Joseph Richardson (U.S. politician)

Joseph Richardson ( born 1 February 1778 in Billerica, Massachusetts, † September 25, 1871 in Hingham, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1827 and 1831 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Richardson attended both public and private schools and then studied until 1802 at Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). Between 1804 and 1806 he worked as a teacher in Charlestown. After studying theology and his 1806 ordination to the clergy made ​​the Unitarian Church in Hingham, he began to work in his new profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1820 he participated in a meeting to revise the constitution of Massachusetts as a delegate. Between 1821 and 1822 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts; 1823 to 1826 he was twice in the State Senate. In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1826 Richardson was in the eleventh electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Aaron Hobart on March 4, 1827. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1831 two legislative sessions. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

In 1830, Joseph Richardson gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked again as a clergyman. He died on September 25, 1871 in Hingham, where he was also buried.