Joseph Horace Shull

Joseph Horace Shull ( born August 17, 1848 in Martins Creek, Northampton County, Pennsylvania; † August 9, 1944 in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1905 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Shull attended the public schools of his home and the school Blair Hall in New Jersey. He then took a course at Lafayette College in Easton. This is followed by a course of study at New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College joined in New York City, where he studied medicine. Thereafter, he practiced as a physician. He also taught for four years in Pennsylvania as a teacher. After studying law and his 1879 was admitted as a lawyer Shull began working in Stroudsburg also in this profession. Between 1881 and 1886 he published the newspaper Monroe Democrat. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. From 1886 to 1891 he was a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1902 Shull was the 26th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Arthur Laban Bates on March 4, 1903. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1904, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1905.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Shull worked as a lawyer and as a doctor again. During the First World War, he was contracted physician for the military. In May 1944, he made ​​headlines when he appeared at the age of 94 years again as a lawyer before the Supreme Federal Court. He died a short time later, on August 9, 1944 in Stroudsburg, where he was also buried.