Joseph McIlvaine

Joseph McIlvaine ( born October 2, 1769 in Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, † August 19 1826 in Burlington, New Jersey ) was an American politician ( Democratic- Republican), who represented the State of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate.

After completing his school education, and the Study of Law Joseph McIlvaine was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of New Jersey in 1790 and then began to practice in Burlington a year. In 1793 he married Maria Reed, niece of Joseph Reed, the former President of Pennsylvania. The marriage produced three children; born 1799 son Charles later became a clergyman of the Episcopal Church and Bishop of Ohio. From 1796 to 1800, Joseph McIlvaine senior official ( Clerk ) in Burlington County, after which he worked until 1823 as a court clerk at the District Court of the county, and from 1804 to 1820 as a United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey. In 1818 he was appointed a judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey (superior court), but gave up the office.

On November 12, 1823 McIlvaine then moved into the Senate of the United States, where he occupied the seat that had been vacant since the resignation of Samuel L. Southard in March of the same year. He belonged within the Democratic-Republican Party to the followers of Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, which later became the National Republican Party emerged. In August 1826, he then died in Burlington.