Joel Turrill

Joel Turrill ( born February 22, 1794 in Shoreham, Vermont, † December 28, 1859 in Oswego, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1833 and 1837 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joel Turrill visited community schools and graduated in 1816 at Middlebury College. He studied law in Newburgh. Then moved to Oswego. His admission to the bar he received in 1819 and then began to practice in Oswego. He has served as justice of the peace and 1828-1833 as district judge ( County Judge ). In 1831 he sat in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group.

In the congressional elections of 1832 for the 23rd Congress Turrill was in the 17th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John W. Taylor on March 4, 1833. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up for reelection in 1836, he retired after the March 3, 1837 out of the Congress.

Between 1838 and 1840 he was district attorney in Oswego County. He held the post in 1843 as guardianship and estate Richter ( surrogate ) in Oswego County. From 1845 to 1850 he was U.S. consul in the Kingdom of Hawaii. On December 28, 1859, he died in Oswego and was then buried in the Riverside Cemetery.