s by Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic-Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1804 Barker was the seventh election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Nahum Mitchell on March 4, 1805. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1809 two legislative sessions. In 1808 he gave up another candidacy. In the years 1812 and 1813 Joseph Barker sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Otherwise, he was still active in Middleboro as a clergyman. There he died on July 5, 1815.