Joel Thompson

Joel Thompson ( born October 3, 1760 Stanford, New York, † February 8, 1843 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1813 and 1815 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joel Thompson was born during the British colonial period in Stanford in Dutchess County. He attended community schools in Smyrna. Then he studied law. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice in Duanesburg and Sherburne. During the Revolutionary War he served in the years 1779 and 1780 in the Continental Army. He sat in the years 1798, 1803 and 1804 in the New York State Assembly, where he once Albany County and Chenango County represented twice. In July 1799 he was an Associate Judge at the Court of Common Pleas of Chenango County - a position which he held until June 1807. At that time he became a judge in Chenango County. He held this post until March 16, 1814. Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party.

In the congressional elections of 1812, for the 13th Congress, he was in the 15th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Peter Buell Porter on March 4, 1813. He retired after the March 3, 1815 out of the Congress.

After his conference time he walked in Sherburne returned to his work as a lawyer after. He died on 8 February 1843 in the then- independent city of Brooklyn and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery. About three years later, the Mexican -American War broke out.