Joel Heatwole

Joel Prescott Heatwole ( born August 22, 1856 in Waterford Mills, Elkhart County, Indiana, † April 4, 1910 in Northfield, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1903 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joel Heatwole attended the public schools of his home and made after an apprenticeship in the printing trade. He was also active as a teacher. In the meantime, he was also a school board in Millersburg. In 1876 he was hired in this place to a newspaper. Later he acquired this newspaper and became its editor. In 1882, Heatwole moved to Minnesota. There he came across Glencoe to Northfield. In this city he published the newspaper " Northfield News."

Politically, Heatwole member of the Republican Party. In the years 1886 and 1888 he was a delegate to the regional party conferences in Minnesota. He also was a member of the state executive of the party. In 1890 he was regional chairman of the party. In 1888 he participated as delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Chicago, was nominated to the Benjamin Harrison as their presidential candidate of the party. Heatwole 1890 became a member of the board of the University of Minnesota. He was also Chairman of the Association of Newspaper Editors of Minnesota. In 1892 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet. In 1894 he became mayor of Northfield.

Also still 1894 Heatwole in the third electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Hosea M. Hall on March 4, 1895. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1903 four legislative sessions. In this time of the Spanish-American War and the annexation of the Philippines and the former Kingdom of Hawaii fell. Between 1897 and 1899 Heatwole was chairman of the Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics.

In 1902 he gave up another candidacy. In the following years he returned to his journalistic activities. In 1908, he unsuccessfully sought the nomination of his party for the gubernatorial elections. Joel Heatwole died on April 4, 1910 in Northfield and was also buried there.