Joseph S. Lyman

Joseph Lyman Stebbins (* February 14, 1785 in Northfield, Massachusetts, † March 21, 1821 in Cooperstown, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1819 and 1821 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Lyman Stebbins was born about one and a half years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Northfield in Franklin County and grew up there. During this time he attended community schools and graduated in 1806 at Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law, he began practicing in Cooperstown.

As opponents of a strong central government, he joined at that time, which was founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1818 for the 16th Congress, he was in the 15th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he died on March 4, 1819, the successor of John R. Drake and Isaac Williams Jr. took that previously made together represent the District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since he gave up for reelection in 1820, he retired after the March 3, 1821 out of the Congress.

On March 21, 1821 he died in Coooperstown and was then buried in Greenfield in Franklin County.