Joseph Hopper Nicholson

Joseph Hopper Nicholson ( born May 15, 1770 in Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland, † March 4, 1817 in Baltimore County, Maryland) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1799 and 1806 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Nicholson attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1796 to 1798 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland.

In the congressional elections of 1798 Nicholson was selected in the seventh election district of Maryland in the time which meets even in Philadelphia U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of William Hindman on March 4, 1799. After three re- elections he could remain until his resignation on March 1, 1806 in Congress. During this period fell by President Jefferson incurred Louisiana Purchase, by which the territory of the United States has been considerably enlarged. In 1804, the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. Twice belonged Nicholson to a committee, who prepared the impeachment of federal judges John Pickering and Samuel Chase. In 1800 he experienced as a deputy to the move of the Congress and the federal government to the federal capital, Washington DC

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Joseph Nicholson worked as a judge at the Maryland Court of Appeals in Maryland. In 1812 he was involved in during the British -American War in the defense of Fort McHenry. He died on 4 March 1817 and was buried at his estate near Wye House, Easton.

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