Joel Keith Mann

Joel Keith Mann ( born August 1, 1780 in Cheltenham, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, † August 28 1857 in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1831 and 1835, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joel Mann attended the common schools and worked afterwards in agriculture. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Between 1817 and 1820 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; 1824 to 1829 he was a member of the State Senate. 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 1830 man in the fifth electoral district of Pennsylvania was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Benton Sterigere on March 4, 1831. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1835 two legislative sessions. Since 1833 he was chairman of the Committee on Accounts. 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.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Joel husband worked again in agriculture. He died on 28 August 1857 in Jenkintown.