Joel Barlow Sutherland

Joel Barlow Sutherland ( born February 26, 1792 Gloucester County, New Jersey, † November 15, 1861 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1827 and 1837 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joel Sutherland attended the common schools and then studied until 1812 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Then he received a medical education. During the British - American War of 1812, he was first a surgeon. Subsequently, he was lieutenant colonel of the state militia of Philadelphia. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Between 1813 and 1816 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; 1816 to 1817 he was a member of the State Senate. Sutherland was also the founder of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. In the following years he gave up his medical work and practiced as a lawyer instead, suggesting a not mentioned by the sources studied law. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this.

In the congressional elections of 1826 Sutherland was the first electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Wurts on March 4, 1827. After four elections he could until March 3, 1837 five legislative sessions in Congress complete since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President. Since 1833, Sutherland was Chairman of the Trade Committee. During his last term he joined the Whig party. In 1836 he failed as their candidate with an attempt to re- re-election. Two years later, he applied unsuccessfully again to return to the Congress.

In the years 1833 and 1834 Joel Sutherland was next to his deputies activity as appeal judges in Philadelphia operate. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he is no longer politically have appeared. He died on November 5, 1861 in Philadelphia.