Joseph Buffington (congressman)

Joseph Buffington ( born November 27, 1803 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, † February 3, 1872 in Kittanning, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1843 and 1847 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Buffington attended the common schools and then studied at the Western University of Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh. Then he moved to Butler, where he edited a weekly newspaper. After studying law and his 1826 was admitted to the bar he began in Butler to work in this profession. A year later he moved his residence and his law firm after Kittanning in Armstrong County. Politically, he joined the Whig party to.

In the congressional elections of 1842 Buffington was in the 24th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas Henry on March 4, 1843. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1847 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Mexican-American war since 1845.

In 1846 Buffington gave up another Congress candidate. Between 1849 and 1851 he was Chief Judge of the 18th Judicial District of the State of. In 1852 he turned down an offer by President Millard Fillmore for appointment as Chief Justice in the Utah Territory. Between 1855 until his retirement he was a judge in the Tenth Judicial District of Pennsylvania. He died on February 3, 1872 in Kittanning, where he was also buried.