Joseph W. Chalmers

Joseph Williams Chalmers (* December 20 1806 in Halifax County, Virginia; † June 16, 1853 in Holly Springs, Mississippi) was an American lawyer and politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Mississippi in the U.S. Senate.

Joseph Chalmers struck at his school education, a legal career. He studied law at both the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and in private practice with a lawyer in Richmond. After admission to the Bar he practiced his profession first in 1835 in Jackson (Tennessee ) from, and later in Holly Springs, Mississippi. He practiced alternately in both places.

From 1842 to 1843 Chalmers was then Vice Chancellor with responsibility for the law of equity in the northern court district of Mississippi. His short political career was launched on the United States Treasury by the appointment of U.S. Senator Robert J. Walker; November 3, 1845, he went to Walker's successor in Washington. Chalmers decided the election for himself, so he remained until March 3, 1847 at the Senate. During this time, he served as Chairman of the Committee on engrossed bills.

As a result, he again worked as a lawyer in Holly Springs, where he died in 1853. His son James was Brigadier General of the Confederate Army in the Civil War and was sitting 1877-1884 for Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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