Joseph Mullin

Joseph Mullin ( born August 6 1811 in Dromore, Ireland, † May 17, 1882 in Saratoga Springs, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1847 and 1849 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Mullin was born during the reign of George III. , King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Dromore, County Down. The family emigrated in 1820 to the United States and settled in Watertown in Jefferson County down. There he attended public schools. Then he worked in a printing company. Mullin attended the Union Academy at Belleville and graduated in 1833 from Union College in Schenectady. After that, he was Principal of the Union Academy and taught at the Watertown Academy later. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1837. Man appointed him in 1841 to the Examiner of Chancery, Supreme Court Commissioner and Commissioner in Bankruptcy. As a prosecutor ( prosecuting attorney ) he was 1843-1849 in Jefferson County operates. Politically he belonged to the Whig party.

In the congressional elections of 1846 for the 30th Congress Mullin was in the 19th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Orville Hungerford on March 4, 1847. He retired after March 3, 1849 from the Congress.

Then he was in the years 1853 and 1854, President of the Village of Watertown. In 1856 he was an Associate Justice (associate justice) at the New York Supreme Court - a position which he held until 1881. During this time he also held the position as Presiding Justice. On May 17, 1882, he died in Saratoga Springs and was then buried in the Brookside Cemetery in Watertown.