Joseph Brevard

Joseph Brevard ( born July 19, 1766 Iredell, Iredell County, North Carolina, † October 11, 1821 in Camden, South Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1819 and 1821 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Brevard took despite his youth as a soldier of the Continental Army at the final stages of the War of Independence in part. In 1782 he became a lieutenant in a unit from North Carolina. After the war he moved to Camden in South Carolina. He was 1789-1791 as Sheriff Police Department head. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1792 admitted to the bar he began in Camden to work in his new profession. Between 1793 and 1815 he was involved in, among other things, the compilation of the laws of the State of South Carolina. Between 1796 and 1799 he was a member of the House of Representatives of South Carolina. From 1801 to 1815 he served as a judge on his state Supreme Court. From this post he resigned in December 1815. He then worked again as a private attorney.

Brevard was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1818 he was in the ninth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Stephen Decatur Miller on March 4, 1819. Since he resigned in 1820 to run again, Brevard was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1821. In 1821 he applied unsuccessfully for a congressional election. He died in October of the same year and was buried in Camden.

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