Joseph Baltzell Showalter

Joseph Baltzell Showalter (* February 11, 1851 in Smithfield, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, † December 3, 1932 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1903 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Showalter attended the common schools and the Georges Creek Academy. Between 1867 and 1873 he taught in the states of West Virginia, Indiana and Illinois as a teacher. In 1873 he moved to Chicora, Pennsylvania, where he was active in the petroleum and gas business. After a subsequent study of medicine and his 1884 was admitted as a doctor, he practiced until 1890 in Chicora in this profession. Then he went back to the Petroleum and gas business. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1887 and 1888 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; 1889 to 1892 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1896 the Republicans James J. Davidson was elected in the 25th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, but he died before he took office on March 4, 1897., The overdue election won Showalter, who thus on April 20, 1897, the successor of Thomas Wharton Phillips in Congress took up where he was able to complete almost three complete terms of office until March 3, 1903. During this time, including the Spanish-American War was from 1898.

In 1902, Joseph Showalter gave up another Congress candidate. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he took his previous activities on again. He first lived in Butler and Pittsburgh. Finally, he moved to the capital Washington. Showalter was also involved in southern Florida land development. He died on December 3, 1932 in Washington, and was buried in Butler.