Joseph Hemphill

Joseph Hemphill ( born January 7, 1770 in Thornbury, Chester County, Pennsylvania, † May 29, 1842 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1801 and 1831 he represented several times the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Hemphill first attended preparatory schools and then studied until 1791 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. After a subsequent law degree in 1793 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in West Chester to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Federalist Party, a political career. Between 1797 and 1800, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1800 Hemphill was in the third electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard Thomas on March 4, 1801. Until March 3, 1803, he was able to complete a term in Congress. In 1805 he was again in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. At that time, Hemphill was also Chief Judge of the District Court in Philadelphia.

In the elections of 1818 Hemphill was elected in the first district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced William Anderson on March 4, 1819. After three re- elections he could remain until his resignation in 1826 in Congress. Since 1823 he represented there the second district of Pennsylvania. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded by this. In 1828 he was appointed as their candidate in the second district of his state elected again to Congress, where he replaced John Sergeant on March 4, 1829 until March 3, 1831 completed a further term of office. This period was dominated by discussions on the policy of the incumbent since 1829 President Andrew Jackson.

In the years 1831 and 1832 Joseph Hemphill was again a member of parliament of Pennsylvania. After that, he is no longer politically have appeared. He died on 29 May 1842 in Philadelphia, where he was also buried.