Joseph G. Kendall

Joseph Gowing Kendall ( born October 27, 1788 in Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † October 2, 1847 in Worcester, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1829 and 1833 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Kendall was the son of Congressman Jonas Kendall ( 1757-1844 ). After a good primary education he studied until 1810 at Harvard University, where he then worked as a teacher himself until 1817. After studying law and his 1818 was admitted to the bar, he began practicing in Leominster in this profession. In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party. Between 1824 and 1828 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1828 Kendall was in the sixth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Locke on March 4, 1829. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1833 two legislative sessions. 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.

In 1832, Kendall gave up another candidacy. Since 1833 until his death he worked in the administration of justice in Worcester County. He died on October 2, 1847 in Worcester, where he had moved in 1833.

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